In order for companies to survive nowadays, it is important for them to think of ways to improve and innovate their business to the next level. For example, Amazon has now improved its delivery days from 6 days a week to 7 days a week. Amazon has teamed up with the United States Postal Service to deliver on Sunday too. It is essential that amazon offers a service like that for the purpose of competing with others major online shopping websites such as eBay, Walmart, Safeway and Target etc. Many competitors of Amazon has offered delivery times which is very efficient.

Amazon believes that by working with the USPS, its revenue and amount of sales will increase as the delivery time will be faster and thats what every online shopping customer wants. In my opinion, I think the decision made by Amazon is right as Amazon itself has successfully found a way to improve and innovate its company to compete with its competitors. Therefore, it is safe to say that the revenue and the amount of sales of Amazon will soon increase more than before.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-11/amazon-postal-service-to-start-sunday-package-deliveries.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

Did anyone ever wonder what kind of company Google actually is? At first I thought that Google was a search engine company, and soon after that I thought it was an advertising company and then again I thought it was a mobile company because of Android. Then after doing research, I realize that Google is currently an advertising company and would likely become a hardware company too in the near future. But, an interesting fact is that Google is having a competition relationship with Apple despite both companies differences. Google focus on earning revenue on advertising and Apple focuses more on hardware. So what makes both companies compete?

It appears that both companies are competing to be the perfect company in both advertising and hardware. Google is competing it’s hardware with Apple and Apple is competing its advertising capabilities with Google. Both companies are competing in improving each of their own weaknesses which is really interesting. It explains that both companies are aiming to monetize customers with hardware and leveraging software to reach customers through advertising in order to achieve the best of both worlds.

http://blog.inner-active.com/2012/06/the-paradox-of-the-apple-google-war-brought-to-a-whole-new-level/

Now everyone has definitely dream of working in Google before, why? That’s because of it’s reputation for being the biggest and most ambitious tech company on the planet. Not only that, it is also famous regarding the culture of the company for being fun and innovative. Employees who works in Google has one of the best employees’ benefits too. Therefore, it is not far-fetched to say that working in Google is a career heaven.

But, when there is light, there’s definitely shadows. According to employees who work in Google, they confess that one of the worst things about working at Google is that they hire the very best people so most of the people there were actually over qualified for their jobs. Secondly, the another worst thing is that most of the engineers are arrogant because they think that they are more superior than everyone. Thirdly, the office space in Google can be too small as most of the space are taken up by open areas food, games and TV etc.

So, every good things definitely has their own drawbacks. It is better to know a company’s internal culture from the employee itself rather than listening it from the general public before making a decision on choosing which company to work for.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229950

As always and has always been Apple being the world’s most innovative company. Apple has maintained its ranking being the top for a total of nine years. While Google has maintain it ranking being the second top from 2006 to 2012, it has dropped its rank to the third place. Samsung which was in the middle of the pack at No. 26 in 2008, has been on a consistently improving, landing at the No. 2 spot in this year’s ranking. Samsung has increased its ranking all the way up here from during the past few years till it was able to beat Google out of its rank.

It is understandable for Apple to remained being the world’s most innovative company as it was their first time doing something like inventing the iPhone first as it completely innovates future smartphones and tablets industry. While Samsung has done a great job in competing with Apple, it is impossible to win Apple unless Samsung has a new product which could innovate the industry faster than Apple as Samsung has only started its smartphone production right after iPhone was released. In this technology economy, it is the company who came out and create creative approaches that will help maintain the company in staying at the top rank of innovation.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228607?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

As everyone has expected, Candy Crush Saga is the most successful game of all time. It has passed a number of 500 million downloads in a matter of year! While famous games such as Angry Birds took 2 years to pass over 500 million downloads and the other famous game called Cut The Rope took 3 years to passed 400 million downloads. Therefore, Candy Crush Saga has break the record of passing 500 million downloads in the shortest amount of time.

Having an app with 500 million downloads is equivalent to 1 in a 14 people on this earth who downloads the app which is actually a lot of people. According to a survey, 78% of U.S. fans say they play the app most while watching TV, while 69% of U.K. fans play it while commuting. One in 23 Facebook users is a fan of the game, and it’s played most often between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., and on Sundays. It is noted that people like games which is short, simple and has infinite number of levels which makes the game hard to completed it. Seems Candy Crush Saga has met all of these criteria which is why it is so successful as it creates and fulfils what people wants.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3021744/fast-feed/in-one-year-candy-crush-has-been-downloaded-half-a-billion-times?partner=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

One of the latest tech news today is that Snapchat has reject an all-cash $3 Billion offer from Facebook. The CEO of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel believes that it will only hinder the company’s growth if it became a part of Facebook. The reason is because Spiegel doesn’t want the start-up culture of snapchat to change when it merge with Facebook. Spiegel is aware that Facebook it is no longer cool among youngsters and Snapchat is cooler as it is newer. Therefore, Spiegel doesn’t want to accept the offer Facebook’s deal as he believes his company will be able to grow without the help of any big company.

I personally think that Spiegel has made a very brave choice to reject Facebook’s $3 Billion offer. Honestly, who could’ve reject an amount as high as $3 Billion? It just proves that Spiegel firmly believes Snapchat will worth more than $3 Billion in the coming future. Besides, according to the blogpost, it has mentioned the fact that Spiegel doesn’t wants his company culture to change after merging with Facebook as it will ruin the company’s preposition. It is my first time seeing someone who is wise enough to think far and make decisions based on the future but not on the present. Spiegel knows that maintaining the company’s culture is very important for the growth of his company.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/13/snapchat-spurned-3-billion-acquisition-offer-from-facebook/?mod=WSJBlog&mod=&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews