Comments about cultural trends, mobile business, eCommerce and Internet developments

Recently I had several discussions with telco operators and experts about the future of fixed broadband, the importance of wireless spectrum and the future of mobile broadband.
Let’s start with a consumer question instead of having the telco engineers doing their pitch: “How much bandwidth do I possibly need?” 3Mbs? 10Mbs? 50Mbs? 100Mbs? or more? for [...]

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I was quite surprised today to read the headline of the deal between ebay and a private equity about the sale of the majority of skype. But I was even more surprised about the price they achieved, which values skype at $2.75billion. ebay paid including payouts to founders about $3.1bn, but had written down later [...]

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The open question around facebook and twitter remains how these companies will ever become profitable. Of course their solution is advertising, like so many other businesses that all rely on one or another form of advertising.
But lately the discussion has become even more interesting as these companies have provided access via web services to their [...]

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Yesterday over dinner I was discussing with a friend which eCommerce companies, startups or newcomers from other countries have been the most successful in 2008 in Spain.
After thinking for a while we realized that there are not that many. There are quite some internet companies in Spain and many successful ones (e.g. softonic, idealista.com), but [...]

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