Archive for the “Google” category
Will Groupon’s Acquisition Expose Google’s Buttery Soft Underbelly?
by Tony Hung on December 1, 2010
Looks like Google’s eying Groupon for a bajillion dollars. Its interesting to keep Groupon in perspective of all the other companies its acquired this year (around 25), and the fact that most (if not all) of those other companies, and (…)
Google’s imperfections
by Tony Hung on November 27, 2010
It’s all part of a sales strategy, he said. Online chatter about DecorMyEyes, even furious online chatter, pushed the site higher in Google search results, which led to greater sales. He closed with a sardonic expression of gratitude: “I never (…)
Google OS and The Privacy Issue: For Some, Google Is Quite Evil
by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009
Nice pick up from the USA Today on privacy concerns regarding Google’s upcoming Google OS. In particular Privacy advocates want more transparency from Google about how it plans to monetize the vast amounts of behavioral data it collects. Google could (…)
Google OS’s Hardware Strategy?
by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009
Perhaps the key to Google OS’s success is in this key statement that might have been overlooked yesterday: Messrs. Schmidt and Page were also careful not to position Chrome as a competitor to Microsoft Windows. They argued that Chrome will (…)
Tempering Overexuberance
by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009
Dennis Howlett is amongst the realists when it comes to GoogleOS, and he rightly reminds us that: Linux has not fared so well in the Netbooks market and I don’t see anything here that makes me think Google ChromeOS will (…)
Holy Moly! Google OS Lives! (… As A Net-Only Cloud-Based Linux-Based OS)
by Tony Hung on July 8, 2009
You know, it figures 5 minutes after I pre-order Windows 7 (home premium, if you must wonder) off of Amazon.ca do I learn that Google OS is coming to netbooks far and yonder in the next few months. Google’s own (…)
Google’s Paying Subscribers Still Anemic. Why?
by Tony Hung on July 7, 2009
You may have heard that Google is pulling a ton of its apps out of beta today. Richard Waters rightly notices that the actual paying subscriber base is only in the hundreds of thousands, probably several decimal places below where (…)