GeoCities Was All Monopoly Money – This Time It Is Real Money

We spotted the terms of the Yahoo – GeoCities deal in 1999, and the Tumblr deal in 2013. Yes there are many similarities – but the most important difference – that Yahoo bought GeocCities mostly using its own (overvalued) stock – and is now buying Tumblr using cash – yes, that one thing that is generally difficult to come by – makes the two deals very, very different.

The GeoCities deal: “Yahoo, upon completion of the merger, will exchange about 10.6 million shares of Yahoo common stock for approximately 31.4 million shares of GeoCities common stock. Yahoo will also convert about 8.9 million GeoCities stock options into approximately 3 million Yahoo stock options.” (Source)

The Tumblr Deal: “Total consideration is approximately $1.1 billion, substantially all of which is payable in cash.” (Source)

Are we the only ones thinking “Why is Yahoo buying a monetization challenge for $1.1 billion?”

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Wall Street Statistics: Of The 20 Weeks This Year, Just 4 Have Been Negative

2013 so far has been a very positive year for the markets – we spotted this stat today, that of the twenty weeks this year, only four have been negative, and of those four weeks, only one was more than a negative 2 percent (Source)

We don’t know if that is good or bad – but “sell in may and go away” returns about 10 million plus results on Google.

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Nobody Wants PCs Any More: Dell’s Earnings Fall 79 Percent

Most of the fall in Dell’s earnings can be tied back to the falling demand for PCs overall – we spotted this stat today, that there has been a massive 79 percent drop in profit in this last quarter (Source)

There is this go-private deal thing going on, but when it is all over, the firm has some serious catching up to do. Starting with its core business.

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App Store Statistics: Apple Hits 50 Billion App Downloads

Here is a number that you would probably not be able to digest – Apple today announced that the App store has hit 50 billion app downloads so far. And here is a stat that you will find more interesting: Apple hit the 25 Billion Apps downloaded milestone in March 2012. In fourteen months, 25 billion apps have been downloaded. (Source)

Remember, the whole app store thing did not exist before July 10 2008. This has been quite a discovery for the Cupertino giant.

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Galaxy S4 Statistics: Fastest Selling Samsung Smartphone Ever

5 Million units sold in two weeks. Stunning numbers those, making the new Galaxy S4, the fastest selling Samsung Smartphone, ever. (Source)

How do we digest this stat? See if this helps: the iPhone 5 sold some 8 million units just during the launch weekend (Source)

Here at Statspotting, we have been making the case for picking iOS to build apps – that case is getting weaker by the day.

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LinkedIn Statistics: India Is Its Second Largest Market After The US

20 million users in India – that must be basically ALL of India’s ‘Linkable’ population. LinkedIn is going great guns in India (Source)

We had spotted this stat recently that every fifth person in Singapore has a linkedin account – place this in the same bucket. How do you digest this stat? Remember this one – Bangalore is the City with the highest number of Google Plus users – if you just go by numbers, India is a market that would soon be ‘second largest after the US’ in most things that just needs you to be connected.

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50 Million Users: CamCard, A Card-Scanning App Dominates In Asia

There are a few business use cases or scenarios that never seem to go away. These pain points are so painful, no painkillers can possibly kill them once and for all. CardMunch was a huge success (bought by LinkedIn) – we spotted this stat today, that CamCard, a card-scanning app popular in Asia, has some 50 Million users now. (Source)

Let us put that number in perspective – Instagram has some 100 Million users now. No, we are not implying anything – just a stat to get the magnitude right. China’s CamCard has some 10 million monthly active users (50 million is the total number). And here is what will surprise you: about half of them are outside of China.

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The ‘Square Of China’ QFPay Is Processing $400M Per Year

Two years back, Square was a favorite hunting ground for us here at Statspotting. We had spotted quite a few stats on Square – but transaction numbers were the big ones. We had spotted some stats on India’s square as well. We spotted this stat today, on the ‘Square of China’ – QFPay is processing close to 400 Million USDs a year (Source)

Well, the basic idea that you could have an add-on device to your smartphone to accept card payments has gone mainstream. More or less.

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Greek Youth Unemployment Rose Above 60 Percent In February

You spot a stat like that, and you go “OMG..” – the majority of the youth in Greece are unemployed – some 60 percent in February. It is the highest youth unemployment in the Euro Zone ever (Source)

A reduction in minimum wages has not helped as well – for Greece, from an economic standpoint, things seem to be moving from bad to worse to ..
Where is the international bailout?

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Second Highest Domestic Opening Ever: ‘Iron Man 3′ Pulls In $175 Mn

Yes, we had spotted that 200 Mn stat on ‘The Avengers’. Now we have a second spot in the opening weekend game – we spotted this stat today, that Iron Man 3 grossed some 175 Million dollars in its first weekend (Source)

How do we digest this stat? We possibly can’t. Let’s just enjoy the movie instead.

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