by Van Baker | March 24, 2011 | 3 Comments
There has been a lot of speculation about the valuation of Groupon assuming an upcoming IPO. The numbers that have been circulating have ranged from 15 billion to 25 billion dollars. This is after Groupon turning down a rumored 6 billion dollar offer from Google late last year. Well I for one don’t get it. [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: coupons, Groupon, retail, social
by Van Baker | March 21, 2011 | 2 Comments
Hewlett-Packard is planning to launch it’s TouchPad tablet this summer. The tablet is based on the WebOS operating system just as the smartphones sold by HP’s Palm business unit. Given the success of the iPad many have speculated that there is no room for another tablet competitor beyond Apple and the Android tablets. Despite Apple’s [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: HP, iPad, Playbook, tablet, TouchPad
by Van Baker | March 15, 2011 | 6 Comments
It is widely rumored that Apple sold somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 iPad 2 tablets over their first weekend of sales in the United States. International launches are still to come and there is no reason to expect any less success in these markets. This is despite the fact that the technologists have proclaimed it [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Apple, hardware, iPad, iPad 2, tablet
