Apple's iPhone 5S in Aug, new iPads in April

The release dates for the iPhone 5S and iPad have been revealed and one does not have to wait for long. According to latest reports Apple might unveil its annual upgraded version of the iPad in April itself. The iPhone5S and a less expensive version will be released three months later, but will only be available for retail by August.

Meanwhile, if a Japanese blog Mocatakra is to be believed, Apple fans may not even need to wait till August, as Foxconn has already started the production process of the new phone.

Apple Iphone 5s or 6

KGI Securities in its latest research report says the iPhone5S will launch in July and will be equipped with a finger print sensor. The tech giant is also expected to announce a budget iPhone as it plans to take on increasing competition from Samsung.

Samsung is scheduled to announce the S4 on March 14 and is expected to come up with an eye tracking sensor that can automatically scroll down documents and pages. The iPhone5 was released in September 2012, but Apple cannot afford to wait too long.

Although Iphone5 has emerged as the top selling phone and continues to lead the smartphone sales across the world, the competition is heating up.  Sony’s new Xperia Z, HTC’s new revamped HTC One and LG’s new Optimus G, all of which were received favorably during this Mobile World Congress, are expected to eat into the market share and emerge as serious competitors to the top three in the list Apple, Samsung and Nokia.

The current year is expected to witness a record number of new smartphone launches even as sales are expected to increase and overtake feature phones.

According to an IDC forecast, more smartphones will ship in 2013 marking the first time this has happened over a 12-month period. The company said that vendors will ship 918.6 million smartphones this year, or “50.1 per cent” of total mobile phone shipments worldwide. With no major design enhancements scheduled for the iPhone5S, Apple can not wait too much longer to release its improvised gadget for 2013.

It was KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo who first revealed that the iPhone 5S could launch in July. According to him the reason for an early launch could be to avoid a similar mistake done last year with the iPhone5 compared to Samsung Galaxy S3.

“It is an effort to avoid repeating the fatal mistake of last year of the delayed iPhone 5 launch, which gave competitors room to grab market share.”

According to him, the new phone will not have any major design changes when compared to the iPhone 5, which incorporated several key changes.

Tech blog iMore later confirmed the timing, but said fans will have to wait until August for the phones to hit the market.

Apple is expected to bring out the new phone with an increased processor (A7) a smartflash for a better camera performance and also incorporate fingerprint recognition technology. The latter was initially expected to be included in the iPhone5 itself.

Meanwhile, reports quoting Ken Segall, a former Apple consultant has reveled that Apple had contemplated naming the iPhone as Mobi, TriPod, TelePod, and even iPad. In 2007 when Apple launched the iPhone, Cisco had used the name iPhone for its VoIP phone.

"The funny thing is that all these names actually were considered and iPad was in fact one of them; that's the most amazing [thing]," Segall said. "Had they called the iPhone an iPad, then who knows what the iPad would be."

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Facebook Files for Ipo( Initial public offering)

Are you interested to be the part of facebook by other than creating accounts and socializing with friends circle? If yes, the time has come to buy shares of facebook as facebook has filled for an initial public offering of shares in Us aiming to raise $ 5 Billion.

The filing with the SEC reveals details on the continued growth at the world’s largest social network. 

The number of active users reached 845 million in December 2011, up by 39 per cent from a year earlier. Active daily users numbered 483 million in December, up by 48 per cent from a year earlier, and Facebook said over 425 million users were accessing the network from their mobile phone in December.

The company generated revenues of $3.71 billion in 2011, up from $1.97 billion in 2010, and its net profit improved to $1.00 billion from $606 million.

It had accumulated cash of over $3.9 billion by the end of 2011.

Facebook said it did not have a specific use in mind for the proceeds of the IPO.

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Facebook IPO filing may come today

 Facebook is today expected to announce plans to go public, in a flotation expected to value the company at an almost unimaginable $100 billion.

According to analysts, Morgan Stanley is likely to lead the IPO, which should take place in early summer. The deal could raise $5 to $10 billion, making it the biggest internet company offering ever. Some will question whether the company really is that valuable.

Ironically - or maybe not - for a company that makes its money from the vast quantities of data it holds on its customers, Facebook's traditionally been extremely secretive.

But when it files the IPO documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it will need to reveal how much money it intends to raise and what it intends to do with it, as well as details of its financial performance and future plans.

The move will thus subject the company to increased scrutiny from investors - and from government regulators.

"One of the first things Google did after its IPO was to hire an army of lobbyists, and I expect Facebook to follow suit — especially if it follows the advice above and looks for creative and expansive new ways to use its data," says Forrester analyst Nate Elliott on the company blog.

"Expect lots of blue business cards floating around Brussels and Washington by the end of 2012. After all, $10 billion buys a lot of influence."

Much of that money, though, will need to go towards improving the company's marketing platform and finding new revenue streams.

"Facebook needs to use its data not just to power ad targeting on its own site, but everywhere online," says Elliott.

"Building or buying an ad exchange or a sell-side platform is one obvious way to do this; and it needs to work hard on other creative and profitable (and legal) uses of its data as well."

In other words, expect to see even more targeted advertising, and more privacy concerns.

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Saudi prince buys chunk of Twitter

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has taken a $300 million stake in Twitter through his Kingdom Holding Company investment firm.

With Twitter valued at around $8 billion in total, the investment represents a 3.75 percent stake. The prince says tha the deal is the culmination of several months of negotiations.

Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal 

"Our investment in Twitter reaffirms our ability in identifying suitable opportunities to invest in promising, high-growth businesses with a global impact," he says.

Prince Alwaleed is no stranger to tech and media investment. He's the second-largest investor in Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, with a seven percent stake, and also has holdings in Citigroup and Apple.

He's also got a strong presence in the Middle Eastern media and entertainment world, with a 29.9 percent holding in the Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG). He's also recently announced plans to launch a privately owned news channel, Alarab.

Last year, News Corporation took an initial 9.09 percent stake in  Alwaleed's film, TV and music business, Rotana Media Group, with an option to increase this to 18.18 percent over the course of 18 months.

Saudi Arabia is one of Twitter's fastest-growing markets. According to the UK-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, the number of Twitter users in the country grew by 240 during 2010, with the number of tweets rising by 440 percent - four and a half times higher than the international average.

"We believe that social media will fundamentally change the media industry landscape in the coming years.Twitter will capture and monetize this positive trend," says Ahmed Halawani, executive director of private equity and international investments for Kingdom Holding Company.

In August, investment firm DST Global, which also owns stakes in Zynga and Groupon, took a $400 million stake in Twitter.

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Make Money Online Its easy and it works!!!!!!!!

 I have collected some information from different sites and let all you know how to earn money from google adsense. For this you have to make your own site via blooger.com or wordpress.com or anyother blog site and apply for google adsense and here are some tips to earn via google adsense. I wish it will work Making money online is the hot trend nowadays. In coming days I am sure you will see many working professional quit their day job and seat at home in their pajamas writing some blog posts to make their living.

There are tremendous opportunities to make money online. Currently Google Adsense is the best option for most of the publishers. Some basic optimization tips can double your Adsense revenue. Two sites having same traffic can have huge adsense revenue difference depending on the ad optimization.

Follow these simple Adsense optimization tips. Experiment for at least two weeks to see the results. Believe me I am not exaggerating because I am experimenting with Adsense on my different sites since long time and these are nothing but some practical and ethical tips to increase your Adsense revenue.

This is hard core material about increasing the Adsense revenue and not possible for anyone to double the income just overnight. I am not promoting or supporting any tricks to fool Adsense code.

Before beginning the tips story let’s have some Google policy recap:
According to Adsense policy don’t do these things:
1) Do not click on your own Adsense ads by any way.
2) Do not increase Adsense ad impressions with some automating tools.
3) Don’t ask others to click on your ads.
4) Don’t alter the Adsense code other than fonts and colors.
5) Don’t put Adsnese code on adult or prohibited content.

Now you know the things that are against the Google Adsense policy.

Here are some simple and “any one can follow” tips to optimize Adsense ads:

1) Blend your ads effectively with your site theme. Match your Adsense colors with your site colors.

2) Do not use borders to your text ads. Ads without border and matching background with site background color always perform well over other ad units.

3) Have some Ad color themes that perform best with your site. At least 2-3 well performing ad color formats should be ok. Rotate your ad units with these color themes. This is just to avoid Ad blindness.

4) Use link units in your site. Link units near site navigation links can perform well. Other advantages of link units are – you don’t need too much Ad space on your site and link units are not annoying to users.

5) Use Google site-specific search box with Adsense. This is the best option other than content targeted ads. You have option to select ad location on your site search result page. Put Adsense ads at the top and bottom of search result page. The best location of Google search box is – top right corner of your site.

6) Place 250×250 size Ad unit at the top of every page or post. If you are using WordPress hosting then 250×250 text or image ad option should perform best for every site. Don’t forget to align this ad unit at right or left side of the post content as shown in the image below.
Use the

tag to align this ad unit. See more details on how to align Adsense ad unit at left or right of post content.

(Image: Position of Ad units and Search box)

7) Prefer Text ads instead of image ads. This will increase probability of more user interested ads. I will to suggest keep the text and image ad formats for your site. Use text and image ad format for following type of ad formats:
250×250 Square
160×600 wide skyscraper
336×280 large rectangle
300×250 medium rectangle
These are best performing ad units and will also increase your ad inventory.

8 ) Use section targeting to target ads relevant to your site or page content. Section targeting code is nothing but code tag provided by Google to direct their crawler to show relevant ads to page content. Use section targeting code on each page.
Here is the sample section targeting code:

– google_ad_section_start –
Content you want to target.
– google_ad_section_end –

If you want irrelevant content to be ignored, then use following tag:
– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –

More details on section targeting can be found here.
Section targeting will increase ad relevancy and thus CTR.

9) Ad placement is important. Place the Adsense ads above the main fold, means user should see your top performing ad units without scrolling down on your site. This will increase Ad CTR.

10) High performing ad slots: Top of left sidebar and top of individual post. Try these ad slots on your site. Use link unit (obviously with blended color) at the top corner of left sidebar and 250×250 or 336×280 Text and image rectangle ad unit in your post content (Align at left or right side of post content).

11) Block low paying and irrelevant ads showing on your site. Use competitive ad filter Adsense feature for this. Do well study before blocking any ad unit. Some times one ad unit can give you $0.01 in one country and same ad unit might give you $1 in other country. So be careful while blocking the ads.

12) Use Google Adsense ad preview tool can help you to view all ads showing on your site and also helpful for blocking irrelevant ads.

13) Keep more white space around your ads. Do not burry your ads somewhere “out of focus” location. Site content should have enough breathing space so as your ad units.

14) Study your keywords. Target ads to these keywords. If you are not using section targeting Adsense feature then don’t forget to add your page-targeted keywords in the beginning of your post. Google Adsense crawler generally searches for first one or two paragraphs to target ads to that page.

15) You can increase number of ads to be displayed on your site’s main page and individual pages. But please not too many ads.

16) Placing images above or next to the ad units will increase ad visibility and more chances of click on such ads increasing your CTR.

17) Besides the top performers I mentioned in tip no 10, you can use following “heatmap” provided by Google to analyze other top performing ad placement slots. See the Image below. Ad slots with dark color are hot spots than the faint ones.

(Image: Google Adsense heat map)

18) Track all ad performance using Channels. Channels are nothing but individual ad units, which you can track for performance. Study the Adsense revenue report in detail.  Don’t keep on changing ad formats, colors and placements every one or two days. Track the ad unit placement at least for 2 weeks to judge the ad slot performance.

19) Optimize your site for search engines. SEO is the key point for high traffic websites. Moreover traffic from search engines can convert well in case of Adsense ads. Users coming from search engines are clicking more on your Adsense ads than regular readers.

20) Ads placed in-between the content perform well. But keep in mind this can be annoying to your site readers. So avoid too much of blended ads in content.
If you have small posts then put ads at the top of the page content. If you have big post then ad units placed at the bottom or middle of the post can perform well. Do not use skyscraper ads in post content.

21) Test, Test and Test to work it best!!!

So integrating Adsense ads into your site content is the key point for high revenue from Google Adsense.

I am sure if you read every tip carefully and follow these tips you are not long away from doubling your Adsense revenue.

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