Monday, August 5, 2019

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

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Monday, April 27, 2015

Is the iWatch a damp squib?

Apple bans non-existant queues Apple launched its iWatch today and you would be forgiven if you failed to notice. While the iWatch is a bit of a yawn technology wise and costs an arm and a leg, it has been hyped to heaven. Normally with such a product, Apple would encourage its fanboys to form queues outside its stores to create the illusion that the product is popular. Such an approach is a photo-opportunity and a chance to get a free advert in the newspapers or on telly. Queues are a two edged sword for publicity. It is fine if a lot of people show up, but if too few in queue for the product, then people like me will mock. However in this case the watch will not be in many shops and Apple is not encouraging its normal queues. While this makes sense for normal products, Apple does not work that way, which has led some to think that the pre-sales of the iWatch might not have been as large as punters thought. In Japan small queue of Japanese tech-addicts lining up in Tokyo, but there was no sign of the excitement usually attached to the company's product rollouts. Apple is directing people to order online instead, which means that it might want to spin the numbers. It is harder for the real press to spot if numbers are being fudged. Even Reuters, which acts as Apple's unpaid news agency admits that this strategy makes it hard to judge popular demand for the watch. Apple has not released any numbers since it opened for pre-orders on April 10, although many buyers were told their watches would not arrive for a month or more as supply appeared to dry up. Wall Street estimates of Apple Watch sales vary widely from the more sensible "sod all" to the more bizzare FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives who thinks that 20 million watches will be sold. He based this because of "backlogs." But Apple said on Wednesday that some customers will get watches faster than promised, which seems to suggest that here was not as much backlog as it expected. The Cupertino, California Company previously predicted that demand would exceed supply at product launch and it might take a while for fanboys to get them.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Google Buy Airport Feb 2014

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. government has picked a Google subsidiary to run and renovate a federal airfield that is frequently used for the personal flights of the Internet company’s billionaire executives.
The decision announced Monday clears the way for Google’s Planetary Ventures LLC to take over management of the 1,000-acre Moffett Federal Airfield, a former U.S. Navy based 4 miles from Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. The airfield, which was built in the 1930s, has been managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center for the past 23 years.
Financial terms of the new arrangement still must be worked out among Google, NASA and the General Services Administration.
As part of the deal, Google Inc. must renovate the airfield’s three hangars, including one that is a Silicon Valley landmark because of its massive size and location off a major highway. Google also has agreed to upgrade a golf course located next to the airfield.
“We are delighted to move ahead in the selection process and we look forward to working with both GSA and NASA to preserve the heritage of Moffett Federal Airfield,” Google said in a statement Monday.
Government officials hailed Google’s selection as a boon for taxpayers. Besides covering the day-to-day expenses for managing the airfield, Google is also paying for expensive repairs unlikely ever to be financed by the government.
Restoring the airfield’s most prominent structure, the 200-foot-tall Hangar One, will be particularly expensive. Hangar One’s original siding was removed because of contamination from toxic lead and asbestos, raising the risks that the historic edifice might eventually have to be torn down. The cost of covering the now-skeletal hangar is expected to be more than $40 million.
“NASA’s partnership with the private sector will allow the agency to restore this treasure for more efficient use,” said Dan Tangherlini, administrator of the General Services Administration.
The decision to entrust Moffett’s fate to Google comes just two months after NASA’s inspector general issued a report that raised questions about whether the company’s three most powerful executives had been given a sweetheart deal while flying their personal jets and helicopters from the airfield.
The audit found out that seven jets and two helicopters owned by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt had received improper discounts on fuel that saved the three billionaires up to $5.3 million on flights dating back to 2009. The Google executives own the aircraft through a company called H211, which has been paying $1.4 million annually since 2007 to lease hangar space at Moffett.
Google’s executives received the fuel discounts because of a misunderstanding about the relationship between NASA and their aircraft, the audit concluded. The jets were only eligible for the bargain prices when they were carrying NASA equipment to collect climate data, but the executives more frequently received the discounts on personal flights that provided no benefits to the government.
Although H211 and Planetary Ventures are separate entities, a frequent Google critic said the U.S. government is rewarding “unethical and wrongful behavior” by awarding the Moffett management contract to the company. “This is like giving the keys to your car to the guy who has been siphoning gas from your tank,” said John Simpson, privacy project director for Consumer Watchdog.
Google beat out one other competitor for the Moffett contract, which went up for bidding in May. Ames Research Center spokeswoman Jessica Culler declined to identify the other bidder.
The current lease allowing Page, Brin and Schmidt to fly their aircraft from Moffett is scheduled to expire in July. It’s unclear whether the executives will seek to renew the lease because they are working with a private contractor to build another space for their planes at the Mineta San Jose International Airport located about 10 miles from Moffett.
The pilots of commercial airlines sometimes have mistakenly made landing approaches toward the Moffett airfield instead of the San Jose airport, according to a review of government safety data by The Associated Press.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Ten Ways Twitter's IPO Didn't Turn Out To Be Like Facebook's IPO


Twitter worked hard to make sure that its initial public offering didn’t turn into the kind of debacle that Facebook FB -3.18% experienced when it started out as a publicly-traded company. Twitter sold 70 million shares for $26 each in its IPO and so far on Thursday things are looking very different than they did back in May 2012. The company operates in a highly-competitive industry, however, and will still have to work hard to justify the valuation that investors have given it, but here are 10 ways Twitter’s IPO differed from Facebook’s IPO: 1. Banker Buying Not Needed. Twitter’s stock hasn’t needed massive support from its bankers to trade above its IPO price and is headed to close well above it on the first day of trading. In May 2012, Morgan Stanley MS -1.41% had to feverishly buy Facebook stock to keep it above $38. 2. New York, New York. Mark Zuckerberg rung in the Facebook IPO on Nasdaq at a ceremony in Menlo Park, Calif. But Twitter chose to buck the long tradition that has seen hot Silicon Valley tech companies list on Nasdaq and instead chose the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and the company’s founders showed up in lower Manhattan this morning prior to Twitter’s opening on the NYSE. 3. No Stock Market Glitch. Shares of Twitter started trading on Thursday morning without any problems. In Facebook’s case, an issue with Nasdaq’s computer programming delayed trading for some 30 minutes and caused confusion among traders. As a result, Nasdaq ended up paying a $10 million fine to the Securities & Exchange Commission and tens of millions more to brokers who lost money.

Can Twitter Save TV? (And Can TV Save Twitter?) Jeff BercoviciJeff Bercovici Forbes Staff 4. It’s tiny. Facebook increased the size of its IPO in the days leading up to it and raised $16 billion. But while Twitter increased the price of the IPO as demand rose, it did not upsize it. Twitter raised some $1.8 billion and the IPO gave the company a valuation of $14.4 billion, or some $18 billion depending if you count its restricted shares. Facebook’s IPO valued the company at more than $100 billion. 5. Insiders Not Selling. Twitter will keep all the money raised in its IPO and use it for general corporate purposes, capital expenditures, or save it for a rainy day. On the other hand, more than half the money raised in Facebook’s IPO went into the pockets of early shareholders of the company, like venture capitalists and hedge funds. 6. Goldman Sachs. The lead underwriter for the Twitter IPO was Goldman Sachs. For years, the big Silicon Valley IPOs, including Facebook’s IPO, were led by Morgan Stanley. Goldman worked to keep much of the offering out of the hands of retail investors and hedge funds that like to short stocks, opting instead for big long-only funds. 7. No profits. Facebook was earning money, $1 billion in the calendar year prior to the IPO. But Twitter has lost $133.9 million in the first nine months of 2013. Still, Twitter is going public at an earlier stage in its growth curve, which might make it easier for Twitter to meet high investor expectations as long as Twitter doesn’t cause them to lose faith in its story. 8. Fewer users. With some 230 million active users, Twitter has about one-fifth of the user base of Facebook today. When it went public, Facebook had 900 million users. 9. Less lock-up. Facebook had more than 1 billion shares ominously coming off of lock-up restrictions within a year of its IPO. The number of shares Twitter will have coming off of lock-up restrictions in the next year will be much more modest. 10. Twitter’s stock is up big on IPO day. Shares of Twitter opened at $45.10 and were up by about 75% in morning trading from its IPO price. That will give it fans on Wall Street, an important new constituency. But it also means that Twitter left hundreds of millions of dollars on the table.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Apple's big bet on iOS 7 gaming to play out this fall

There's a good reason why a significant portion of Apple's iPhone announcement last week was dedicated to showing off the flagship iOS game series Infinity Blade. That's because with iOS 7 -- rolling out to the public Wednesday -- and the new A7 chip's 64-bit architecture, Apple is signaling to the world that it's dead set on remaining the preeminent mobile-gaming ecosystem. iOS has long been the leader in that space thanks to its robust platform and the ease with which developers of all sizes -- from single-app makers to triple-A studios with sprawling mobile suites -- can monetize games. Game apps have heavily populated the most downloaded and highest grossing charts since the advent of the



App Store and have launched entire studios to stardom, from Rovio with Angry Birds to King with Candy Crush. Maintaining this edge means delivering not only full-blown Bluetooth controller support -- initially announced at this year's WWDC as part of Apple's MFi (made for iOS) accessory certification -- but urging developers to round out new hardware with top-notch apps that take advantage of the A7. Both strategies are well under way, and Apple is in a strong position to keep the mobile-gaming crown as it brings them to fruition this fall. Apple has long had its sights set on making handheld gaming devices less appealing, a battle mobile apps have been winning. Apple's success against traditional gaming has always hinged on whether or not it can convince iPhone owners that devices like the PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Nvidia Shield cannot keep up with the pace of iOS game development and its impending hardware offerings. Or, at the very least, that those devices are not worth the money. After all, why cast out large chunks of change on a Nintendo or Sony-owned gaming ecosystem, Apple logic goes, when one exists on your smartphone that's steadily catching up to the gaming juggernauts? While 64-bit smartphone chips will be flooding the market come next year -- as well as updated and cheaper portable gaming devices -- Apple is gunning to be there first, with developers at its side and a line of impressive controllers to boot. If it succeeds, it will be a battle already won. Optimizing for the A7 has already begun When iOS 7 goes public, game developers will have already optimized apps waiting for download. It makes sense too when you note that iOS adoption is typically quick and widespread. (One month after iOS 6's release last September, more than 60 percent of users had installed the update.) "The updated versions of Dungeon Hunter 4 and Playmobil Pirates have cleared Apple approval and are up on the iTunes store," said Thomas Price, a representative for mobile game developer Gameloft. The studio also has a dozen more apps waiting for Apple approval, all optimized for the jump to 64-bit with the iPhone 5S and the more minute software tweaks present in the updated Game Center app. More are on the way from a number of high-profile developers. At Electronic Arts, developers are taking advantage of the OpenGS ES 3.0 interface, a cross-platform API -- currently supported only by the Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One, updated Nexus 7, and Sony Xperia Z -- widely used for smartphone graphics rendering.