Social Machinery

“Yuppies” driving Indonesian consumption

sebastian — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:55:50 +0000

Indonesia economy’s strong growth has propelled a growing middle class eager to spend in more sophisticated telecommunication services

Facebook brings an “internet bubble” déjà vu

sebastian — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:16:32 +0000

The 50,000 million USD in which the social networking site, Facebook has been valuated after the entry of an investment vehicle from Goldman Sachs financial have returned some “internet bubble” déjà vu feelings to the market: Companies only measured on their number of users and the irrational interest from investors to participate in their capital structure.

Telefonica preparing a social networking MVNO

sebastian — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:49:07 +0000

Telefonica has been trying different strategies to tap into the exponential growth of social media phenomenon. And tt seems like this time they are making their biggest bet in this area by acquiring 90% of Tuenti, the second largest social networking site in Spain for 75 Million Euros.

Telco future: Customers, Brand and Value

sebastian — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:12:58 +0000

Faced with this bleak prospect, many have considered that the future of operators is to become just a dump pipe similar to what utility companies are today. But, how true is this hypothetical and devastating future?

Innovation at the edge

sebastian — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:06:22 +0000

Google is a great example of innovative culture and one of the programs that I really like is their Innovation 80/20 model, so called “innovation time off”, where employees are encourages spending up to 20% of their time working in their own innovation projects or ideas.

Apps stores: Winners and losers so far

sebastian — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:32:56 +0000

Last week Vision Mobile consulting released a new study regarding application stores. The report is extremely interesting since the main sponsor is Telefonica developer community and some of the findings are quite disruptive showing how mobile operators losing the battle for developer’s heart.

FCC wants to stop “Bill shock” on mobiles

sebastian — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:47:31 +0000

30 million Americans or one in six mobile users have experienced “bill shock,” a sudden increase in their monthly bill that is not caused by a change in service plan.

LTE pricing model: The end of flat fee rates?

sebastian — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:09:46 +0000

During a Barclay’s conference last week, Verizon Wireless CEO, Lowell McAdam stated that the introduction of its LTE network some time this year, the company will be introducing a tiered or metered pricing of possible data plans in the future.

Glaxo: Using open source to fight against Malaria

sebastian — Sat, 29 May 2010 02:05:26 +0000

GlaxoSmithKline, The pharmaceutical giant, has decided to open to public the design of 13,500 chemical compounds that could inhibit malaria, In order to foster collaboration among scientists and researchers interested on developing a drug that can control this disease

Illegal P2P users willing to pay

sebastian — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:08:18 +0000

New research into online behavior suggests that up to 44% of users using illegal download sites could be converted into paying music subscribers if services were priced correctly.