With all the gloom in the global economy, I got to wondering whether there's anything else going on in the world of business. I'm looking for growth because I think that's what will ultimately bring the economy out of the doldrums. Not surprisingly, that growth is coming from technology companies.
The fastest growing companies these days share a common trait -- they help make the lives of consumers easier and more fun. Whether it's navigating in your car, looking for fun restaurants, playing games on your mobile, arranging meetings with your friends, personalizing the reams of songs and videos aroung the Web, or planning a vacation, the fastest growers are the ones that do these things the best. So, in Growth Matters I look at consumer technology companies that point the way to growth trends.
Here's a sampling of these fast growing tech companies -- and some services and products you may want to explore:
- Growth Matters: Armor Games protects you from boredom online
- Growth Matters: Backchannelmedia joins TV and the Web
- Growth Matters: Cellfire puts coupons into your mobile
- Growth Matters: Coolspotters lets you buy what celebs wear
- Growth Matters: Dailymotion moves you with video
- Growth Matters: Dash Navigation helps you get there faster
- Growth Matters: Doodle gets your schedule right
- Growth Matters: Evernote makes you smarter
- Growth Matters: Evite's an invitation to print money
- Growth Matters: Ford SYNCs your car with the world
- Growth Matters: Gameloft is French for mobile fun
- Growth Matters: GeckoGo takes you places you've never been
- Growth Matters: Jagex is Europe's PC fun maker
- Growth Matters: Kayak.com travels with $200 million in capital
- Growth Matters: King.com dominates games of skill online
- Growth Matters: Last.fm learns your music and gives you more
- Growth Matters: Mister Wong is Europe's social bookmarker
- Growth Matters: MocoSpace makes mobile fun and games
- Growth Matters: Netlog is Europe's social networking leader
- Growth Matters: Netvibes makes Europe more social
- Growth Matters: Ning's a social network with zing
- Growth Matters: Otto Group is world's second biggest e-commerce company
- Growth Matters: Pandora lets you box your own music
- Growth Matters: Playfish is fun for you and your friends
- Growth Matters: Plista personalizes the 'Net
- Growth Matters: Qype finds the best local services
- Growth Matters: Revision3 starts a network to watch on your cell
- Growth Matters: StumbleUpon filters the web
- Growth Matters: TeleNav gets you where you want to go
- Growth Matters: TomTom helps you navigate the world
- Growth Matters: Transpera zaps video to your mobile
- Growth Matters: Twitter tweets a happy tune
- Growth Matters: Veoh finds you the Web's best video
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-08-2009 @ 12:03AM
Iridium said...
Come on Peter. Are you trying to bring about the second dot com crash.
None of these companies can really make enough real money to drive the economy. For the most part they produce worthless toys that hold no real value. God Twitter is probably the stupidest idea in the history of communications yet the mindless peons follow the hype machine.
Social networking is the biggest profit pipe dream of them all. Online banner ads have proven to be a worthless tool for driving net traffic. If any site charges a fee for its service millions of people will drop it cold.
We need real companies that produce tangible assets that put people to work. That require people to sell them. Make people put gas in thier cars and drive to pick them up.
If we want to live like the people in Wal-E lets just get it over with. Give me my hover chair and personal robotic servant. I'll never actually have to do anything for myself again.
I just want to go back to 1995. Remember when only a few people had cell phones. The internet was used by a few geeks. Computers ran at 100mhz. People actually drove cars without staring at a GPS or phone attached to thier ear.
The young generation right now sees the ability to text behind thier back as the best skill to have in life. An entire world story told by a few shortenned words sent at a cost 10,000 times the actual value.
The past 15 years has been total lunacy. Insane beyond comparison.