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Das Ende der Gesellschaft. Von den Folgen der Vernetzung

Das Ende der Gesellschaft von den Folgen der Vernetzung aller. // // Strohfeuer - Book Tausche Seele gegen Erfolg. Sascha Lobos packender Debütroman über die Lebensgier in den Zeiten der New Economy. // margaret thatcher - there is no such thing as society. // massenmedien (soziale medien, u eigenes umfeldgeben) illusion von spektrum of normativen verhalten; ie consumerism! du bist wast du kaufst. ... < illusorisches gesellschaftsbild. // der lack blaettert ab! an der zivilisierten gesellschaft (brexit) // strenght of weak ties (kraft des netzwerks) // no self-censorship, thus more and more people see that racism and xenophobia and misogyny is an acceptable opinion and one is not alone. far-right conservatives tell that political correctness has gone too far. // nun findet keine maessigung mehr statt (dies political correctness); racism/xenophobia ist nicht mehr extrem. // nachrichten bekamen gefuehlsgetrieben (emotions) [...] gesellschaft in wallungen. gefuehlten wirklichkeit. // zeit des schnellen wandels der welt - 24/7 news cycle - coping mechanism = emotions.

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july 2016 by asterisk2a

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The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class - YouTube

Canada: Generation Jobless - https://youtu.be/4UUuMWqA8eE - "The Plight of Younger Workers" (Report).& underemployed graduates w fancy sounding degrees. [...] EDUCATION INFLATION! [...] an education does no more guarantee a comfortable middle class jobs, and parents are disappointed. [...] globalisation of workforce plus automation, robotics, AI, augmented intelligence. the new GM's and Toyota's and DuPonts need less and less workers to catch ever greater pies of the current and future economy. [...] rise of the project focused self-employed and the Gig Economy. //&! (USA) Invisible Reality; The Working Poor - youtu.be/806PSngTKgg //&! FULL STORY: Generation Poor - youtu.be/lB4w8MQPdEE //&! FULL STORY: The Labour Trap - youtu.be/cHBo3LgXUPA - precarious work is now more and more the norm. as well as exploitation of those conditions.

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june 2016 by asterisk2a

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The tech industry has cut a Google’s worth of jobs in the past 12 months

bigger companies, more profitable products, with less people. // “It would be wrong to assume that increased job cuts are a sign of weakness in the tech sector,” Challenger, Gray & Christmas CEO John Challenger said in a statement. “The simple fact is that the industry is going through a transformation and companies either have to shift their focus or risk extinction. We will always need technology, but how we interact with it, as well as where and when we interact with it, are changing rapidly.” //&! http://recode.net/2016/04/19/intel-chipmaker-mobile-earnings-restructuring/ - Intel missed the mobile revolution. Now it faces its day of reckoning.

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april 2016 by asterisk2a

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From a Culture of Connectivity to a Platform Society

transform, change public life and social life. [...] participatory culture (reality is sometimes less than 1% create of the 100% that consume. [,,,] give away your user data, get service for free. it became a economic transaction. user data is currency. [...] harmful for people, but no discussion about harms to society and public life (self-censorship) & rise in vanity, Selbstdarstellung! Also filter bubble. Revenge Porn. Stalking. Cyber bullying and cyber mobbing. Phishing for your data, enabling cyber crime. [...] hidden norms and values [...] not a level playing field [pay to play] [...]

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april 2016 by asterisk2a

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Why Was a Facebook Executive Arrested in Brazil? Encryption. | Re/code

Case in point: Facebook executive Diego Dzodan was arrested by Brazilian police Tuesday morning on his way to work for the same reason Brazilian authorities succeeded — albeit temporarily — in having WhatsApp banned from the country back in December: Encryption. Dzodan — who is still detained at the time of this writing — was arrested because of Facebook’s “repeated non-compliance with court orders,” according to a police press release. What does that mean? Brazilian authorities have requested that WhatsApp hand over user messages in multiple criminal investigations over the past few months, and WhatsApp repeatedly claims that it can’t hand over those messages because it doesn’t have them.

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march 2016 by asterisk2a

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Yahoo: Was der Niedergang Apple, Google und Facebook lehrt - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Yahoo baut Stellen ab und endet wohl als Ramschware. Der Abstieg des Internet-Pioniers ist auch eine Warnung an Apple, Facebook und Co. [...] Die Krise von Yahoo lässt sich in einer Zahl zusammenfassen: minus 13 Milliarden Dollar. So niedrig bewertet die Börse das Kerngeschäft des amerikanischen Internet-Konzerns inzwischen, hat der Tech-Journalist Matt Levine ausgerechnet. Abzüglich einiger lukrativer Beteiligungen und seiner Bargeldreserven ist Yahoo nichts mehr wert. Weniger als nichts. [...] Die digitalen Mode- und Tech-Magazine, die sie startete, finden wenige Leser. Auch die 2013 gekaufte Blog-Plattform Tumblr entwickelte sich nicht, wie von Mayer erhofft: Von der 1,1-Milliarden-Dollar-Akquisition schreibt Yahoo nun rund ein Viertel ab.

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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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Pando: Messaging Wars: Facebook pulls off crazy user volume, while somehow Snapchat doesn’t have to

Messenger is gonna be bigger than social, and Snapchat is a far stronger adversary than Twitter

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january 2016 by asterisk2a

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DatelineLondon: Tories spying bill destroying freedom and democracy (07Nov15) - YouTube

via https://redd.it/3s4t4r // freedom of association, // quality of life you are protecting.

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november 2015 by asterisk2a

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg on Internet.org: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ | Re/code

[ next billion customers are not in the western world, existing markets ] “Within about a month, about half of the people who have tried out Free Basics … become full paying customers of the whole Internet.” Put another way: Facebook’s Internet.org service is driving business for its operator partners. Facebook can’t bring Internet to everyone without operator help. It’s not surprising then that Zuckerberg wants to highlight how they’re benefiting, too.

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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Snapchat: Neue Bezahlfunktion erlaubt Zurückspulen - SPIEGEL ONLINE

[ true north of Leaders of Snapchat and Tinder ??? creating a two class app, paying for convenience and privilege?! ] Snapchat lebt von Flüchtigkeit: Fotos und Videos verschwinden nach dem Ansehen. Jetzt kassiert die Chat-App diese Funktion. Für 99 Cent gibt es drei Wiederholungen. Auch die Flirt-App Tinder nimmt Geld fürs Zurückspulen. //&! youtu.be/1CbP0gxvWWw - Consumer products need to stay fresh (in consumers mind, word of mouth, discussion, hello we still exist). Snapcash, pay for replay, ... ... Twitter lacked staying fresh (new product release cycle slowed down bc of internal stuff ...), Tinder, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp (utility (less is sometimes better) vs entertainment (differentiation)), WeChat, Line, Kik, ... Tumblr (slow ... bc of internal and tech was slow w Android/iOS app), Reddit (ouch).

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline | Vanity Fair

Lost decade under Ballmer, the sales guy. Sales guy is not the right guy 2 make a dent into the universe. //&! JULY 2012 Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant - vnty.fr/1OU6xUN //&! NOVEMBER 2014 The Empire Reboots - vnty.fr/1FZ4mJd //&! bit.ly/1isyHfL //&! Bill & Ballmer not on speaking terms - on.mash.to/1isyFED cnet.co/1KcO02M //&! Steve Ballmer talks LA Clippers, Satya Nadella & Microsoft. Just dont ask him abt Gates - ind.pn/10mLbMH //&! read.bi/1Lw4zXs // &! Start-up advice/lesson is that you have to have a true north to be long-term relevant, big enough to be seemingly inexhaustible! Yahoo! NO. AOL. NO. Twitter. Still Debating it internally, reflective of nobody being the true leader with true leadership capabilities, everyone cooking & suggesting spices. Facebook. YES. LinkedIn. YES (economic graph). Amazon. YES. Zappos. YES. RocketInternet. NO. Google. YES. Foursquare. YES. Tumblr. NO. Reddit. YES. HBO. YES.

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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Facebook Messenger: The cheapest, quickest way Zuckerberg has ever “acquired” 700 million users
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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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Facebook Built a ‘Personal Assistant’ Inside Messenger | Re/code

Facebook has a new, A.I.-powered Siri-like assistant tool in Messenger. It's called "M," and it's the company's latest effort in a battle with Google, Uber and others to be the artificial intelligence leader in Silicon Valley. // FB got AI lab in France, got money to invest, to diversify from other Messaging platforms - tcrn.ch/1N1rTSF &! tcrn.ch/1JCfs8Q --- can productise it! your personal assistant, for shopping - convenience - no clicking, not tapping, - M takes care of buying that item you saw in your stream. --- also keeps people inside Facebook! instead of leading them out to the shopping site/product site/... --- also expanding the category/vertical of the messenger you use. --- // // &! http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/28/8677147/google-now-on-tap-announced // &! tcrn.ch/1idSz5R

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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One Year After Facebook’s Messenger Split, It’s Time to Grow a Business | Re/code

“In the next 12 months,” said Marcus, “[Messenger] is going to look radically different than it did 12 months ago.”

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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How To Get 1 Million Subscribers - YouTube

meritocracy, democratic, egalitarian. anyone who has interest, can find it. u will have an audience, even it is just 1. either they like it, share it & come back. or they leave u alone. // Beme, remove the aspect of creation. the friction. the cognitive cost. the overhead. a process to follow. a tutorial or how to listicle to read. to Google or to ask. >> Product developers & investors should think about the cognitive cost of their products. The cognitive cost very often can be much higher than the financial cost. Products with a low cognitive cost are those where the technology fades away and dont require a consumers ongoing attention. bit.ly/1Nz0veO // "Don't make me think." << book, UI UX mantra. // Photo-filter-app vs photo-editing-app vs video-editing-ai-augmented-intelligence-app that have popped up. podcasting. EDM // what has lots of overhead & sometimes really disappointing user experience? Skype, Windows, FriendFeed, Twitter?(niche compared 2 FB). Q&A youtu.be/6xVdM0QJq6Y

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel: What Is His Endgame? - YouTube

"This is fucking hard." << coming from a person from a very well off background, education, circle of friends. << never faced a wall he had to break through or make it happen by his own. // currently crowned winner at the 'SNACKING media entertainment game on the mobile phone.' // "Snapchat is doing something very important in the world right now." LOL // real question is can they scale advertising (ie turning a profit or be cash flow positive) till the time runs/road runs out to the IPO ... ie having to accept termsheets for a growth round not in their favour. Without loosing one eyeball. Pinterest seems to struggle and is tip toeing into the waters.

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may 2015 by asterisk2a

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How Job Destroyers and Coffee Drinkers Rule The World - YouTube
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may 2015 by asterisk2a

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Here’s How Facebook Plans to Monetize WhatsApp - YouTube

+ Reader called "Paper" - see also Flipboard

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may 2015 by asterisk2a

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Looking for “the next Facebook”? It’s actually one of Zuckerberg’s own properties: Messenger | PandoDaily

Skype gets eaten by Networks greater than it ever could be, as feature for said Network(apps). Skype is also more than 10 years old. It's hard to disrupt yourself at that size, lots missed the mobile, underestimated the seismic shift of discretionary time spend on now on smart phone vs laptop/pc. Smartphone is less friction. Having an existing network of certain relations is less friction (Google Hangouts vs Citrix Go to Meeting (creating an account is friction, should partner up with Linkedin stupid)). Starting out as Desktop app and doing it really well there, and then just copying it to the smart phone? The smart phone is not a mini-pc/laptop! It's a much closer tight and emotional relationship (studies have showed).

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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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What’s Up With WhatsApp’s Monthly Active User Numbers? | TechCrunch
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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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Facebook News Feed Reprioritizes Your Real Friends Above Pages | TechCrunch

combat falling usage & engagement!? VS bit.ly/1by0vvx pay-to-play // FB turned from keeping up with the lifes of their friends (young demographic), into clickbait distraction & time wasting machine. Other platforms emerged 2 hang digitally with ur friends that are way more simplified (tuned down 2 1 usage; Appification) with much less bells & whistles & complexity/depth & distraction vs hooked). Thus the defensive acquisition of WhatsApp, Instagram & fork-out of Messenger. They saw Snapchat as a vector of attack bc of the appeal of ephemeral in todays 'always on record' products. Where VR is bet that is maybe even 10 years out 2 come finally 2 full fruition; mass market adoption (like the phone). Crossing the chasm. // Not even 10 years old & other people attack FBs weaknesses &are winning. But what FB got going for it, another 10 years is, the usr base as advertising victims (targeting&re-targeting) enabled by masscollection via Facebook-button. &log-in used in Apps.

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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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Gillmor Gang: Money for Nothing - Gillmor Gang | TechCrunch TV

min 42 // A Round is now a "post-traction" investment aka proven product & business model. A Round is an investment to scale it up, put it up a bunch of gears. // Keith Teare from chat.center (tcrn.ch/1IWFQ1X) people now doing pre-seed, seed, seed prime & bridge funding via existing investors; figuring out Product/Market fit, traction, funnel, etc. Now more than ever a hits driven business. // see also tcrn.ch/1c54UpN // Complexity of phenomenon - symptoms, causes and tangents; biases, selection bias, pattern matching, bidding up hot deals in the private market where the highest bidder will get the deal - irrationality of accepting those valuations and the founders Unicorn-status need, hunt for yield, trendy - the future, when doing 'hard things' becomes fashionable (ie Reality TV, TV Series & a shallow Channel 4's How To Be A Young Billionaire) then beware, negative yields for secure investments (bonds and corp debt), perceived 'conservative' value vs private bid up bubble potential.

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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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How The Facebook Bubble Is Driving Online Startups Into The Arms Of Offline Advertising | TechCrunch

FB accounts for >70% of all Social Media Ad spending! The rest is spend on Twitter and elsewhere. Programmatic Advertising is a crutch for native Web advertising to compete with FBs ability to slice and dice and analyse every nook and cranny. FB likes to be the web equivalent; Internet.org and asking/offering content creators/news papers to host content inside their Walls. And remember, Google missed this Social train badly, tried w Google+ after failing with Buzz. Was also late with (native) Mobile Search & just got going. And their last quarter(s) hinted at a stall of their advertising business and Wall Street doesn't like seeing this behemoth relying on just one business model while Nest Labs was a defensive acquisition (competing w Apple) and they lost out to FB to acquire WhatsApp. And if any Google X project will be able to live up to AdSense(Google Search) is questionable. Google might begin slowly dying soon in next 5 years by thousand cuts, like MSFT late 90's. Time is ripe.

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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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Facebook’s Messenger Platform Preserves WhatsApp’s Clarity Of Purpose | TechCrunch
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march 2015 by asterisk2a

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A Year Later, $19 Billion For WhatsApp Doesn’t Sound So Crazy | TechCrunch

Messaging is the center of mobile. Snapchat is raising at around a $20 billion valuation. And no one cares who owns apps. On February 19th, 2014, we didn’t know any of these things for sure. So when Facebook announced it would pay $19 billion to acquire WhatsApp — an app most American pundits had never used — it seemed ludicrous. Zuck had to be crazy, right? Wrong. Without WhatsApp, Facebook’s international situation would look a lot dicier. And if a competitor like Google acquired it instead, it could have been disastrous. Instead, Facebook possess the most popular messaging app, and has neutralized the biggest threat to its global domination of social networking. Why? Chat Is The Mobile Portal! [...] Its Stories feature has grown into a competitor to Facebook’s News Feed. And Discover could make it all quite monetizable if it gets popular. Snapchat is constantly cited as where teens are ditching your parents’ social network for.

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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WhatsApp testing voice calls on Android

WhatsApp launches voice calling test for limited Android users; full rollout & iOS avail date undiscl; WhatsApp last mo surpassed 700M MAUs. // << TREND >> Means that Carriers will abandon charges for calls and put eventual cost (avg across users) as flat-rate item it into data plan cost. Thus customers pay only for data plan or flat-rate data plan. Carriers will eventually offer such plans, maybe even target them early at teems/parents with teens (family plans).

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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Here’s How Chat Apps Are Becoming As Important As Social Media For Brands | TechCrunch

Asia’s messaging apps have been around longer, and thus most have more mature business models that generate income by connecting brands with consumers, in addition to other non-marketing revenue streams such as games and stickers. If 2014 was the year that the West wised up to the potential of messaging apps, then 2015 is the year that they’ll get smart and make money from them. &! http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/the-message-in-messaging-apps/ &! are still silos - http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/22/button-12m-redpoint/ &! http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/06/six-drivers-of-the-700b-mobile-internet/

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january 2015 by asterisk2a

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Instagram Hits 300 Million Users, Now Larger Than Twitter | Re/code

It also means that Instagram now claims more monthly active users than Twitter (284 million) and likely LinkedIn, which has 331 million user accounts, but doesn’t specify how many are active. (Instagram’s 300 million figure represents the number of users logging in each month.) Instagram also says those users are posting 70 million photos a day. Facebook has always had a large audience — it currently boasts 1.35 billion users — but now the company has three other standalone services with at least 300 million users: Instagram, WhatsApp (600 million) and Facebook Messenger (500 million). &! http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/10/not-a-fad/ "With growth steady, Instagram is now looking to strengthen its authenticity. Soon it plans to launch verified badges for celebrities, brands, and athletes so people don’t accidentally follow parody, tribute, or look-alike accounts."

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december 2014 by asterisk2a

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WhatsApp Messages Cited In Nearly Half Of All Italian Divorce Proceedings - Business Insider

The Adultery App: In Italy, WhatsApp messages are being used in nearly 50% of divorce cases.

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december 2014 by asterisk2a

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Zuckerberg Bonded With WhatsApp CEO Over Coffee and Dinners - Bloomberg
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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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WhatsApp turns to Open Whisper Systems for end-to-end encryption that actually works | PandoDaily
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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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WhatsApp Gets a Warm Welcome Into Facebook - Bloomberg View

People make fun of tech froth, and, I mean, sure, why not, Facebook did pay $19 billion for a company with $10 million in 2013 revenue, but here regular old accounting comes off looking just a bit silly as well.

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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WhatsApp’s Jan Koum Has No Plans to Make Money (Video) | Re/code

Koum’s comments echoed what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said on numerous occasions: Revenue won’t be a priority for WhatsApp for the next few years. [...] For the time being, however, Zuckerberg and Koum are poised to wait. On Facebook’s Q3 earnings call Tuesday, Zuckerberg preached patience for WhatsApp. “Products aren’t really interesting as a business until they have a billion people using them,” he said.

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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WhatsApp’s First Half Of 2014 Revenue Was $15M, Net Loss Of $232.5M Was Mostly Issuing Stock | TechCrunch

Overall, Facebook broke down the money it spent on WhatsApp as $2.026 billion for the user base, $448 million for the brand, $288 million for technology, and $21 million for other. That left it to chalk up the $15.314 billion difference as “good will” aka the value “from future growth, from potential monetization opportunities, from strategic advantages provided in the mobile ecosystem from expansion of our mobile messaging offerings.” WhatsApp’s goal is still growth, rather than monetization. Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said when the acquisition was made in February that ads aren’t the right way to earn money on messaging, yet the app wouldn’t be aggressively pushing the $1 a year subscription fees it sometimes charges. Instead, together the CEOs hope to make WhatsApp the top international messaging app first, box out competitors, and then earn money once it’s solidified its position. &[freemium, virtual goods, customisation, virtual gesture store] & see bit.ly/1u5xXkp

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Sascha Lobo über die Macht der Mädchen im Internet - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Aber tatsächlich hat das Verhalten insbesondere amerikanischer, weiblicher Teenager großen Einfluss auf Netz- und Medienkonzerne. Denn das Herz der Technologiewelt schlägt inzwischen "social", und junge Mädchen benutzen soziale Medien deutlich intensiver als alle anderen Gruppen. [...] Jüngstes Beispiel ist die Einführung von Stickern auf Facebook, also kleinen, meist niedlich gemeinten Bildchen, mit denen man Beiträge kommentieren kann. Das koreanisch-japanische Netzwerk Line, eine Mischung aus Twitter und WhatsApp mit Facebook-Elementen, hat eine junge, eher weibliche Nutzerschaft; dort ist dieses sehr visuelle Kommunikationsprinzip Sticker groß geworden: Emoticons auf Speed. Nebenbei gibt es interessante Theorien dazu, dass die verwandten Emojis die erste echte, weltweit funktionierende Sprache seien. & http://pando.com/2014/10/08/quartz-coins-the-venmo-line-reminding-us-that-the-under-30-crowd-lives-in-a-totally-different-digital-world/

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Here’s The 3 Reasons Europe Green-Lighted Facebook’s $19B WhatsApp Deal | TechCrunch
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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Teens are officially over Facebook - The Washington Post

>> tide comes in, tide goes out. .... FB isn't hip anymore. its the cycle of popularity. like style trends. // so what you gonna do, you either make your platform as broad as possible or as niche/narrow as possible ... meetings in the middle are compromise. compromise doesn't work.

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Snapchat Wanted MessageMe Before Yahoo Bought It For Up To $30-$40M | TechCrunch

Y! & G working on mobile messaging product. // VC's encourage team to have another shot at an other project/idea, shutting down MessageMe and not take Y! or Snapchat offer.

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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EU Sends Questionnaire to Rivals Over Facebook Deal With WhatsApp - WSJ

European Union antitrust officials have sent a detailed questionnaire to competitors and customers of Facebook Inc. and message service WhatsApp as they probe the proposed $19 billion acquisition of the latter by the California-based tech giant. EU antitrust officials will try get to the heart of the competitive landscape and understand what separates a social network from a messaging application, according to a questionnaire sent to them, and seen by The Wall Street Journal. Competitors have until Sept. 8 to reply to the questionnaire, which runs to nearly 70 pages and contains in-depth questions on the ease of switching between networks, how easy it is to create new competitors, and how the new social media industry and its apps compete with traditional telecoms services.

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september 2014 by asterisk2a

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T-Mobile adds Songza, Rdio, others to Music Freedom; Google Play Music 'later this year' | The Verge

@TMobile adds 6 new partners to its Music Freedom initiative: @songza, @Rdio, @Grooveshark, @accuradio, Black Planet, & @radioparadise; they join @Spotify, @pandora_radio, iTunes Radio & more; the service lets users stream music from those services w/o it affecting their data plan >> only possible in US? WhatsApp has a deal in Germany of such kind. // +++ http://pando.com/2014/08/28/t-mobiles-music-freedom-plan-subsidizes-data-plans-without-really-threatening-net-neutrality/

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august 2014 by asterisk2a

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What Facebook’s Messenger debacle says about the company… both the brilliant and the terrible | PandoDaily

But more to the point is what the whole thing says about Facebook. There are two important takeaways: One troubling and one impressive. One that speaks to the company’s greatest Achilles Heel as long as I’ve covered it, and one that speaks to its greatest strength. The first is just how much people distrust and are predisposed to dislike Facebook. [...] But the problem is Facebook is as synonymous with disrespecting your privacy today as Microsoft was for abusing it’s monopolist position in the post-Netscape days. [...] ADOPTION AND MOBILE HOMESCREEN // >> But right now, they are all on going parallel experiments that are ultimately competing to be the thing we open the most everyday when we are waiting in line, killing time, or want to shout out a video, photo or emoji to a pal.

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august 2014 by asterisk2a

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Wikipedia Zero und Netzneutralität: Wikimedia wendet sich gegen das offene Internet | netzpolitik.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org || In einem Blog-Post, bewarb Erik Möller, der stellvertretende Direktor der Wikimedia Foundation, ein relativ neues Angebot: Wikipedia Zero, eine Partnerschaft mit Telekom-Unternehmen die den priorisierten, gebührenfreien Zugang zur Wikipedia bereitstellt. Die Idee dahinter ist, die hohen Datengebühren zu umgehen, die immer noch viele Menschen auf der ganzen Welt zwingen, offline zu bleiben. || - deals that are anti-competitive. -- +++ See "Free Mobile Data Plans Are Going to Crush the Startup Economy | Business | WIRED wired.com" || >>> Mobile Platform become more inequal with preferential treatment and App Store. Long-tail does not exist.

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august 2014 by asterisk2a

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Free Mobile Data Plans Are Going to Crush the Startup Economy | Business | WIRED

@howardlindzon - The scariest market news I have read all year but something @mparekh always warns me of. fredwilson http://avc.com/2014/07/the-scourge-of-zero-rating/ "Soon a startup will have to negotiate a zero rating plan before launching because mobile app customers will be trained to only use apps that are zero rated on their network." // @cdixon "Free Mobile Data Plans are Going to Crush the Start Economy" // WhatsApp & e-Plus in Germany - http://gigaom.com/2014/04/08/whatsapp-becomes-a-virtual-carrier-in-germany-with-the-help-of-e-plus/ & http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/07/whatsapp-launches-a-e10-sim-with-e-plus-in-germany-with-free-whatsapp-usage-included/ || + Wikipedia Zero - http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/

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august 2014 by asterisk2a

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James Frey: App, Gewinnspiel, Film, Handyspiel zum Roman Endgame - SPIEGEL ONLINE

capturing - all potential platforms. questions is - does it bring added value to the core product - the book? can this content strategy break through the noise?

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july 2014 by asterisk2a

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At Google, Larry Page Finds His Right-Hand Man - The Information

When Mr. Page tried in vain to convince WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum not to sell the messaging startup to Facebook for $19 billion two months ago, it was Mr. Pichai who accompanied Mr. Page to the high-stakes talks rather than Vic Gundotra, who was in charge of Google’s social products and would have seemed a more fitting choice. [...] // @nest founder & former Apple exec @tfadell now 'owns' @Google's consumer hardware division, acc to @theinformation (via @verge); Google SVP Sundar Pichai reportedly dismantled most of @Android's hardware initiatives to give Fadell 'creative freedom' w/ future products following the acquisition of Nest || Reply :: The Information is 100% wrong! I run Nest as a separate biz w/ its own mgmt & brand. https://twitter.com/tfadell/status/481186335474987008

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june 2014 by asterisk2a

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WhatsApp Is Actually Worth More Than $19B, Says Facebook’s Zuckerberg, And It Was Internet.org That Sealed The Deal | TechCrunch

Google/Larry Page and FB/Zuck - competing for the first contact with NEW NEW users of the future. ""Today Zuckerberg also laid out a bit more detail about how he sees the role of Internet.org. The idea, he said, is to develop a group of basic internet services that would be free of charge to use — “a 911 for the internet.” These could be a social networking service like Facebook, a messaging service, maybe search and other things like weather."" ___ +++ >>> !!! >>> http://pando.com/2014/06/03/pryte-rips-the-facade-of-altruism-from-facebooks-internet-providing-drone-army/ ""it would be foolish to think that Facebook won’t attempt to make a profit from its “idealistic” efforts.

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june 2014 by asterisk2a

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Costolo’s plan to make Twitter all about entertainment makes perfect sense | PandoDaily

"There are huge dollars in entertainment– more than in news and certainly more than in what your friend had for lunch. Twitter is the only force on earth that argues against time shifting. Sure you can TiVo the Oscars. But you better not open Twitter for two hours if you do. And lastly, with “just” 300 million users or so Twitter desparately needs to go mainstream. Like it or not, this is a generation of consumer Web companies graded on the Facebook and LinkedIn curves. You gotta either have the size of the former or the monetization of the latter. The lowest common denominator on global culture are movies, music, TV, and sports. As his friend Ryan Seacrest can attest, more people vote for American Idol hopefuls than elected officials." || Twitter is now a live stream of what is happening. The shortest & most accessible form to NOW. Not more. Not less. Your hourly quick fix. Part of the home screen. Next to Snapchat & WhatsApp & FB ... + http://bit.ly/1rkVyMh + http://bit.ly/1g1LJeO

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may 2014 by asterisk2a

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Why your dinky little startup is worth billions of dollars - Quartz

Though companies hire trained futurists, technology is still moving to fast to predict where it will go. “Value has become an abstraction because we don’t really know what kind of product is going to make the most money,” Chayka writes. “We have no idea what kind of technology will dominate the commercial landscape over the next decade, let alone century.” For companies with as much money and as much to gain—and lose—as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, it’s better to be optimistic about hyped startups than to let them slip away. Of course, this means that they know some of their acquisitions will be duds and even those that aren’t will be expensive. But it’s worth more to them to stay ahead of the curve.

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april 2014 by asterisk2a

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Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps | TechCrunch

intuitive - less friction. ... msngr cometing w twitter, instagram, google internal private and external public messanging - http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/line-gunning-for-1bn/?source=gravity&cps=gravity + http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/07/whatsapp-launches-a-e10-sim-with-e-plus-in-germany-with-free-whatsapp-usage-included/?source=gravity&cps=gravity

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april 2014 by asterisk2a

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As Messaging Wars Escalate, Social App Tango Raises $280 Million | Re/code

The moves essentially signal a new era for global Internet companies — one in which communication between people isn’t restricted to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, or even older messaging services like Gmail or AOL Instant Messenger. Instead, more companies have recognized the power of tapping into users’ existing social communication networks, found within the average person’s mobile device phone book. Apps like Tango, WhatsApp and Viber all comb a user’s mobile contact list to instantly connect people to their network of friends.

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march 2014 by asterisk2a

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march 2014 by asterisk2a

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How Things Change | TechCrunch
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february 2014 by asterisk2a

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WhatsApp Was Valued At ~$1.5B In Final Round Before Sale | TechCrunch

Guess the news that Facebook was interested in scooping up the simple messaging app, as well as its exponentially expanding userbase (around 200 million at the time of this investment), drove the company’s worth up a couple of orders of magnitude. The filings add up to the $60 million we previously reported, with Sequoia eventually owning around 20 percent of WhatsApp (we’ve heard “high teens”). Its stake is now worth about $3 billion in cash and stock, around a 50x return on its investment in the company.

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february 2014 by asterisk2a

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Don’t Expect Facebook’s WhatsApp to Make Any Real Money for Years | Re/code

“By being a part of Facebook, it makes it so that [WhatsApp] can focus for the next five years or so purely on connecting more people,” Zuckerberg said. Were Facebook not to have acquired WhatsApp, he continued, the pressure would have increased on WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to eventually “focus more on revenue models” and monetization over the near term, rather than on the company’s continued growth. [...] “I think by itself, WhatsApp is worth more than $19 billion. It’s hard to make that case today because they have so little revenue, but look at the messaging apps already out there,” Zuckerberg said, pointing to existing competitors like KakaoTalk, WeChat and Line, which are already monetizing (in some cases, quite successfully). [...] 70 percent of those returning to the app on a daily basis. Those levels of engagement are unheard of in Internet circles, and it’s why Zuckerberg and company were so taken by the fast-growing mobile app.

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february 2014 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Facebook - not dead, not buried

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january 2014 by asterisk2a

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