Twitter board of directors will discuss a series of problems that the company encountered on Thursday, including the sales of its business, reported cnBeta. It has been rumoring that Twitter will be sold for some time. Wall Street analysts assumed it was just a matter of time that Twitter would be sold. Twitter share increased by 7% due to the statement of Evan Williams when he was interviewed by Bloomberg.

Robert Peck claimed the current capitalization value of Twitter is about $ 15 billion. If investors buy Twitter for a 20% premium, the acquisition price will be at least $18 billion.

The confirmed source claimed Alphabet, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are the potential offerers of Twitter. To Alphabet, if it added the real- time feed function of Twitter in search service, it would realize the cooperativity of cost and revenue.

To Facebook, it would realize the strategic match if it acquired Twitter. While Apple would expand Twitter’s current hardware business to social networking field. Amazon could strengthen its advertising business and Microsoft has great interest in online and advertising business.

Peck assumed that Twitter would not be sold in a short time. Firstly,Jack Dorsey has just worked as CEO for one year. Secondly, Twitter released several new services . Thirdly, Twitter board of directors is the backup of Jack Dorsey.

Forbes claimed in the article of Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, the acquisition price of Alphabet offer should not be over $1.1 billion even though the positive estimation for future cash flow. The faster Twitter revenue grows, the more it loses.

Forbes considers Alphabet management is a competent  housekeeper for company shareholders. The integration of Alphabet and Twitter will enhance the core profitability of latter. What Alphabet needs to challenge is to solve the imperfect business mode of Twitter.

Facebook is a biggest winner in global mobile internet era. It has three apps that obtained one billion daily active users. It is reported that Instagram, a mobile photo sharing tool belongs to Facebook, obtained more than one billion installed capacity on Android devices.

Mashable reported that the downloads of Instagram at Google Play Store have been exceeded one billion.

It is worth noting that the downloads of Instagram do not mean its actual active users scale.

In mobile internet industry, it considers the monthly active users as its common user index instead of installed capacity.

However, this figure is just for Android devices. Instagram has become another popular app of Facebook plus the installed capacity of iOS devices.

Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are both receiving over one billion monthly active users. Facebook becomes the biggest winner in global mobile internet era. These apps bring in a great amount of revenue for Facebook.

In June, Instagram announced it obtained 500 million monthly active users, and 300 million daily active users. Its monthly active users increased by 10 million month-to-month since last September.

1 billion installed capacity sounds a great figure as there were only 1.4 billion Android users in accordance with the data dated in last September.

Instagram has been in a monopoly position in net-citizen original video field of YouTube in terms of photo sharing and social networking field.

Instgram had been upgraded times this year. It re-designed the logo in May and released a new sort algorithm for photos.

It then added Stories content that learned from Snapchat in August. The posted photos will be disappeared in 24 hours.

Instagram has stable user growth and it is time to create revenue. Some medium reported that it started testing enterprise accounts so that enterprises can make marketing promotion by posting photos of items.

CNBC reported that Samsung stock price hit a record in closed hour on Thursday. Up to now this year, Samsung stock price increased by 30%. Its market capitalization reached about $21 million on Thursday.

There are three reasons why investors feel optimistic towards Samsung business:

1. The revival of smartphone business

Its market share of smartphone started declining since 2014. It faced the competition among Apple and Chinese mobile brands. Galaxy S5 did not make a hit when it was released.

Its smartphone business went better when it released Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge in Feb., 2015. Then it continued to debut Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge and Note 7 to iPhone.

By this Q2, the operating profit of Samsung IT and Mobile Communications departments increased by 56%.

Samsung claimed consumers has greater interest in Note 7 which was debuted in August than Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge.

2. The strength of components business

Though smartphone business is the most profitable in Samsung, the company plans to manufacture smartphone components and TV panels at the same time.

Samsung has been focusing on the investment of semiconductor, including the component offers for Apple and other companies. Besides, Samsung manufactures OLED for TV. The sales volume of semiconductor increased by 6% in Q2 2016.

3. Business reorganization

Its business structures becomes more transparent since business reorganization in 2014. Samsung Life Insurance announced on Thursday that it respectively acquired 8% of Samsung Securities stock share from Samsung Fire and Marin Insurance Co.

Google carried out measures to simplify its video broadcasting products recently. It announced to end Hangouts feature to concentrate on developing YouTube Live.

CNET reported that Hangouts is a webpage group chat & mobile chat app of Gogole. It is a chatting app that Google obtained most external users. Hangouts used to release a function called “On Air” which attracted some big features and stars to make live broadcasting with it.

Hangouts On Air was released in 2012, as a complement of Hangouts. Google aimed to strengthen the unique characters of its community so that it could be popularized to more users.

Online live broadcasting was not popular yet in 2012. Google made great effort on promoting Hangouts On Air. President Obama used to make Questions-And-Answer on google platform.

Google announced Hangouts Live will be out of service on September 12. It claimed some scheduled activities displayed on Hangouts will be transfered to YouTube Live.

YouTube Live is considered as the best live platform after the measurements made by Google. It decided to centralize all kinds of video sources on YouTube Live.

In fact, Hangouts Live used to belong to Google+. With the failure of Google+, Google abandoned this feature and spilt off its valued functions to launch independent mobile software, such as Google Photos and Hangouts Live.

Hangouts Live is the most important current chatting app of Google. However, Gogole relaunched two renew mobile chatting apps at 2016 Google Developers Conference.

Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp both obtained over 1 billion users, the users scale of Google Hangouts is far behind to reach that figure.

Apple announced at Back Hat Network Security Conference which held in Las Vegas on Thursday that it planned to award $200,000 for researchers to find security loopholes. Before then, dozens of tech companies carried out the similar incentive policies to find find out their loopholes.

Apple claimed this award event is initially for about 20 invited researchers who would help Apple to find the security loopholes in five fields. These 20 researchers were selected from the experts group who had found loopholes.

If researchers found security loopholes during the application to prevent unauthorized “Safety Launch” in the firewall when the iOS device is under charge, they will be awarded $200,000.

It admitted that it would take advice from other companies to limit the searching scale for loopholes. The spokesmen of other tech companies claimed they would just invite some of researchers in the first stage to find out the security loopholes if the event started.

Rich Mogull, analyst of security safety, stated that Apple would avoid dealing with a great amount of lower value of loopholes report by limiting the the participation of researchers. If Apple fully open this event, it will require a great investments on it.

Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Tesla, Yahoo all carried out the similar awarded policies. Microsoft has awarded with $1.5 million to its security researchers in recent three years.

While Facebook has an open awarded policy. It has awarded over $4 million to researchers in recent five years. The average award of researcher was $1,780 in last year. This March, it awarded $10,000 to a 10-year old child who found malicious code on Instagram.

Amazon recruited 85,800 employees in past year, increased by 47%.

The whole workforce of Baidu is 46,000 employees. The increase of Amazon workforce is twice of Baidu workforce.

However, this employees increase doesn’t mean the ordinary full-time employees increase of Amazon. The new recruited employees are mainly serving for Amazon Logistics department.

“With the development of Amazon, the Order Fulfillment Online Center and Membership Service requires more workforce to accomplish,” stated Brian Olsvasky, Amazon CFO at Conference Call meeting last week. In addition, Fresh and one-day delivery membership services keep exploring, these departments needs more employees to deliver goods.

By now, Amazon has set up over 50 order Fulfillment Centers and hired over 90,000 full-time employees. This June, Amazon added some cities for its Fresh service. So far, the Fresh service is available in 10 regions such as Boston, Seattle, California and so on. It offers one-day delivery service for its membership in 11 cities around United States as well.

The statistical feature of employees is not covered by all its recruited employees and seasonal temporary workers. Amazon just introduced the Amazon Flex project to United States and United Kingdom which works similar as Uber does to recruit car owners to deliver orders in rush hours.

Olsvasky claimed that increase of workforce is lower than its payment increase. On this Monday, the market capitalization of Amazon beat XOM, ranked in the fourth of worldwide listed companies. In mid July, its market capitalization beat Berkshire Hathaway’s.

Pokémon Go becomes a popular mobile VR game. Tim Cook mentioned Pokémon Go at its Conference Call meeting as he may find its marketing potential in mobile game filed.

Pokémon Go, a AR mobile game, becomes the highest downloads and revenue at App Store. It sound funny that Tim Cook read Pokémon as “Pokey-man”| when he mentioned it at the meeting.

The popularity of Pokémon Go attracted Apple’s attention. Tim Cook described Pokémon Go as a phenomenon and unbelievable. He claimed that Apple would avail of AR technology to develop its business. Cook said:” We have already invested a great sum of money in AR field and will keep going. We think highly of AR technology and assume it could resonate with consumers and has great potential market.”

TechCrunch reported that Apple acquired an AR company named Metaio last year. So far, Apple seems to leave behind Alphabet in AR field. Niantic Labs, developer of Pokémon Go, was split off from Alphabet. Alphabet has been investing on Niantic Labs and it teamed up with Lenovo to launch a high-tech sensor Tango for smartphone. Alphabet has advantages in developing AR technology.

Though Apple has no desire to develop in AR field, it still benefits from Pokémon Go. It would get 30% of dividends from iPhone players of Pokémon Go. Laura Martin predicted it would benefit $3 billion from Pokémon Go in two years.

The earning reports that Apple released on Tuesday showed it got $ 6 billion in revenue from software business and services business. It stimulated Apple stock share increased by 6% after trading hours on Tuesday.

Apple Pay has been introduced to France and Hong Kong recently, reported CNET.

The French website of Apple Pay service showed, Apple Pay is available with MasterCard, VISA card and debit card issued by Carrefour Banque, Banque Populaire, Caisse Epargne and Ticket Resturant.

Those bank cards issued by the mentioned banks account for 25% of French overall circulation. What’s more, Boon and Orange will be in the supported list soon.

Many of French merchats supported Apple Pay. There are Bocage, Cojean, Eram, Sephora and Total compatible with Apple Pay besides App Store. It is said that Boulanger and Galeries Lafayette will cooperate with Apple Pay soon. The French consumers will be able soon to add scorecard into Apple Wallet function. Apple Wallet will calculate the consumption points when consumers shop with Apple Pay.

In Hong Kong, Apple Pay is supported by American Express, VISA card and MasterCard issued by HSBC, Bank of China(Hong Kong), HSB, DBS, and SCB. BEA and Hong Kong Telecom will join the list soon.

There are over 60 merchats instantly for Apple Pay, including 7-11, Wanning, Wellcome, Jasons Food and Living, SaSa and Pizza Hut. The applications that support Apple Pay include Homeaway, Cathay Pacific Mobile, SnapTee, Deliveroo, RedSol, Klook, HBX, Foodpanda and Casetify.

Hong Kong and France is the second and third market that Apple explored this month. In the beginning of this month, Apple Pay was introduced to Switzerland.

Apple Pay is accepted by banks and retail stores in United States. It is available on top four credit cards there. With the development of Samsung Pay and Android Pay, Apple Pay is seeking for more oversea markets.

Apple announced that it would explore three more markets for Apple Pay this summer at WWDC, Hong Kong is the third market. So far, Apple Pay is available in United States, UK, Canada, Australia, China and Singapore.

In addition, Apple Pay will be applied on Mac computer. At WWDC, Apple displayed Mac users could shop online through Safari browser.