The Israeli company Strauss and the Chinese giant Haier just reported a joint venture that aims to sell Water technology to consumers. Haier is one of the most promising global brands emerging from China and the knowledge they will gain from the cooperation with the international israeli food manuafacturer is great. Most of the local players in China think local. Haier is definitley different and they choose one of the top israeli companies to partner with. Well done and good luck for both!
Irit and I could not remember all the numbers..
3 seconds later google provided the answer in a cool picture.
I will turn 38 in two days… For the past 7 years, my wife and I stopped using broadcast TV and replaced it with internet and downloaded HD chapters from the internet. During the last 3 months we have tried HOT TV broadcast and we decided to deactivate the service. The commercials, endless promos and poor content just don’t make sense anymore. for 80$ per month we can easily buy a new computer every year and use it in our living room or our bed room. read this article to see that we are not alone…
a small blender company, Blendtech in the US launched a video showing how their blender can grind anything! It started from iphone and now they demonstrate they can grind each gadget that goes to market. The amazing part is that their sales grew in 2 years 7 folds.
Up till now i read over 10 business books about China. If I need to single out one that i recommend the most, it will probably be… Mr China by Tim Clissold. If you are aiming to set up a new venture in China you should probably be aware that China is ranked #89 as the best place to do business globally.
If you want to get a glimpse of the reasons why it is ranked so LOW? Mr China will probably provide the best answers..
China will become the #2 Economy in the world this year and will become much bigger than the US economy in the next 20 years.. Doing business in China is a MUST for global companies, and this book can lay out some of the obstacles..
How ever it fails to provide good solutions for the many obstacles mentioned in the book.. I hope to offer some positive Tips in the near future..
30 Months ago (Jan 22nd 2008) I wrote this post is Seeking Alpha. It predicted that Apple will Dominate Key CE Markets. Later on November 4th 2008, I predicted that Apple will lead the mobile phone market in terms of Value.
In this post I will demonstrate that Apple is already the #1 handset manufacturer globally in terms of profits. In terms of Revenues and Volume, there is still way to go for Apple.
Apple (AAPL) released its 2nd quarter report a month ago. It was another great quarter for Apple..
Apple reported revenues of $5.33B on 8.4M handsets (635$ per unit). Nokia reported revenues of 10.03B$ on 118M handsets (85$ per unit). In terms of Profits, Nokia reported 227M USD (1.93$ per handset!) compared to an estimate of 1.104B$ for Apple (131.4$ per handset). For every Iphone that Apple sells today, Nokia needs to sell 7.47 units to match in terms of revenues and 68 devices to match them in terms of profits.
Apple profit per unit is 68 times higher than Nokia! Apples total profits are 4.86 times Nokia’s total profit!
I claim that symbian is a big burden on Nokia. It is clear that the market is getting SMARTER and Apple OS and Android will continue to guide the way. If current trends remain and Apple will manage to overcome the Iphone 4.0 crisis, apple might pass Nokia in terms of Revenues in the next 24 months.
Supersol is the largest Retailer in Israel with over 40% market share and annual sales that exceed 2B USD. I am wondering if someone can explain to me why they can’t support all four major browsers! Explorer market share is declining rapdly globably and is now well bellow 60%. In some markets in Europe Firefox is already the dominant leader!
This means that if you don’t support Firefox, Chrome & Safari you lose 40% of the traffic.
If you don’t support Safari you lose all iphone users!
If you don’t support Chrome you lose all otherer smartphone users (Android).
Here is a screenshot of Supersol landing page after i clicked an ad on Facebook that cost them money… I guess around 0.6$ per click… The main message in the landing page is that they currently don’t support Chrome, and if you want to use firefox, you should install an explorer add-on on your firefox browser.
BIG MISTAKE!
Why should they put barriers? Why should I install an add-on of explorer to see their content. I will keep using Mega.co.il – the site of the 2nd biggest retailer in Israel until Supersol comes back to their senses and fix what they should have 5 years ago…
Yesterday while swimming i was thinking of a good discipline mechanism
to help me achieve what i want…
I have decided to have 2 goals per week…
If i achieve good results… I will have a cool reward like a vacation, gadget, clothes, etc…
If i don’t deliver i will support my favorite charity
I have been swimming the TI approach for the last 9 months.
In the following movie you can see the main benefits of this approach.
Improvement is great. I swim faster, yet consume much less energy!
Yesterday I tried for the first time to combine Flips in my swimming.
It was rusty, yet much better than before. I am now considering to join a course in Israel
Uri Sela, one of Israel’s best swim trainers is teaching in the following video how 2 do it
My new iPad is amazing device.
By far the best gadget I had…
It is exceeding my expectations.
I was quite cautious before buying it and now…. I feel it was stupid. Don’t listen to all the techies that will tell you “why do you need a big iPhone?” . Until you use it 30 minutes you do not know the real user experience…
Key advantages are:
1. Amazing display for the web, photos, ppt and videos
2. The best browsing experience ever – by far better than iPhone
3. 12 hours battery life – I have been using it for 90 minutes now and the battery is still 94% full!
4. keynote – cool presentation capabilities
5. VGA adaptor. I plan to use it in presentations directly from my iPad
