Who has the cash to affect the information market?

Apple’s Massive Pile Of Cash In Context

Well we know that Google has a bucket of cash to pursue their corporate strategies (like digitizing every bok in the world), but it is interesting to see these other capital pools and wonder what the plans are.

These behemoth pools of cash can easily change the information marketplace forever. Some already have.

What do you think is next? Is it M&A? Will M&A be content, technology, social sites, advertising technology, movies and TV, web…? Is it digital conversions? Is it more social? Is it less privacy? Is it more streaming media? Is it more mobile? Is it more ads and revenue models? Is it more global? Is it more lobbying for a revised international copyright regime? Are we expecting more devices? All of the above?

Stephen