Facebook at Work will be officially released to rival LinkedIn

Julien Codorniou,the director for Facebook Worldwide partner Platform claimed that the firm will officially introduce the Facebook at Work to its enterprise users in a few months. The Facebook at Work has been testing for about one year.

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It is similar with the ordinary Facebook version, Facebook at Work offers message stream, likes and chatting functions. It aims to enhance the cooperation between enterprises and employees.

Codorniou claimed:” I can admit that 95% of Facebook launched functions are integrated to Facebook at Work.”

To experience the Facebook at Work, the uses need to create a special account that is different from the personal ones.

Facebook customized a special function for Facebook at Work version, for example, it launched the information safety tool.

The company started testing this service from January,2015 and it offered to use for free during the trial period. It was introduced to the enterprises by using the “Invited” mode.

Facebook at Work will be open to all enterprises after it is being released. Facebook plans to obtain profit by months by promoting advanced services, such as data analysis and customer technical support.

According to IDC report, the annual revenue of Linkein and Monster Worldwide are about $6 billion.

So far, Heineken, Royal bank of Scotland, Stella and Dot are using Facebook at Work. It is said that Club Mediterranee SA will join the membership.

Codorniou said nearly all the features of Facebook at Work are the same with the ordinary version. It only has a few special features, for instance, users can play Candy Crush Saga on Facebook at Work.

 

HTC announced to postpone the release of HTC Vive till next April

HTC announced on Tuesday that it would delay the release of HTC Vive till next April. It was supposed to be launched before this Christmas according to its schedule.

If you plan to buy this HTC Vive during Christmas holiday, you need to wait for much longer time as the Santa Claus will come late.

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According to its statement, HTC Vive will come 4 months later than its scheduled plan. It wrote on its official website that :” we will offer HTC Vive for large-scale content creator and cooperative partners. We still focus on offering better experience for the launch of HTC Vivv.”

HTC announced to cooperate with game company Valve to launch HTC Vive together in this March. The postponement of HTC Vive release indicates that it takes longer time to make Virtual Reality Technology come to real life.

So far, only Google and Samsung released their own virtual reality helmet products. Oculus Rift, Sony PlayStation VR and HTC Vive will be released until next year.

It is unclearn their release dates and prices so far. What we knew is that they focus on high end Virtual Reality games and videos application.

Even though there are not many details about those devices, they attract many fans and manufacturers to study them. It is said that Hulu and Netflix plan to team up for those devices. Microsoft,Harmonix and Sony prepare for providing VR games for those devices.

HTC plans to offer 7,000 specimen for publishers before HTC Vive will be released by next April.

Microsoft Surface share increased sharply in October

 

Apple iPad  series have  been criticized in the past few months. Microsoft Surface products are considered the prospective in the future. But iPad series are still in the leading position in the iPad market so for.

It turned out that the share for Microsoft Surface increased sharply in October. Its online tablet share is higher than Apple’s iPad.

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According to the statistics of 1010data, the sales for Microsoft Surface increased sharply started from the fall. It received an incredible increase in October. The online table share increased to 45%, and it was first that Surface series exceeded iPad series.

The sales for iPad declined in October, down to 17%. The statistics resource is from 100 American large scales e commercial channels.

Judged by the graph, Surface series keep a vigorous life for the tablet share trending this year. It received progressive increase.

The releases of Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book received positive feedback so that they attract many users. It is worth noting that this figure doesn’t include the sales of iPad Pro due to it was released relatively late.

If Apple requires the sales of iPad Pro to save the leading position of iPad series, it indicates that iPad gradually loses its dominant position.

Judged by the sales of past 12 months, iPad series still main in the leading position. In terms of share of selling tablet online, Apple takes up 34 %, Microsoft is 19%, while Amazon is 11%.

Facebook might invest $300 million to build the first Asian Data center in Taiwan

The Changhua officer from Taiwan revealed that Facebook has plan to build data center in Changhua, predicting it will invest 10 billion NTD($300 million), reports Digitimes.

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Changhua county is close to Changhua high-speed rail station. It is convenient for traveling.

It is reported that Facebook authorized consulting company to do investigation in Changhua concerned the land resource in October. It continued to send technical staffs to explore the local electric power and water supplies. They were negotiating with the local govenment concerned the investment.

Facebook confirmed that it is looking for the right location to build the data center. It doesn’t made the final decision yet.

Facebook plans to invest $300 million to built the data center. The Changhua officer claimed that the government will acution the land at 80,000 NTD per square meters. Facebook settles on a land of 6 hectare, valuing at 1.4 billion NTD. But the data center scale might reach to 20 hectare at last.

Its Changhua data center might become the 6th one that Facebook builds in the world. It will be the first one in Asia.

Facebook announced to build the 5th data center in Fort Worth, Texas in July, generating electricity with wind power. Mashable claimed that Fort Worth data center showed its ambitious to explore the international business.

Facebook revealed that its montly activate users in Taiwan is 15 million, considering as the most popular social networking service. It expressed its willingness to build a small-scale group in Taibei in January in order to provide better technical support for Taiwanese enterprises and app developers.

PPTV appoints Mi Xin as its new CEO

According to the confirmed information, PPTV employees received an appointed email that appointing Mi Xin as PPTV’s new CEO. However, PPTV doesn’t confirm this news yet.

Mi Xin worked as the vice manager of CIBN(Beijing) and was responsible for networking TV business operation before he joined PPTV.

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It is reported that Mi Xin will be in charge of PPTV’s daily operation management, including video business, copyright purchase, OTT and gaming business.

What is more, the email announced PPTV appointed Fan Zhijun as the chairman of Management Committee. He is in charge of resource sharing between the group and PPTV, work butting and management of important decisions. He is also responsible for PPTV sports, human resource, finance, external contact work and project management.

Zhang Xun was appointed as the vice president, responsible for operating management of PPTV sports.

Mi Xin also works as the president of PPTV. This is the third time that PPTV appointed new CEO after Suning became its shareholder.

Suning announced to invest PPTV with Lenovo at $420 milliom in October, 2013. Its former CEO Tao Chuang and some other senior managers left PPTV in March, 2014.

Suning claimed that PPTV board of directors appointed Fan Zhijun as chairman of Management Committee, acting on CEO’s behalf in November 25, 2014.

Suning announced in November that Sunning Commerce Group would transfer PPTV 68.08 % of share ownership to Suning Culture. Fan Zhijun said it would benefit both Suning and PPTV to split up. It will encourage the reorganization of retailed, cultural and creative industry.