Box is a firm offering online file sharing. Jeff Sutton is in charge of its IT group. Its employees increased from 50 to 1,000 within 4 years.

Jeff Sutton once worked for IBM. His annual salary was $95,000. He was supposed to earn more with his 10 years’ working experience in system management. He quit as he took the share option, amounting to 21,000 shares.

Box became a listed company in the early of 2015. Sutton’s option seemed brightness. Its share price increased by 66% in the first day in the New York Stock Exchange. It increased from $14 to $23.33.

According to the employees lock-up agreement, Sutton could not sell his shares within 180 days. The stock value decreased by 20% in comparison to its ceiling price. Its current share price is $13 which is under the issue price.

Sutton said:” I assumed the share will be more valuable. Obviously, its development doesn’t seem as positive as I thought.”
He might earn $350,000 before taxes. However, this was not the unexperted fortune he wished to change his life. He spent four years in Box that he supposed to be in Silicon Valley.

Square became a listed comapny in November. Its share was at $9. A former Sqaure exployee said the internal share price was $16 when she got the stock option. Her supervisor told her each share would be increased to $50 when it came to season. In fact, the Sqaure share valued at $12 on December 16.

Sutton left Box and worked for BrightRoll. He became a manager for Instacart when BrightRoll was acquired by Yaoo.

The Christmas holiday is upcoming. German Verdi called on the logistics center staffs of Amazon to go on strike for salary raise and working condition improvements on December 22, 2015. This is the third time that Verdi called on strikes in a row before the Christmas holiday comes.

Amazon boycotted Verdi strike calls. It announced that the firm provided favorable indemnification agreement for its employees. It insisted that the strike won’t affect the holiday shopping in the aspect of packing and delivery.

Amazon spokesman said:” Our clients can rely on our delivery agreement. Most of our employees won’t attend the strike and they focus on work.”

Amazon owns 9 logistics centers and 10,000 full-time employees in Germany. Besides, it hired 10,000 seasonal employees in order to deal with the great amount of orders during the shopping holidays.

Amazon claimed that only several hundred employees from 6 logistics centers joined the strike on Monday. However, Verdi confirmed that there were about 1,700 employees attended the strike.

It has 29 logistics centers and about 30,000 employees in the continent of  European. The employees become extremely busy when the shopping boom seasons come. It will hire thousands of casual laborers to deal with the emergency.

Verdi is encouraging the Amazon employees to go on strike till Christmas Eve. Verdi criticized Amazon for asking for its employees to work on Sunday during the boom season.

Amazon’s share price increased by 115% this year. It becomes the most valuable retailer in the world. The investors are excited for its positive user growth. It was criticized by the public for poor working condition and imbalance between work and personal life among the employees.

The music streaming medias face much competition. Apple and Google are working hard to surpass Spotify and Pandora. Spotify and Tesla Motor Inc teamed up to promote Spotify service in Tesla electric cars.

From December 22, the users who own Model S, Model X from Europe, Australia or Hong Kong will enjoy free Spotify monthly music service. It used to charge $10 each month. Tesla has upgraded its car firmware and implant Spotify service.

The car owners can also enjoy Spotify service even though they are unregistered users. The British Daily Telegraph reported that the Spotify is binding to Tesla electronic car one for one. It will be unable to access on laptops or other devices.

Tesla teamed up with Rdio for car music service for a long time. However, Rdio announced to bankrupt lately due to the intense competition in music streaming media field. Some of Rdio valuable assets were acquired by Pandaro. Tesla decided to choose Spotify for its new music service partner.

The Spotify service in Tesla electronic cars will be ads free. The car owners can opt the Spotify service with the help of built-in car infortainment system.

To Spotify, it is a good chance to team up with Tesla. Spotify is the music streaming service provider that ranks in second in the world. Apple is promoting its Apple Music on iOS devices. Its followers are running after Spotify’s.

It is not the first time that Spotify teams up with car manufacturers. It cooperated with BMW, Ford, Mini and so on.

It is reported that Tesla won’t charge car owners for the Internet expense caused by Spotify music service.

The publisher of RF, ParkerVision that comes from Florida submitted the application to ITC and Florida regional court to prosecute Apple, Samsung, LG and Qualcomm Incorporated as they infringed its wireless networking patent.

ParkerVision claimed that the wireless receivers made by Qualcomm and Samsung violated its wireless networking patent. Apple, Samsung and LG all apply the infringed Qualcomm chips for their mobile devices. The Sahnnon 928 RF reciever which is made by Samsung will be further checked as well.

The involved patents inlcude No.6879817,No.7929638, No.8571135 and No9118528. They are related to the wireless radio frequency technology and its applications usage. ParkerVision respectively sues Qualcomm and Samsung concern the patent infringement.

ParkerVision sued Qualcomm in 2011 for the first time, but it could not prove the evidence. In 2013, the Jury of Florida court ruled Qualcomm infringed ParkerVision’s patent and fined $173 million, but this judgment was objective later.

In the document ParkerVision submitted, it asked for prohibiting to export those infringed products to overseas. The involved Apple products are iPhone 6, iPhone 6, iPad Air 2 and other products.

ParkerVision is a listed company that established in 1989 and it specializes in designing wireless chips. Most of its revenue is from the technology licensing business. The infringement damages its advantage in this industry, so it has to appeal to the court.

ParkerVision’s future seems to be negative. It only signed one contract in the first three quarters this year. The revenue only has $55 million.

The current 3D Touch is only compatible with iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The iPad users are discontented with this, especially for those who bought iPad Pro or iPad mini 4.

Due to the difference of screen sizes, iPad series do not support 3D Touch sound reasonable. The key is how long we need to wait for a compatible 3D Touch for iPad.

AppleInsider posted an exclusive report today and indicated the confirmed source provided that Apple is now studying an advanced 3D Touch technology that supports all screen sizes on iOS devices.

It is reproted that the new 3D Touch will be able to apply on iPhone, iPad, iPad mini and iPad Pro. It suggested that the current 3D Touch technology on iPhone 6s is hard to apply on bigger mobile screen.

The performance and features of the “advanced 3D Touch” has not much difference from the current one. It mainly syncs to integrate on iPhone and iPad screens. The report claimed that iPad users need to wait for while to experience the 3D Touch. It won’t be realized until the release of iPhone 7.

3D Touch is the selling point for iPhone 6s &6s Plus. The ads for iPhone 6s mentioned this selling point every now and then. Besides iPhone 6s series, Apple Watch and MacBook have alike function as 3D Touch does.

KGI analyst reported that iPad Air 3 will be released next March, but it won’t match with 3D Touch either.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.