iphone 73 million sales worldwide in the fourth quarter of last year

Previously, UBS had issued an iphone sales report estimating sales of 69.3 million units in the fourth quarter of last year. According to KGI Securities analyst Ming Pool, the latest data, the iphone last year in the fourth quarter of sales reached 73 million.

According to Guo Mingchi estimates, iphone sales rose 43.1% Year-on-year, up 85.4% in the chain;
6 Sales for 42 million, IPhone 6
Plus sales will reach 16 million, and the rest of the 15 million are all versions of the iphone (including 9 million iphone
5S and 4.2 million iphone 5C etc.).

China's sales accounted for 35%, far more than 24% of the US region.

The first online BMW, Vivo and Coca-Cola ads

Yesterday, the first line of information flow of micro-letter friends, BMW China, vivo smartphone and Coca-Cola ads appear in everyone's circle of friends, but everyone has only one. So instantly all the micro-letter users were labeled with three tags: brush out the BMW ads, brush out the Vivo ads and brush out the Coca-Cola ads.

Micro-letter of the circle of friends ads used in the feed information flow embedded, and the normal circle of friends exactly the same, by text and pictures, click to enter the full H5 interface ads. Users can point to praise or comment, and can also see their friends point Zane comments. This allows you to see one of your friends who sees the same ad as you, and so quickly triggers a circle of friends.

Information flow advertising is based on the user's sex, age, preferences, consumption records, lbs and Yan value to create a user's label system, with the algorithm for each user personalized and accurate customized ads. So the kind of advertising you brush to, in a way, means that big data is a conclusion to your spending power and taste.

Baidu to enter Internet finance through education loan

At a weekend of Baidu's annual meeting, CEO Robin Li said Baidu was already preparing for a new internet banking business, focusing first on education loans. In Baidu's view, in education, health care, finance, transportation, tourism and other industries have a huge opportunity.

Li said he wants to grasp the historical opportunity of the Internet and the traditional industries ' deep integration, and extend the strategy from "Connecting people and Information" to "connecting people and services". He mentioned the group of people who had been waiting for registration in the hospital of PKU, referring to the recent cooperation between Baidu and 301 hospitals.

But compared with the micro-letter, Alipay, Baidu in connection with the service layout are relatively slow. Robin Li's response was "two years ago, someone said that Baidu was a goner". He believes in the power of technology. Baidu's team of more than one-third are technical engineers, "in artificial intelligence, large data, voice, image recognition and other areas of in-depth layout."

BMW and Volkswagen build electric car charging network in US

BMW, the German carmaker, and Volkswagen announced that it would work with ChargePoint to build a network of fast-charging stations for electric cars and hybrid vehicles in the United States. ChargePoint currently has more than 20,000 charge ports in North America.

By the end of 2015, it is planned to install nearly 100 ChargePoint charging station ports on the east coast and West coast of the United States. On the east coast, charging stations will be distributed along the busy area of Interstate 95th, from Boston to Washington, D.C. On the West coast, new charging stations will connect north to Portland and south to several cities in San Diego. The distance between the two charging stations will not exceed 80 km.

Quick charge piles will include two 50-kilowatt DC quick chargers, or several 24-kilowatt DC hybrid quick chargers. A 24-kilowatt charge port will charge 80% of the power for the BMW i3 and VW E-golf within 30 minutes, while a 50-kilowatt charge port is only 20 minutes.

Wal-Mart launches low-priced streaming media stick Vudu Spark

After acquiring streaming media services Vudu, Wal-Mart launched its own dedicated streaming media stick Vudu Spark to watch the online media. The product is equipped with a dedicated remote control and is powered by USB and supports up to 1080p resolution and 7.1 surround sound.

However, the use of Vudu Spark is limited. It can only be used with VUDU applications to watch videos purchased or rented from Vudu.

The Vudu Spark, priced at $24.95, is cheaper than Google's Chromecast, Amazon's fire TV stick and Roku streaming, and Wal-Mart will return 25 dollars to the user's stick account to activate the device.

Sony delays reporting on cyber attacks

Sony announced that it had applied to government regulators to postpone the third-quarter financial report because hacking affected the work of the relevant finance department. Sony said the film "The Assassination of Kim Jong-un" did not affect the performance of the previous quarter.

The company's network hardware was damaged, a lot of data was stolen and Sony was forced to shut down its internal network after a hacker attack on its intranet.

The planned results for February 4 will be postponed until the end of March, but no specific date has been announced.

Twitter Shutdown Traffic Analysis tool

Twitter has run an external Web site traffic Analysis tool, the project has been quietly closed recently. With media analysis, Twitter wants external sites to integrate their content onto Twitter in a "card" fashion.

A "card" is a Twitter-launched development interface for external and mobile software, where third parties can add code to their services and apply for Twitter approval. Once approved, the external service provider can use a small card to display a Web article summary, video or photo page in Twitter tweets.

Twitter still wants to promote the integration of Third-party card-type media and information to help people see richer external content in tweets.