Aktuelles: The Dish, Apple, Bonativo, Hike

Lesenswerte Analysen und Hintergrundberichte zu aktuellen Entwicklungen:

• A Note To My Readers « The Dish „In just two years, you built a million dollar revenue company, with 30,000 subscribers, a million monthly readers, and revenue growth of 17 percent over the first year. You made us unique in this media world – and we were able to avoid the sirens of clickbait and sponsored content. We will never forget it.“
• Bad Assumptions – newnetland Ben Thompson on Bad Assumptions:“last quarter Apple’s revenue was downright decimated by the strengthening U.S. dollar; currency fluctuations reduced Apple’s revenue by 5% – a cool $3.73 billion dollars. That, though, is more than Google made in profit last quarter ($2.83 billion). Apple lost more money to currency fluctuations than Google makes in a quarter. And yet it’s Google that is feared, and Apple that is feared for.“We live in a very strange media world.
• Apple Pay Responsible for Two of Every Three Contactless Payments on Visa, MasterCard, and American Express – Mac Rumors Das Pay-Segment von iOS ist sicher.
• What the Web Said Yesterday – The New Yorker „Copyright is the elephant in the archive. One reason the Library of Congress has a very small Web-page collection, compared with the Internet Archive, is that the Library of Congress generally does not collect a Web page without asking, or, at least, giving notice. “The Internet Archive hoovers,” Abbie Grotke, who runs the Library of Congress’s Web-archive team, says. “We can’t hoover, because we have to notify site owners and get permissions.”“
• Noch mehr neue Töne zum Urheberrecht: »Harter Kopierschutz ist ein Bremsklotz« „Besonders bemerkenswert ist, dass diese Antwort auf eine allgemeine Frage nach Bremsklötzen kommt. Ergänzen ließe sich vielleicht noch die grundlegende Absurdität, dass Kopierschutz zahlende Kunden schlechter stellt als jene, die sich illegale Kopien besorgen.“
• Bonativo: Rocket nimmt Tengelmann mit 13,5% an Bord „Für Rocket Internet scheint Tengelmann der bevorzugte Partner (“Exchanges #79: Tengelmann erreicht das nächste Level”) für die angekündigte Foodoffensive zu sein.“
• Chart dump: Apple’s monster quarter Benedict Evans visualisiert Apples jüngste Quartalszahlen.
• „While building free hike calls, we kept two… – newnetland ““While building free hike calls, we kept two things in mind. Firstly, India is a very cost sensitive market and as a result we’ve ensured that our service is extremely efficient on data. It means our users can pack in many more minutes per MB when calling on hike. Secondly, we’ve made hike’s free calling service available globally in over 200 countries. Hikers from India can now speak with their loved ones in India and across the world for free.“”
  -Introducing Free Hike CallsChange is upon voice calls. Price for contracts will not change but functionality will.
• Why your big custom CMS project is doomed – One Man and His Blog „if you can retain your talent, the chances are you’ve got mediocre programmers working on your CMS, given how in-demand developers are right now.This is why pretty much every journalist I know, bar those working at Buzzfeed and Mail Online hate their CMSes with a passion.“
• Vessel Shows Off Video Service, New Interactive Ad Format | Re/code „Vessel will have hard time getting users unless it can sign up more video-makers for its service, which offers a free version and a $3-a-month one that will give people an early look at videos before they show up on YouTube or anywhere else.Part of this extended rollout is designed to attract more YouTube stars to sign on, and Vessel says they’re making progress, though most of YouTube’s biggest names remain with YouTube for now.“
• ‚Shifts‘ – Schichtplaner und Arbeitskalender – iPhoneBlog.de „In Deutschland arbeiten fast 20-Prozent durchgehend in Wechselschichten. Shifts verpackt die Dienstpläne für diese Berufe in eine zugängliche Kalenderübersicht.“

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