The sales volume of iPhone suffers decline worldwide, especially in China. The sales volume of iPhone did not meet the expectation during the new year holiday here.

Rosenblatt Securities analyst Jun Zhang addressed that:” General speaking, January is the month that receives strong sales. However, the smartphone Ring Growth decreased by 20% in January and its growth also dropped a lot on the year-on-year basis.”

In Chinese market, Apple and Samsung suffered a great lost in comparison with other enterprises. According to the estimation of Rosenblatt Securities, iPhone sales volume decreased by 35% in comparison with the sales volume of last December. While the Ring Growth increased by 15% in January, 2015.

The bad news also came to Samsung. Its Ring Growth in this January decreased by about 50%. In January, its high end smartphone Galaxy S6 and Note 5 were only sold 1.1 million units. They were sold 2.3 million units in December, 2015. Chinese brand Huawei is a great competitor to Samsung. Huawei launched its new version Mate 8 and it is getting more share in the high end market.

” General speaking, the consumers would like to purchase new smartphone as new year gift, therefore, the sales volume in January would sound strong.” Said Jun Zhang. He continued that we assumed there are demands of smartphones, however, the consumers are cutting spenses due to the economic reccession. Many of the Chinese enterprises are cutting jobs, the situation is a bit difference from 2008’s and 2009’s.

Chinese market is important to Apple company. In last quarter, Apple realized $74.6 billion revenue, and Chinese revenue accounted for $16.144 billion. Tim Cook suggested in January that the sales of iPhone in Chinese market started slow down, especially in Hong Kong.

The Las Vegas CES held last month just came to a close, the Mobile World congress MWC 2016 will be held on Feb 22 in Barcelona, Spain. The difference from CES exhibition is that smartphone will be a highlight in MWC 2016.

Stuff concluded some smartphones might debut in MWC, including Samsung, LG, HTC, Sony and Microsoft.

Samsung

In the past few years, Samsung made product releases for their flagship smartphones before MWC. Therefore, Galaxy S7 would be an expected smartphone at MWC.

It is rumored that Galaxy S7 will apply the body design as Galaxy S6 did. It will add a micro SD slot. Samsung might introduce Galaxy S7 Edge as well.

Besides smartphone, Samsung might debut its wearble device named SM-R150 at MWC.

LG

LG seldom releases its new smartphones at MWC in accordance with practice. It mgith make change this year as LG is invited to attend the MWC in Barcelona, Spain. The experts assumed LG will debut its LG G5 then.

Sony

Sony released Xperia Z5 series smartphone last year. Accoring to the update cycle, we will access to Xperia Z6 this year. There are not many reports concerned Z6 so far. The confirmed source indicated that Z6 series might come with 4-inch, 4.6-inch, 5.2-inch, 5.8-inch and 6.4-inch editions.

Considering Sony just released Z5 at IFA in last September, there is fewer probability to acess Z6 at MWC. But it might update its Xperia Z series iPad and smartphone.

HTC

HTC suffered a difficult time in smartphone business. It has been focusing on HTC Vive recently. It is unsure that whether HTC will introduce HTC One M 10 at MWC.

Microsoft

Microsoft had released its flagship smartphone Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL. We might not have chance to its their new successors displayed at MWC. It is likely that it might debut the Lumia 750 /850.

Amit Singhal, chief executive announced he would leave Google Search business soon on Wednesday.

He has been working for Google for 15 years. Singhal posted blog on Google Plus that he will spend much time in charitable career after his resignation. His resignation will take effect from Feb. 26.

Singhal addressed that it was time for him to make life adjustment. Everything goes well. Google Search business performs stronger. Google Search business will make a great success under the leadership of some excellent officers.

Singhal joined Google in 2000. He was awarded as the Google Fellow as he had been working with Google Search algorithm and related work.

He was responsible for running a team that adjusted and improved the manners of working for Google Search business.

His post will be taken over by John Giannandrea when the resignation takes effect. Giannandrea is an officer that specializes in search and machine learning . He is famous for leading the launch of Knowlege Graph. Knowledge Graph is some information toolbar to help the users to avoid clicking any possible links that might show up in the right offside of screen when they search the certain content.

His announcement is about 6 months after Larry Page appointed Sundar Pichai as Google’s new CEO.

Facebook share avoided the bad influence from the bear market. Its performance has seen CEO Mark Zuckerberg become the fourth- richest person around the world on Tuesday.

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed that the net asset of Mark Zuckerberg is $50 billion by Tuesday when the market closed. His asset topples Carlos Silm’s and Jeff Bezos’.

Even though Facebook’s share decreased by 0.4% on Tuesday when the market closed, its annual accumulative growth rate is 9.5%. Its realized the bucking rising in the bear market.

Its earnings report is beyond the expectation that analyst made, promoting Facebook becomes the fourth most valuable company around the world, listed behind Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft.

In comparison, Amazon’s share accumulative decreased by 18% which led to Jeff Bezos lost $ 10.6 billion. His asset is down to $49.1 billion. Jeff Bezos’ asset was double in 2015, was the one that performed best in Bloomberg Billionaries Index.

Mark Zuckerberg is the only one realized asset increase among the top five richest persons this year. Among the top 10 billionaries, half of them become rich with technology.

Zuckerberg donated 99% of his Facebook share for charity last year. Bill Gates also engages in charitable career with his wife. Bill Gates was still the world’s No.1 richest according to the report made weeks ago.

eBay announced that its profit growth is from StubHub which is specialized in selling tickets online. StubYHub was acquired by eBay at $310 million in 2007.

StubHub becomes the business section that grows fastest in eBay as its annual growth rate reaches 34 %. Its annual income is $720 million, accounting for 9% of eBay’s total sales performance. The excellent performance of StubHub and the poor performance of eBay’s traditional business sessions made a great difference.

StubHub realized over $ one billion gross turnover in Q4 2015. Its growth rate was 30%(YOY). The   gross turnover of eBay in Q4 2015 was $21.8 billion. Its growth rate was only 5.1% (YoY), which was 4% decline in comparison with Q3 2015.

Throughout 2015, eBay gross turnover declined by 1%, that is $82 billion transactions. Speaking of StubHub performance, its annual performance increased by 5% on the year-on-year basis due to the adjustment of foreign exchange. eBay did not make any foreign exchange adjustment.

It was the first case that eBay announced StubHub’s income. But eBay did not reveal more sensitive details, such as the interest and interest rate of StubHub. It seems StubHub makes important role to eBay’s interest than the interest rate of eBay.

At present, the technical acquiring firms are planning to announce how much profit that its major business brings. Google recently announced the profit of YouTube which was acquired in 2006. Facebook also plans to announced Instagram’s income.