Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google?

Posted by timothy on Friday May 25, 2012 @10:47AM from the feel-free-to-send-me-your-discarded-shares dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dallas Mavericks owner and media entrepreneur Mark Cuban thinks he knows the reason for Facebook's disappointing IPO; smart money has realized that 'mobile is going to crush Facebook', as the world's population increasingly accesses the Internet mostly through smartphones and tablets. Cuban notes that the limited screen real estate hampers the branding and ad placement that Google and Facebook are accustomed to when serving to desktop browsers, while phone plans typically have strict data limits, so subscribers won't necessarily take kindly to YouTube or other video ads. Forbes' Eric Jackson likewise sees a generational shift to mobile that will produce a new set of winners at the expense of Facebook and Google."

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Why do people care what Cuban thinks again? by EjectButton · 2012-05-25 11:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yahoo stupidly paid a couple billion to Cuban for a worthless website at the height of the dot-com boom.

Since then he has goofed around with sports teams and had a bunch of failed business ventures. Apparently on Slashdot this makes you a technology genius who's every blog post is front page material.
Re:Mobile will destroy Google? by TheEyes · 2012-05-25 11:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

If "locking" means "providing me with so much good stuff--including the ability to easily leave the second I choose to--that I don't want to leave, even though I can," then hell, sign me up!