Verizon, Facebook Media Deals All About Shift to Mobile

Financial Times: Verizon’s deal to acquire AOL and Facebook’s tie-up with major news outlets have brought home how far the tech, media and communications industries are realigning around mobile. What has yet to play out, though, is the realignment among the businesses that ride on top of the mobile platform. How smartphone technology will evolve, and which new business ecosystems will develop on mobile, are still unclear. “What you’re going to do on these devices — and who’s going to control them and how they’re going to work and what the acquisition channels and the interaction models look like — is still completely unsettled.”