"Google" articles
Today marks the day, and the only day, that Google sells its much hyped and controversial Google Glass to the public. After almost a year of invitation-only trials by a few thousands tech junkies (I am still sour on the fact that Google has not sent me a pair even I consider myself a “junkie”), the public finally has a chance to test themselves. No one knows what the market response will be like, but we will know pretty quickly if the stock will be sold out quickly, or otherwise....
Companies are waging platform wars on a variety of fronts: digital media and apps, social networking and messaging, commerce and advertising, payment and artificial intelligence. Each player is fighting hard because it knows each new product and feature, each device iteration and software upgrade, along with related content and service updates, are critical to the end user's experience. The richer the experience, the higher the value a company can earn from its loyalists.
But how...
This is an insane amount of money to spend on a start up. My estimate is that $3.2B is more than 20X earnings. So why does Google think that is worth $3.2B?
Nest has reported 100% growth in both 2012 and 2013. In order to sustain that growth, they must have a great product roadmap. It is likely that they will introduce products in other categories that will bring technology to stale products in the same way that they have reinvented the thermostat and smoke detector. Nest has been...
Parks Associates is currently offering the special research "Google Chromecast Owners" free of charge with the purchase of a Market Focus.
Market Focus research features findings and analysis based on Parks Associates' ongoing consumer surveys. Each Market Focus covers a key topic or emerging trend within Parks Associates' areas of coverage, which encompass all aspects of the connected home, digital media distribution, and mobile consumer.
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Google has unveiled its new Chromecast device and Google Cast SDK.
The $35 Chromecast device allows users to stream their Chrome tabs and videos to their TVs from virtually every popular platform.
Google Cast SDK is created for developers on iOS, Android, and Chrome. It will allows these developers to enable their apps to stream right to their users TVs.
The SDK, Google says, will enable interactions between devices and TV. Developers don’t have to...
Parks Associates has released new market focus research entitled "Voice Recognition and Control on Mobile Devices."
One of the key topics of this market focus research is the consumer response to voice-control features. For example, Parks Associates research has found that over 50 percent of Apple Siri and Google Now users report being very satisfied with voice-recognition features.
Some of the other key topics include: Current ownership of...
Google redefined community when it announced it would be bringing 1 Gigabit Internet and a new pay-TV service to parts of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.
Its campaign to sign up resident in “fiberhoods” was different than any other ISP before it. Google hosted community events, built an information center that showed how the service could be used, and it supplied neighborhood activists and schools with leaflets and yard signs urging neighbors to pre-register for the...
The Open Mobile Summit: Connecting Everything. November 7-9, San Francisco. New speakers just announced include: Rich Miner, co-founder Android and Investing Partner, Google Ventures; Anand Chandrasekher, CMO, Qualcomm; and Warren East, CEO, ARM. They join Facebook, Samsung, LG, ESPN, MLB, You Tube, BBC, eBay, and more. Less than 100 tickets are remaining for this VIP industry networking event. Register yours today with VIP code PARKSB and save $150.
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