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• Aggregation Theory „I suspect that nearly every industry will belatedly discover it has a critical function that can be digitized and commodified, precipitating this shift.“ Ja.
• Who’s Actually Buying iPods These Days? — BirchTree „iPods remain somewhat relevant amongst the very young and very old. But once again, the rise of affordable tablets has made even those markets shrink by the day. It’s hard to think the iPod line is going to do anything but continue shrink even with this refresh.“
• Reda-Report zu EU-Urheberrecht angenommen: Keine Einschränkung von Panoramafreiheit, keine Mehrheit für LSR „Zusammengenommen zeichnet sich an Hand der Abstimmung über den Reda-Report zumindest im EU-Parlament eine große Mehrheit für zumindest moderate, aber doch Reformen des EU-Urheberrechts ab.“
• Introducing Quip Desktop – Quip Blog Quip wird mittlereile von Tausenden Unternehmen benutzt.

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• Everyone in Buenos Aires Is Communicating by Voice Memo Now | Motherboard „These messages are sent almost exclusively through WhatsApp, which has around 11 million users in Argentina. Federico Novick, who is from Buenos Aires and is doing graduate research in Internet Studies in the US, said many people in Latin America use WhatsApp instead of SMS because it’s relatively cheap.“
• Der Handel von morgen – K5 Marktausblicke 2025 | Exciting Commerce Wichtige Zahlen und Einblicke.
• „CDs are the best format in the sense that they are so worthless as physical objects“ Die Bevorzugung von Vinyl oder Papierbüchern ist materialistisch und kunstfern.
• “Software companies are leaving the UK because of government’s surveillance plans” Ars Technica UK:“The company behind the open-source blogging platform Ghost is moving its paid-for service out of the UK because of government plans to weaken protection for privacy and freedom of expression.

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• Independent Maps Startup Mapbox Raises 52.6M $Maps are only going to get more important.An independent player is important but I doubt Mapbox will stay that way for long.(It is interesting that the bidding war for Nokias HERE maps service is fierce but not as fierce as it should be given the market developments and rising importance of maps. Also: Googles microsoftiness of trying to do everything kind of killed Google maps as an option for a lot of third parties because an increasing number of companies don’t want to have a potential future competitor looking into their cards.)
• Why China is ground zero concerning city focused apps and services MarkDMill:“Getting transit directions in China was far more important for Apple than getting US transit directions.

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• For Facebook Europe is growing slowly
  Reuters: Exclusive: Facebook earns 51 percent of ad revenue overseas – executives:
  „While Europe is growing slower than the United States, the Asia Pacific region is ahead and a focus for Facebook.“
• “SpaceX founder files with government to provide Internet service from space”
  The Washington Post:
  „The plan calls for launching a constellation of 4,000 small and cheap satellites that would beam high-speed Internet signals to all parts of the globe, including its most remote regions. Musk has said the effort “would be like rebuilding the Internet in space.”If successful, the attempt could transform SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, Calif., from a pure rocket company into a massive high-speed-Internet provider that would take on major companies in the developed world but also make first-time customers out of the billions of people who are currently not online.“It is hard to overstate how large a business this could be.It is the kind of ambitious projects (don’t do it, don’t say ‘moonshot’) that is lacking in Europe.

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• 300 million reasons for Apple software on Windows Jan Dawson on why Apple has to make software for Windows:“However, there are still several hundred million iPhone users who don’t own or use Macs on a daily basis, many of whom do use Windows PCs, either by choice or because work, cost constraints, or other reasons require them to. This Windows + iPhone group is actually substantially bigger than the Mac + iPhone group Apple has spent so much time serving, probably around three hundred million or more“
• More Thoughts on Microsoft acquiring Berlin’s 6Wunderkinder Robin Wauters on Tech.eu with more background on Microsoft buying 6Wunderkinder:“Tech.eu has also learned, and confirmed, that two of 6Wunderkinder’s early investors, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and T-Venture (previously the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom) sold all of their shares to Earlybird VC and Sequoia in secondary transactions, respectively.

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• Wann sehen wir die ersten 10-Milliarden-Giganten im Online-Handel? Turbulente Wachstumszeiten im Onlinehandel.
• Ad Spend in Germany May Have Passed €28 Billion in… – newnetland eMarketer quotes a report bei Axel Springer SE:“Television—by far the most lucrative sector—attracted an estimated €13.28 billion ($17.62 billion) last year, compared with €12.31 billion ($16.33 billion) in 2013.

  Another traditional medium, newspapers, retained the second-place ranking and claimed €4.75 billion ($6.30 billion) in 2014, nearly €23 million ($30.52 billion) more than the previous year. Germany’s advertisers’ rising spend on printed news titles contrasts sharply with a pattern seen in many other developed economies, where brands are increasingly shifting their focus from print to digital publications.”

  For comparison: digital ad spending is at 3.06 billion Euro according to Axel Springer.

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• Die nächsten drei Milliarden-Unternehmen im Online-Handel | Exciting Commerce „Während Amazon 2015 schon über 100 Milliarden Umsatz machen wird (“Wo steht Amazon in 5 Jahren?”), haben drei weitere Online-Händler 2014 erstmals die Umsatzmilliarde erreicht: ASOS und Ocado in England und Zulily in den USA.“
• Samsung TVs start inserting ads into your movies — Tech News and Analysis „Thought you could watch that video on your local hard drive without ads? Think again: A number of owners of Samsung’s smart TVs are reporting this week that their TV sets started to interrupt their movie viewing with Pepsi ads, which seem to be dynamically inserted into third-party content.“Das ergibt businessseitig keinen Sinn für Samsung.

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• How did science come to speak only English? – Michael D Gordin – Aeon „In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev almost lost credit for his development of the periodic table because he had published in Russian not German, and today publishing in a fast-paced field in anything other than English – and in anything other than a leading journal – leads to work being ignored.“
• Netflix Posts Earnings Beat, Plans More Shows | Re/code Netflix-CEO Reed Hastings: “last year our original content overall was some of our most efficient content. Our originals cost us less money, relative to our viewing metrics, than most of our licensed content, much of which is well known and created by the top studios.”
• Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job —… – newnetland Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job — The Message — Medium:“As it turns out, organizing the world’s information isn’t always profitable.

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• 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.

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• Die Politik ist das größte Problem für die Digitalisierung der deutschen Wirtschaft | Netzökonom
• Special report: How the rise of a mega solar panel farm shows us the future of energy — Tech News and Analysis "While rooftop solar systems deliver less solar power than utility solar farms do these days, down the road that could flip and the collective capacity from rooftop solar systems could become substantially larger. When that happens, it will be a challenge for utilities to move from a centralized clean power system to a distributed one, requiring significant investment in their grids."
• Estimating G+ User Activity: 6.6 million active… – newnetland „dredmorbius“ (on Ello of all things) about Google+ User Activity:

  Summary of findings:
  There are about 2.2 billion G+ profiles total.