Sony are turning it around slowly, but while the story mentions it, there is no focus or dwelling on what could be the most important factor in the financial picture: the weakening of the Yen.
USD1.00 buys you 25% more JPY today than it did this time last year. So if foreign revenues had stayed constant their net revenue would still have increased by 25% because they report in JPY.
USD1bn profits = JPY80bn in 2012
USD1bn profits = JPY100bn in 2013
“Instagram is the ubiquitous service that everyone thinks of when they talk of mobile photography”. er no it’s not. When people are talking about mobile photography they are talking about taking pictures on the go, what Instagram is famous for is adding filters to make the photos look less like what was actually taken.
Not sure how little New Zealand got dragged into this, the only other coverage we get is the Kim Dotcom case. Unless they’re going to try pin this one on him as well…
Import some Kiwi farmers, they hunt the buggers with knives and dogs. Although I’m sure there are people that will use this situation as argument for the validity of AK-47s as a hunting tool.
I thought Twitter stopped Google from indexing their database, so why should Google promote Twitter when the information they have is incomplete while what they can index from the G+ account has everything that the user has shared online?
She doesn’t have anything better to do than rail against the sllight inconvenience of not having her ipad available at takeoff and landing? There are so many more worthy issues I would prefer my highly paid elected representative busy herself championing rather than this crap.
