The end of an era for Oracle that existed as a software (licensing) company. I think that Ellison stepping in as the CTO is probably more important than him stepping down as the CEO.
This move will perhaps will lay the groundwork for the next tens of billions in revenue for Oracle, in cloud based software and infrastructure.
I am glad that Yahoo is waking up to the mobile & platform revolution after sleeping through the most important parts of it. Glad that it is not pretending to be "media" company anymore.
Flurry acquisition was a good act. This should give them a great headstart against FB.
https://developer.yahoo.com/games/ - Yahoo Games network is positioned badly. The opening tag line is "monetize your games" but I find the monetization piece missing. What it is trying to be is a platform for mobile apps and games., it is positioned as a gaming platform to get developers on board I think.
Yahoo's play in the ad exchange space is still nonexistent; however not surprising considering that they spent insane amounts of money acquiring vaporware from Bluelithium and others.
The current ad execs are also clueless and absolutely not reachable, I expect this trend to continue.
I am not sure why YC should get the opportunity to get 100 entrepreneurs get startup visas.
Why not open the level playing field and allow ANY entrepreneur to get such a visa? There are plenty of Dropbox / Airbnb companies that are getting built, going public or getting sold outside of YC.
While the idea is nothing new for regular folks, this man has built this in one of the most under-developed regions of India - Bihar and the fact that he has made several other similar solutions that are specific to the problems he faces, is laudable.
I got ticketed for having a GPS attached to the centre of the screen. According to the cop, all devices that obstruct the view must be removed. So, GPS is permitted on an attachment on your dash or far left corner of the windshield.
Google Glass is not a phone but an obstacle in view. Therefore, I guess that the cop decided that it should be ticketed. I think this ticket will be upheld in the court as well.
I'm guessing that the cop wrote "Driving with Monitor visible to Driver" using that language because there's a law specifically against that. If so, she might as well just pay the ticket.
It's funny that Google is publishing this. I work in the ad tech industry and Google did this to us 3 months ago, in order to connect to ad exchange
Signed contracts of about 200 pages long, including really long NDAs
Took $35k deposit
Put us through Dev / Testing Cycle including a few hundred million hits each day for about a month.
After spending 3 months on it, they said that we were profiling user data (which we were not - it was an ignorant mistake on our part in checking an item YES in the contract rather than NO). We pleaded, begged and argued with no merit.
Google blocked us from accessing their ad exchange ..
In the meanwhile...Google does user profiling openly, mining search queries, Google+, Google Maps and everything else available at their disposal, including the kind of apps that you open on your phones (non android included, thanks to Admob).
It seems to me that they are deliberately blocking any fair competition in the marketplace. If this is not a monopoly, then what is this supposed to be?
This move will perhaps will lay the groundwork for the next tens of billions in revenue for Oracle, in cloud based software and infrastructure.