NOKIA announced on Thursday that it will finish the sales of HERE map business today. According to its initial plan, this deal woule be complished in the first quarter of 2016.

Base on the initial agreements they made, BMW, Audi Daimler will hold the equally share of HERE after the deal is done.

BMW, Audi and Daimler announced to acquire NOKIA HERE digital mapping business at about $ 2.7 billion on August 3rd. They aimed to battle with Baidu and Uber by obtaining the dominant right of this world-classic car navigation maping business.

BMW, Audi and Daimler once teamed up with each other in the components and parts field. However, such scale of cooperated acquisition is unprecedented.

This acquisition means that the German vehicle manufacturers hope to independently develop the self-driving technology. The technology giant Google is also studying in self-driving technology in this field.

As is known, 80% of the American and European vehicle navigation are using HERE map data at present. This acquisition might a lot for those three giants to improve their competitiveness.

NOKIA will focus on the business of cell phone network equipment. NOKIA acquired Navteq at the expense of $8.1 billion in 2008. The Navteq became the most important element of HERE map department then.

It was reported that the general meeting of stockholder that hold in Helsinki today. It predicted that the Nokia stockholders
will approve the plan for acquiring Alcatel﹒Lucent at $16.6 billion.

Nokia announced in April that it would acquire Alcatel ﹒Lucent at the price of $16.6 billion last month. This request of
acquisition was approved by global Antitrust agencies, including American, Chinese and French antitrust branches.

After that, Nokia sent the official offer of acquisition to acquire Alcatel ﹒Lucent by means of stock swap on November 18 in
accordance with the memorandum of understanding they made before. Each Alcatel ﹒Lucent share is equal to 0.55 Nokia new issued
share.

If there are enough Alcatel ﹒ Lucent stockholders accept the offer, the acquisition will come to a deal on the condition that
more Nokia stockholders agree with. Their stockholders will support the acquisition deal if there is no unexpected incidents.

Nokia is aiming to build its firm to be the one-stop supplier for telecommunications company and internet services. If so, it
would rival with the burgeoning Huawei and traditional Ericsson.

When the consolidation of Nokia and Alcatel ﹒ Lucent is completed, the yearly revenue of new firm will reach $26.5 billion. There will be more related news concerns its acquisition reporting via the media presses.

It was rumored that Apple is testing iPhone 7 with different version. The latest rumor indicates that Apple might launch iPhone 6c next February.

The report listed the the sources of news, including the confirmation from Foxconn employees that they have been manufacturing iPhone 6c. It is apparently that the 4-inch iPhone 6c is being produced. It will be equipped wtih Touch ID.

This new handset belongs to C series, so it won’t be equipped with excellent performance. It might not apply 3D Touch feature on iPhone 6c. What is more, there will be several color options for iPhone 6c just like iPhone 5c. The difference is that it will apply the metal material.

The price for iPhone 6c will be cheaper than iPhone 6s. The report indicated that it will be sold from $ 400 to $500. This estimated price is almost equal to the prices of iPhone 6 and iPhone 5c.

Apple will stop manufacturing iPhone 5c when the iPhone 6c is being launched. But it will continue to sell the iPhone 4s for the green. It might use iPhone 6c to replace iPhone 5s concerns the price.

If the rumor comes true, we will access to iPhone 6c next February. More and more people may concern the iPhone 6s with the time flies.

According to Adobe statistics, American online sales volume for 2015 Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday reached $4.47 billion, increased by 18% on year-on-year basis. On Thanksgiving Day, the online sales volume was $1.73 billion and $2.74 billion on Black Friday, reported VentureBeat.

Adobe collected the online sales details from 4,500 online retail stores with the help of Adobe Marketing Cloud, including 80% of transaction data Top 100 Amercian retail stores.

Adobe suggested that 33.2% of 2015 online sales volume were from mobile devices while it was 27% in 2014. There was no doubt that the sales volume of iOS devices were higher than Android devices during the Thanksgiving season.

On Thanksgiving Day, the total sales volume for moblie devices reached $639 million, iOS devices accounting for 71% while Android accounting for 28%.

On Black Friday, the total sales volume for mobile deviced were $905 million, iOS was $670 million (74%), and Android was $230 million( 25%).

To specify, iPhone platform reached $368 million, Android platform reached $180 million, iPad platform was $302 million, while Android iPad was $50 million. iOS takes up more market share than Android’s in United States. iOS users spent much more than Android users.

Adobe also reported some details concerned Black Friday’s promotion. The average discount was 24%,email promotion increased by 25% on year-on-year basis. Door Buster sales accounted for 40% of the total sales volume.

The social media propagation force increased by 25%, the mentions reached 4 million times. Amazon social media offered half of a million mentions, ranking as 1st.

The most popular electronic products on Black Friday were Samsung 4K TV, Apple iPadAir 2, Microsoft Xbox One, Apple iPad Mini and Sony PlayStation 4.

Adobe also found that many items were out of stock on Black Friday, especially the tools of Star War.

Thanksgiving Day is coming. American citizens are on holiday for Thanksgiving. It is apparent that shopping is one of the important thing for their life during this holiday. Delicious food come to their mind most.

Google released the top questions on Thanksgiving that people search most. It is not doubt that turkey is hot for its search. “When was the first Thanksgiving” ranked first on the list of Top questions on Thanksgiving.

” When did Thanksgiving become a holiday” and “Why did the pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving” ranked as second and third on the list.

Speaking of top trending n Thanksgiving recipes, “how to cook turkey”becomes the question that users search most.”How to measure the turkey for each person” followed second then “ how long it takes to cook the turkey” came with third.

You might find the recipes of cranberry Relish, mashed potato, Peach Cobbler, Lasagna and stewed beef on the top trending Thanksgiving recipes. It is surprised that pumpkin pie, pumpkin roll and stuffing did not show in the list.

Roast, Smoke, Fry are the most searched methods to cook a turkey provided by Google. It is a holiday to spend quality time with families. Delicious food are necessary for such holiday.

Apple Pay made deal with the four major Chinese national banks, including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. It is reported that Apple Pay will be available before the Spring Festival comes.

The Wall Street Journal confirmed this new from informed source that Apple Pay will be introduced to Chinese market some day in February, 2016.

The sales volume of iPhone was better than American market in the second quarter. It sounds there is great potential to obtain more market shares for binding Apple Pay to iPhone.

The Wall Street Journal claimed that it is not easy to explore in payment market in China. Visa and Mastercard have been ambitious to march to Chinese market, but they just got the license this May. UnionPay has two strong international competitors. In China, the trading platform is dominated by Unionpay, Alipay and Wechat payment.

Apple has never revealed the income from Apple Pay and its cooperated banks and card issuers keep this confidential. The public guesses Apple would charge 0.15% of each transaction for commission. If Apple Pay has large enough users and transactions, its commission will be considerable.

Tim Cook claimed that they have confidence with Chinese market at the conference of last earnings. The firm will keep investing in China. Besides introducing Apple Pay to China, Apple plans to open a series of Apple Stores in China.

Samsung works hard to promote its mobile payment platform Samsung Pay. According to a promoted news posted on its website, Samsung will grant a $50 gift card of Best buy to those users who register Samsung Pay account.

Samnsung aims to avail of this promotion to attract more Samsung Pay users. This promotion will last by the end of 2015. Its target users are mainly using Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+ and Note 5.

Samsung Pay rivals with Apple Pay. Users can apply Samsung Pay on the mentioned smartphone devices. It avails of NFC function and credit card to make payment for the goods.

Samsung introduced its payment to American market. Apple obtains great market share there as its home field advantage.

Samsung claims that it obtains one million Samsung Pay users in Korea. Samsung teamed up with Best Buy to promote Samsung Pay this time in the hope of attracting more American users to pay attention to Samsung Pay there.

Apple previously reported that Apple Pay obtained over one million registered users for the first three days after its release. Since then, Apple did not reveal more details concern the exact amount of Apple Pay users.

The competition becomes intense for the payment apps. It takes time to see how Samsung Pay works there.

According to the documents that Facebook submitted to SEC on Wednesday, it indicated that Facebook management group and its board of directors sold off shares valued at $472 million since October 18.

Among the shareholders who sold off shares, Jan Joum realized the largest amount for cash-out. Jan Koum and other co-founders established WhatsApp in 2008.

When Facebook achieved the acquisition of WhatsApp at the expense of 419 billion， Jan Koum obtained partial cash and some Facebook’s shares. This was the first time Jan Koum sold off Facebook’s shares since WhatsApp’s acquisition.

Mark Andreessen, board director of Facebook sold off about 1.5 million shares, adding up to $160 million cash. He already sold off 73% of his Facebook shares and 90% of his A shares since October 30. In 2013, Mark Andreessen sold off 1.65 million A shares of Facebook, obtaining $91 million.

Andreessen became the advisor of Mark Zuckerberg in 2006 when Yahoo wished to purchase Facebook with $ 1 billion. He suggested Zuckerberg denied Yahoo’s offer. The suggestion he offered was priceless to Facebook. The market value of Facebook is over $290 billion.

What’s more, CPO Chris Cox and CTO Michael Schroepfer realized $25.8 million cash-out together during this time.

Facebook released earnings early this month, showing its revenue reached $4.5 billion in the third quarter.

Its share increased $2.64 on Wednesday on NASDAQ stock market. The increase rate was 2.51%, closing at $107.77.