All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Internet

With his recent apologies, Mr. Zuckerberg had proven two things: 1) Facebook is incredibly successful and beyond expectations 2) Its advertising business model is unstable yet.

Japan's online auction market reportedly nears US$ 4 billion annually. eBay has a better system for dealing with the failures that are Yahoo Japan's weak underbelly: nonpayment, fake items, shifty sellers and shill bids. Until eBay also brings PayPal to Japan, and alters its feedback and dispute-resolution...

Advertising projections for 2008 for the United States show small, marginal increases in media sectors, with the Internet capturing the largest increase, estimated at 20%.  Traditional media (television, radio and newspapers) fare much worse with single digit to no growth.

By raising it’s interest in Versatel UI gains influence over a company which owns a fixed line network in Germany. This makes UI more independent from the Detusche Telekom AG for whom UI has been acting as reseller in the past. This softens what market sources consider to be one of UI's weak...

The extraordinary breach of data security at the U.K. tax and customs agency, coupled with other recent major data breaches – some accidental and some the result of deliberate attacks – has significant implications for organizations’ processes and policies for storing and handling data as well as for...

United Internet, Drillisch and Freenet are all three in need of working together in Germany as the mobile and broadband market reaches the stage of saturation. The question is will it be a strategic partnership, a take over or some other way. Freenet may be a target for other companies as well, who...

Sentiment Analysis draws on computational linguistic, information retrieval, data mining, natural language processing, machine learning, statistics and predictive analysis to transform unstructured online dialog into marketing insights about companies, products and issues. Web 2.0 was about collective...

This was not a fight about David v. Goliath. Copycat’s can hurt established businesses that have carved a niche in the marketplace. It goes beyond dilution of the name. Copycats border on defrauding the buying public.

This lawsuit against Comcast may help convince key stakeholders, from ISPs and network operators to independent (non facilities-based) service providers and regulators, that they need to identify and distinguish clearly between legitimate and illegitimate uses of traffic and network management...

United Internet (UI), the number 2 in Germany in broadband access and number 1 in portal, and Drillisch, with it's company Telco (a VMSNO), are in talks about a strategic partnership with freenet AG. Drillisch is said take the mobile branch of freenet. This would add 5.45 million mobile customers to...