Google’s latest acquisition of Nest, a company that creates home automation technology, indicates that the company is starting to agree with the “Apple vision,” which believes technology companies should create hardware and software solutions in addition to an online platform. Google has wanted to get into the market of “connected home”-type systems for a while, […]
John Jellinek
Consumer Electronics Show Highlights
2013 was a big year for electronics and it seems like 2014 will only continue to impress. According to an article on The Economic Times website, here are some highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Curved televisions and smartphones. I had previously wrote a blog post about Samsung’s new design of […]
Facebook Acquisition of Instagram
I came across a recent article on Motley Fool that talks about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram and how it was a positive step in the right direction for the major social player. Many people criticized the acquisition by Facebook because Instagram at the time had no revenue driver, just a rapidly growing user base. Looking at […]
Elon Musk’s New Idea
Elon Musk seems to always be thinking about the future. He is currently innovating transportation with his rapidly growing car company Tesla, but he continues to look past his current endeavors to bigger and better things. These things include a high speed railway system that would redefine how we travel across land in the United […]
Samsung Introduces Curved Smartphone
Samsung continues to differentiate from Apple in an effort to win over market share. Its latest development is the world’s first curved smartphone. According to an article in Bloomberg, the device will be 5.7 inches and is called the Galaxy Round. This is the first step in what will be a series of steps for […]
Microsoft’s Business Acquisitions Over The Years
I found a great article on CNET that talks about Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Nokia’s phone unit as well as the companies acquisitions over the years. Just this month, Microsoft spent $7.2 billion in an effort to reshape and make more of a dent in the smartphone market with Nokia’s devices and services unit. Over the […]
Amazon Moving Into The Gaming Business
According to an article from Forbes, Amazon may be getting into the gaming console business. “Sources are telling Game Informer that online retailer and gadget maker Amazon is prepping an android-based console for release in 2013, likely before Black Friday. When contacted for comment, an Amazon rep said that it did not respond to rumors or […]
Yelp Acquires Reservation Service SeatMe
A recent story in Entrepreneur talked about Yelp’s acquisition of SeatMe, a reservation service based out of San Francisco. According to the article, “SeatMe’s web service lets restaurant owners add an online reservation system to their own site or Facebook page. Its iPad app essentially lets restaurant hosts manage their tables in real-time.” As stated in […]