Tag: amazon

Amazon, the pioneer of horizontal and vertical integration

By Martin Recke

Amazon has pioneered a dual strategy of both horizontal and vertical integration. The next Amazon will need a different approach.
The dual strategy of horizontal and vertical integration

By Martin Recke

The internet has propelled both horizontal and vertical integration on a global scale, driven by customer experience.
The Big Crunch of the digital universe

By Martin Recke

The digital world of today looks like a universe that is recollapsing into the black holes of Amazon, Facebook, and Google. From cosmology, we can only tell that this won’t end well.
Marco Börries: Standing up against Amazon

By Adam Tinworth

Amazon has claimed the majority of the 20% of commerce that has gone online. Can we stop them getting the 80% - mainly local - that has yet to do so? A NEXT18 liveblog.
Who will fix Facebook first?

By Martin Recke

Facebook is simply ripe for some good old disruption, like MySpace was in the middle of the last decade.
How will the end of smartphones look like?

By Martin Recke

The fourth cycle of personal computation will be dominated by strong platforms that can tie lots of very different devices together with software and services. The winner will be whoever provides the superior user experience.
The AI-first world requires new products

By Martin Recke

It's not enough to simply add an Alexa skill to an existing product, like it wasn't enough to make your website responsive or launch a mobile app without changing anything else. AI-first means reimagining your product for a world driven by AI and voice interfaces.
Amazon’s Echo Show: finding new gaps in the phone ecosystem

By Adam Tinworth

Amazon is kicking out its new hardware fast and furious - and it's doing its very best to own our homes.
Twitch game streaming hits full HD resolution – how far behind is 4k?

By Adam Tinworth

In the battle for our attention, streaming eSports is catching up on its more physical cousin.
What brought down Amazon Web Service this week? Fat Fingers…

By Adam Tinworth

What catastrophic failure brought down some of Amazon's cloud infrastructure this week? Could it be something terribly simple?
The Grand Tour marks streaming TV hitting the big time

By Adam Tinworth

The former Top Gear team are creating a smash on Amazon Prime with The Grand Tour. And others will be following in their tyre tracks.
Amazon aims to put smart assistant Alexa in European homes

By Adam Tinworth

The Amazon Echo is coming to the UK and Germany in the next few weeks. Can it make a voice interface a viable part of our tech lives?
Amazon’s Prime Air drones work, says Jeremy Clarkson – but it’s still unregulated

By Adam Tinworth

Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson fronts a new video for Amazon's drone delivery service - and proves that Amazon got more than a TV show for its money.
Facebook M aims to be the winner in the digital assistant wars

By Adam Tinworth

Beyond the battle to be the leading messaging platform lies a more subtle battle: to become your personal digital assistant
[Liveblog] Scott Smith: when your data ghost shops for you

By Adam Tinworth

The future of retail is invisible. Stores are fading away, and our purchases are becoming involuntary - and predictive.
The quiet revolution in digital TV

By Adam Tinworth

The Superseding of the Goggle-Box is well underway, as streaming video and YouTube celebrities start to reshape the way we watch video.
The Amazon Challenge

By Ina Feistritzer

In the first of a series of extracts from the NEXT Year! book, Olaf Kolbrück explores what Amazon’s dominant position means for costumers and marketers
Amazon Prime Video wins Golden Globes – and a big name director

By Adam Tinworth

Amazon and Netflix bagged Golden Globes for their TV work this week - they're no longer fringe producers.
The family future of digital media? Shareability

By Adam Tinworth

With iOS8 Apple brought family-sharing to its stores. And Amazon has announced Family Library. Are digital goods finally becoming shareable?
Amazon Fires its first shot at the phone market

By Adam Tinworth

Amazon is finally making a bid for its slice of the phone market - but is the Fire ready to blaze?
Why instant media gratification is the New Normal – and we should all be excited

By Adam Tinworth

A generation is growing up for whom the TV schedule and patient waits to get hold of a book is an alien concept. What new art with they create in their new context?
Disruption is the new normal

By Adam Tinworth

Don't get too comfortable in your market niche. Disruption is inevitable - and unlikely to go away. We're living in a time of huge upheaval.
Nokia: a product or a service company?

By Adam Tinworth

The gadget business is at an inflection point - some companies have figured out that service design is the route to competitive advtange, but some still obsess over products. Where does Nokia sit?
Amazon: It’s Services, not Hardware

By Martin Recke

In the beginning was the Hardware, and the Hardware came from Apple and IBM, and the Hardware was Apple and IBM. Then came the Software, and with the Software came Microsoft. IBM withdraw and left the Hardware to Dell and HP. Microsoft dominated the Software, and Apple got to the brink of bankruptcy.