~~Monday Blue~~: January 2012

Thursday 26 January 2012

Monster Apple Q4 number

Apple Q4 results (Actual vs budgeted):

Revenue: $46.33 Billion vs $38.76 billion expected
EPS: $13.87 vs $10.07 expected
iPhone units: 37.04 million vs 30.2 million expected (34 million whisper number)
iPad units: 15.4 million vs 13.2 million expected (13 million whisper number)
Mac units: 5.2 million vs 5 million expected (4.8 million whisper number)
iPod: 15.4 million vs 13.9 million expected, according to Bloomberg
Gross Margin: 44.7% vs 41.8% expected
Apple now has $97 billion in cash, short term, and long term securities
The iPhone's average selling price is up to $660

Thursday 19 January 2012

20 Brilliant Marketing Campaign, memang brilliant and creative

It is normal when those big companies pay multi million for their advertisement campaign, pay big cheque to actors and atheletes for endorsement... but how many of them that really catch the viewers attention... Marketing campaign can be vital to the success of the company.. i hope there will be a coy that pay me for this, i wont mind!!! haha

below is copied from www.businessinsider.com

Can you remember three ads you saw today? Probably not.

Despite millions of dollars spent on advertising campaigns, most ads are not memorable.

Every once in a while, some creative at some ad agency does something truly brilliant, and we have to stop and marvel.

We racked our brains and scoured the internet to find photos of brilliant marketing campaigns that literally stopped people in their tracks.

For more campaigns, check out Inc.com, Joe's AdBlog, and Ad Design Blog, which pointed us to many of these campaigns.

This Smart Car looks really little

BBDO

If you're overwhelmed by work and staring out the office window...

www.smosh.com

This bus will eat you and convince you to watch National Geographic

Cigarettes are about as healthy as inhaling this exhaust; this ad is encouraging people to quit

This Weight Watchers ad would make us sit on the left side

Books to donate anyone?

This definitely looks sharp

Here's a freshly shaved lawn

This comb can untangle anything

This ad made a splash

A sewer never looked so good

Multipurpose Whiteout, courtesy of FedEx

Real models were hired to play soccer on this Adidas billboard

What a billboard would look like if the world really ended

Yoga One sent this around when they were in a sales rut

Phil Jones

A good reminder not to pollute

Rethink Agency

This man looked like he was floating at Manchester airport

This Ford can haul a lot

John Godsey, Team Detroit

This goalie leaps over traffic

The Economist is full of good ideas

Thursday 12 January 2012

The countries where Facebook is not the King of social network

Facebook a very very amazing term in the social network rite now... 800million users, $100b valuation, about $4b sales and possible IPO in 2012.... there are lots of more interesting stories about facebook, i need sometimes to summarise it and put it up here....

Mark Zuckenberg, same age with me, now he is one of the most fucking richest guy in the world... simply amazing what he did... but simply disappointed with what i have now, totally failure....!!!!

Sean Parker, just work for Facebook for short period of time, and now he is worth close to $4b if IPO proceed in 2012....

But there are still some place in this world that FB is yet to conquer, not sure when FB is going to overtake them... but for sure, China is not the region that they can conquer, unless they open it.....

Here you go, this is wat i copied from Business insider...

In Brazil, Orkut is still king ... for now. Facebook is closing the gap.

In Japan, Twitter has many more users, but time spent on Facebook is bigger

Facebook is about to be the biggest social network in Poland, but it's not there yet

It doesn't look like Facebook is going to win Russia over any time soon

It's neck and neck in South Korea

Facebook is losing in Vietnam, too. comScore just started measuring Vietnam, so it doesn't have trend data available. Weirdly enough, Zuckerberg just spent Christmas in Vietnam.

Pursuitist

It's nowhere in China, because China isn't an open society

Daniel Goodman / Business Insider

And here's a look at Facebook's rise through the years

How much will a public facebook be worth?

Around $100 billion seems to be the going estimate, with the initial public float being around $10 billion. But really, this won't be finalized until the size of the stake sold and share price are finalized.

How Much Will Mark Zuckerberg Be Worth?

Assuming a valuation of $100 billion, Mark Zuckerberg would make $24 billion from an IPO.

Other estimates:

Dustin Moskovitz - $6 billion

Eduardo Saverin - $6 billion

Sean Parker - $4 billion

Peter Thiel - $3 billion

One wildcard: Sheryl Sandberg, who joined Facebook in 2008. She is understood to have a small ownership stake but its size is unclear.

How Much Is Facebook Making Now?

As reported earlier this month, Facebook is not blowing away the numbers that leaked early in the year.

Through the first three quarters of 2011, it brought in $2.5 in revenue.

That's impressive but slightly behind the pace of the $4 billion annually that was expected. It will take a big fourth quarter for Facebook to reach their target.

EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization) weren't leaked, but other metrics of profitability were. Cash flow and operating income through three quarters were $1 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively. Again, this is impressive results but indicates that Facebook may miss its $2 billion annual EBITDA target.

And rumor said that IPO could make another 1,000 millionaires.... sigh!!!!

Thursday 5 January 2012

Top 20 EU Politician Pay for 2011....

Recent news about Singapore super high politician pay that almost change my profession from finance to politician, haha.... just kidding.... but well personally i feel that US$2.2m package for Singapore‘s PM considers okie as he really did some contribution to Singapore and well the govt is less corrupted as compared to the rest of the world....

But recently, a new young member in parliament that causes a lot of woohaa in local community. This young parliament member is only 25 years old, and only near to 3 years experience in consultancy department in Ernst and Young SG. I am sure her pay is far below what EY paid me. Who knows once she is elected as member, she receive about S$15,000 pay check a month from government!!!!!!!!! what the fxxk, this should be 4 to 5 fold of what she received from EY.... sigh.... the conclusion is professional hardly earn a big pay check, maybe just a pay check that you will just enough to feed your stomach and family....

Well, the article is copied from business insider.com as usual.... lets check it out....

Now, let's have a look with the Euro top 20 politician pay, according to the report this only show the base pay but not included any additional allowance or perks that they entitled to along the way of their service term.... still far away from Singapore politician pay.... haha....

Italy, deep in the midst of a national bout of soul searching over their enormously wasteful state (for example, read about Mario Monti's New Year's Eve dinner here), has had its national statistics office look into exactly how much money politicians get paid in different countries.

The resulting study revealed the base salaries that each EU country's politicians earned along with a look at the perks and expenses that politicians can also claim as part of their living.

Taking this data (and additional, slightly older, data from the Directorate General of the European Parliament) we've compiled a list of which EU countries pay their serving politicians the best.

Now if this list is logical, as Ezra Klein has noted, it would roughly correlate with the GDP of the countries. Of course, it doesn't! And somehow we're betting you might be able to guess who comes in at number 1...

(Please note: that we haven't included expenses, just base salary. Of course there are some very substantial perks at work for some of these politicians.)

#20 - Poland's MPs earn an average base salary of $33,000 annually