"Google" articles
Written by Jim O’Neil, Research Analyst
Time Warner Cable may be the biggest pay-TV provider in Kansas City – it has about 33 percent of the market – but it has to be feeling pressure from Google Fiber, which has just announced it has signed a deal with Disney to bring 15 of its networks, including ESPN, to the pay-TV service Google is offering.
In case you’ve been out of the country, or too busy getting ready for the new iPhone, Google is set to launch a $70/month pay-TV...
By Jim O'Neill, Parks Associates Research Analyst
The question, “Is Google getting ready to shop Motorola?” isn’t a new one, but it is picking up steam.
Maybe it’s because of Google’s new fiber project in Kansas City that it seems counterintuitive for a sale to happen. After all, Google hasn’t named a vendor for the equipment and has said it’s making them itself.
Put two and two together, and the assumption has to be that, well, Google’s subsidiary,...
Google 's online app market for Android apps, movies, music, and books is coming to Google TV, the company announced. Later this summer, Google will make video content that can be purchased or rented through Google Play available on Google TV. The company will be adding TV content to the lineup of content it now offers via Google Play.
People will be able to purchase episodes of TV shows or buy the entire season and play it on a variety of Android devices, including...
Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand.
The effort marks a sharp shift in strategy for Google, which for the first would time would design and market consumer electronic devices under the Google brand. Google has up to now mainly focused on developing the operating system that powers devices such as smartphones, tablets and televisions and allowing other companies to...
Fresh standards are being established for smart TVs as television manufacturers and service providers cater to increasing consumer demand for internet-delivered content and apps in the living room.
At this month’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Sony is to demonstrate a simpler version of the Google TV service, being made available next year outside the US for the first time, while LG, Philips and Sharp announced the first alliance of TV makers to establish common...
As we all awoke to the news of Google's acquisition announcement , many are focusing attention on the smartphone side of Motorola Mobility's business (after all, it is Motorola Mobility ). While the idea of Google taking on Apple directly is certainly a big story, the impact on the video services market is just as profound.
Effectively, this move puts Google in bed (or at least in a potential too-close-for-comfort position) with many key players in the video world. Motorola...
Google+ is Google's most aggressive effort yet to crack the evolution of the Web from a place that connects people to information to a place that connects them to one another. It has amassed 20 million users in three weeks, according to research firm ComScore Inc. The addition of social games could liven up Google+, which has far fewer users than Facebook's more than 750 million and fewer bells and whistles. Google+ still requires an invitation.
The market for social games in the...
News last week that a consortium of companies - among them Apple and Microsoft - outbid Google for a number of Nortel patents related to the smartphone industry.
We can talk about business models all we want (subscriptions, microtransactions, virtual goods, transactional payments, advertising, etc.), but it appears that the new business model for wireless players is patent litigation. This is related to yesterday's Fierce Wireless article about Microsoft wanting $15 from Samsung...
