Category: Online Trends

• Wal-Mart and Tesco are going digital

  This week has seen two intriguing acquisitions take place: US retail giant Wal-Mart and its UK counterpart Tesco both acquiring promising digital businesses. Last Monday, Wal-Mart bought social media firm Kosmix based in Silicon Valley and yesterday Tesco announced its purchase of a 80% stake in Blinkbox a UK-based online video streaming business. It looks like we…

  marcabraham

  April 21, 2011

  Digital Strategy, Online Trends, Social Media

  cross-platform, Lovefilm, strategy, video

• Will streaming TV take over from cable?

  Earlier this week, Toronto-based Convergence Consulting Group released a report on the (future) split between watching TV on cable and online in the US. Streaming businesses like Netflix and Hulu have already seen an impressive rise in their revenues due to the increasing popularity of streaming TV, and this report now indicates that online viewing…

  marcabraham

  April 8, 2011

  Digital Strategy, Online Trends

  cross-platform, Lovefilm, Netflix, Online, TV

• Setting the record straight through ICorrect

  “Setting the record straight” is what ICorrect.com promises to do. This site was officially launched earlier this week to give people and organisations a chance to correct any information about themselves that they believe to be untrue. Sir David Tang, the founder of ICorrect, believes that 99% of what’s written on the Internet is based on…

  marcabraham

  March 12, 2011

  Online Trends, Social Media, Startups

  ICorrect, Online, socialmedia

• How robust will Netflix’ business model turn out to be?

  The acquisition of Lovefilm by Amazon has really got me interested in this business of online DVD rentals and video streaming. It’s fair to say that Lovefilm’s key metrics are completely gazumped by Netflix’ numbers, its US competitor: 1.6m European subscribers (Lovefilm) vs.19.7m US subscribers (Netflix). But even a successful business like Netflix is not…

  marcabraham

  February 8, 2011

  Digital Strategy, Online Trends

  Amazon, Lovefilm, Netflix, strategy

• Open data: it’s beautiful!

  One of the things I love about the web is the ease and the speed with which it creates transparency and the way it forces institutions to open up and share. A great example is WikiLeaks where the recent release of secret cables from US diplomats caused a massive media and diplomatic storm. It draws…

  marcabraham

  January 5, 2011

  Online Trends, Open Data

  opendata, Tim Berners-Lee