Opera has just announced statement that KUNLUN and 360 spent $1.2 billion to acquired Opera. KUNLUN and 360 are financed by Golden Brick and Yonglian.

LUNKUN revealed the acquisition details that KUNLUN, 360 and Golden Brick constitute of a buyer group to establish a special fund for the acquisition of Opera.

The partners for special fund are classified as priority and second rate. The second rate partners account for 20% of its total assets. The KUNLUN accounts for 70% of second rate assets, 360 accounts for 20% of the second rate assets, while Golden Brick accounts for 10%. Therefore, KUNLUN spent $168 million, 360 spent $48 million and Golden Brick spent $24 million.

Opera was established in 1995 that locates in Oslo, Norway. It was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, with a $146 million of total capital stock. Opera is one of the most famous browsers in the world.

Opera was welcome by the worldwide for its quick, handy and compatible features. Opera would avail of over one billion worldwide consumers to promote advertises for its publishers.

The revenue of Opera of 2015 was $615 million. The gross profit was $367 million. The adjusted EBITDA was $108 million.

KUNLUN claimed that Opera is the world renowned browser and with a great amount of consumers and networking platforms. Combined with its networking product operation and monetization experience, Opera will contribute to KUNLUN for a healthy worldwide networking ecological system.

Microsoft finally released the Lumia 650 which is a cheap smartphone customized for enterprises. It is equipped with Windows 10 Mobile system and sold at $199.

The analysts in mobile industry assumed Lumia 650 might the final smartphone for Lumia series. Lumia brand is obtained in 2013 when Microsoft acquired Nokia.

Lumia 650 applies a 5-inch screen, a 8 mega-pixel camera. It comes with 8GB storage, plastic shell and removable battery. Microsoft promised that some features of Lumia 650 are integrated w ith Office 365 cloud service.

However, Lumia 650 is not equipped with the two most important Windows 10 Mobile features: Windows hello and PC Continuum.

Microsoft smartphone accounts for 3% in the global smartphone market. It sold only 4.5 million Lumia device in 4Q 2015, while Apple sold 75 million iPhone devices. According to the estimation of analysts, the total sales volume of Lumia mobile only reached 110 million units.

Microsoft Windows mobile business is flat. The developers prefer to launch applications for Applie iOS and Google Android systems.

Uber teamed up with Microsoft for helping it to narrow the gap with its rivals. Hulu just released a new application that could be run on Windows 10 desktop, iPad and smartphone.

At the same, some media reported that Microsoft is working on the release of another smartphone which is led by Panos Panay.

Lately, many large-scale enterprises shut down their own data centers and turn to SMB Publich Cloud service.

BI reporter found that the advantage on Amazon and Microsoft during the investigationfor SMB Publich Cloud Adoption. Google got a great attention for its Cloud service as well, however, its Cloud Computing business is still on trial.

The Cloud Computing company Rightscale did a latest investigation and the data showed the current market structure. Rightscale interviewed over 1,000 technical experts in this field in order to the cloud service they are using or they consider to use.

Amazon cloud service still rank in the first place. 57 % of the interviewees are using Amazon AWS cloud computing service now. Other 25% of interviewees are trying to or planning to use AWS. There are 20 % of interviewees are using Microsoft Azure, among them 44% interviewees are trying to use such service.

The adoption is a bit difference among the enterprises that have over 1,000 employees. In such filed, Microsoft Azure is in the leading position. Microsoft did not obtain great share in medium-sized and small enterprises.

It is worth noting that such data is focused on Public Cloud service suppliers. To Public Cloud service, the solutions are from the platform that offered by Cloud computing suppliers.

As a whole, Rightscale found that more and more users concentrate on the Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud services.

The sales volume of iPhone suffers decline worldwide, especially in China. The sales volume of iPhone did not meet the expectation during the new year holiday here.

Rosenblatt Securities analyst Jun Zhang addressed that:” General speaking, January is the month that receives strong sales. However, the smartphone Ring Growth decreased by 20% in January and its growth also dropped a lot on the year-on-year basis.”

In Chinese market, Apple and Samsung suffered a great lost in comparison with other enterprises. According to the estimation of Rosenblatt Securities, iPhone sales volume decreased by 35% in comparison with the sales volume of last December. While the Ring Growth increased by 15% in January, 2015.

The bad news also came to Samsung. Its Ring Growth in this January decreased by about 50%. In January, its high end smartphone Galaxy S6 and Note 5 were only sold 1.1 million units. They were sold 2.3 million units in December, 2015. Chinese brand Huawei is a great competitor to Samsung. Huawei launched its new version Mate 8 and it is getting more share in the high end market.

” General speaking, the consumers would like to purchase new smartphone as new year gift, therefore, the sales volume in January would sound strong.” Said Jun Zhang. He continued that we assumed there are demands of smartphones, however, the consumers are cutting spenses due to the economic reccession. Many of the Chinese enterprises are cutting jobs, the situation is a bit difference from 2008’s and 2009’s.

Chinese market is important to Apple company. In last quarter, Apple realized $74.6 billion revenue, and Chinese revenue accounted for $16.144 billion. Tim Cook suggested in January that the sales of iPhone in Chinese market started slow down, especially in Hong Kong.

The Las Vegas CES held last month just came to a close, the Mobile World congress MWC 2016 will be held on Feb 22 in Barcelona, Spain. The difference from CES exhibition is that smartphone will be a highlight in MWC 2016.

Stuff concluded some smartphones might debut in MWC, including Samsung, LG, HTC, Sony and Microsoft.

Samsung

In the past few years, Samsung made product releases for their flagship smartphones before MWC. Therefore, Galaxy S7 would be an expected smartphone at MWC.

It is rumored that Galaxy S7 will apply the body design as Galaxy S6 did. It will add a micro SD slot. Samsung might introduce Galaxy S7 Edge as well.

Besides smartphone, Samsung might debut its wearble device named SM-R150 at MWC.

LG

LG seldom releases its new smartphones at MWC in accordance with practice. It mgith make change this year as LG is invited to attend the MWC in Barcelona, Spain. The experts assumed LG will debut its LG G5 then.

Sony

Sony released Xperia Z5 series smartphone last year. Accoring to the update cycle, we will access to Xperia Z6 this year. There are not many reports concerned Z6 so far. The confirmed source indicated that Z6 series might come with 4-inch, 4.6-inch, 5.2-inch, 5.8-inch and 6.4-inch editions.

Considering Sony just released Z5 at IFA in last September, there is fewer probability to acess Z6 at MWC. But it might update its Xperia Z series iPad and smartphone.

HTC

HTC suffered a difficult time in smartphone business. It has been focusing on HTC Vive recently. It is unsure that whether HTC will introduce HTC One M 10 at MWC.

Microsoft

Microsoft had released its flagship smartphone Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL. We might not have chance to its their new successors displayed at MWC. It is likely that it might debut the Lumia 750 /850.

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.