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Facebook Now Controls Nearly One-Fifth Of U.S. Mobile Display Ad Revenue
Source: https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/welcome
Facebook has vaulted past its competitors to control 18.4 percent of U.S. mobile display ad revenues.
This Chart Is Why A Lot Of People Think HP Is Totally Screwed (HPQ)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/hps-rd-spending-2012-11
This week, we ran a chart showing HP’s crashing stock price since Mark Hurd was forced out of the company.
After we published the chart, a friend emailed to say, “Hurd destroyed the company. Gutted R&D, which was the cardinal sin. It was always an engineer’s company. He financialized it. And in so doing, set in motion the wheels of doom.”
From 2010, here’s a look at how R&D as a percentage of revenue fell under Hurd’s watch.
But, is the R&D budget really why HP is hosed? Probably not. Look at this chart, also from 2010:
Anything jump out in that chart?
Apple spent less on R&D than HP, Google, and Microsoft in 2009. No one is going to accuse Apple of not producing great innovative products, despite a small R&D budget.
When Hurd was pushed out, an ex-HP engineer told Joe Nocera slashes in the R&D department was, “why H.P. had no response to the iPad! . ” Apple managed to make the iPad while spending less on R&D, so we’re not sure that totally adds up.
It’s not how much you spend on R&D, it’s what comes of it.
As for the charge that Hurd “financialized” HP, well, that may be true. But, he seemed to be at least somewhat in control of where the company was going. The two CEOs since Hurd have no clue, it seems, about what to do with HP.
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Where Apple’s Revenue Comes From (AAPL)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apple-revenue-product-2012-10
Apple generated more than $35 billion in revenue during the last quarter. Here’s where Apple got all that money from. Also: ready for the annual December spike?
Amazon Somehow Lost $274 Million Selling $13.8 Billion Worth of Stuff
If you thought Amazon’s prices seemed too good to be true, well, it turns out they might be—for Amazon, at least. The company managed to turn $13.8 billion of revenue into a $274 million loss this past quarter. And while a big chunk of that was due to losses at LivingSocial and foreign-exchange rates, all is clearly not well on Mount Bezos.
Amazon remained silent on just how many Kindle devices it has sold, but reiterated that it doesn’t make any money off of the ones that it has. Said CEO and probably Superman villain Jeff Bezos:
“Our approach is to work hard to charge less. Sell devices near breakeven and you can pack a lot of sophisticated hardware into a very low price point… And our approach is working—the $199 Kindle Fire HD is the #1 bestselling product across Amazon worldwide. Incredibly, this is true even as measured by unit sales.”
The approach may be working in terms of moving units, but that clearly has been translating into less and less profit. But hey, that just means you’re getting every bit the bargain you thought you were.
The biggest killer appears to be that LivingSocial investment; while Amazon doesn’t own the daily deals company outright, it has a major stake in its flailing business. One that amounted to a $169 million hit against its bottom line these last three months alone.
Amazon’s going to be holding a call at 5PM EDT to discuss what happened in more detail; we’ll be updating as necessary. For now, though, clearly Amazon looks like a ship that needs righting. Or maybe it just needs to throw off some of that LivingSocial ballast. [Businesswire]
WPP Says Growth In America Is Now WORSE Than Europe (WPPGY)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/wpp-says-growth-in-america-has-completely-collapsed-2012-8
WPP Group, the world’s largest ad agency holding company, reported its Q2 2012 results and the revenue breakdown shows a complete reversal of fortunes for North America: When previously growth was strong in the U.S. and Canada, now it is contracting; and where growth in Europe was anemic, now it is robust.
Here’s WPP’s chart:
The key metric is “LFL,” or like-for-like” revenues. Note that North America declined 0.6% in Q2 while Europe grew between 0.8% – 3.5%.
The U.S. ad economy is now doing worse than Belgium, Italy and Japan:
As usual, ad agency revenue growth has continued its strong correlation with U.S. GDP as a whole. As the U.S. economic growth slowed, ad revenues matched the retraction, step for step:
Ad agency revenues hinted at the retraction back in Q1, also. Ad agency revenues are—arguably—a good proxy for economic growth as a whole because they come from a wide variety of consumer-facing companies who often adjust their spending as a percentage of total sales.
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CMOs Prioritize Digital Presence
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CMOs are seeing big sales growth in international markets, with revenue from Korea (75%), China (51.5%), and Brazil (49.7%) all increasing markedly over the past 12 months, according to [pdf] the latest CMO Survey from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, released in August 2012. A separate survey of CMOs from Limelight Networks finds 9 in 10 reporting moderate or significant improvement in site engagement, lead generation, or revenue after implementing websites with regional content.
Overall, CMOs responding to the Duke University survey said that sales revenue from the leading international markets had grown by an average of 23.7% over the past 12 months.
$30 billion net revenue, $1.5 billion net earnings, big drop in PC sales
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/22/hp-reports-q1-2012-earnings-30-billion-net-revenue-1-5-billi/
HP reported results for its first fiscal quarter of 2012 this afternoon, including $30 billion in net revenue (down seven percent from the previous year), and net earnings of $1.5 billion (down a full 44 percent). Partly contributing to that drop is a slump from its Personal Systems Group, which saw revenue slip 15 percent year-over-year, and total desktop and notebook units decline a rather drastic 19 and 18 percent, respectively. The company’s Imaging and Printing Group also saw a seven percent decline in revenue, with the total number of printer units slipping 15 percent. HP’s services business managed to eke out a one percent growth with revenue of $8.6 billion, though, while its software business saw the biggest growth in any one area at 30 percent (that includes results from the recently-acquired Autonomy). The company’s full rundown can be found in the press release after the break, with additional numbers available at the source link below.
Update: On the company’s earnings call, CEO Meg Whitman laid some of the blame for PSG’s decline on hard drive shortages, but also said that HP has “under-invested in innovation for the last several years” and “been late to market too often,” adding that “we have to lead again.” A transcript of Whitman’s prepared remarks can be found here.
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Social Gaming Revenue Will Blow Past $5 Billion By 2015
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/social-gaming-revenue-will-blow-past-5-billion-by-2015-2012-2
In our report on social gaming out today, we forecast that the U.S. social gaming market, including smartphones, will more than double and blow past $5 billion by 2015.
We think this will happen because social games will break into the mainstream as new types of games reach new audiences, and because companies will get even better at monetizing.
Our report also includes an in-depth look at industry trends and exclusive interviews with top industry executives. Click here to read it →
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Google is The Least Diversified Business In Tech (GOOG, AAPL, MSFT, EBAY)
We love this chart from Dan Frommer at SplatF.
He calls it the “Eggs In One Basket” index, because it charts out the largest source of revenue as a percentage for all the major tech companies. (Profits would be a different story altogether.)
Google gets over 90% of its revenue from one source: Advertising. The next closest is Amazon with product sales. But, Amazon’s product sales are a mix of goods, so it’s not exactly the same as relying on just advertising.
For now, this isn’t a big problem for Google. The online ad market is still growing, and Google can capture a lot of the market. But, if things were to change, or advertising were to slow down, then look out.
What’s incredible about this chart is how diverse Microsoft is from a sales perspective. Its most dominant business group, Office, only accounts for 30% of sales. Read more on the chart from Frommer here →
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