Stock Count 2013: The world is changing too fast for the stars that have fallen.

After 2012 "Doomsday", the 2013 science and Technology circle seems to be a big event: Yesterday's brilliant star quietly fell today, the world's biggest companies in trouble, faced with a brutal choice-forced to transform to survive, or accept the fate of a deep curtain. These have in the past year to occupy the headlines of the news, there are many sad feelings of change, often let the small partners stunned "the world changes too fast" ... As early as the end of 2012, GoodData, founder and CEO of the US business intelligence software developer, Roman Stanek, wrote in the online edition of Forbes magazine, predicting the next year's technological trends. "2013 will be a year of significant growth in cloud computing that will bring disruptive changes to the IT industry," he wrote. Some tech giants will get into trouble ... HP will be in Split, Dell or Nokia will disappear, and many smaller companies that we haven't heard so far have reached unprecedented valuations. "These predictions seem to have been validated, with technology giants and small start-ups experiencing extraordinary rises and falls over the past 2013 years." Let us look back on the 2013, the decline of those yesterday's star, they have not only represented the industry's leading level, but also its own rise and fall to witness the development of the Times. 1. Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia Mobile-a smartphone victory perhaps you have never used a Motorola mobile phone, nor care that it has been bought by Google, and do not care about the Dell computer, not enthusiastic to follow its ups and downs of the more than half a year of privatization process. But I believe that in your drawer, or the family's old box, there must be a tenacious record cell phone, with its classic boot screen and the iconic ringtone to become a common memory of several generations. But in the past 3 years, Nokia's market capitalisation has plummeted, the Finnish headquarters building is easy to enjoy the 14 global handset market title in 2010 by Apple, Samsung took away, and Microsoft to cooperate to try the Jedi counterattack Windows Phone series sales decline ... In the mobile phone increasingly to the intelligent update on the road, once by virtue of Symbian system alone leading the Nokia seems like a do not do eldest brother for many years middle-aged, in the end of the function machine era lost the youth of the domineering and vitality, began to lethargic old age forward. September 3, 2013, Microsoft announced a 7.2 billion dollar acquisition of Nokia Equipment and services (Nokia mobile phone business), and access to patents and brand licensing. Aware of the company's desperate pursuit of Apple and Samsung's hopeless Nokia, it shifted its focus to the map service. Since the beginning of the 1960-year production of mobile phones, Nokia has reached 53 years of age. and has 41 million pixel Lumia 1020, becomes the Nokia handset series The swan song. The world only sighs. The veteran does not die, but dies. 2. HP layoffs--PC market slump in the past 5 years, Hewlett-Packard has been cutting staffing and announced earlier this year that it would lay off 29,000 people to complete its corporate restructuringZoned。 Compared with Apple, IBM, Oracle and other giants of the landscape, HP, the founder of Silicon Valley myth, now performance as a poor performance. Meg Whitman, 2011, took over as HP's CEO with a symbolic "1 dollar salary", actively innovating to transform itself away from the company's declining revenue over the years. But HP, which has carried out more than 70 acquisitions in the past 15 years, is not just a bloated and stalled business, but it has watched Lenovo steal its dominance of the global PC market. For most of the last 7 quarters, HP's revenues have shrunk, and the return on capital is only a poor 7%. Now that HP's five-year recovery plan has been in the past 2 years, the PC market is still not optimistic: the global demand for personal computers has been shrinking as a result of the mobile Internet, and the competition between Dell and Lenovo is intensifying – the price pressure on HP after the privatization of Dell, which is aggressively seizing on HP's traditional advantage markets such as North America and Europe. HP was wrapped in one of the four embattled. Thankfully, Wall Street is still optimistic about HP's recovery, with shares rising more than 93% per cent this year. But it remains to be known whether HP will regain its revenue growth in the 2014 fiscal year after the 3 big strokes of restructuring, layoffs and the sale of small companies. HP is at an awkward tipping point – fading out of the PC market, or continuing to endure. 3. Whether the BlackBerry survives?—— the adaptability of the products the Canadian communications firm Rim, founded in 1999, has made up half of the U.S. market by launching a smartphone business with iconic BlackBerry handsets. In the United States to the President to ordinary people, many people are BlackBerry loyal users. In a short span of a few years, hit's BlackBerry has been reduced, and the company's change of name and CEO has failed to resolve the dilemma. The position of the industry boss is constantly surpassed, the BlackBerry just suddenly awakened to start a slow transition road. The era of a product hit the world has belonged to the past, in the mobile internet era, manufacturers need to make more changes and adaptability to products. But the noble and cool BlackBerry obviously did not follow this road, the early release of the BlackBerry 10 operating system and two mutual-defeating new machine (touch screen of the Z10 and equipped with the physical keyboard Q10) and not a bright breakthrough, its performance only counted just passing. The result of this continued bet was the news carousel that "BlackBerry seeks to sell" and "BlackBerry is clearly no longer on sale" over the next year's web site. The volatile situation inside and outside the company has left more and more people with little hope for it, expecting it to have a "decent" curtain call. In early November, the BlackBerry officially abandoned the sale plan, the future company will continue to operate, and withdraw from the consumer market to the company's business focus on corporate customers. The "For Sale" label has been torn apart, but the company CEO, COO, CMO, CFO and other executives have left the company. The BlackBerry with strong vitality, still can rice? 4. The rout of Yahoo Mail and China Yahoo--to live is the keyTo believe forever. Yahoo mailbox closed again for the world to explain the sad meaning behind this sentence. The birth of less than 6 years of "Lifetime Mailbox" on August 29, 2013 officially died. When the news in the search engine to throw can find, the text of the permanent commitment to word, but became a hit the face of black humor. Yahoo, one of the creators of the Internet Miracle at the end of 20th century, was one of the first Internet companies in the world to engage in e-mail, and his co-founder, Jerry Yang, was the most high-profile internet person in China in that era. Then the next thing we all know, 1998 Yahoo bought Alibaba 40% shares, the price is 1 billion U.S. dollars plus Yahoo China, 1999 Chinese Yahoo in the mainland. At that time, all of China did not have many websites in the background, quickly become the main internet portal of Chinese netizens. The exchange of things for the capital operation can be called a win, Alibaba by virtue of 1 billion U.S. dollars to develop and grow, Yahoo also had to get the equity investment return. But Yahoo's headquarters for China's long-term strategic positioning error, did not seize the opportunity to continue the victory, while in its own layoffs and continuous business adjustment, Yahoo has no time to take into account the Chinese business, China's Yahoo has only served as a subsidiary of Alibaba's business expansion. In October 2005, after Alibaba wholly acquired Yahoo China, Yahoo China business gradually was "hollowed out", leaving only the second word Yahoo brand. Today, China's Yahoo has ceased to provide information and community services on September 1, 2013, the domain name has also been jumped to Alibaba's public interest channel, those loyal users of Yahoo, after years of company with Yahoo lost search, mailbox and portal, became the most loyal to the abandoned. Live to that day before you promise forever. 5. The privatization of Dell's--PC enterprises in the world's top five PC manufacturers, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and Asus, two are undergoing arduous strategic transformation, while the other three are catching up with the top two, while the other four are having a hard time except Lenovo. On the evening of February 5, Dell officially announced that it would be privatized at a price of 22.4 billion dollars, with the company's CEO and founder Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Silver a 13.65-dollar price per share. The vast deal is expected to be completed before the end of fiscal year 2014 Q2. Dell, under competitive pressure and a PC recession, seems to have no choice but to turn the PC giant into an enterprise service company. For Michael Dell and His creation of Dell, privatisation is a farewell to the PC era and a new beginning for transition. With this privatisation, Dell will not have to be exposed to the tight scrutiny of investors and analysts, to get more time and space to develop a thorough grooming or splitting of the company's business, and to better compete with IBM and HP. Is this the second spring for Dell?Following the trend of mobile internet will be the essence of Dell's future. And don't forget, boat HP is eyeing it. 6.MSN shutdown-The iteration of personal communications in the early IM Marketplace, Microsoft's MSN and Tencent's Oicq (which is now QQ) should be said to start at the same time, but MSN with Microsoft's strong support to develop rapidly, at the peak of 2008 years, its global market share has reached 60%. In the mainland market, the early days of MSN is "high-end atmosphere grade" pronoun, and QQ is regarded as cock silk product flow, and now QQ active users have exceeded 700 million, the "brother" micro-letter users have broken through 600 million, MSN almost no one. March 15, Microsoft announced in the world (except the mainland) to close the MSN business, the only remaining Chinese mainland MSN will also be buried. MSN such as the fall of the general blooming, on the one hand, is Microsoft's attempt to make a comeback-the acquisition of skype--anxious, and MSN function has a larger coincidence of Skype not only without the power, but more from the chaos, Microsoft must not have the two to be integrated. But more important reason, is Microsoft in the Mobile Domain innovation Short board, in other IM technology, the application innovation unceasing, the MSN stands still, causes its function to lag even from the time, the conservative criticism also lost the original user. With the recent Microsoft officially took over the hands of Tom Online Skype China Operation Rights, the Chinese mainland MSN business migrated to Skype has become a foregone conclusion, MSN will become history. Another fall of yesterday's star warns us: To be born in sorrow, to die of mercy.