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Half Of The American Public Thinks Facebook Is A Passing Fad
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-popularity-2012-5
Despite the fact that Facebook has 900 million users, almost half of people think it’s a passing fad.
CNBC and the AP surveyed 1,003 Americans about Facebook and found 46% think it will fade away. Amusingly, only 31% of the people surveyed think it’s a bad investment.
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GM’s Facebook Ads Don’t Work Because GM Sucks — Ours Work Fine
A funny comeback from Ford on the heels of news that GM is pulling its entire $10 million advertising campaign from Facebook…
GM said it was pulling its ads because they didn’t work.
Ford said on Twitter that, if GM’s ads didn’t work, it’s because GM didn’t know what it was doing:
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Bankers Are Monkeying With Reporters Covering The Facebook IPO
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/bankers-are-monkeying-with-reporters-covering-the-facebook-ipo-2012-5
Reuters says the Facebook IPO is oversubscribed – that institutional buyers who have already bought in are calling around looking for some way to somehow get more stock.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg says that just the opposite – that demand for the IPO is weak and that Facebook is going to have to rely on retail investors for its offering to pop.
Here’s what’s probably going on: Buyers who want the price of Facebook shares to go down are telling reporters that supply is weak. Bankers selling the IPO, who want to the price to go up, are telling reporters that the thing is oversubscribed.
You can kind of tell what’s happeneing because of the way both Bloomberg and Reuters carefully couched reporting.
The Reuters headline is: “Facebook’s IPO already oversubscribed -source.” That means: “one guy who should know told us.”
The Bloomberg headline is: “Facebook IPO Said to Get Weaker-Than-Forecast Demand.” That means “this may not be what’s actually going on, it’s just what some people SAY is going on. So don’t blame us if it isn’t true.”
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This Hot New York Startup Looks An Awful Lot Like eBay After Six Years
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-ebay-vs-etsy-2012-5
There’s a reason people call Etsy the next eBay. Six years after their founding, both companies are showing eerily similar growth curves. Admittedly, Etsy is tackling a smaller slice of online retail than eBay, but that didn’t bother the investors who valued the company at an estimated $688 million in its latest round of funding.
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Hard To See How Howard Schultz Quitting Groupon’s Board Is Anything But Lousy
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/howard-schultz-quits-groupons-board-2012-5
Groupon’s stock continued its implosion yesterday, as two high-profile board members quit the board.
Howard Schultz of Starbucks and Kevin Efrusy of investor Accel Partners bolted. Groupon replaced them with financial types from American Express and Deloitte.
Although the moves were spun as “adding financial experts to the board,” the real story is the departure of Schultz, who, at best, feels he has better things to do. (At worst, he’s fleeing a sinking ship before it takes him down with it.)
Another potentially interesting data point: The first Groupon executive quoted in the press release was not CEO Andrew Mason but Chairman Eric Lefkofksy. Perhaps Lefkofsky is reasserting control over the company?
Groupon’s stock crashed through $11 on the news, hitting a post-IPO low of ~$10.70. That gives it a market cap of about $7 billion, or about 3X this year’s revenue. That’s a far more reasonable valuation than the ridiculous $28 the stock hit on the morning of the IPO, but it’s still not a bargain-basement price. Given the uncertainty about what Groupon’s profit margin will eventually be, the stock could presumably trade at an even lower multiple.
We continue to think Groupon is building a real, viable business, and we expect that at some point it will move past this constantly-shooting-itself-in-the-foot phase. But Schultz’s departure is not encouraging.
SEE ALSO: No, I Still Wouldn’t Buy Groupon Stock
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In Case You Had Any Doubt About Where Apple Gets Its Money From (AAPL)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-makes-money-2012-4
In case you had any doubt, Apple is an iPhone company now.
The iPhone accounted for 58% of Apple’s total revenue last quarter.
The iPhone didn’t exist five years ago. Today, the iPhone business alone is more profitable than Exxon.
Below, you can see how the iPhone has gone from zero to a hundred billion annually in the span of five years.
And if you think that’s mind blowing, then you need to check this out >
The Most Remarkable Instagram Chart You’ll See
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-increase-in-downloads-and-twitter-shares-2012-4
This chart plots both how many times Instagram has been downloaded, in gray, and how often it has been used to share photos over Twitter, in red.
Look at how, moving left to right, the red bars extend away from the gray bars.
Know what that means?
It means, in the words of the Distimo analyst who put together the chart, that “the average number of shares per users are increasing.”
That’s profound: The app isn’t just getting more popular, it is becoming a more important part of its users’ lives.
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Here Are The Films With The Most Number 1 Weeks At The Box Office
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/movies-with-the-most-number-1-weeks-at-the-box-office-2012-4
“The Hunger Games” finally lost its winning streak atop the box office this weekend. After spending four weeks at number one, the film lands 30th on the all-time chart for most consecutive weekends at the top spot.
However, four weeks is nothing compared to other titles who have claimed victorious at the box office for five, six and seven weeks in a row. One film blows all the others out of the water with a total of 15 consecutive weekends as the box office number one. Only one film has ever had 16 weeks at number one … and it’s not a James Cameron or Ridley Scott flick.
Compare the films with the most overall number one weeks to those with the most consecutive weeks at theaters below.
You may be surprised what tops the charts.
Now, check out the most popular “James Bond” actor>
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Amazon Is About To Blow Past Best Buy In Revenue (AMZN, BBY)
Best Buy’s annual revenue growth has hit a wall, and Amazon’s is on a tear. It’s about to blow past Best Buy for the first time ever, notes Dan Frommer who made this chart for Read Write Web.
Groupon Has Completely Collapsed (GRPN)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-groupon-stock-2012-4
Groupon’s stock has been absolutely crushed since the middle of February. The stock dropped another 5% today.
The bad news for shareholders is that it’s still arguably overpriced. With a $7 billion market cap, it’s trading at 3X revenue. It still has some room to fall.
The good news for shareholders is that it’s not going to zero. There’s a business in there, it just needs to find a proper valuation.
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