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.

Parse is a suite of toolkit and support system that aims at developers’ launching. Parse was acquired by Facebook at $85 million in 2013. Facebook planned to avail of this platform to become a real Cloud provider to rival with Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Parse’s co-founder Kevin Lacker announced that they will close down the Parse service by Jan 28, 2017. He mentioned that they were proud of Parse for helping many users to create the excellent mobile Apps. But they need to focus their concetrate on other aspects.

This news surprised the public. Parse SDK added the feature to support Apple TV and Apple Watch some time ago. However, Facebook did not move Parse to its data center after the acquisition, using the Amazon service instead.

It is not a easy job for data transfer. But Parse will try to make the transder easier. Parse will keep maintain the backstag service and offer some toolkit to help the developers to transfer data in a year. Parse has alread released two toolkits so far.

One is for data transfer that allows Parse applications to move to MongoDB database. Parse API will be able to run on the new database during the transfering process. The Parse applications don’t have to end the operation.

Another is Parse Server. Users can use it to run mostly Parse API on their Node.js server. The developers are able to create their Parse service.

The Q4 2015 earning report of Facebook showed, 80% of its ad revenue is coming from mobile devices. Facebook might change its strategy and layout on mobile devices.

It is reported that former Apple PR officer Natalie Kerris will join Twitter to work as PR supervisor.

As reported, Natalie Kerris meets Twitter officer regular to negotiate with position. If she takes over the PR supervisor position, she will report her job to Vijaya Gadde instead of CMO Leslie Berland. Vijaya Gadde will take over the position of Gabriel Stricker who is working for Google now.

Natalie Kerris resigned in 2015. She joined Apple 14 years ago. She was responsible for the releases of popular products, such as iPhone, iPod, iPad, iTunes and MacBook Air. She even helped Apple to promote Apple Pay and Apple Watch.

Kerris was promoted as one of the candidates to take over Katie Cotton’s post, however, Steve Dowling was appointed as the temporary executive to manage the PR division.

Natalie Kerris has rich working experience before she worked for Apple. She once worked for BMW, Deutsche Telekom, HP, Claris and Netscape. Many people predicted where she will go after she announced the resignation. It seems that she might choose Twitter.

Apple is also recruiting new talents at the same time. It attracted Jamie Carlson, Megan McClain and Vinay Palakkode to join Apple. What is more, Apple confirmed that it recruited Doug Bowman for launching VR products.

CNBC reported on Jan 27 that due to the depression of television industry and weakness of smartphone industry, the annual turnover of LG decreased in 2015. LG is now seeking for new business in new industry, such as car business.

The trading profit for LG in the fourth quarter in 2015 was about $301.88 million, increased by 27% (YOY). Its annnual trading profit came to $1.03 billion, decreased by 35% (YOY). The revenue of 2015 declined 4% as well.

LG claimed that electric appliance and air-conditioning business become its major parts. Their sales revenue increased lightly. However, the revenue of family entertainment business declined a bit due to the affect of global television andexchange rate. LG predicted that its OLED tv and super HD 4K tv will be accepted by more consumers this year.

Its sales volume for mobile business in the fourth quarter was about $3.26 billion. The ring growth was 12%. LG delivered 59.7 million smartphones in 2015, while it delivered 59.1 million in 2014. Its operating deficit in the fourth quarter was 44 billion Korean Won, while it suffered 78 billion Korean Won loss in the third quarter.

LG implied that there will be more smartphones come high end with reasonable prices in 2016 which will lead to hit competition in the smartphone industry. The new smartphone models with competitive price would help the company to improve the sales.

It is reported that there are adjustments inside the Twitter’s management group. Its chief of global media business Katie Jacobs Stanton and supervisor of product team Kevin Weil resigned their posts.

The news revealed that Stanton and Weil have no plan to join other companies immediately yet, but they might look for new cooperative companies. Their posts will be taken over by other senior executives. Twitter spokesman did not confirm this news yet.

In the past few weeks it has been rumoring that Twitter would make adjustments in the management group. It reported that Twitter planned to announce the reorganization tomorrow, including the appointment of CMO.

Twitter never announced the resignation of executives before, such as resignation of Gabriel Stricker and Ali Rowghani.

Stanton used to work for Google and Yahoo before she joined Twitter, while Weil worked for Cooliris. Weil was highly respected since he joined Twitter. They both joined Twitter in 2014.

Stanton faced much pressure from restructuring the media division to rival with Facebook and Snapchat. Weil had fewer rights since Twitter cut jobs last October. He was responsible for Moments.

General speaking, Twitter is facing hard time to its senior executives. It tries hard to attract more consumers and obtain the support of investors.

Twitter’s share price was affected by this news, decreasing under its listing price. The experts and public concern for its prospect.
There might be a big change for its management group. It will appoint new HR manager as well.

The latest reports concerned iPhone sales seem negative. Many of the analysts feel its sales volume would decline in the first quarter as it did in the last quarter (YOY). They assume such situation will last till the end of this year.

iPhone sales have never encountered the deline on the year-on-year basis. Most of the revenue and profit that Apple earns is from iPhone. Therefore, the decline of iPhone sales volume seems to be a bad sign to Apple. Apple share price decreased by 8% this year, while 20% since last December.

Morgan Stanley estimated Apple has potential to make a bright turn for this situation in the second quarter. It reported that the downturn of iPhone sales volume would end in this quarter and increase lightly next quarter.

Morgan Stanley the launch of 4-inch iPhone 5e in April will attract more fans to buy iPhones in this spring. Till September of 2015, iPhone 5e brought extra 15 million units’ sales volume for Apple.

All the iPhone predecessors ahead 2014 were 4-inch screens. To rival with Samsung Galaxy series, Apple released bigger screen iPhones.

Nikkei news reported Apple might cuts 30% of its iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s plus shipments in the first quarter that led to a great reduction of its share price. Apple suffered a great loss due to this news. WallStreet analysts readjust its target share price.

According to the latest statistics report, iOS 9 operating system accounts for 75% of the market share among all of the Apple mobile devices. In other words, there would be three installed with iOS 9 among four Apple mobile devices.

The statistics showed it only took four months for iOS 9( including iOS 9.1 and iOS 9.2) to obtain 75% of the market share. It is no doubt that it made a great performance for a new OS. iOS 8 took about six months to obtain the same market share then.

Such statistics were collected from the devices are being used provided Apple App Store . It is customary that Apple could periodically reveal its app statistics so that its APP or gaming developers could modify their products based on the feedback.

On the contrary, its predecessoriOS 8 received fewer share market as iOS 9 received more market share. So for, the market share of iOS 8 declined to 19%, while its predecessors are worse, accounting for 7% total. You might find that Apple focus on its mobile OS much.

Apple users are not so fond of iOS 7, iOS 6 and iOS 8. Their performance went flat. It offers opportunities for iOS 9 to obtain more market share. What’s more, iOS 9 takes up only 1.3GB. It is about one third of iOS 8’s.

Gartner released the survey concerned worldwide fourth quarter and worldwide annual PC market share on Tuesday. It report indicated that the worldwide PC contaction reached 8% in 2015. The contacted range in the fourth quarter was up to 8.3% .

The worldwide PC shipments were 75.7 million units in the fourth quarter that decreased by 8.3% (YOY).The annual shipments were 288.7 million units in 2015, declined by 8% (YOY).

Gartner estimates worldwide PC contacted range will decline to 1% in 2016. What is more, the worldwide PC shipments will lightly increase in the second half of this year.

In the fourth quarter, Lenovo’s shipments contacted 4.2% which was under the average industrial contraction.Its worldwide PC market share was 20.3%. Its sales performance did well in the north America market.

HP shipments contacted 8.1% , Dell contacted 5.1%, while Asus was 3.2%. Gartner statistics showed Acer group did worse. Its contaction in the fourth quarter was 11.2%.

Apple’s shipments increased lightly in the fourth quarter. The shipments reached 5.68 million units, increased by 2.8%. However, Apple’s market share only accounts for 7.5% in the worldwide pc market.

In the Asia-Pacific market, the worldwide PC shipments were 26 million units, declined by 1.5%. Gartner reported that consumers did not buy new PC just because of the release of Windows 10. The publishers focus on profit rather than shipments. They specialize in promoting gaming products.

China PC shipments contacted 4.7% in accordance with the Gartner report.

The six major enterprises in China obtained 73.1% market share in the 2015. While they just accounted for 70.45 in 2014.

In terms of the market share ranking in 2015, Lenovo came first with 19.8%, HP was second with 18.2%, while Dell obtained 13.6%.