Microsoft announced Azure Mobie Services will be ended in December on May 11, and Azure App Service will offer similar features from September 1st, reported VentureBeat.

Azure Mobile Services offers the Push Notification feature, authentication and data storage.

From September 1st, Microsoft will automatically transfer the Azure Mobile Service to Azure Application Service. Azure Application Service was released by Microsoft in last year to back up the mobile applications and websites. It means that the application service and mobile services share the same features. Azure Mobile Services was released in 2012.

In the field of mobile background, Azure Mobile Services face much competition from Amazon network service AWS. Amazon’s AWS obtained many users and performed well as it made profitable revenue.

There are also other rivals such as Google Cloud Endpoints, Firebase and Facebook Parse. Facebook also carried out the similar measure for its Parse mobile backstage as Microsoft does.

The senior project manager of Azure mobile services Andrian Hall claimed that Microsoft will notify its Azure Mobile Services users for ending this service in May.

He revealed that all Azure Mobile Services users won’t be able to use this platform to edit from August. Microsoft will transfer this service from free website to Azure application service in September. The Azure mobile services will be completely disabled by then end of this year.

Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins confirmed that the company is developing a network tv service which is similar to cable tv when he was interviewed by New York Times this week.

Hopkins claimed that the network tv service is a part of the new strategy. It emphasizes on personalization.

The subscription fee of this service is undecided yet. The confirmed source indicated that it might charge users about $40 per month.

Hulu announced on Wednesday that this new service has already obtained 12 million users, while Netflix subscribed users are only 45.7 million. It is said that Hulu might seek business in original documentary filed. The first documentary it bought was The Beatles: Eight days a week directed by Ron Howard.

Network tv service becomes more popular in recent years. The broadband speed has been improved a lot. Some tv networking companies are willing to authorize the broadcasting rights by networking tv service.

Its new network tv service will compete the service against cable tv service and other network service such as Sling TV and PlayStation Vue.

Hopkins implied that Hulu, Disney and Fox will come into an agreement in terms of the new network service. The new service just aims to attract more audience who like to watch subscribed tv shows.

Apple released its last quarterly earnings on Tuesday. Its annual revenue has decreased for the first time since 2003 with the result of a decline in quarterly iPhone sales.

It officially revealed $50.6 billion in revenue to its investors on Tuesday, with a 12% decrease.

The statistics showed that Apple made 51.2 million sets for iPhone sales, with a 16% decrease from 61.2 million sold during 2015’s second fiscal quarter.

Apple sold 10.3 million iPad in the same period last year, while it encountered a 19% drop this year. 4.03 million Macs were sold and with $5.11 billion in revenue in last quarter. The subscription steaming service, Apple Music has obtained more than 13 million subcribed members so far.

The drive market for Appler performance growth is Chinese market in recent year. It realized $12.48 billion in revenue last quarter in Chinese market, with a 26% drop.

Even though its revenue declined, it still brought Apple $ 10.5 billion in profits for the quarter. It could still consider as a great success among many tech firms.

Apple aims at making $41 billion and $43 billion in revenues for its current fiscal quarter which is under the average evaluation of analyst at $47.3 billion.

Besides the sales decline, Apple also faces the embarrassed situation: profitability decline. Its current gross profit margin keeps at 39.4%, however, it might decrease to 37.5% 38% for next quarter.

Apple faces much challenge to stimulate more sales and gain more profits.

Facebook is the leader in social networking filed. But there are also rivals aiming to obtain more users share.

Bloomberg reported on Monday that fewer users posted their personal information on Facebook now. The more Facebook users made friends on this platform, the fewer are willing to share their personal life there. In the meanwhile, they prefer to share their personal life on Snapchat or Facebook subsidiary Instagram.

The Information reporter Amir Efrati quoted from Facebook internal data that the share of Facebook users posted personal
details there declined 21 % from 2014 to 2015. Last Week, Mark Zuckerberg stressed the new application to share personal
information on Facebook.

Even though Facebook has over one billion users, only they share unique experience on it and attract more friends can show its
worth. The reason why Facebook launched the live video feature last week was to attract more users to share their experience.

Speaking of Snapchat, this app attracts more users in age 18-24 and age 25-34. According to the statistics reported by ComScore, Snapchat had great users share increase between these two groups from 2013 to 2015.

Even though Snapchat obtains fewer users than Facebook, more young people would like to share their snapshots on it instead of
the latter. They have more common friends and families on Facebook account.

Snapchat allows users to public their video films or photos. Users can also send them to their friends. Users can totally control their photos. It is more convenient to share daily details on Snapchat.

Facebook just launched a Facebook Live feature. It is amazing that users can watch the live video on Facebook now.

Facebook Live is not just broadcasting the videos. It has a picture that users can search videos from all over the world. The new feature allows users to use the filter when playing videos. Facebook Live combines with Facebook Reactions.

Reactions is biggest product that Facebook released in the past few years. However, most of flaring features of Reactions are similar with other websites’. Speaking of it Live video, Facebook also replicated or imitated the live video features from Periscope, Meerkate and other websites.

Mark Zuckerberg explained the differences between Facebook Live and Periscope live video when he was interviewed by Buzzfeed News last week.

His answer was simple, Facebook has audience while Periscope doesn’t. It offers convenience for users to search friends though they just wish to share videos with them.

Facebook and Periscope are close functionally, but the former is mot popular and welcome by the public. Its applications are easy accepted without promotion.

To use this new feature, users can also set live videos as their profile pictures. There will be more moving profile pictures instead of the static ones then.

However, not all video formats will be supported. Fortunately, users can transform the static profile pictures into the dynamic images through some third-party apps including Vine, MSQRD, Boomerang and so on.

If you are interested, please draw attention to learn more Facebook news concerning the new apps and features.

Facebook revealed that Tecent attempts to team up with NASA, CNSA and MDIF to finish the outernet project. It is said that Tencent plans to beam free Wi-Fi to everyone. In the future, anyone could access internet via Tencent WiFi Administrator on any devices.

There are only 2.7 billion people have access to internet in the world, accounting for one third of the global population. Many remote regions are unable to improve the communications infrastructure and build the relay towers.

Internet is proved to be the most important motive power to develop economy. Many of internet companies work hard to help more people access to internet.

As reported, MDIF launched the Outernet project in March, 2014 which completely changed the communications among people. It planned to help every one accesses to free Wi-Fi with the assistance of millions of satellites.

Google is positively working on the offer of free Wi-Fi to the public in recent years. It started the Google Fiber project in U.S. and Project Loon in many regions around the world. It teamed up with SpaceX to build space-net with the help of micro-satellites.

Facebook also works for promoting global Wi-Fi strategy. It built satellites and drones. It felt the solar drone costs fewer and has longer battery life comparing with launching a satellite. It launched Aquila solar drones and will be on trial in U.K. soon.

Tencent is the technical giant in China and it has millions of users. It is unclear that whether this news that Facebook leaked is true or not.

Tencent released the WiFi administrative app this year to help mobile users connect to WiFi faster and safer. Maybe this app has some connection with WiFi satellite.

Oculus Rift was finally coming on Monday.It has been introducing by Oculus for a long time. When it was experienced by the users, the comments seemed flat.

The analysts doubted that Oculus Rift will act like the users expected. Will 2016 could be a prosperous year for VR technology?

Geoffrey Fowler, the Wall Street Journal staff commented:” Oculus Rift is a device that you hope your neighbor to purchase in 2016. You might wish to experience such device, but if you are not a big fan for it then don’t buy it.”

The reasons for the experts doubted about Oculus Rift: one is that it’s heavy, the other is too expensive. Oculus Rift requires to be applied with expensive PC equipment. The PC device that Oculus recommended is from Asus that charges $1,500.

Even though Mark Zuckerberg felt positive for the promising of VR technology, such technology is hard to be popular so far due to its performance.

Devindra Hardawar, the commentator of Engadget also felt Oculus Rift is expensive. He claimed that his experience of Oculus Rift was good but it needs to be applied with more powerful PC device.

USA Today Edward Baig is highly spoken of Oculus Rift. He claimed Rift let people to experience a new world. He admitted that the price of Rift is a bit expensive. It might attract more clients if Oculus readjust its price.

It still needs more time for people to accept such new technology. Facebook’s share price increased by $0.64 on Monday at NASDAQ, closing at $113.69. Its share increased by 7.3% in the past three months.

Wozniak criticized Apple Watch last week as he felt like choosing jewelry to buy Apple Watch. Its prices range from $500 to $1,100. The difference among them are the different straps. To Wozniak, Apple Watch is a bit expensive and lack of creativity.

Apple announced to cut price for Apple Watch at its new products release event. Quoting from Apple’s idea, the purpose of the price cut is to attract more consumers to join Apple Watch family. Tim Cook claimed that Apple Watch is the best seller in smart watch industry.

It is a customary practice for Apple to cut price for its old version products. Regardless of the next generation Apple Watch is not come yet, Apple Watch has been went on the market for about one year. It is wise to carry out the price cut policy for Apple Watch.

It reminds us of iPod. Apple released it in the autumn of 2001 at $400. Its sales kept declining in the following years then. The old iPod was still popular even though Apple introduced the new iPod later.

It is worth noting that Apple Watch price was cut, however, the price for straps remain the same. During the new product release, Apple introduced several new Apple Watch straps. Apple encourage consumers to buy Apple Watch at cheaper price and make profit in its components.

It is a good news for smart watch fans. They could have more options to choose the one they like.