Between "Action" Ascension .. and "Drama" Collapses!
In early 1995, Yahoo, which became one of the richest in the world, opened in just two years! In 1997, the company ranked second among the most popular Internet sites behind AOL. (Do you hear her dance?). Yahoo has come up with great email, search engine and Messenger application for conversations and chat.
In 2008, the software giant Microsoft, which wants to monopolize the Hotmail e-mail service, offered $ 44 billion to buy Yahoo, which experts counted as the biggest offer the Internet company received, but Yahoo rejected that offer Generous and considered offensive to them, where managers estimated the market value of $ 125 billion! Then the start of the boom-busting dotcom era marked the end of Yahoo's heyday; its stock plunged from $ 118 per share to just $ 4!
With the rise of Google, the problems in Yahoo, which eventually found itself forced to accept $ 4.8 billion from Verizon, the US communications giant, have accumulated eight years after Microsoft's offer! Perhaps the only good "Yahoo" is its shares in Alibaba e-commerce company (Yahoo owns 15% stake in Alibaba).
Alibaba, which has a current market value of $ 350 billion, tells an amazing story of the Chinese Jack Ma, who once failed to get a job as a cleaner at a Kentucky branch and cheated on him for fear of cheating! But has not stopped trying since 1995 and now has the largest e-commerce site in the world, as well as personal wealth of more than $ 20 billion! Trading in his group is twice that of Amazon, 3 times the size of eBay, and surpassing the foreign trade of superpowers such as Sweden, Austria and Norway.
Some may wonder why Google did not make a bid to buy Yahoo just like Microsoft did. Answer: Because Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who invented the idea of Google search engine, made a few years earlier by asking for Yahoo - specifically in 1998 - to fund their brainstorm, but Yahoo refused to fund the idea; Its usefulness! Does this remind you of the tragedy of Nokia, which once refused to show Andy Robben to adopt its Android system in its phones, so what was the only thing to do was to travel before Google, which was well received, honored and his boss?
On the occasion of Yahoo's sins, some people may not know that Mark Zuckerberg, who founded with his four partners Facebook, was negotiating to sell him to Yahoo in 2006 (two years later) for $ 1 billion! But Yahoo's team, led by Terry Simel, who was described as the worst CEO in technology history, saw the reduction to $ 850 million;
Digital advertising and a catastrophic future threaten paper journalism.
While Google currently has most of the web nodes thanks to its unique applications, Facebook has two billion users around the world (recently purchased Wattab). Apple has the most famous phone in the hands of the iPhone and a $ 200 billion cash portfolio.
While Google currently has most of the web nodes thanks to its unique applications, Facebook has two billion users around the world (recently purchased Wattab). Apple has the most famous phone in the hands of the iPhone and a $ 200 billion cash portfolio.
With the latest operating system "IOS 9" and the content blocking feature, "Apple" tried to strike in the chest, "Google" to influence the profits, but this did not affect much on the acquisition of Google and Facebook, 70% of the share of digital advertising In the world, which amounted to 72 billion dollars in 2015, while the revenues of US newspapers from advertising from $ 50 billion 10 years ago to $ 18 billion only, which threatens to close the newspapers in the not-too-distant future; because of the imminent disappearance of ads on the Pages.
Privacy Illusions!
Legend says that if you read the privacy agreements for all the programs you use, you will spend years of your life, which is what people have to agree to without considering their terms. Most of us may not know that pressing this consent button means you have given these companies the right to violate Your privacy, and of your own free will! Google Maps monitors our daily movements, and Facebook pages are a testimony to our knowledge networks, as well as enabling ourselves to be cognitive and emotional, and our mobile phones are eavesdropping on us even in our toilets!
Conflicts of identity and influences of political tyranny
The world still mentions the image of the "Napalm girl" shot by the Associated Press in 1972. A naked girl was severely burned naked minutes after US bombers threw napalm bombs during the Vietnam War. The editor of a famous Norwegian newspaper, This picture was published with one of his articles, and the site "Facebook" deleted it, which he considered to be in violation of strict standards related to the dissemination of pornographic images! Then, in the wake of the harsh criticism of the site by the Norwegian prime minister personally, Facebook withdrew and decided to allow the publication of the picture again.
In the same country (Vietnam), a computer engineer who had written in his personal account on Facebook was recently arrested for criticizing communist rule. Monica Beckett, head of Facebook's global political department, met a high-ranking Vietnamese official , And pledged to remove information that violates the laws of the country, and said after the meeting that their policies in Vietnam have not changed, and they are coordinating with governments to report content (illegal!).
In China, the government pressed companies to access some data and monitor users. Google rejected the blackmail, which was blocked as Facebook was blocked. Yahoo decided to agree with the Chinese government, thereby winning its presence in China, but losing user confidence.
Our nation .. that does not go away!
As the countries of the developed world "trade information and ideas" are an inherent human right, most of our Arab countries have blocked news sites that offer content against their policies! In the absence of some "pornographic sites" (does not this remind you of a former president of one of our Arab countries when he decided to amend his country's constitution by adding a "presidential term" clause with the amendment of "Islamic law" as the "main source" instead of "a major source"? So the applause of the masses of the arrogant arrogant to her religion!).
As these fierce rivalries raged among technology giants near San Francisco, where the Silicon Valley, sectarian fumes are still rising to cover the skies of our Arab and Islamic countries!
While they argue about the problem of technical obsession with children, we argue in the rule of revealing the face of women! As if I am with them as they exchange accusations of monopoly. Then we exchange the insults of the workers / treachery cast by supporters of military coups / opponents, after we have finished - recently - the controversy about the amazing device that treats AIDS patients and the virus "
Where the wealthiest countries in our Arab region have settled on the vision set by Malika for the year 2030, started collecting fees from residents and eliminating the burden of foreign drivers by granting women the right to drive.