Today in Tech: Facebook's first post-IPO report card; Gokul Rajaram; Mobile futu
Facebook's first post-IPO report cardFacebook announced its first results as a public company, and markets weren’t impressed. Its share prices dropped by 10%. Three big reasons: slowdown in revenues, lower margins, and no visibility on how things will go in the future. In an earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg sounded confident and in control, but facebook gave no earnings outlook, which might have raised investor concerns. Here are the numbers.
There's going to be 5 billion smart phones; there's also going to be 5 billion tablet computers. And this is the part that most of the world hasn't come to grips with, which makes it such an incendiary movement. We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3 to 4 year old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them. So instead of 5 percent of the economy being remade, it's 50 percent. I think this puts this on the scale of being the biggest transition we've yet experienced in the history of technology.
iPad apps for OlympicsOlympics 2012 is starting today. Here are a few apps worth having on your iPad, while you sit glued in front of TV. Olympics Join In: Official app. Lots of information. Functional, esp for those who are in London. Works for others too. Reuters Olympics London 2012: Beautiful photographs, elegant design AFP Olympics 2012: Doesn't look as beautiful as Reuters ap. But easy to access. Sports Illustrated: Live from London 2012: Has the look of a magazine. One feature, Latest News, looked promising, but did not work for me. Still worth downloading for the beautiful photographs and essays. Also of interest
- Why Facebook Might Really Be Doing Its Own Phone, Despite What Zuck Said: AllThingsD
- How to Get Mountain Lion's Best New Features on Windows: Lifehacker
- Amazon profit drops 96% : Fortune
- Turns Out Apple Conducts Market Research After All: WSJ
- 34-button Google calculator now appears in search results: Geek
- Can Creativity be Automated?: Technology Review
- The Malaysian Model For Smart, Self-Sufficient Communities: Earthtechling
First Published: Jul 27, 2012, 10:27
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