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Sean Parker: Media means a lot to Twitter’s achievement

Sean Parker talked about the development of Twitter. The stock price of Twitter has been flucuating recently. It seems that its user grow is saturation.

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Sean Parker is ex CEO of Facebook, the co-founder of Napster. When Parker was interviewed concerning the future of Twitter. He explained the current situation that Twitter met.

Parker claimed that the key challenge is the application of medium and stars. The user growth of Twitter is fast. If it considers the medium and stars as the core, it could be grow as fast as Facebook.

Twitter is a victim for its success. If there are medium to report Twitter’s news, Twitter could not obtain so many users. Twitter paid a lot for this. Users have fewer deep connections.

Twitter can not precisely reflect the reality social relationship between users. It lacks of the intimate interaction onthe same levels. If it loses the interactions between stars and medium, Twitter is hard to be survived. The interactions among Twitter, medium and stars is the limitation of ths platform.

His explanation makes sense. The experts criticized Twitter for some time that the connection between its product and ordinary seemed less important. Medium and stars are not ordinary people. What Jack Dorsey needs to do is to fix the connection with ordinary users for its products.

Apple Watch enhances users’ health consciousness

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It has been a year that Apple Watch on the market. It is unlike iPhone or iPad, Apple Watch is newly brand for Apple. It suprised that this wearable plays an important role users daily life.

Different people have different opinions about the understanding and application of Apple Watch. Most of people are awared of its health feature which is applied most.

It is a type of fitness product. Apple Watch could access to some places that iPhone can not due to the wearability. It sounds fantastic to the users as Apple Watch has experienced much with them.

It was reported that Apple Watch saved the life of a 64-year-old senior . There were also some similarstories after that.

A 62-year-old construction worker, Dennis Anselm who is from Edmonton, Canada felt sick last August, and Apple Watch checked his heart rate reached 210 times per minute. He went to the hospital for a body check immediately and did related operation.

A student who is from Tennessee and suffered QT before. He felt uncomfortable someday when he was alone at home. He checked Apple Watch and found his heart rate went to 138 times per minute. He was diagnosed as atrial fibrillation.

Apple Watch gave them extra suprise. It provides the ordinary daily data support which is concerned by its users. That is the significant feature of Apple Watch.

Apple Watch applies the blue LED light to work with photoreceptor to test the blood flow. The more blood flow it goes, the more LED absords and fewer heart rate interval. What’s more, Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor could increase LED brightness and sampling frequency.

Riot announced to acquire Radiant studio

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The developer of League of Legends announced to acquire another game developer Radiant Entertainment. Riot Games will have enrich games by this acquisition, such as Stonehearth and Rising Thunder.

According to the announcement posted on Radiant official website, Riot and Radiant promised to continue the launch of Stonehearth. However, the alpha trial of Rising Thunder will be closed down. The team that is responsible for Rising Thunder will be shifted to launch new games which are waiting for announcement.

The announcement wrote:” we are glad to announce that our company is acquired by Riot. Our developers will keep working on their goals, creating more excellent games for our players after the acquisition. ”

This acquisition brings in more talents for Riot. League of Legends has become the most popular and high income games in this field. This free MOBA app created over $ 1 billion income by selling roles, skin and other props. It contributes the popularity of E-sport. The quantity of Riot games will be doubled after it completes the acquisition. Radiant is now working on the third game now.

The new game is a bit different from Rising Thunder. Its designers tried to change the fighting ways to allow the players complete more complicated movements by one-touch operation. All players can experience the game by carrying out the basic tactics. It emphasiss on the complexity and incentiveness of thefighting game.

Radiant did not reveal the reason why it will ends Rising Thunder. It implied that the company will announce more details for this in a proper time. It confirmed that Rising Thunder will be permanently closed on March 18.

Windows day is over: only accounts for 10% of Microsoft’s revenue

 Windows system played an important role for Microsoft’s revenue in the past. However, it only accounts for 10% of Microsoft revenue now. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote on Computerworld and stated that Windows system gets less attention from Microsoft now. Microsoft is becoming cloud computing and service company.

 

Windows OS made a great contribution to Microsoft’s revenue for a long time. It was a ready source of money for Microsoft. Windows 10 has been improved a lot in comparison with its predecessor Windows 8. However, the most profitable sections are Microsoft server and cloud computing in Q4 2015.

The second profitable business goes to Xbox. Microsoft sold a great amount of Xbox games and it just acquired Mojang who launched Minecraft. Microsoft Office also made better performance than Windows OS. Windows os ranks fourth for revenue contribution.

Windows Vista and Windows 8 encountered failure for obtaining more user share. It launched Windows 10 last year, it helped a bit. Even though Windows system is still the most popular PC OS, the consumers get attracted by mobile OS much with the development of iPads and smartphones.

Preston Gralla said the future of Microsoft is related to cloud computing technology. Windows OS may be just the accessory of Microsoft someday.

The revenue of Windows OS decreased by 5% (YOY) in last quarter. While the revenue of cloud computing increased by 5%.The sales of Azure increased by 140% (YOY). Satya Nadella addressed at the analyst conference that enterprise cloud computing has more chance to obtain more market share.

The market share of Windows OS may keep declining in 2016. Let’s see how things go on.

Fire OS encryption function will be restored

Lately, the medium reported much about the case concerning FBI asked for Apple to decrypt the gunshot case suspect’s iPhone. FBI wished to decrypt the suspect’s iPhone data in order to solve the case. However, they failed and turned to Apple for help.

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It caused discussions over the nation as Apple declined to decrypt the suspect’s iPhone. The encryption technology is highly concerned by the public now.

Back to Amazon Fire iPad, it removed the encryption function for Fire OS when it upgraded the newest version. This action was agaist and criticized by its consumers and preservers of privacy policy. Because of this, Amazon decided to restore its encryption function.

Robin Handaly, Amazon spokesman notified the public and consumers by emsil on last Saturday that the company woulf restore the encyption function for new upgrade version of Fire OS this Spring.

The news concerning Amazon removed the encryption function for Fire OS was leaked by the media last week. Amazon claimed that they have removed the encryption function from Fire OS since last autumn as fewer people use this iPad.

It is safer to use the encryption function for a computing device as the encryption function is able to encrypt the data, so only the users insert the right passwoard could access to the data on the device.

The famous cryptologist Bruce Schneier claimed that it was stupid action that Amazon quit this function from Fire OS. Bruce Schneier who is one of the people that call on the restore of Fire OS encryption function.

As reported, Amazon is supposed to submit the court documents to appeal the judges to support Apple’s stand soon.

Samsung spent $ 6 million to introduce OLED production line

Many of domestic smartphones applied the OLED screen already. As reported, Apple will also apply OLED screen for its smartphones in the future. The upstream suppliers will make transition as Apple does.

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According to the confirmed source, Samsung started investing about $ 600 million to add OLED production line. The Samsung Engineering just signed a contract valued at $ 590 million recently to install producing equipments of OLED screen for Samsung Display. This contract also involves in Tangjeong plantation that products Samsung displayers.

Tangjeong plantation has basic facility. It will build another clear workshop and several equipments. This project will be completed by the end of 2016.

What’s more, Samsung Display purchased the equipments for producing OLED panel. The OLED production line will go into operation by the end of 2017.

OLED screen will have better scenes, thinner and enegery saving in comparison with LCD.OLED is considered as the substituendum of LCD for tv panel a few years ago. However, it costs dearer to have it produced.

According to the report, the global market of OLED screen is monopolied by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Samsung Electronics has advantage in producing small and medium size OLED screen.

Some South Korean media reported Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics would sign contracts with Apple to supply OLED screen last year. Therefore, these two compaines would invest decades of billion to enlarge OLED productivity in a few years.

As customary, Apple will distribute the orders of components and parts to several suppliers. Samsung has chance to win bigger order.

The worst failure of acquisitions made by Yahoo

Speaking of the acquired business, Yahoo spent a great amount of capital on acquisitions. As we all known, Yahoo acquired several companies with over-high offers. Their business was a mess even afterthe acquisition.

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Talking about this, it might remind the public of the acquisition of Tumblr that Yahoo offered higher prices than its valuation. In 2013, Yahoo acquired Tumblr at $1.1 billion. Now, Yahoo claimed to make the write-downs of its capital. Yahoo implied the well-known for time blog platform is declining. It has little chance for Tumblr to revive.

Besides, the Tumblr acquisition is not the worst merged deal judeged by the acquired value scale in Yahoo history. There are Top 4 worst acquistions that Yahoo made.

Broadcast.com

It could be counted as No 1 worst acquisition made by Yahoo. It spent $5.7 billion to acquired this online content company. However, it shut down the Broadcast.com business a few years later. It was such an unsucessful deal. Broadcast.com former boss Mark Cuban became a billionaire and purchased a NBA team.

GeoCities

It spent $3.6 billion to acquire personal homepage service site GeoCities. GeoCities allowed the newbies to create their webpages on it. Unfortunately, this website is almost shut down by Yahoo now.

Overture

Overture was company dealt with search engine business. Yahoo acquired it at $1.63 billion in 2003 for exploring the search engine business. However, Google search beat it down.

Right Media

Right Media is a social networking media company. Yahoo spent $ 850 million to acquire in 2007 in the hope of making more profit for advertising business in social networking field. This acquisition also came as a failure.

VMware suffers brain drain: President & Co-COO dismissed

VMware announced on Tuesday that its president and co-COO Carl Eschenbach would resign soon. It was the second news of senior officer resignation in the past week.

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Eschenbach will join Sequoia Capital as a partner after his resignation. So far, VMware has not announced its successor yet.

In fact, VMware senior vice president Martin Casado just quit his post a few days ago. Casado joined Andreessen Horowitz as an ordinary partner. However, a month ahead of the brain drain, VMware announced that its CFO & co-COO Jonathan Chadwick would resign from his posts.

In addition to this, VMware also announced the appointment of four senior managers for more responsibilities. Maurizo Carli is appointed as the executive vice president for global sales business. Peter McKay will be the chief supervisor of US sales team. Its current CTO Ray O’ Farrell will be also responsible for the related business concerning global business and consumer plan. Sanjay Poonen will be responsible for business of global sales and public relations.

The management group adjustment is worth noting as Dell just acquired EMC, the parent company of VMware. EMC holds 80% of VMware’s stock equity. The $67 billion acquisition was approved by the US regulatory last week.

VMware streamlined about 800 employees last month. What’s more, VMware announced to decrease the expectation of 2016 revenue in the latest quarterly report.

Oculus hired former Hulu Senior Vice President to manage Video Services

Facebook subsidiary VR company Oculus hired former Hulu Senior Vice President Eugene Wei to manage its video services. Eugene Wei once worked for Flipboard as product chef before he joined Oculus. In the late of 90s, Eugene Wei had worked for Amazon for 7 years.

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In fact, Eugene Wei has been working for Oculus since the last November according to the source of LinkedIn. However, Eugene Wei has just corrected his position information recently. He upgraded his Twitter profile and made out his current position as well.

VC investor Hunter Walk foundthe change of Eugene’sprofile. Hunter Walk posted the message concerning Eugene Wei’s profile changes. So far, Oculus’s spokesman confirmed Eugene Wei’s post.

Facebook pays close attention to video services business and its VR business. Actually, Facebook starts promoting the 360 View contents through News Feed on social networking sites. In addition to this, Facebook even creates some specified VR contents by using its Oculus Story Studio office.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg implies regularly that he believes the VR technology could be the next most qualified consumption platform. Therefore, it is significant to obtain the Oculus video business.

The newest source indicated that Eugene Wei is reponsible for creating the new platform in Oculus video team. The new platform will be used to store the VR content and 360 View content. Eugene Wei and his team will focus on the developing of 360 View content which is the mainstream content Facebook will promote.

Facebook barges into search industry again

Tom Stocky is an employee of Facebook. He is working on the Facebook Search Engine Project now.

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There are over 1.5 billion searches on Facebook per day, but most of then focus on names. Last October, Facebook opened its all pubic profiles search. Stocky’ s team is in charge of launching this new feature to calculate the ranks of billions of news. Stocky said what we really want to do is turning Facebook as a communicated website that collects all new things from all over the world.

Will Facebook be the next Google or Twitter? It means a lot to social networking if Facebook adds a handy search tool on it. Once the users know that their posted messages are pubic, they might go to edit the privacy immediately. Some users might posting more messages to attract more attentions. Facebook has a great amount of users. So, it is more likely to have the news internationally there.

Facebook hired some search engineers from its rival two years ago. Like the other companines do, Facebook starts from Indexing to do Search Engine. Anyone who posts a blog on Faceboook, the messages will be scanned for key words.

Girish Kumar, the former officer of Microsoft Bing is the chief of Facebook Search project. To simplify and precise the Facebook search, it will make sure all contents upgrade instantly. Each of photo, video, link, share, like and comment will be displayed in our Indexing.

It keeps modifying its search results. It hired hundreds of testers to search the the interest things on social networking platforms to improve the program.

Stocky hopes Facebook search would make some changes for the current situation among the social networking platforms.