Whether Xiaomi can achieve a $100 billion valuation depends on if it can destroy an industry as fast as Google. Earlier this month on May 3, Xiaomi—the world’s fourth-largest mobile phone maker—filed for an initial public offering (IPO) to sell shares in Hong Kong with the goal of raising $10 billion at a potential valuation of $100 billion, …
A subscription model is what’s helped the online streaming giant to stay true to its customers. “It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions,” Steve Jobs said. Apple’s first marketing brochure in 1977 noted, “ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ” And …
Here is a radical approach to keep your new year’s resolution. Preserve willpower in a distracted world. Between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, between the maple-syrup-glazed roast turkey and the lemon drop champagne punch, it is customary—while slouching toward a food coma—to set ourselves a target, a New Year’s resolution, as part of the yearly ritual. …
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It has been a tough year, full of bad news, but none of it exposes tech giants more than the latest FCC ruling right before 2018. It’s hard to think of an industry that has collectively squandered its good will faster than those from the Silicon Valley. It all started innocuously enough with the technology council …
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It’s been a busy week for Netflix NFLX +0.22%. On Tuesday, Netflix found itself cornered by Disney, who announced it will remove its movies from the streaming behemoth by launching its own direct-to-consumer services.
Riding on a recent surge in share price, Amazon sent another shock wave through the tech world on Tuesday by launching a smart Wi-Fi speaker that not only hears what you say, but also shows you what it sees.
Following the stock rally last week, Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, passed Warren Buffett to become the world’s second-richest person, behind only Bill Gates.
For a long time, the Silicon Valley funding model has been hailed as a powerful alternative to the stifling way corporate America works. Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. Today the number of unicorns—startups that valued at $1 billion or greater—is staggering. Fortune counted more than 170 of the …
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