Amazon, Apple, Facebook And Google Are Eyeing Your Market

MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT With Google's Motorola phones and YouTube and iTunes are still grow- ing. Google and Apple continue to Amazon's new tablet, the iPhone and iPad have company. Even improve web-TV devices. Amazon Facebook, mobile's No. 1 app, has has a Netflix rival, and Facebook, toyed with a phone. the digital watercooler, has COMPANIES AT RISK: integrated Hulu and Netflix. Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, HTC, Lenovo, COMPANIES AT RISK: Comcast, LG, Microsoft, Nokia, Research in DirecTV, Dish Network, Disney, Motion, Samsung, Toshiba Hulu, Netflix, News Corp., TimeWarner, Viacom COMMUNICATIONS End runs around traditional "dumb MUSIC pipes": Apple's iMessage and Face- Time; Google Voice and Google+ Each company has launched a cloud-based, streaming music player. Apple's iCloud service may generate $1.5 billion in revenue Hangouts; Facebook Messaging. COMPANIES AT RISK: AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, TimeWarner ina flash. Cable, Verizon COMPANIES AT RISK: EMI, Pandora, Sony Music, ADVERTISING/MARKETING amazon.comm Spotify, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Algorithm-driven ad networks such as Google's AdWords and Apple's iAd cut out agencies, while smart campaigns now start with Facebook. COMPANIES AT RISK: Interpublic Group, Omnicom Group, Publicis Groupe, Starcom, WPP GAMING Games are Apple's and Facebook's No. 1 apps, Amazon's new tablet should have Angry Birds, and Google wants games on Google+. Who needs an Xbox, Wii, or PlayStation? LOCAL COMPANIES AT RISK: Activision Blizzard, EA, Microsoft, Nintendo, Zagat-buyer Google covets the $140 billion local ad market. Rovio, Sony, Zynga Google Like Amazon and Facebook, it also runs a Groupon rival. PUBLISHING/MEDIA Apple is now a bookseller, while Amazon becomes a publisher. Google wants to digitize every COMPANIES AT RISK: CBS Outdoor, Foursquare, Groupon, OpenTable, SuperMedia book-ever. And the stolid WalI RETAIL Street Journal just launched a Facebook edition! Amazon has Walmart scrambling COMPANIES AT RISK: New York for a winning digital strategy, while iTunes and the App Store are Times, News Corp., Pearson, Random House, Scholastic, Viacom Hachette the gold standard for digital marketplaces. COMPANIES AT RISK: Best Buy, CLOUD facebook eBay, RadioShack, Target, Walmart Amazon, Facebook, and Google would love to control the PAYMENTS infrastructure of "anytime, anywhere" computing. Apple reportedly tried to buy storage Google and Amazon push online checkout, while Google Wallet lets startup Dropbox to compete. smartphones tap and pay. The iPad COMPANIES AT RISK: Box.net, is the next-generation cash register. Dropbox, EMC, Rackspace, COMPANIES AT RISK: American Salesforce.com, VMWare Express, eBay, MasterCard, Square, Visa