Home is the right strategy for Facebook to extend its reach. Facebook Home is a software skin that takes over the home screen of an...
Tonight’s announcement risks being a big anti-climax. The last time Facebook made a “big announcement” the result was the spectacularly unambitious Facebook Graph Search. What...
Samsung and Google will end up in a struggle for the user. So far Samsung and Google have been on good terms given the symbiotic...
(RFM will return on Wednesday April 3rd) Windows RT in its current form looks doomed. When Samsung pulls its RT products, everyone will and I...
Digital Life has an increasingly Orwellian future. The big ecosystem creators are slowly but inexorably nudging users towards their ecosystems. It is very subtle, it...
The China ecosystem is coming. Android is currently exploding in China but there are plenty of signs that this is temporary. Under Google’s definition, anything...
Exporting services from Japan is a license to lose money. NHN Corp, South Korea’s biggest internet company, is making a bid to expand outside its...
Microsoft has loads of money but no clue how to use it. Paying developers to write applications is a well-known tactic for those trying to...
Google Reader has gone because it is not big enough. That’s all. The retirement of Google Reader has nothing to do with the “free” internet...
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
Google and WhatsApp – Admission of weakness
Google’s interest in WhatsApp is a sign of weakness. WhatsApp has denied that it is in talks with Google with respect to being...