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lunes, 26 de mayo de 2014

Apple is positioned between the most highly valued companies in its treatment of the employee

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This is one of those data that you particularly strange due to the news place in recent years. After the bad news in the press related to the treatment used in some of the suppliers Apple, we now see that Apple's efforts are starting to bear fruit.

jueves, 22 de mayo de 2014

Apple is negotiating traffic to your own CDN

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Apple may be riding his own CDN (Content Delivery Network), so stop relying on third parties such as Akamai and quality control with the contents of the company reaching users. Well according Streaming Media these plans going forward, with the addition that Apple is negotiating priority traffic with internet providers.

martes, 13 de mayo de 2014

Facebook removed Poke and camera apps for iOS

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Last Friday we met the withdrawal by his two Facebook apps for iOS. These two applications have gone unnoticed by the App Store. Poke First of all, similar to instant messaging SnapChat has not earned thrill. The other was the Camera app with many effects to our iPhone.

Know? Not much? Well, I think that has been one of the reasons that have disappeared from the App Store. Both were created by the creative team of Facebook, but were not paid much attention, nor were conveniently updated.


Poke was an application that was never important, the number of users that managed to attract was very small and even Zuckerberg acknowledged how little used. Camera was born shortly after the purchase of Instagram by Facebook and we all know who was the queen of photographic applications.

The business model of Facebook

In recent years we have witnessed a series of moves by Facebook which suggest that the company is guided by a team of hysterical chimpanzees, shopping without much sense, phones with Android software layer directed exclusively to use of social network... 

The explanation is simple... Facebook looking for a business model and even if we think we do, is not yet entirely clear. Obviously the potential is there and the network is undeniable, but it is not clear yet how to take real economic return.


More than one billion people are real potential and it shows the number of commercial brands that have a presence in the social network. A perfect channel to live and stay in touch with your customers canal. 

But still have a long way to go, as happened to Google. We have recently seen shopping companies, which then sell for not getting desired results. 

domingo, 4 de mayo de 2014

Apple gets into debt, but their earnings grow

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Apple, the largest technology company in the world, this week launched debt securities by $17,000 million, with maturity periods of up to 30 years. The launch was made in response to a demand 5 / 6 times higher ($120,000 million), which offer the markets of Europe, USA and Asia.

The goal of the company founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, is raise funds by $ 90,000 million, to accelerate the purchase of high-tech firms linked to the "cloud". In the last 18 months, Apple bought 24 new startups. 

Apple has liquid capital by $ 150,000 million, achieved through record profits for the last 5 years, thanks to sales of iPhones and iPads mainly. Apple bonds have similar yield levels of U.S. Treasury securities. It means that your financing is in large part below the rate of inflation. 

Apple is no exception, it is the rule in the U.S. The 1,100 largest companies quoted on Wall Street have $1.23 billion of liquid funds and this record capital increased 15% in the last three years.

In this period (2011-2013), the great American debt capital in the international financial system has tripled, reaching the historical record of $4 billion.

It has never been so high indebtedness of large enterprises of advanced capitalism as at this time in its history, in which your earnings level is high. This paradox coincides with a capital investment of $869,000 million in 2013, and high tech companies have responded by 60% of that total. 

The American experience shows that large companies, as they increase the capital stock, indebtedness multiply and deepen the division of labor among transnational production and financial system. The climax is when large companies have to finance their capital to play as a result of a new technological revolution.

The big changes in the production supply are claiming higher level of indebtedness.

There is no predominance of the financial system on production in advanced capitalism. Just the opposite. These successive technological revolutions in the endogenous character production structure, requiring increasing amounts of funding. More than ever, the twenty-first century capitalism is a "mode of production".

The cost of an investment is measured in future productivity (estimated) of the assets in which it invests, not the expected rate of return immediately. Therefore, the cost of capital (interest rate) is not determined by the current level of earnings, but according to the expectations that the new wave of innovation technological-productive.


In the Q1, Apple sold 43.7 million smartphones ($26,000 million) and China amounted to $9,300 million, up from income earned in Europe, Middle East and Africa, added.

In the next two years, 70% / 80% of current Internet users change their mobile devices for the next generation (5S / 6S), especially those under 30, who are 2/3 of them. 

The new technological revolution is the combination of two factors: mobile Internet, coupled with free access to the "cloud." Through it, the Internet becomes a virtual avenue, global and instantaneous, in which all human activities in each of its phases, all the time are processed. Financial capital is not the highest stage of capitalism.