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Google is Probably Worth About $24 a Share (over and above IPO proceeds)

Commodities, such as oil, gold and soybeans, are tangible, real, transportable and tradeable and have been used a means of doing business, hedging risk, investing and even speculating for hundreds of years. Recently…

Text messaging. Remember that? Of course you do. You probably text people on a regular basis. Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have benefited from this asynchronous form of short messaging for years and have collected…

If you haven't heard, Instagram recently announced the ability to tag people in photos. They have cleverly marketed it as "Photos of You" which puts the focus on tagging people, but this also presents the opportunity…

You have no privacy anymore in public.

Ask yourself this question: Is entering your username and password on your smartphone to log into your Facebook account a pleasant or annoying experience? The latter is typically the response from most people. I would…

As a voracious reader and consumer of data and infographics, I've come across a growing trend that many companies, agencies and developers are using to measure the growth or impact that an app may have and they measure…

Mobile first, web second. No. Tablet first, mobile second. Non. Web first, mobile second. Nein. In less than 2 years we have seen VCs, CMOs, designers, developers, "social media experts" and the tech blogging illuminati…

In the mobile and casual computing landscape there will only be three major players: Apple ($AAPL), Google ($GOOG) and Microsoft ($MSFT). Why? Because they have and are continuing to build omni-channel, multi-device…

Ask nearly anyone if they want ads in their mobile experience and most of them will respond with a stentorian "no". The late Steve Jobs even stated in 2010 that mobile ads "suck". Yet the dollar spend in mobile "ads" is…

With as much thought and subsequent execution that has gone into the design and development of the iPhone, there appears to me to be a glaring issue around one of the most fundamental interactions on the device, namely,…

The Super Bowl is providing brands new and unique ways of engaging with consumers beyond the standard television commercial. By tapping into the "second screen" of a TV viewer (the mobile phone or tablet), brands have…

Pinterest is not a Virtual Pinboard. It is the answer to consumers engaging with brands, something Facebook has been unable to do.

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