And leads you to your phone . To your phone. Theyre very much linked together. I think theres a tremendous amount of linkage between the phone and watch that i think is going to be critical. We should talk for a second about tablets. So flipboard was essentially launched with the ipad. Whats really interesting is that ipad sales at least are falling. So in the last quarter, they , were down Something Like 12 from a year earlier. There are people now who are saying that in between the larger and larger smartphones, the tablets and the lighter and lighter laptops like the mac book airs. What is the purpose of a tablet computer . What is the purpose of an ipad . How do you see that . Well, tablets are still growing quite fast. They may not be growing as fast as they were a year ago. Part of that probably is due to the fact that you have some larger screens on phones now and phones are starting to become more like tablets. But also part of that is the tablet, from a form factor point of vi
The tech giant accounting for 10 of the move down in the blue chip index and joe you were right. Not yet. As it goes. So goes apple, so goes the market, right . Not just that but made very little headway since it was put into the dow. The dow made little headway and apple made little headway. Theyre joined at the hip at this point. Our fortunes are tied with tim cook. Hopefully he knows what hes doing there. My point to you that you sneered at about exxon, exxon was able making 10 billion every quarter. They were going to make 10 billion every quarter for the rest of he certainty. Then suddenly they were making 5 billion so suddenly that price. Makes sense. Thats what worries me. Apple is a Great Company with great stuff but their comps year after year to grow its huge. Its 56 billion in revenue in a quarter. But at this point they are on track for some of this stuff. It was up from the year before. If theyre continuing to grow it should be above what is it . Still 7 is goith tong to g
Membership growth is down slightly from last year, and sales in lincolns corp. Business core business were up 52 , but trailing last years numbers as well. This is a company that helps to match jobseekers with jobs come a based on data. Cory johnson as well as our immediate are joining me. If facebook blew it out of the water last week and twitter was disappointing this week, where does lincoln fall . It is like goldilocks, right in the middle. Not to not too cold and not too hot. We see slowing growth. You expect from growth for a company that is more than a couple years old. We see a company that is continuing to monetize better. Revenue. Revenue per user is gently picking up every single quarter on a sequential basis. At some point, this might be a story where sequential does not matter, where things are seasonal. To me, a business that is not seasonal like this shows you that they are still growing linkedin has been investing more in its mobile products. In terms of where else they
Slightly from last year, and sales in lincolns core business were up 52 , but trailing last years numbers as well. This is a company that helps to match jobseekers with jobs come a based on data. Cory johnson as well as our immediate are joining me. If facebook blew it out of the water last week and twitter was disappointing this week, where does lincoln fall . It is like goldilocks, right in the middle. Not too cold and not too hot. We see slowing growth. You expect from growth for a company that is more than a couple years old. We see a company that is continuing to monetize better. Revenue per user is gently picking up every single quarter on a sequential basis. At some point, this might be a story where sequential does not matter, where things are seasonal. To me, a business that is not seasonal like this shows you that they are still growing linkedin has been investing more in its mobile products. In terms of where else they can invest, what are the possibilities . Asia is a big m
Perplexed. Its a guy who is handpicking great content from around the world about the middle east to help explain it to normal people without all the hype. Thats a really big deal. That idea that that person is forming a new node in the web with a collection of all this great content. So for publishers its important to think about that. That person could be in this case of flipboard but they might be on facebook or twitter or all the above. Thats how the web works now. The research in august, the average u. S. Smart phones user downloaded zero apps per month. In a world, how do you reach new users when people are not using, or not downloading new apps . And in many cases are using only a handful of apps . The good news is there are literally billions of apps being downloaded. Definitely people downloading apps. So we have, for example, 250,000 new users every single day on flipboard that are coming in and setting up flipboard. So people are definitely still downloading but i also think