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#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.
#Fadell is finally out. Microsoft next? Yet another failed project at #Google under #Page. Haven’t seen any bad deals by #Pinchai yet.
#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
#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?
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.
#ApplePay launched in China with a bang! Many top apps supporting it from day 1!
#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.
#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.
#Alibaba breaks record again. They can probably still do it for a few more years as mobile internet access continue to grow.
#Apple will sell over 10 million watches this year. That’s about 1/3 of the total units of luxury Swiss watches. You only wear one watch!