Amazon Google Case
Amazon Google Case
Amazon Google Case
Launched in 1998, initially offered nothing but search and therefore no revenue
Began to sell text advertising to advertisers in 2000, who wanted to reach
consumers searching for particular keywords
Introduced AdSense in June 2003 followed by launching free webmail service,
Gmail
Made very big content acquisition in October 2006, when it bought YouTube
Made even costlier acquisition in April 2007 when in bought DoubleClick to
improve ad-serving efficiency rather than scope2015 restructuring created
Alphabet
Provides seven services with over a billion users each: Android, Chrome, Gmail,
Google Maps, Google Play, Search and YouTube
Apple
Founded in 1976, evolved from a hardware designer for the pre-internet age to
world’s largest IT company by revenue
iTunes software and complementary iPod music player launched in 2001, iPhone
launched in 2007 and iPad in 2010
Operated a chain of over 500 retail stores globally, often in prime locations
Apple’s iOS held second place to Android, installed on 15.6% of phones in 2018
Pioneered the market for voice-activated search on the phone with Siri
Apple’s services comprised digital content, iCloud data storage fees, hardware
service contracts, and Apple pay fees and products comprised Apple TV, Apple
watch, etc.
Facebook
Available to general public since 2005, went public with its IPO in 2012
Hours spent on Facebook peaked at 17.8% of all hours online in the US in 2017,
but was down to 16.4% in 2018, offset by Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram
and Whatsapp
Facebook’s $41 billion revenue in 2017 came from advertising
Offered an ad bidding and retargeting service, called Facebook Exchange which
helped to place tracking cookies on browsers of their site visitors
Mined detailed information reported by users on their postings as well as self-
reported profiles
Grew sales in display advertising sector from $2 billion in 2012 to $18 billion in
2018
Design Thinking is ‘not’ an old wine in a
new bottle
Design Thinking has emerged as a powerful approach to problem solving, adopting a human-centered
manner
Lean Thinking: Known Problem and Known Solution: straight forward situations where a problem is
reasonably well understood and so are the solutions
Lateral Thinking: Known Problem and Unknown Solution-The entire scheme of techniques on
brainstorming largely falls under the ambit of known problems and unknown solutions
Critical Thinking: Unknown Problem and Known Solution-The element of discovery is the identification of
the constraint or the problem, and once it’s unearthed, the solution is to attack the bottleneck, one at a time
Design Thinking:Unknown Problem and Unknown Solution- Design Thinking takes a more human-
centered approach to discover the problem and generate ingenious solutions
Design Thinking is a new way of looking at the problem space and exploring it little better before giving in
to the urge of solving