Google has revolutionised the search engine industry. But in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission of US, Google has acknowledged in unequivocal terms, the increased threat to its leadership in the search engine business.The open admission of the threats signals the...

The case discusses the ongoing struggle between Toshiba and Sony, as regards the new DVD (digital versatile disk) formats, HD-DVD (high definition) and Blue Ray. It provides the reader with an overview of the existing market scenario and how the two companies are moving ahead to push their own...

Many view the emergence of ‘New-Age Dotcoms’ as foundations of tomorrow’s disruptive forces to have significant impact on many of our future products, services and even on broader creative economy, whereas others view it as a passing phase of the original disruptions brought in by the...

Verisign was a leading provider of a wide range of Internet-based services ranging from on-line payment processing to domain name registry. The company owned the two popular top level domains (TLD''s), .com and .net that together accounted for nearly 53 percent of all TLD''s. Owing to the...

The wireless industry was among the most competitive industries in US. There were scores of players all across the country that competed on poor margins. The market had reached a level of saturation from whereon it had become difficult for operators to grow further. In the new business scenario,...

On 21 December 2005, Seagate acquired Maxtor for US$1.9 billion. Owing to the rising competition and falling prices of personal computer hardware, Seagate was finding it increasingly difficult to leverage its market leadership in hard disk storage. Many analysts felt that the acquisition of...

Sandisk Corporation was a leading supplier of flash memory cards. However, the company was troubled by the cyclical nature of its flash business. With rising competition, the flash memory market was witnessing an increasing degree of commoditisation. In the emerging business scenario, Sandisk...

Palm Inc was the world''s largest supplier of personal digital assistants (PDA''s). The company was troubled by the declining annual shipments of its products, which many analysts felt were primarily due to their slow technological obsolescence and increasing popularity of converged mobile...

This case discusses; (1) Google''s business model; (2) the business of search engines; (3) the industry structure; (4) the on-going consolidations; (5) on-line advertisements and their role in e-commerce; (6) Google''s competitive positioning; (7) the emerging trends in Internet; (8) network...