Even Spiegel, the young CEO of ephemeral messaging app SnapChat thinks that sooner or later, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is bound to get doomed just like Yahoo. He didn’t say it publically (of course), but an email leak has depicted Speigel’s secret thoughts about Facebook. Yahoo was once a $128 billion market cap company; it was the web juggernaut and had loads of traffic with investors at its door. Now, its market cap is less than $10 billion. Speigel has the reason for it: Yahoo was living on venture capital based startups and investments; when they dried up, Yahoo died. This is…
Author: Sean Johnson
In a program on CNBC, it was reported that Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) has missed its earnings estimates for no less than three consecutive quarters. This means that the company is plummeting and a massive change has to be introduced. Nomura Securities analyst Rick Sherlund said that Cloud is the solution for Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL). Industry is shifting pretty rapidly and the companies are becoming swiftly fixated around Cloud platforms. All the major tech players are investing heavily in the Cloud in one form or the other. Sherlund said that on-premise computing is coming to an end in the Enterprise and Oracle…
In an article on The Register, it was reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has launched its Cloud backup service for Azure platform and after this, there is a great chance that client-server platforms and companies will use it as a major security backup model. Azure Backup cloud service of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) was launched back in 2013. The company only gave support for 2008 R2 version of Windows but on Tuesday, it announced that users of Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1 will be able to use this Cloud security feature. This is a major step towards Cloud…
In an article on Business Insider, it was reported that Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Adsense is posing a lot of problems for the publishers. The source mentioned a recent case of a company called Pubshare, which publishes general viral content. In 2013, the website published an article which earned more than $1 million because of millions of clicks and views in just one month. The owner of the website, Peter Ogtanyan, received a notice from Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) a few days after this post that he will not receive any of the amount generated from the Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) ads. The…
In an article on New York Times, Farhad Manjoo said that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is in deep trouble because of its Fire smartphone and the upheaval in the e-commerce business. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) relationship with publishers is not going in the right direction. The company was tracking things for granted when the major publishers started a resistance against it. Manjoo also thinks that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO is unable to comprehend the importance and market of smartphones. The Fire phone from Amazon didn’t work well. But there is an even scarier threat to Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN): a startup named Postmates has…
In an article on CNBC, it was reported that BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) is trying to capture its loyal and older customer base with its new BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) Classic phone. The company has released on the eve of a geopolitical activity: American relationship with Cuba, Russian crisis and Central Asian tumult. These areas are a big market for Blackberry. An article on Tech Crunch talked about this problem and said that Blackberry seems to be confused about its real customer base. It launched BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) Passport recently in order to capture young customer base. That didn’t work pretty well…
Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) CEO Dick Costolo is in major trouble. He is continuing to sell the company shares and this is infuriating investors. In an article on Business Insider, it was reported that a major Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) investor has lashed out Dick Costolo and called him a major obstacle in the company success. He said that he is unable to understand why Costolo is selling such a massive load of shares periodically. He also said that if a CEO is selling his own company shares at such an increasing rate, this depicts that the company is in danger. Costolo…
In an article on Forbes, it was reported that eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) has a number of market barriers and drivers which can be decisive in the company business in the coming days. The source said that as of 2014, eBay failed to impress the investors. Its stock price kept tumbling and roaming around $48 and now it is brushing $55. eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) major potential lies in the payment business. The source said that globally, the payment business both from mobile and PC platforms is increasing. According to a survey, by 2017, the payments industry will touch around $721 billion.…
In an article on Business Insider, it was reported that hackers on the web platform called Hacker News are discussing how easy it is to retrieve the secret user data from Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). This is alarming because of the fact that there are billions of users of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and a single loophole in internet security of the company can cause a havoc. The security vulnerability was first revealed by a security expert Nathan Malcolm from Sinthetic Labs who said that he was working to get rid of an error when he came to know a lot about…
In an article on Value Walk, it was reported that Rackspace Hosting has ditched Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) to join International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) OpenPower technology. This would be a major blow to Intel because of the fact that the company is already suffering from its chip business. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has not penetration in the mobile chip industry. Its only hope, the PC business, is declining globally. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s long terms partners like RackSpace Hosting are now ditching it and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) is taking over the Enterprise space. International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM)’s semiconductor technology…
In an article on Game Spot, it was reported that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is going to launch its own game streaming service “Arcadia”. This will be a big move from the company in the gaming business. A few days ago, it was rumored that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) will launch streaming service which will be dubbed as Rio game-streaming but the source said that this is not the case. The source said that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been hiring its new talent by referring to this new streaming service as the “next big thing”. It has not officially disclosed the release…
In an article on Bidnessetc, it was reported that BMW is planning to give tough competition to Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)’s newly launched P85D electric car, a revamp of Model S. P85D electric car has great improvements which are making it a hot choice for the buyers. The article said that there is no doubt that Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has set the trend in the global electric vehicle industry and it is the only company which has rolled out quality electric cars which have imbibed the car lovers. But BMW is perhaps the only rising competitor of Tesla Motors…