Surprisingly, Twitter is not profitable in 2013. The revenue which is $422 million dollars is lower than the cost $548 million. However, investors do not care about this and Twitter prepares to feed new hunger for I.P.O.
Twitter is planning to sell its shares at17$ to 20$, less than what many optimistic analysts had expected. I believe that since companies are more willing to price their offerings slightly lower to ensure that their shares trade well from the start.
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Internet.org— Every one of us. Everywhere. Connected.
Facebook set up an organization called “internet.org”, which aimed to drastically cutting the cost of delivering basic Internet services on mobile phones, particularly in developing countries, where Facebook and other tech companies need to find new users. This initiative also supported by half a dozen of the world’s tech giants, including Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson.
The development of the Internet actually can be consider as slow since it has been introduce to people since 50 years ago. On the website of “internet.org”, it shows a slogan “Today, the internet isn’t accessible for two thirds of the world. Imagine a world where it connects us all.”
However, the”internet.org” and the founder Mark Zuckerberg only introduce some general ideas about the future. It is difficult to predict that how this organization will go.
The “internet.org” http://internet.org
HTC has obviously lost its direction in the market. HTC reported its first loss in the third quarter after 2002 recently while Samsung announced its record-level profits 9.3 billion dollars at the same time.
HTC posted a net loss of 2.97 billion Taiwan dollars, or about $101 million, in the third quarter, after net income of 3.9 billion Taiwan dollars a year earlier. The company’s sales plunged to 47.1 billion Taiwan dollars in the third quarter from 70.2 billion dollars a year earlier.
Facing the pressure from Samsung and Apple on premium models, HTC also suffered from other competitors such as Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei from China on the low end of the phone market.
Cher Wang, HTC’s chairwoman, said in a recent interview that the fourth quarter will be a difficult time for HTC and the “biggest challenge” will come to HTC.
Will HTC have its recovery in smart phone market or follow the ways of Nokia and Motorola, becoming acquired companies of Microsoft and Google? Let’s see.