Tag Archives: Google

What I Wish Walt Mossberg Would Write

March 14, 2013 · by · in Apple, apps, Google, mobile, mobile apps · Leave a comment

The headline gracing Walt Mossberg’s column in the Wednesday, March 13 edition of the Wall Street Journal sent me first to the back of the paper and the Personal Journal section. It reads, “How Apple Gets All the Good Apps,” and you can read it here. I enjoy Mossberg’s columns and believe he does his […]

Do I really need to build an app?

February 10, 2013 · by · in apps, mobile, mobile apps, Mobile commerce, mobile web · Leave a comment

Intelligent people with lots of mobile industry experience still debate this topic aggressively, which is understandable given the stakes. All of us in the industry can see users surging toward mobile. The question is how best to serve those users: app or web (or both)? In this post, I’m not going to answer the question. […]

Quick hits: Yahoo and Facebook focus on mobile engagement, plus CES 2013 takeaways

February 1, 2013 · by · in automotive, cars, Google, mobile, mobile advertising, Mobile commerce · 1 Comment

Here are some quick hits on recent news from Facebook and Yahoo, as well as a post mortem on the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Google vs. Facebook, Yahoo: Diverging approaches to growing the mobile advertising business I recently wrote about Google’s latest earnings announcement – you can read it here – and mentioned both the […]

Google’s “glass half-full” view of the mobile economy

January 24, 2013 · by · in Google, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile apps, Mobile commerce · 1 Comment

Google’s earnings announcement on Wednesday, Jan. 22, prompted a spike in its stock price despite delivering some news that at first glance looked bad. What’s going on here? Like many companies that have built their businesses on attracting a digital audience to serve largely digital content, Google is confronting and managing a massive shift in […]

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