The new season of Game of Thrones will air on April 6th. As a big fan of the show, I am looking forward to watching the next story of John Snow and Daenerys, actually I wonder how big Daenerys’ dragons will become. The internet service industry is another version of Game of Thrones, which is […]
I worked as a business strategist and business developer in LBS (Location Based Service) and telematics industry. I launched a high end telematics service in collaboration with Renault Samsung Motors in 2006. Car manufacturers and telecommunication companies drove the market until late 2000. Still after more than a decade, the result from these efforts is […]
[ Screenshot of Estimote ] Many people think buying products online is a better way to save money than shopping offline. We sometimes see people who browse the online shopping malls to check the best price at the retailer shops. As Amazon and eBay grow rapidly, consumers shopping habit of shopping more economically is becoming […]
These days I am hooked on Clash of Clans. I play this game from time to time if I have some free time. I don’t feel any strong interest in the game but unintentionally push the start button if I am not doing anything that needs my immediate attention. Clash of Clans is a well-made […]
Recently many mobile games in AppStore and Android Market are getting more popular among users. PC games, once mainstream of the the game industry, are encroached by mobile games. According to a survey by Mocospace, 46% of gamers are spending more time playing mobile games this year than last year while 23% of those are […]
Information is fulcrum to push a service to the next level, which obtains a certain amount of business fundamental in the internet service industry. As described on the previous post, crowd sourcing is a very effective method if it works well as it was intended. Sometimes companies give freebies to users or promote services to […]
As network effect increasingly accelerates, internet services are putting more stress on two core essentials: the number of user and the number of interaction. If a service fails to garner sufficient volume to support it, it is hard to sustain the service for the long term. Upon concentrating on the quantitative growth, business models become […]
A few days ago, Hugo Barra, the ex-head of product management at Google and currently the head of global for Xiaomi, urged high potential of Chinese market based on many index including its number of internet users. As he mentioned, maybe the Chinese market may become the largest one after several years and some Chinese […]
Groupon announced that it will acquire its copy-cat service in Korea for US$ 260 million, which consists of US$ 100 million cash and Groupon stocks equivalent of US $160 million. Daniel Hyunsung Shin, the founder and present CEO of Ticket Monster, sold his company to LivingSocial for US$ 350 million in 2011 which […]
When people talk about wearable devices, they say that these products will be the next gadget that will take over the popularity of tablets, which were actually initiated and are led by Apple. Due to the possibility of a huge booming-up in this market and strategic reasons, many companies as well as key players such […]