first-mover advantage

Microsoft a First-Mover With No Advantage in Twitter Deal

John Paczkowski in News on October 26, 2009 at 2:14 pm PT

Microsoft may have gotten the jump on Google when its Bing search engine became the first to allow users to search Twitter in real time, but that victory is largely an empty one. Because while being first is generating quite a bit of attention for Bing–which is, for once, leading search innovation instead of following Google’s–that’s about all it’s good for now.

iPhone Claims 32 Percent of Handset Industry Operating Profits

John Paczkowski in News on August 4, 2009 at 3:01 pm PT

Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi estimates that Apple, though it is only the fifth-largest handset vendor, claimed nearly a third of handset industry profits in the first half of 2009.