Tag: "revenue"
Apple Q1 2012 Financial Results
Apple has just released their financial results for Q1 2012. How does this sound: Revenue – $46.33 billion USD Profit – $13.1 billion USD Apple now has $97.6 billion USD in cash 15 million iPads sold last quarter, 55 million in total. 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, more than any other smartphone manufacturer. Apple […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus Hits 90 Million Users
Google has just released their Q4 Earnings and CEO Larry Page has told everyone Google+ now has 90 million users around the world. Google Plus is achieving good user growth and getting close to both Twitter and LinkedIn in terms of user numbers, but the real questions is how much engagement is there. Google Q4 Earnings […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Mobile Ads
There is speculation that Facebook may be looking to introduce some form of ads into the mobile version of their site early next year. Currently Google and Apple lead the way in mobile display advertising, with smaller stakes to Millennial Media, Yahoo and Microsoft. With Facebook’s huge reach and high mobile usage (around 350 million […]
Read More | ShareUltimate Guide to building your RSS Subscriber List
As a blogger – building your RSS and Email Subscribers is an important aspect of blog promotion and getting repeat visitors to your site. Having a big list of RSS subscribers can bring constant repeat traffic, and also additional revenue opportunities as a blog owner. On this blog my second largest source referring traffic is […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Introducting New Advertising Product?
Is Twitter introducing a new advertising product onto their site? If you sign-in to Twitter you will see a text based link on the right hand side of the page, below the trending topics section. Have a look: Twitter introduced Sponsored Tweets some time ago, and both Google and Bing are paying Twitter a fee […]
Read More | ShareThe Evolution of Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system in history. Being the largest software company in the world Microsoft has annual revenue of $50 Billion + Over the years Microsoft has held a perfect monopoly and now Founder and Owner, Bill Gates devotes his time and money to the Gates Foundation – a foundation aiming […]
Read More | ShareHow Facebook generates revenue [INFOGRAPH]
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Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg for Harvard students to connect with eachother. After 1 month half of Harvard students had a profile. Now today Facebook has over 500 million users and is planning to generate $1 billion- $1.1 billion profit in 2010. Have a look at the below infograph about how Facebook […]
Read More | Share1 million new PayPal accounts per month
eBay’s online commerce site, PayPal, is now getting 1 million new account signups per month. eBay generated $2.215 billion in revenue during Q2. PayPal on the other hand generated $817 million in revenue. Over the last couple years eBay has been losing ground to Amazon and other online retailers. The online auctioning system was popular […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Revenue Surges thanks to Office 2010 and Windows 7
Windows 7 was released to consumer in October 2009 and 9 months later 175 Million copies have been sold. This takes the title as the fastest selling Operating System in History. According to Microsoft in their last quarter they have $16.04 billion in revenue, a 22% increase. During the 2009-2010 Fiscal year Microsoft’s revenue was […]
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Facebook – 845 Million Users
We have just reported that Facebook has filed their IPO. According to the SEC filing, Facebook has given us some new stats, which I’ll summarise: Facebook now has 845 million users signed up to the site – on track to 1 billion users this year? 483 million daily active users 2.7 billion Likes and Comments […]
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