This year brought tumultuous shifts in technology, with enormous success stories such as the rise of the open-source Android operating system, the end of Europe’s multi-year antitrust case against Microsoft regarding browsers, and surprising shifts in the hardware market, among other notable events. As the year and decade pull to a close, we’ve collected the top five winning and losing technologies and companies for each of the five major areas that our GigaOM Pro research service covers: infrastructure, mobile, consumer tech, real-time web, and green technology. After some grueling negotiations, we ended up with this list of the top 50 biggest winners and losers of 2009:
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To find out more about why these companies and technologies were selected, check out the full writeup at GigaOM Pro (subscription required).
Thanks for laying this out in a non-spammy way unlike your friends at Alley Insider who would make you page through hundreds of pages to see the same info.
Hulu is appearing as a winner and loser. Is this intentional?
Yes it is :-) They started out as a winner but ended the year as a loser. I think it is an interesting change of events for them.
So I would say they should be in the loser group only. It’s how you end a race that matters.
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PS3 and Wii a loser and not XBOX? Also, if Blue Ray is a loser, then who is the winner?