#Spotify is putting on a brave face, claiming that #AppleMusic is helping to grow the market for everyone. In one year, Apple got 15m users.
Winners take all. http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/08/news/economy/top-1-income/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom
#Fadell is finally out. Microsoft next? Yet another failed project at #Google under #Page. Haven't seen any bad deals by #Pinchai yet.
United States has the third highest corporate tax rate among 173 nations. #US #Tax http://taxfoundation.org/article/corporate-income-tax-rates-around-world-2015
How worried should tech #startups be? Will this be a global thing? More unicorns to disappear? http://fortune.com/2016/03/28/there-were-no-tech-ipos-in-q1/
Hot topics in 2016, #AR, #VR, etc. Can they truly replace Money, Keys, Mobile and Watch which you bring with you everyday?
Can #Apple merge with #IBM? Apple has 200B+ in cash, IBM is at about 130B.
Over 61 million jobs have been lost since global economic crisis in 2008. http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-is-the-future-of-work
#Alphabet is now bigger than #Apple. #Google is still the main profit driver, but good to know other units are losing less money now.
62 richest people have as much wealth as half the world, Top 1% own more than everyone else combined. http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/17/news/economy/oxfam-wealth/index.html
#Alibaba breaks record again. They can probably still do it for a few more years as mobile internet access continue to grow.
Sending money via #FacebookMessenger is a great feature. #WeChat has micro payment for a long time. Question is, who will pay card charges?
#AppStore downtime on Wednesday had around a 20% hit to our daily revenue. A reminder for app business to budget for unexpected events.
If #Apple paid full price of $11.99 x 500 million copies to #U2. That would be 6 billion dollars. I don't think they paid a billion for it.
#ApplePay is good replacement or extension to the credit card system. Solving the privacy issue makes it a bit like #Bitcoin, but not quite.
Just as Gates and Buffett kept asking for higher taxes, Slim, Page and Branson are asking for reducing work hours. But no one is listening.
#Sony and #Microsoft should be taking #Nintendo's poor sales of #WiiU as a serious warning. Their sales can be even worse.
#Microsoft bought #Nokia for 7.2 billion, now 4.7 billion for #Blackberry to go private looks very expensive.
It has been a long time since a tech giant revised their quarterly estimates up. Well done #Apple!
#Apple is down by about 5% after #iPhone4S announcement. It's nice that a good product comes at a discount. Smart investors will buy now!
Still a fad? Facebook, $1.2bn revenue of first 9 months of 2010, $355m net profit, valuation $50bn. P/E of over 100.
Robert Fogel - $123,000,000,000,000 - China’s estimated economy by the year 2040. http://bit.ly/4Hij01
USD 2 trillion and counting… http://bit.ly/TgqPy