#Blackberry and #Nokia only have themselves to blame. Refused to move over to #Android quickly and stuck with legacy systems.
#Supercell made $924M profit on $2.3B revenue in 2015, 84.3% sold to #Tencent for $8.6B. #Softbank paid $2.7B for 73% in 2013 and 2015.
#Apple paid $3B for #Beats, ignoring headset hardware revenue, just #AppleMusic with 15m paid users is bringing in $1.8B each year.
Mark, Get well soon! To Google or anyone else fighting FB, watch him beat you with just one hand! #MarkZuckerberg http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/14/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-live/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom
Well done #Microsoft! $26B for #LinkedIn is a much better deal than Facebook's defensive $19B deal for Whatsapp.
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.
Don't write off #Oracle just yet. They're as persistent as ever and have a good record on getting what they want. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36394558
India is next on the list for #Apple after China, then Africa. :)
#Apple needed to buy friends in China, that's why they invested $1b in #didichuxing. That's the "permitted" bet, not #LeTV, #Baofeng or BAT.
#Google can keep trying to do messaging apps, but will not win. Gtalk, Hangout, whatever. 1/5 of the world can't use or sent messages to.
#Apple's worst result was losing over a billion a year in the 90s. Today, announcing a profit well above 10 billion a quarter is failure.
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
There are many reasons why #Woz isn't at #Apple now and no one there wants him back. 50% corporate tax? He obviously has no business sense!
#Ferrari sells less than 10k cars a year and makes a lot of money. #Tesla is selling many more at huge losses. It's not that simple, right?
#Intel cutting 12,000 jobs, about 11% of its current workforce. When will they buy #ARM, #MediaTek or #Qualcomm? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-19/intel-cuts-12-000-jobs-forecast-misses-as-pc-blight-takes-toll
Did #Google buy #Nest or Fadell? They wanted a head of hardware with style, but couldn't get Jony so they got Tony? http://recode.net/2016/03/30/nest-2015-sales-budget/
Pricing isn't just about the cost to make the product! It's more about the perceived value.
http://www.techinsider.io/apple-makes-much-more-money-off-the-64gb-iphone-2016-3
"There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little."- #AndyGrove RIP
Here is the twist, Chinese-owned American company #Segway got the US ITC to ban mostly Chinese hoverboard imports. http://gizmodo.com/us-officially-bans-hoverboard-imports-1765273203
Can #Apple merge with #IBM? Apple has 200B+ in cash, IBM is at about 130B.
#Starbucks to finally open in Milan, Italy after about 30 years. Any #PizzaHut yet? http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/28/news/companies/starbucks-italy-coffee-shop/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom
#Apple is growing well into IT services. 1 billion active users, $31 billion in 2015. AWS is less than $10 billion. #Appstore is a service.
#TimCook spent so long to set the scene about the global economic climate, only for most "analysts" and "journalists" to ignore.
#Google paid 1 billion dollars to #Apple for search, that's cheap. They can't afford to repeat the same screw-up as the deal with maps.
BBC - Capital - How two iPads and a smartphone became the new normal http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160122-how-two-ipads-and-a-smartphone
Buying apple.car and http://apple.auto doesn't mean #Apple will launch a car anytime soon.
Of course #YouTubeRed competes with #Netflix, #Amazon, etc. Wait till they compete with Warner Bros, Disney, etc. http://gizmodo.com/report-youtube-red-might-become-more-of-a-netflix-comp-1745882116
#Alibaba breaks record again. They can probably still do it for a few more years as mobile internet access continue to grow.
Watch the BBC interview and you might realise that #TagHeuer CEO has a very bad poker face, he knows #AppleWatch is winning smartwatch war.