Twitter IPO: What the web (and Twitter) is saying
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We’re tracking the best and most relevant commentary about Twitter’s historic IPO in this post as events unfold over the course of the day. Read more »
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The mobile shopping apps consumers value most
While independent developers have led innovation in mobile shopping apps, retailers, brands, and local businesses are facing an imperative — integrate high-value mobile shopping capabilities into their customers’ experiences or risk disintermediation. Read more at Gigaom Research »
With Nokia, Microsoft finally ready to become a hardware company (roundup)
Here’s a roundup of our coverage of Microsoft’s decision to go all-in on hardware with the purchase of Nokia’s smartphone division. Read more »
The GigaOM Report Card: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
In technology and business, it’s all three: whether you won, whether you lost, and how you played the game. Now that Steve Ballmer has finally decided to retire, it’s report card time. Read more »
Cloud Trailblazers: 10 for 2013
The story of the cloud is often told via hardware and code, but behind the shift in IT are people. We found 10 of them who are rethinking infrastructure. Meet our Cloud Trailblazers. Read more »
GigaOM Research highs and lows from CES 2013
Given how CES is now a barometer for such a wide array of technology segments, GigaOM Research decided to ask our readers which way the tech winds will blow over the next year based on what they saw in Las Vegas. (Subscription required) Read more »
How to deliver the next-generation web experience
Delivering and managing the web experience isn’t just about mobile. Companies are also faced with new challenges in the desktop environment, including browser fragmentation, network evolution, and client-side technologies. They must invest in both the desktop environment as well as to create an optimized experience for mobile. Read more »
Podcast: What you need to know about the cloud for the coming year
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Our friends at GigaOM Research break down the big winners and losers in the cloud space and the trends you need to know about for the coming year: consumer-oriented cloud, big data and government adoption and more. With Adam Lesser, David Linthicum and Paul Miller. Read more »
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How to manage the signaling storm in 2013
Signaling traffic growth is outstripping mobile data traffic by 30 percent to 50 percent and threatening the stability of mobile networks. However, the growth in signaling traffic is not only an indicator of success but also shows that mobile data has come of age. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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How tomorrow’s mobile-centric data centers will look
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The “mobile first” philosophy is under way today. That means a new generation of mobile-centric data centers will arise over the next three years, with chips, servers, and power architectures customized for mobile workloads. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Forecast: the converged mobile messaging market
The mobile-messaging value chain is changing as OTT players upend mobile operators’ SMS business. There will be 27.7 trillion messages by 2016, and most of the growth in traffic will come from IP-based services. Successful carriers will use this new technology to extend reliability and scalability. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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How devops can reduce cycle times
Devops is an industry buzzword that arose to describe the collaboration of development and operations teams. Continuous delivery is the automated implementation of the build, deploy, test, and release processes. As more teams embrace these ideas, more platforms and services will move toward a self-service model. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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What the shift to the cloud means for the future EPG
The purpose of the on-screen guide has shifted. By connecting the guide to content-recommendation engines and advertising platforms, service providers and connected-TV device manufacturers are using the EPG as an access point for understanding consumers and reaching out to them to own the living room. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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The next generation of battery technology
The market for grid-scale advanced batteries is forecasted to reflect nearly $30 billion in investment through 2020. Tapping into this potential depends on the technical and market-focused innovations of a small industry ecosystem, one that faces considerable challenges in R&D and funding. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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A look back at mobile in the third quarter
Apple stole the spotlight in the third quarter with the release of its iPhone 5, Amazon pursued the tablet market aggressively with a new line of tablets, and Microsoft prepped to launch Windows 8 and the highly anticipated Surface tablet. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Continuous delivery and the world of devops
Thanks to the rise of online business, companies must now get their products and services to market as fast as they can, and releasing software now means small releases that occur very frequently. Enter devops, which is disrupting traditional assumptions about the roles of development and operations. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Development strategies for the app-developer community
App developers are the cornerstones of the multibillion-dollar app market, but the overall community remains largely unknown. As app downloads increase, organizations that can bring tools, resources, and a collective voice to this group will be an important factor in the evolution of mobile-app development. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Listening platforms: finding the value in social media data
Listening platforms — or social media monitoring, analysis, and engagement tools — are bringing massive amounts of new information to businesses’ marketing departments. These tools are also leading the way in the growth of social media information and access throughout organizations so that customers’ wants and needs can be better understood and, presumably, satisfied. This report analyzes how the adoption of listening platforms is transforming marketing departments, their relationships with central IT, and the core systems that run the enterprise. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Opportunities and risks in the share economy
Owning physical items — cars, apartments, office space — will be increasingly inefficient for a global market. This is driving a greater interest in the share economy. Companies like Zipcar and Airbnb have paved the way here, but a host of startups have surfaced recently, too. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Key steps for successful renewable-energy permitting
Developers of renewable-energy projects frequently spend more time obtaining permits than the actual projects. Such delays — often unanticipated — pose serious financial risks. But several key steps will help developers navigate successfully through the thicket of nonuniform regulations, jurisdictions, and lawsuits that await them. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Consumer privacy in the mobile advertising era
Smartphones can enable an amazing level of connectivity, but they can also allow that activity to be monitored and used in controversial ways. But for mobile marketing to realize its full potential, consumers may need to sacrifice their privacy to one degree or another. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Takeaways from mobile’s second quarter
Apple and Google still dominate the smartphone space, but look out for Microsoft, which finally has some muscle behind its mobile strategy. Meanwhile mobile-browser developers went head-to-head with native apps, and Facebook continued to buy mobile expertise via acquisition. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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The evolution of consumer-media cloud storage
Cloud-based storage and cross-device syncing of media content are two of the most competitive areas in consumer IT. Apple, Google and Amazon see cloud-based media services both as a way to increase attachment to their platforms and a means to extend and amplify their broader strategic goals. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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The evolution of the virtual goods market
Social virtual goods revenues will grow from $2.1 billion in 2010 to $4.1 billion in 2016. Leading this growth are disruptive factors such as mobile, regulatory changes and alternatives to the traditional OS. But the most important disruption vector will be increasing the universality of virtual currencies. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Locating data centers in an energy-constrained world
Changes in the power market are rippling through the Internet industry, altering both the location of data centers and their sources of power. There are many factors in picking a data center location beyond the geographic location, such as how to procure energy and green-energy models. Read more at Gigaom Research »
Infographic: A look back at Facebook’s revenue and valuations
We’ve tracked down Facebook’s past revenues and valuations — in this handy-dandy infographic. Read more »
Facebook IPO: Tracking the price
The time for talking has passed, and the time for buying has begun. We’re tracking what could be one of the biggest IPOs in American history–and what will almost certainly be the biggest tech IPO ever–in this post. Read more »
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Deploying big data: 2012 strategies for IT departments
Cloud computing and big data are in the enterprise to stay, but making the most of them presents challenges for IT decision makers. The future belongs to those companies who can work through legacy tools, ongoing security issues and the data scientist shortage. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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2012: The Hadoop infrastructure market booms
There are now more than half a dozen commercial Hadoop distributions in the market, and almost every enterprise with big data challenges is tinkering with the Apache Foundation-licensed software. A new report examines the key disruptive trends shaping the Hadoop platform market. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Creating value out of machine-driven big data
If your organization doesn’t have a strategy for big data now, you will need one in the future. Here we discuss the difference between big data and traditional business intelligence, as well as the considerations executives should take into account as they plan their big data strategies. Read more at Gigaom Research »
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Hyperlocal: opportunities for publishers and developers
Hyperlocal mobile advertising is at a critical juncture: Leading analysts predict that mobile ad spending will increase by more than five times between 2011 and 2015. But what are the forces at play, and how effective are HyLoMo ads? Read more at Gigaom Research »
Redefining Luxury For A Mobile World
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Rich people have phones, like apps and want to buy things using said phones. The less-than-groundbreaking results of a study from the Luxury… Read more »
Small Carriers Are Launching LTE, But Will They Ever See A 4G iPhone?
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Last year, regional operator C Spire became the first small carrier in the U.S. to land the iPhone, but its good fortune may not continue if… Read more »
Is Making Books Social A Good Thing Or A Bad Thing?
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As virtually every form of media from newspapers to television shows becomes more socially aware, the book remains stubbornly anti-social. D… Read more »
How To Use Fancy Gestures On The iPad (And Why You Should)
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At the beginning of last year, Apple added iPad gesture controls in iOS 4.3 as a developer option. And with the debut of iOS 5 in October of… Read more »
Google TV Is Coming To Europe This September
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) will start selling Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV-based products in Europe in September, according to a report by Les Echos. The si… Read more »
Zeebox Boss Says Smart TV Is A Dumb Idea
Is the trend for smart TVs that connect to the web and run apps a big mistake? Anthony Rose, the co-founder of hot social TV app Zeebox, too… Read more »
Verizon’s Mobile TV Plans Don’t Make Sense (Like Its Proposed Spectrum Buy)
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Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam is pitching a form of integrated wireless and wireline cable TV package if the government approves its plans to bu… Read more »
Netflix Not Killing DVD After All? Buys DVD.com Just In Case
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Over the last year Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has had an increasingly complicated relationship with its DVD business. The company separated its st… Read more »
Hey Devs, Amazon Apps Can Make Almost As Much As iOS Apps
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It’s fairly obvious by now that iOS and Android are the top dogs in mobile, so the battle is on for the third platform player. I wrote off B… Read more »
