When it comes to business, every day in the industry is spent trying to convince someone into buying your brand, your product or services, no doubt you will find yourself making a lot of pitches and presentations for new products, partners and stakeholders among other things. Having great presentation skills is essential to running a successful business and getting as many people believing in your brand as possible. Great presentations have the following qualitiesKiller slidesPowerPoint slides are one of the most effective ways of making boardroom business presentations. Slides allow you to cr...

Alibaba announced that it had signed the agreement to acquire "China's YouTube" YouKu Tudou on November 6 Beijing Time. This deal will make Alibaba the leading entertainment and media company in China. The highlight of this deal is that Alibaba will pay all cash.When this acquisition is completed, shareholders from Youku Tudou can get cash with $27.60 per ADS. The board has approved this acquisition and they are asking the shareholders to vote to approve this deal. This deal is expected to be officially completed in Q1 2016.“We believe this deal will maximize our shareholder's value and ...

The world of IT has to deal with the issue of data storage. The reason for this is that there is plenty of data produced and created daily on the internet and on various business applications. In the past, RDBMs or Relational Database Management Systems were used for storage. Even though they are still used today, there are other offerings that present competition and anyone wishing to purchase data storage systems needs to make comparisons. One such competing system is NoSQL or Not Only SQL. It has taken the market by storm because of the other possibilities that it offers which go beyon...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered a speech in Chinese at "Tringhua Students Dialogue with Board Members" on Oct 24, 2015 in Tsinghua University, Beijing. This is the first time he used Chinese throughout the whole speech. Though his Chinese is not that fluent, his hard work on learning Chinese is well appreciated. In this speech, he shared three stories : mission, care and looking ahead.MissionYou have to believe in your mission. When you have a mission, it will help you focus. In 2004, when he started to create Facebook, he thought it was important to be able to con...

Microsoft is holding a new product release event today in New York. The biggest excitement Microsoft brings us is the Surface Pro 4. The most advanced Microsoft tablet ever equipped with Windows 10.Here are the selling points of Surface Pro 4:Performance6th generation of Intel Core processor30% faster than Surface Pro 350% faster than MacBook AirUp to 15 G RAMUp to 1TB storage8.4 mm. Thinnest Surface Pro everFour USB 3.0 portsTwo 4K display portsEthernetOne productive connectionScreen12.3 inch, bigger than 12 inch of Surface Pro 3267 PPI(Pixel Per Inch)5 million pixelsUses 0.4 mm Gorilla Glass...

Microsoft just announced a new Microsoft Band on a new product release event held in New York today. This new device is the second generation of the smart wearable device since the first generation announced around 1 year back(29 October, 2014).The biggest change of the new Microsoft Band is that it has a whole new design with curved screen. It now can be better adept to our body structure. In addition to this, there are a few other features as well. Below is a list of the features this new Microsoft Band has: Curved OLED screen with Gorilla Glass Cortana integration11 sensors includ...

Google is going to have new Nexus product release at 12 o'clock 30th September(Beijing time). This new Nexus will ship with the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow system from Google. Here is the live stream from YouTube.Two Nexus phones are expected to be unveiled tonight. They are from LG and Huawei respectively.. The Nexus 6P is Huawei's first Nexus device and will be available for pre-order on Tuesday in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada and Japan starting at $499.99 and the device features a metal body, ...

The subreddit of Alibaba, the biggest e-commerce giant in China, has been banned from Reddit.The reason given is that this community has violated the Reddit rules. But no details about what rules are violated given by Reddit. If we now try to access https://www.reddit.com/r/alibaba, we will see below page.From the page, it says this subrredit has been banned 6 months ago. It's unknown whether this subreddit was created by Alibaba Group or by some other people. And it's unclear whether the contents in this subreddit were related to this big e-commerce giant.Reddit is the biggest ...