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Kicking off the week, Microsoft has agreed to buy business social media firm LinkedIn for an all-cash deal of $26.2 billion. Microsoft is paying LinkedIn $196 per share and plans to finance the deal with new debt. But is it a good deal or will it be a bust like the vaunted Nokia purchase? I'm thinking there's more good than bad, but I think Microsoft is paying a tad too much. It seems that SoundCloud sees much of the benefit in this partnership with Twitter in the rollout of their new subscription service that is meant to serve as the company's main revenue stream. "This investment will enable SoundCloud to remain focused on building value for creators and listeners alike, and to continue the global rollout of many company initiatives such as our recently launched subscription service, SoundCloud Go." There are a couple of rules when it comes to game consoles. First you don't change them very often (the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 remained largely unchanged for a decade), you don't price them over $500 (Sony did that initially with the PlayStation 3 and ceded the market to Microsoft), and you don't have multiple systems of the same generation in market at the same time (it confuses folks). Well Microsoft just tossed this rule book out with the Xbox One S and Project Scorpio. But I think it can actually work if the products are positioned properly. We often focus on clear and very visible trends like self-driving cars and drones, forgetting there is another even more interesting trend trying to get off the ground. That is technology focused on allowing us to fly to work. Now there are three basic versions of this class of personal aircraft. There are car and planes set-up where you drive to an airport to take off, there is also personal aircrafts which can land on your driveway and then there are jetpacks - some of which aren't really jets. Computex is the huge technology show that kicks off in Asia this time of year, and typically is a showcase of interesting products set to launch before the year-end holidays. Traditionally, it has been more of a PC show and with the decline of PCs a lot of the excitement connected to the show has declined as well. This year there is a clear shift not only in what the show covers expanding strongly out of PCs but in revalidating PCs as a viable future platform as well. Given PCs were supposedly killed by tablets and tablets are declining faster than PCs that whole "PC is Dead" thing needed to be reevaluated anyway. The sheer vastness of technology's presence in today's world is enough to make anyone's head spin, even if you are keeping up with the news on a regular basis. Now that we're well into 2016, though, it's important to know where things are headed and what technological developments are poised to make waves in the coming months. With that in mind, here are five technology trends peaking in 2016.
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