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11 Cards in this Set
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Apple
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- Android vs iOS products (in both phones and tablet devices)
- mobile internet and communications portal - mobile advertising platforms - upcoming Google music service vs. iTunes - Youtube vs. iTunes for video content - Chrome & Chrome OS vs. Safari & Mac OSX - Google Editions vs. iBooks |
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Microsoft
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- Google Apps (calendar, gmail, Google Docs, etc.) vs. Microsoft Office
- Google offering cheap cloud alternative to individuals, companies, schools and governments - Android vs. Windows Phone 7 Mobile operating system - both are competing to be the OS of choice for non iOS (Apple) smart phones and tablets - Chrome & Chrome OS vs. IE & Windows - Google Search vs. Bing - Yahoo has contracted with Microsoft to use Bing as it's search engine. Bing has done well taking a bit of marketshare from Google. The Microsoft, Yahoo partnership provides first serious competition to Google's search business in the US |
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Yahoo
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- Internet portal & content providers compete for ad $$
- Google Search vs. Yahoo/MS Bing search |
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Baidu.com
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Google's chief competition in China in web portal & search and the ad revenue from these. It looks like Baidu will be Google's main competition in other parts of Asia as well.
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Facebook & Twitter
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- Buzz environment vs. Facebook & Twitter for social networking
- Google platform as web portal, info source and ad host as opposed to Facebook in these areas (Facebook has 500 million users) |
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Netflix, Hulu, Fancast and many other more targeted video hosting sites
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compete with Youtube in streaming video content. Google has a weak potrfolio of proprietary content while Netflix, Hulu, Fancast etc. are either run by content providers or have distribution contracts with them (Netflix). Google has yet to monetize Youtube with pay content.
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Mozilla
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Chrome vs. Firefox
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Various "vertical" web search services such as Kayak.com, Monster.com, Indeed.com etc.
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Services like Kayak restrict their search services to go deep into one specific area (booking travel for Kayak) as opposed to Google's broad based searches
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Yelp.com
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Local search and info repository and ad revenue in this area
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Android sales overtook______ sales in the U.S. in 8/10
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iPhone
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Google acquired _________ in 2009 in order to develop their mobile advertising platform
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AdMob;
AdMob is one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks, offering solutions for discovery, branding and monetization on the mobile web. This acquisition upset Apple b/c they were going to try to acquire it themselves. |
