Microsoft Opened Its Flagship Store In Manhattan

The company opens up its biggest flagship store in the heart of the New York City. Microsoft Corporation has finally opened up a new flagship store in the New York City on the 677 Fifth Avenue, right in the middle of Manhattan. The software giant is apparently trying to make things better between the manufacturers and the customers, which is why this store is being set up in the first place. The whole idea for Microsoft business to come up with this idea of a new flagship outlet is to end the problems that had begun to emerge from the customers and how they could not connect with the company at any level, as they had no platform to do so. In the store in Manhattan, the customers will have an interesting chance to go around and have a look at all the different tech gadgets that are being offered by the software giant and to see the kind of software that is being used as well. This will not only provide for a new platform to the customers but it will also give them a free chance to file a complaint or ask for help where they believe it is needed. The new store, which has been set up in the heart of the city, is reportedly one of the biggest stores that have ever been established by Microsoft software. This clearly shows that the giant is quite serious about the kind of efforts it puts in to make the customers’ level of satisfaction up to the mark. The tech company has already gone through a lot of tough times but not giving customers the kind of platform that other rivals in the market are providing to the customers, and it has taken away the spotlight from the Windows makers quite a lot of time as well. However, this time the company does not want to dwell upon any uncertainty and the new flagship store has excited not only its fans but also the investors as it is clear that the result from this venture is going to turn out to be all in the positives for the organization. Since the giant has always been looking after software based services and issues, its recent turn towards the tech side has elevated its position in the market and has somewhat brought it closer to the competition that is currently being put up by other rivals in the tech and software industry. In the new store, the customers will also be able to play games on the new Xbox and know its pros and cons before they make the buy. In the same way, the buyers will now be able to opt more for the products offered by the giant. 

Apple Inc Experiences Surprisingly High iPhone Sales

The iPhone makers have broken one of their own records by making sales of around 13 million units of the new iPhone over the weekend.

Recent, Apple news discusses the high-end sales that the Mac producers have made in the past week by selling off a massive 13 million units of the smart phone, meeting the exact predictions of the analysts in the industry. Previously, when the Street analysts set these predictions, others in the market showed disbelief over the figure and commented on how this seemed rather impossible for the software giant to achieve. However, it turns out that the firm proved all the bears wrong and ended up selling a massive number of iPhones on the weekend, breaking all the previous records it had set in the past. Apple business was seen to release its new phone that was made available for sale to the customers over the weekend. The giant has been following the tradition of making huge releases over the weekend only and following its own footsteps, it released its much-awaited smart phone in the market. The sales that were recorded by the end of the weekend came around to be with an increase of 30 percent compared to the weekend launches made in the previous year. Analysts, on the other hand, believe that there is one point where Apple software could be mistaking. The new iPhone 6s model was not launched in China along with the release in the United States, which is something that the analysts have realized to be a drawback of the promotional plan being followed by the tech giant. It is not a hidden fact that the iPhone makers received pre-orders from all over the world in a huge number and from China alone; the orders came around to be almost 3 million, which is yet again a figure that analysts believe the software company might have failed to give attention to. Moreover, analysts are seen discussing the fact that Apple stock business received orders from the Asian country in such a huge number, and if only the firm had launch the smart phone in the country at the same time, the weekend sales would have hit records bigger and this figure of 13 million units would have not meant anything. This is one reason why the analysts are looking at the figure as one that could have been better. The Mac makers have been growing at a very high pace and analysts believe that reports have shown that the Californian Company still has a lot to offer to the tech world.

Apple Inc Expected To Perform Postively In Near Future

The software giant has shown strong signs of putting up a fight to be stay constant on the stock index for a longer period of time than the analysts think.

Apple has been performing quite well in the stock market lately and analysts believe that this routine that the software giant seems to be following since the past couple of years could be growing on the firm in all the positive ways. The iPhone makers did experience a bad time on the stock around a decade ago but the giant has made sure that that does not get repeated again. One thing that the analysts of the industry are seen to be discussing is how the giant has been receiving profit margins which are difficult to ignore. Over the past ten years, the giant has grown on an exponential level, where the gross profit margins have seen to grow from 29 percent to 44 percent, which is a huge jump to be reckoned with. It cannot be denied that the Mac maker has been enjoying the substantially stable profits for itself in the long run which is something that analysts believe other tech and software companies dream of achieving. In the current times, many analysts would talk about how Apple software giant might not be able to work its way up like it always have been and there might come a time when it is unable to maintain a strong position in the market. However, analysts at Motley Fool are of the opinion that the tech company has shown signs that clearly displaying that the firm is capable of carrying out positive business activities for a much longer period of time than the equity firms are thinking about. The selling prices that Apple business has been observing for its products are considered to be higher than similar smart phones in the market but the new iPhone that was released by the giant in the previous year was worth $650, which the analysts believe is not too much to consider given how it’s an Apple product. The main iPhone 6 Plus phone was indeed higher than a normal smart phone price worth a massive amount of $750. The interesting part is that the sales of iPhone did not get affected at all by the high prices offered by the software giant, which analysts believe is something quite positive on the firm’s part. For those who would think that the smart phone sales would decline considering the high prices couldn’t be more wrong, as the iPhone ASP that was recorded and reported in the third quarter of the year came around at $660, which was previously $561. This shows that the firm has a massive potential to keep a constant position in the market for a longer time than estimated. 

Will Microsoft's Xbox Beat Competition From Sony's Playstation?

The tech giant has shown to be struggling in the gaming industry yet again, with Sony Corporation leading the game with its PlayStation 4.

It comes to no one’s surprise that Microsoft Corporation is struggling in the gaming industry again and that it could actually be failing to compete side by side with gaming giant Sony Corporation, in the most recent wars of providing a better gaming device to the gamers in the industry. The rivalry between the two companies regarding the gaming gadgets has been going on from the time they were first put on the market for sale and this could go on forever, with one company trying to beat the other with better gaming options and cheaper prices. Analysts on the other hand believe that things do not look so good for the software giant in the current time and it is possible that Xbox’s rival PS4 could actually be leading the game by a great difference, yet again. This is being said due to the increasing number of sales that Sony’s gaming gadget has enjoyed since the time it was released recently whereas for the software makers, things have turned out quite negatively. Analysts who have been looking at the situation closely have come around to have different opinions about the whole situation. Some analysts believe that since the Microsoft business has not been playing its tricks wisely and has been making some very obvious mistakes in the gaming industry, the lesser number of sales should not come as very surprising. As per the opinion of the analysts, the tech company has shown very little patience for the gamers, with new policies for the Xbox which have come out to be quite rigid for the users in the first place. On the other hand, the fact that the firm’s product has always been the product of a higher price than of the other gaming devices available in the market, which is another factor which has never turned out to be a good decision on the company’s end. Even though all the mistakes made by Microsoft management are being looked into by the firm and are also considered to get changed in accordance with the likes and dislikes of the consumers, analysts believe that things could still not turn out to be so productive for the company after all. On the other hand, PlayStation 4 has clearly taken advantage of the firm’s weaknesses over the period of time, as the sales of the device has gone right up on the scale, leaving no space for the rival firm to establish itself in the industry. Currently, things do not look very positive for the analysts and it is possible that this continues even in the coming months.

Bidness ETC - Is Google Being Crushed By Facebook?

The search engine giant has a staggering ads department which is helping Facebook to step up the game.

The most recent news about the Google Inc is that the firm is being threatened the biggest social media network company Facebook Inc. This was made more evident after the second quarter earnings of 2015 where it was seen that the media company has earned more than 99 percent from the clicks on the adverts on the website whereas the search engine giant has only earned 24 percent of its revenue from the same source.

According to a research that was made by ADI, it became clear the users on the internet found the ads shown on the networking site to be more useful than the ones shown on the search engine site. Google business usually shows most of its ads on its video streaming website YouTube and the research that was made showed that out of all the people that were taken as a sample, only 17 percent showed more inclination towards the tech company’s website.

Even though the Android owners have been reportedly earning more revenue from displaying ads on their website as of the reports from the last year, the ADI researchers have anticipated that the coming times might not be too bright for the firm. The expectations include Facebook beating the software company’s previous records by a mile which shows that the threat is quite evident.

As per the previous records, Google has been earning around five times the revenue being enjoyed by Facebook, but this time around the expectations are bound to get reversed, all in the media company’s favor. The reason that the search engine has been facing such a difficult time with businesses that previously used the tech company’s website to display their ads is that a recent change was brought about by the firm in which it made changes in the search algorithm it previously followed which ended up making panels on some websites which were restricted to a desktop version only. This made the companies associated with the giant to cut down on around a massive 10 percent of the user base it was provided the tech company.

This step taken by the company was named as Mobilegeddon and ended up putting quite an adverse effect on the ad industry of Google. This not only helped Facebook to come forward with its ads improvement plans but also helped it to implement more and more of revenue-boosting ideas to make its income flow in more easily. The firm has also been working on showing ads only that are more relevant to the particular user which has raised the value of the adverts by a mile.

Bidness Etc - Apple Inc Gets Compared to Hitler By Chinese Tech CEO

Chinese company's CEO Yeuting compares Apple Inc to Hitler in a recent video he posted in order to attract people to his company's new smartphone

One of the most recent Apple news that has attracted the public’s attention is that one of the tech companies in China, LeTV.com’s CEO has created a cartoon series to that has labeled Apple Inc as a ‘Hitler’ company in the tech world, the one who does not let other tech companies of the industry come up on the scale in the market. Jia Yueting, who created the cartoon comics and is also serving as the CEO of the tech company in China seemed rather annoyed by the success the latest iPhone makers were not letting them experience.

Through the cartoon series, he created a figure that looked like Adolf Hitler and made him wear an armband with Apple’s logo drawn on it. This helped in conveying to the public that Yueting was utterly crestfallen by the dominance that the Californian company has been practicing on a global level and how that does not let him or other companies like his climb up the ladder of success in the market. He was seen talking about it on the social media where he mentioned how unfair it was for tech companies like his as the tech giant does not leave any space for small companies in the industry.

Yueting was even seen to have posted a video about the point that he was trying to make and he even made a few comments supporting his argument in which talked about how the whole world is going crazy for Apple and its products which has badly affected the other companies trying to make a mark in the same market. He even said that people’s attitude towards the iPod makers needs to change in order to bring a positive change in sales of other tech companies.

Analysts, in general, are posting different opinions about this act of the Chinese company’s CEO saying that this was just to put a bad impact on the Californian Company’s name. However, analysts at Business Insider think differently. According to them, this stunt was carried out just to attract attention towards a new smartphone launched by none other than LeTV, the company that is currently being run by Jia Yueting.

LeTV.com is a website which has videos that entertain the whole of China with its creative videos and ideas. Over the period of time, this website has become as popular in the Asian country as YouTube all over the world. These website owners have stepped into the smartphone industry only recently and as reports say, the phones that the company is making are highly inspired by the designs that Apple owns.

Bidness Etc - Oculus To be Launched In 2015 By Facebook

The social media company is all set to launch its virtual reality product in the upcoming months

The most talked about gadget of the year seems to be the one Facebook is currently working on the Oculus Rift. It has been announced by the social media company that this new product that the firm has been working on for quite some time will be launched by the end of the current financial year 2015. Mark Zuckerberg, who is the CEO of the tech giant, was seen declaring that the company is all set to start the sales of their upcoming project which is all ready to hit the stores.

Oculus Rift is a product that is solely based on virtual reality technology. Zuckerberg was seen talking about the product at the F8 Conference held by Facebook every year for tech and software experts. The main concern of investors, however, is whether this new venture of the company is going to prove fruitful for the social media network company or not.

Mike Schroepfer, who the CTO of Facebook, talked about the most anticipated product of the year at the F8 and tried to satisfy investors and customers alike. He was seen talking about a game that was discussed at the conference and he said that Oculus will help play that particular game in a better way. Analysts who were closely watching the steps of the company are of the opinion that the launch of the new product might be scheduled for an earlier date rather than what everyone believes it to be which means that the Rift might end up getting launched in the middle of the year as well.

Tech analysts were also seen discussing how Facebook is a social media networking platform and for some entity like that to come up with a virtual reality product like that seems rather unlikely. The company has a virtual reality past in which the media firm was seen fiddling with the Farmville project. Thus, for a company like that to come up with an actual VR product is quite amusing in the eyes of the tech analysts.

For Facebook, this new product is not just another experiment but the company seems rather serious about it. The company’s plans to penetrate properly into the market with this venture are all decided and all it now needs to do is figure out how to make money out of this project and keep the investors as happy as ever.

However, according to what Zuckerberg said in the press conference, the media company will be looking towards developing itself in the VR field for the first year and it will think about making money out of it after that.