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Yesterday's Twitter IPO followed the same oft-written script that so many other IPOs have followed (with the exception of Facebook). Less than a week ago, pre-IPO Twitter priced its stock at $17 - 20. That seemed very low to us (in our own earlier estimates we'd pegged it at $29). As its team made the IPO road show circuit, it began to sense that there was significant growing enthusiasm amongst the Wall Street brethren and along with that enthusiasm the Twitter team began to think they could price their shares higher - and ended up setting an IPO price ultimately of $26 per share. There is an old saying in the U.S. that if you want to know what the future is going to look like, technologically as well as culturally, start with what is going on in California. Sponsored By: Software Telco Congress - November 20-21, 2013 - Santa Clara, CA
The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) market is predicted to reach $6B by 2018. As network hardware begins to be replaced by software, carriers are expected to save money and benefit greatly from new levels of flexibility related to powering their network functions in private and virtual private clouds. Attend Software Telco Congress and learn how the move to software will:
- reduce operator CAPEX and OPEX
- reduce power consumption
- reduce time-to-market for new network services
- speed ROI for new services
- allow for greater flexibility to scale up, scale down or evolve services
- provide opportunities to trial and deploy new innovative services at lower risk
- leverage open-source
In our opinion both the iPhone 5s and the newly released iPad Air are both innovative new devices for a number of reasons. We've elaborated on these reasons elsewhere, but on top of the innovation Apple also needs to be commended for continuing to manage its bill of materials (BOM) for its new devices. Our recent analysis of IHS's iPhone 5s teardown demonstrated that Apple not only managed to build a much better iPhone 5s, but it managed to do so at much better BOM cost points. Lost in the Twitter hype this week, Richardson, Texas-based Mavenir Systems started trading today on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, November 7. The company raised a bit more than $53 million, with over 5.3 million shares selling at an initial price of $10 a share. Perhaps to no one's real surprise, Twitter opened up its IPO today at $45 in its first official trade. This was $19 above the initial price of $26 per share set by Twitter. As we check in again at 11 a.m., this morning the stock - TWTR - is now flying high and remains at roughly 80 percent above the opening price of $45 per share, currently fluctuating between $46 and $48. Where once, home security options were limited to alarm monitoring services and custom video camera systems, a series of offerings from cablecos and telcos now boast capabilities that better address resident safety to potentially save lives. The Internet lit up today with news that a French court Paris's Tribunal de Grande Instance has ordered Google to find a way to remove recurring links to nine images of former Formula One chief Max Mosely's participation in a 2008 orgy with prostitutes that were first publishing in the now defunct British tabloid News of the World. The paper had published an article that intimated that Mosley had organized a sick Nazi orgy. We all are aware of the saying, Time is Money! Time spent wisely is about making money and time spent unproductively is, in a word, wasteful. And, while this axiom has always been true, in the Internet era has even more relevance. It is in fact why so much effort is concentrated on automating as much as possible to free us up to do more productive things.
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