Economy Archive

• 0March 09, 2010

  Hollywood 2009 By The Numbers

  Now that the Academy Awards are over, let’s take a look at last years business of film.

  What were the top grossing films of 2009 (besides Avatar), and what were they rated? Who were the top earners? [...]

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• 1January 12, 2010

  The Apple App Store Economy

  The world of Mobile Apps is a burgeoning marketplace, with the obvious leader (and App Store creator) being Apple. This infograph provides a brief overview on just how successful their App Store is.
  With over 56 Million users, and currently more than 130,000 Apps available for download… 200 Million Apps are being downloaded each month, generating more than $500 Million in revenues [...]

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• 0December 16, 2009

  Facebook’s Road To An IPO

  With the recent introduction of a dual-class stock structure emulating that of Google, rumors of an impending Facebook IPO abound. Though nothing has been officially announced, it seems a likely possibility in 2010. Below we look at the ever-changing and often controversial valuation time line of one of the web’s most popular [...]

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• 0October 11, 2009

  Free: The Future of a Radical Price

  From WIRED MAGAZINE: 17.07
  Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity By Chris Anderson
  Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
  In 1969, the Neiman Marcus catalog offered the first home PC, a stylish stand-up model called the Honeywell Kitchen Computer [...]

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• 1June 16, 2009

  What will MySpace become after a 30% headcount reduction?

  By Scott M. Fulton, III @ betanews

  It’s the operating unit of a company that’s more accustomed to producing a tangible product, like a newspaper or movie. Maybe MySpace needs a makeover too. [...]

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• 0May 28, 2009

  The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity

  By Chris Anderson @ Wired 05.22.09
  As the Internet was taking shape in the late 1980s, an MIT professor named Tom Malone started thinking about how it could change the structure of industries. In a series of papers, he predicted that the big top-down companies of the 20th century would soon “decentralize and externalize” into [...]

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