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Internet penetration in India is at the lower end of your estimate - 124 million in 2012 (1). In contrast, the wireless subscriber base was 875 million in 2013 (2). Source: 1. “Rei…

The mobile industry body GSMA's Rich Communications Services (RCS) initiative seems relevant in this context. "joyn services enable customers to chat and enrich messaging or voice …

Company culture can definitely be changed, either by a handful of motivated team mates or by one effective leader. For an example of the latter approach, read this book: "American …

marcopolo: Wondering if you have similar data security concerns regarding SMS, especially those received via an SMS gateway?

While the article does not talk about it, one major difference between pre & post internet social networking is the effort intensity. The internet has trivialized the effort requir…

Resource intensity in itself is unlikely to deter entry. A key factor determining industry concentration is the potential for economic profits (rents). You seem to be referring to …

What are the implications for Free Zone users, Google, the carriers, advertisers, websites, and phone OEM’s? 1. Free Zone users can access their favorite Google communication tool …

Every Olympic medal winner is an expert at his/her sport. Given that attaining expertise requires about 10 years of "deliberate practice" under the supervision of a capable coach, …

That's a good perspective. Monetization would thus depend on whether attention & intent are aligned - true in the case of Google search but not so with FB & Twitter.

Well, Dalton Caldwell is asking: http://join.app.net/

> If you cannot afford to live yourself, I expect the cows won't have much of a life either. But that's just an assumption. That's a fair assumption for a commercial operation. In …

I believe the Canadian government does not subsidize dairy farming while the USA does so. Specifically, farmer's cooperatives in Canada have self imposed quotas while in the USA, t…

You are on the right track. Couple points to round it off: 1. Dalton is questioning the dominant business model online & fired his first salvo via join.app.net. 2. As a vocal spoke…

Recently (July 2012), I encountered a problem while researching web services providing POI data sets. I came across some companies which had announced plans to provide access to th…