Bumpy
Groupon’s Revenue Mysteriously Collapsed To Close Out November (GRPN)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-2012-1
Ugly chart for Groupon from daily deals aggregator Yipit. According to its data, Groupon’s gross billings, or gross revenue, fell 46% in the last week of November. Yipit says November’s revenue was up 6% overall.
What happened to close the month? Yipit doesn’t say, but if we were to speculate, we’d say there’s a chance Groupon users found plenty of deals elsewhere on Black Friday and just skipped out on Groupon. Another explanation: Maybe people didn’t buy Groupons as presents because it would look cheap.
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Apple Kills The Text Message (AAPL)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apple-kills-the-overpriced-text-message-2012-1
Apple’s iMessage is killing off the overpriced text message, at least for a narrow group of iPhone owners.
Graphic designer Neven Mrgan posted this chart showing how his text messaging use changed after Apple released iOS 5 with iMessage. As you can see, it dropped dramatically.
Most of Mrgan’s friends are iPhone owners, so iMessaging is free between them. If you own an iPhone but most of your friends are on Android, RIM, or feature phones, you’re still going to have to pay for text messages.
Regardless, the writing is on the wall for text messaging. Carriers are going to be losing one of their easiest sources of profits.
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- CHART OF THE DAY: Hopefully You’re Not A Short Term Investor In Tech IPOs
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Hopefully You’re Not A Short Term Investor In Tech IPOs (P, JIVE, DMD, GRPN, ZNGA, LNKD)
From Demand Media to LinkedIn to Pandora to Groupon, and then Zynga and Jive, 2011 was the year private companies finally started breaking into the public markets.
It’s all set up for next year when Facebook finally IPOs. That should be one of the biggest, most interesting events of the year.
But before we jump into 2012′s IPO market, we’re taking a look at how investors treated this year’s IPOs. As you can see, buying into a tech IPO on the open market was a losing move. (Of course, buying into any stock and hoping to win the investing game is a losing move.)
Will these crappy short term stock performances affect the next wave of IPOs? We doubt it. Each company is different. And Facebook is the big one everyone has been excited about.
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- CHART OF THE DAY: After Losing Its Star Writers, Engadget’s Traffic Has Gone Up
- CHART OF THE DAY: Apple’s Bumpy Year
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