vertical integration

Google’s Got “Cupertino Envy”

John Paczkowski in Mobile on August 18, 2011 at 3:01 am PT

Is Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility a validation of Apple’s business model?

Voices

Companies More Prone to Go "Vertical"

Ben Worthen, Cari Tuna and Justin Scheck, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 30, 2009 at 10:14 am PT

Larry Ellison is known for forward thinking. With his new business model, though, the billionaire chief executive of software maker Oracle Corp. is taking a page from the past.

Palm Smartphone From Verizon by Early 2010

John Paczkowski in News on November 17, 2009 at 9:02 am PT

For Palm, 2010 will be a year of channel expansion, with its new webOS handsets coming to more carriers. Top among them, Verizon, which has been rumored to be getting a device “like the Palm Pre” since Palm launched it. In a research note to investors today, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says a Palm smartphone from Verizon is pretty much inevitable.

Analyst: Palm's Special Sauce Is Finger Lickin' Good

John Paczkowski in News on August 19, 2009 at 4:45 am PT

Now that Palm has finally realized there’s no longevity in forever shipping incremental improvements to the PalmPilot, the company has quite a future ahead of it. Never mind that it faces some particularly long, historic odds. Because according to RBC analyst Mike Abramsky, Palm has the “special sauce”–the means of orchestrating a second act, perhaps even one of Jobsian proportions.

Analyst: Palm’s Special Sauce Is Finger Lickin’ Good

John Paczkowski in News on August 19, 2009 at 4:45 am PT

Now that Palm has finally realized there’s no longevity in forever shipping incremental improvements to the PalmPilot, the company has quite a future ahead of it. Never mind that it faces some particularly long, historic odds. Because according to RBC analyst Mike Abramsky, Palm has the “special sauce”–the means of orchestrating a second act, perhaps even one of Jobsian proportions.