WordPress market share accounts for 25% globally

It was an important day for WordPress, the well-known Content Management Platform last Sunday. According to the statistics provided by W3Techs, there are 25% of the websites are built on the basis of WordPress Platform.

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It was initially for bloggers, but WordPress has new function for enterprises as well.

W3Techs claimed: “ among the content management websites we have known, there are 58.7% of them are using WordPress. This figure accounts for 25% of all the websites in the world.” Even though there are changes of using WordPress each month , WordPress’s market share is overall in a steady-state growth.

” By the end of this year, we will glad to see our market share break through 25%. There are still more potential opportunities for us as about 57% of websites have not applied content management system yet. Therefore, I assume there is room to grow for using WordPress”, said Matt Mullenweg, WordPress’s developer and co-founder of Automattic.

In fact, the market share of WordPress did not make obviously growth in the past few years. Its share even dropped down in last year.

However, it is an outstanding achievement if WordPress obtains over half of the market share, and such leading position might possibly result in all kinds of attacks. In the product life cycle, WordPress also encountered a series of information security issues.

Google folds up e-commerce GOSF in India

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Google folds up its online shopping business GOSF in India. GOSF has been launching for three years. It enjoy great popularity as the cyber Monday, GOSF is the first Indian online shopping day that offers the most favarable discounts.

GOSF has similarity Flipkart’s, Amazon’s and Snapdeal’s shopping festivals. There are also intense competitions among those platforms.

Google feels that there are many successful e-commerce enterprises in India, and the users don’t have to wait for 12 months to shop on the best shopping day of the year. Its small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) don’t have to look for localized consumers online.

When GOSF was initial launched in India, Google estimated that only 8 million Indians shopped online among 130 million Internet users. The total online shopping revenue was about $2 billion. India has over 350 million Internet users in 2015. Its online shopping users will increased to 350 million in 2016, and the sales revenue will be over $10 billion.

“We launched GOSF in 2012 to encourage the Indians to shop online and we wanted to provide them the best deals. We aimed to attract all the leading e-commerce enterprises on this platform to develop online shopping,” said Bawankule, industry director of Indian office.

GOSF is known as a platform to help th large-scale e-commerce companies to make big deals and seek for more clients for hundreds of SMEs

According to the statistics, only 90 retails joined GOSF in 2012 and its retailed increased to 550 till December,2014.

Bawankule said the development and influence of e-commerce went well in India. GOSF motivated the Indians to shop in many aspects. Overall, it is time for us to say goodbye. He added Google will continue to invest projects to promote cooperations SMEs in the industry.

70% of scientific research expenditures of global enterprises wasted

It is reported that the large-scale enterprises often invested a great sum of money to launch new technology. According to the latest survey concerns scientific research, about 70% of the expenditure is not applied in the right matters.

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A survey made by Genpact Research Institute shows that American enterprises invested about $600 billion on digital business, while about$400 billion projects did not meet the expectation. In fact, the enterprises invest much of money in IT industry is to maintain their existing or outdated systems instead of purchasing new technology.

Gartner’s data suggested that the scale of global technical expenditure is about $ 400 billion, estimating 5% decline compared with last year. The enterprises put much money on those projects do not perform well. Gartner suggests the enterprises should make strict budget for investments. Wise investors should regularly note its expenditure and make adjustments for better investment.

Gianni Giacomelli, product innovation vice president of Genpact claimed that about 67% of the invested projects either abandoned or did not perform well in Cloud Computing, PPcloud and social technologies.

The silicon valley giants and big banks invested great sum in technologies and they are considered as the leading enterprises in their fields. The survey of Genpact implied that the technical expenditure did not meet its expectation.

Bernstein Research analyzed the report concerned the technical expenditure accounted for revenue ratios among 68 technical enterprises and drafted a chart related to their share prices. The more they put in technical expenditure, the higher risk will lead to declines of their share prices in five years.

Bernstein Research implied the launch research and development expenditures is not an ideal standard for share performance and innovation.