My hypothesis is that the "digital broadcast" scramble to buy/merge everything is defensive move mostly by the traditional telcos & ISP's. They see the upcoming disruption from Wifi/mesh networks that will erode their primary source of revenue from cellular data.
Facebook is adding a feature that will make it easier for brands to push photos of their products to Facebook users, who can then collect the images in a Pinterest-style folder, or simply head to a retailer and buy it online.
Free-to-play games are taking off in mobile. In those games, users play for free and pay real money for virtual goods, such as the virtual dresses that CrowdStar sells in its It Girl game on Facebook. In social games on networks such as Facebook, virtual goods revenue is expected to be $2.9 billion in 2012. That means that mobile is catching up at a pretty good clip and it explains why so many startups are diving into mobile games.
"New York-The Wall Street Journal has introduced WSJ WorldStream, a news platform for short-form videos shot with smartphones by journalists from the Journal and Dow Jones & Co.
WSJ WorldStream, which is debuting in conjunction with the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week-builds on WSJ Live, the Journal's online-video initiative. The videos from WSJ WorldStream will be embedded in stories on WSJ.com and integrated into the Journal's daily live video programming.
WSJ WorldStream is also available as a free Web app."