Twitter released the Q4 2015 earnings three weeks ago, its stock received a dramatically increase. The overall increase rate was over 40% in three weeks.

Twitter stock increased to over $20 per share by midday. It was the first time that its stock reached over $ 20 since January. Its share dropped down to $14.31 on Feb 11, and its bounce of share price was 40% on March 5.

The bounce doesn’t mean the business performance is positive in recent weeks. In fact, its user growth is standstill at the right moment. In addition to the adjustment of senior management group, Twitter still face much pressure to enhance business performance.

Brian Wieser, an analyst of Pivotal Research suggested that the bounce of Twitter stock is the reflect of market overreaction. Wieser told Business Insider reporter that it was ridiculous that Twitter’s stock is so cheap.

Wieser claimed that Twitter has excellent commercial legend, but it is the key problem for its user growth. It is under the expectation of investors. Some investors has been concerning the development of Twitter and feel its share price is still cheap.

The whole market seems to bounce a lot since Feb 11. For example, The NASDAQ index increased by 11% while DJIA increased by 9%.

Twitter share increased by $0.05 in the conventional stock market transaction on Friday, closing at $19.36. The increase rate was ).26. In the past 52 weeks, its bottom price was $13.91, and the ceiling price was $53.49.

Apple offers several series of iPad for consumers on the market. The industry experts assumed that Apple would stop producing iPad Air series and add a smaller iPad Pro.

As reported, Apple is supposed to release a bran-new iPad Air 3 at its spring new releases conference. According to the confirmed source made a few days ago, it will introduce a smaller iPad Pro instead of iPad Air 3. The iPad Pro is with 9.7- inch screen, external keyboard and stylus.

If the news comes true, it means the end of launching iPad Air product line. It will only have Pro and Mini product lines then.

The global iPad business sounds weaker now. Apple’s iPad business even suffered 20% decrease in each quarter. With the modification of smartphones and laptops, iPad is just a transitional product in a short time.

Due to this its hardware manufacturers adjusted its strategies, equipped with external keyboard and stylus for sales.

The success of Surface Pro inspired Samsung, Apple andHuawei a lot. They even launched the similar product suites. Apple iPad revenue decreased by 21% in Q4 2015, while Microsoft Surface revenue increased by 29%.

iPad Pro is made to compete with Miscrosoft products. It aims to the enterprises. Its traditional iPad is mainly for ordinary consumers. Apple wishes to gain more market share by enhancing its performance and introducing better features.

If Apple stop producing iPad Air series, iPad Mini could be the only mass-market iPad. It could adjust and simplify iPad series and focus on the transition of enterprise iPad and commercial iPad.

If Apple continues to launch iPad Air series, it will sell six iPad products at the same time. It is not sensible as it will cost Apple a lot.

Speaking of the smartphones that have excellent sales, many people may get iPhone in their mind. Even though the analysts predicted that sales of iPhones would decrease due to the economic recession in smartphone industry, the sales for iPhone are still beyond the expectation of manufacturers.

According to Cult of Mac report, the sales of iPhone reached a newly milestone four years ago. Its daily sales were 378,000 units of iPhone. Until 2015, the sales of iPhone increased by times and its annual sales volume reached 230 million units. For example, there are 365 days a year, we could figure out therewere 633,000 iPhones sold each day.

The first quarter of 2016, Apple sold 74.8 million iPhones, with an average of 829,000 iPhones each day.

Asymco analyst claimed that the sales volume of iPhone in 2015 were more than all Windows computers sold in 2015, let alone there were still other product lines for Apple. As we known, Apple also launches Mac series and iPad series computers.

Apple will debut the 4-inch iPhone 5se this month at its spring release. The analyst from The Royal Bank of Canada predicted that iPhone 5se will have excellent sales performance. He estimated that it is supposed to reach 10 million units of sales and $5.5 billion revenue.

The success of iPhone is not by chance. It makes clear concept and innovation for its products. Tim Cook contributes a lot for the business integration and marketing strategies under his leadership. What is the most important that its the guarantee of product quality.

Quoting from the oversea media, WhatsApp announced to stop supporting several old operating systems such as Blackberry by the end of 2016.

Android OS and iOS OS are the most advanced and favorable mobile operating systems. Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile operating systems keep working on obtaining more share in the OS market.

WhatsApp announced to stop supporting Blackberry, Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60. In addition to the above mentioned systems, it is no longer to support Android 2.1 &2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1.

WhatsApp just celebrated its 7th anniversary last week. Its monthly active users just reached 1 billion recently.

According to the announcement of WhatsApp, WhatsApp was established in 2009 and the mobile devices used in that time were total different from the current ones. About 70% of smartphones on the market were equipped with Blackberry OS and Nokia OS when App Store was introduced to the market for a few months.

Ev en though Google Android, Apple iOS and Microsoft Phone and Windows 10 Mobile account for the most market share now, their total market share of 2009 was under 25% then. They took 7 years to obtain 99.5 % of the market share together. WhatsApp claimed that they will focus on using the most popular mobile OS for the next 7 years.

In some developing countries, there are still many users using old Nokia system. WhatsApp will disappoint such group of users for this decision. To WhatsApp, it sounds reasonable to focus on using the most favorable mobile platform. WhatsApp has made great improvements for providing better services to its users. It offers the voice calls feature so far. It will introduce the video call feature soon.

WhatsApp is no longer limit to use its own operating system. If the users wish to continual use WhatsApp with their old system devices, the company suggest them upgrade to mobile devices, such as iPhone, latest Android devices and Windows Phone.

Thrive Market becomes a hot and popular startup. Its co-founders Gunnar Lovelace and Nick Green were declined by 20 VC firms when they started financing.

Their promotion point is that they are going to introduce an online platform that sells Organic and natural food. It will provide 25%-50% discount by availing of the $60 subscription fee from its each registered number.

Green said the VC investors all hold the wait-and-see attitude and no one wish to invest on our startup company. The situation is reverse now.

After running 15 months, Thrive Market’s running rate revenue reached $ 100 million, it financed $58 million. Its investors include VC firm Greycroft Partners, singer John Legend and actress Demi Moore.

The company stated that the Thrive Market website has over 180,000 subscribers. It increased by 600,000 registered users in Jan. 2016. Its website offers 30 days free trial.

It launched the first mobile application for iPhone on Thursday.

The two co-founders were declined by lots of investors. They reconsidered their promoted plan. In their opinions, Thrive Market is selling a lifestyle now.

They persuaded 200 respected figures in health industry to invest and support Thrive Market website. They are including Dr. Deepak Chopra, motivational master Tony Robbins and gymnasium coach Jillian Michaels.

They all have great reputation among the bloggers or YouTube stars. Thrive Market obtained the first financing $10 million with the help of those respected figures.

60% of Thrive Market traffic are from mobile devices since the release. Until now, it launched the app for iPhone devices. The new app is easy to handle and it has clear classifications.

As Financial Times reported, Uber introduces the UberMOTO service to Bangkok recently.

UberMOTO is still on trial. This is the first passenger service that Uber offers with motorcycles. Such service will be merged into the current Uber app as a new service.

It is reported that the flag-down price of UberMOTO is about $0.3, charged $0.1 by kilometer or $0.025 by minute then.

Uber Asian expansion officer Douglas Ma claimed:” Motorcycle is an important element in Thai culture. Uber aims to offer a safe, cheap and reliable transportation service to the public. It sounds convenient to use UberMOTO. Consumers can book a motocycle no mater where they are by using the app.”

The Financial Times suggested that the introduction of UberMOTO service was in relations with the postponement of BTS SkyTrain service as many office workers have to look for other means of transportation to work.

Uber was established in 2009 in San Francisco. Until now, it has accumulative financed $10 billion. It is working hard on exploring the international market. Asia is the key target market for Uber. It plans to start business from higher population density cities and districts.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick claimed a week ago, Uber lost $ 1 billion in Chinese market last year. It faces much pressure from the local competitors Chinese DIDI and GrabTaxi that is specialized in Asian market. GrabTaxi once introduced its motorcycle service to Bangkok in the early of 2015.

Dell made a great move concerning the acquisition of EMC. The acquisition deal is getting close to its deadline. This deal was approved by FTC specified elimination period which means the acquistion is approved.

A few days ago, the confirmed source reported that EU also plans to approve Dell to acquire EMC at 467 billion.

Dell announced it would acquire EMC at $67 billion last October. The acquisition deal involves in a great amount of debts and complicated financial business, including the equity conversion of VMware held by EMC. EMC holds about 81% of VMware shares.

The statement surprised the industry when it was announced. It would be the biggest technical merger in the history once it is approved.

It faces many problems and challenges to complete this acquisition. Dell must be responsible for a great amout of debts and will need to loan about $50 billion. Dell made statement in the documents that it submitted to US securites and exchange commission. It will undertake about $11 billion debts due to its $24.4 buyout bid.

Dell has been planning to split off some assets. For example, it wishes to split off SecureWorks. Some news revealed that Dell would sell SonicWall and Quest sections with$ 2 billion respectively, and Perot Systems business at $5 billion.

EMC has been cutting jobs from the beginning of this year. VMware currently cuts jobs as well. VMware shareholders don’t seem excited for this acquisition. Actually, its share price decreased by 30% since the announcement of this acquisition.

Apple Pay just came to Chinese market last week and its news take up much top news. On the other hand, Samsung is busy in preparation for introducing Samsung Pay to China.

Samsung confirmed that it will introduce Samsung Pay to China on Feb. 24, 2016 for trial. Many of its users have received the software upgrade from Samsung.

Samsung took measures on Samsung Pay when the first day Apple Pay took on Chinese market. Consumers of Samsung Note 5, Galaxy S6 edge+ received the latest system upgrade. These two modes of Samsung devices will support Samsung Pay. The release date of Samsung Pay in China is set on Feb. 24, 2016.

Samsung Pay is the mobile payment device based on NFC and MST technoliges that Samsung launched in September, 2015.Samsung Pay lets consumers swipe credit card as Apple Pay does and stimulate the tradiational magnetic strip card. The merchants don’t neet to upgrade the devices to use Samsug Pay.

It applies the similar marketing strategies as Apple Pay did. Samsung also teamed up with China Union Pay to support credit cards of a series of banks. It will offer special discounts or promotions during the trial period to attract more clients.

The challenge of Samsung Pay is on Security performance. Due to Android system can be highly customized, so Samsung Pay is only avaible on the original system of mobile devices. If the Samsung mobiles are rooted or jailbroken, they won’t be compatible with Samsung Pay due to security issue.

The latest news indicated that Facebook plans to introduce subscribed Advertising service on Facebook Messenger in a few months.

As reported, Facebook has submitted the related documents to enterprises. Among the documents, it indicated that its cooperated enterprises could send messages to its users directly from season 2. However, the enterprises could only send messages to those who start the conversation first.

The plan concerning introduces advertising service is in accordance with Facebook’s development. It aims to develop Messenger into the most important communication channel between consumers and enterprises either for shopping or for support.

Facebook declined to make comment on this news. The spokesman claimed that the goal of Messenger is to create high quality, high participated experience to 800 million users. It includes the support to prevent users from being bothered by the unwelcome messages.

In the meanwhile, Facebook is making measures to attract more enterprises to use Messenger as their consumer system platform. It even offers enterprises the special short link services. Users could send messages to enterprises once they click on the short links.

It is not clear how Messenger ads come to the public. The analysts assumed that the enterprises could use such advertising service to promote products or release new products. They could also explore the potential buyers. Facebook is supposed to release more details concerning Messenger advertising service at F8 conference in April.

As reported, the shipments for Apple iPad may continue to decrease in Q1. Digitimes Research estimated on Wednesday that its shipments in Q1 would be under 10 million units.

Digitimes Research predicted Apple iPad shipments would be 9.8 million units in Q1 2016. The Ring Growth would decrease 39.1%., with a decrease of 20% on year-on-year basis. It would be the first quarter that iPad shipments are down to 10 million units since its release.

Digitimes Research assumed the total shipments of worldwide iPad are 46.65 million units in Q12016. The Ring Growth would decrease 28.6%, with a decrease of 8.6% on year-on-year basis. The other brand manufacturers also suffer the similar shipments decline.

According to the estimation, Apple iPad would account for 20% of the total iPad shipments, Samsung account for 14 and Lenovo come with 7.2% in Q1 2016.

Classified by product sizes, the 7 –inch iPad would account for 35.4% of the total shipments in te current quarter, 7.9-inch iPad account for 13.8%, 8-inch iPad account for 6.1% , 9-inch one share 23.8%, 10-inch one has 10.1% and 11-inch one come with 10.8%.

KGI Securities analysts predicted that Apple iPad annual shipments would come between 40 million units and 42 million units. It would face a decrease of 16% (yoy) Its iPad business will maintain stable due to the stimulation of iPad Pro.

Apple sold 16.1 million iPads during the shopping season of 2015, suffered a decrease of 25% (yoy). Luca Maestri claimed that Apple iPads account for 85% of market share on US iPad market.