The mobile platform providers and other online/offline players have shown increased interest in the growing area of mobile shopping. We have been tracking new developments in this space for some time, and for some recent conversations we organized our thinking into a framework around the mobile customer shopping experience, from buyer awareness through to actual purchase. The framework below does not represent a complete inventory of participants, but does provide an organized way to think about the business, with some …
We’ve posted a number of items on the emerging Internet-enabled TV (IETV) business1, and last week commented on Cisco’s acquisition of ExtendMedia. In researching the ExtendMedia deal, we came across the company blog and an April 2010 post titled “The Television Industry Re-Made; The Rise of ‘Virtual MSO‘”. Their article, by CEO Tom MacIsaac, is one of the best pieces we’ve seen on how the business of video content delivery over the Internet …
