Aktuelles 9. Juni 2011

Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:

• Is Airbnb’s valuation ridiculous? „40% month-to-month growth is insane – that’s basically doubling every two months. If this figure applies to their monthly revenue, that means that they could be making upwards of $20M-40M/month one year from now. Maintaining today’s rate of growth seems feasible since Airbnb seems to have a good shot at disrupting the global hospitality industry. Even if these numbers are aggressive, it’s easy to see how this model can lead to GroupOn-style revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars annually.“
• “Kino.to ist noch nicht zu Ende.” – Interview mit einem Uploader – netzfeuilleton.de
• Apple streicht umstrittene In-App-Kaufvorgabe „Apple hat vor kurzem die App-Store-Zulassungsrichtlinien überarbeitet und dabei eine entscheidende Passage geändert, wie Mac & i aus Entwicklerkreisen erfuhr: Apps, die außerhalb der Anwendung erworbene Inhalte, genauer gesagt Magazine, Zeitungen, Bücher, Audio- oder Videomaterial, darstellen oder abspielen, müssen diese Inhalte nicht mehr parallel als In-App-Kauf „zum gleichen oder niedrigeren Preis“ anbieten.“
• Apple vs. Wintel „as of the close of market today, Apple is worth more than Microsoft and Intel combined.“
• The Personal Cloud Will Be A $12 Billion Industry in 2016 „Forrester says that the cloud will be the third major client software battleground. The PC operating system was the first, won early by Microsoft with niches carved out for Apple and Linux. Mobile is the second and remains fluid and volatile with Google’s Android leading in market share with Apple, Research in Motion and Microsoft figuring out how to gain ground. The personal cloud will be the third and will be built on top of the first two.“
• Cloud Drive Comparison „None of these services is anywhere near what a cloud storage provider such as Box.net or Dropbox.com can provide in terms of features. Microsoft’s Skydrive is attractive for the amount of storage you can get for free, as long as your files are small. Google continues to enhance its cloud and add features. Apple is just getting started with its cloud and still has a long way to go.“
• Werbeblogger Interview: Rivva ist zurück. Und Blogvermarkter Mokono hat geholfen. | Werbeblogger – Weblog über Marketing, Werbung und PR » Blog Archiv
• Official Google Blog: Changes to the open Internet in Kazakhstan Auch eine (eher hilflose) Art von Regierungen, Kontrolle schaffen zu wollen:
  „Last month, the Kazakhstan Network Information Centre notified us of an order issued by the Ministry of Communications and Information in Kazakhstan that requires all .kz domain names, such as google.kz, to operate on physical servers within the borders of that country.“
• This Is Where The Magic Happens „Finally, two years ago, SEACOM laid a cable along the East African coast to Mumbai; then tributaries were run thousands of kilometers inland, as far as Uganda and even Rwanda; and later this year, a direct connection to Europe will be lit up. This has chopped the cost of bandwidth from US $5,000 per megabit/s per month to approximately $100, hugely increased capacity to 1.28 terabits/second, and given more than 100 million people (and counting) access to broadband Internet for the very first time.“
• Groupon Warned For Misleading And Exaggerated UK Promotions „Most cases involve claims that discount offers were inflated compared with the normal price of a purchase, or that advertisers misleadingly required additional purchases in order to qualify for the offer.“
• kino.to: Ermittler verhaften mutmaßliche Betreiber von Raubkopie-Seite – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten – Netzwelt
• Ich bin ein Berlin Investor „At DN Capital we are very excited about what is going on in Berlin, and we are contemplating opening an office of our own with our next fund. While everyone is stumbling over themselves to get into India and China the German market is in our back yard and must be the world’s most underinvested venture capital market in a developed country.“

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