NOKIA AND THEIR BIGGEST LOSS

Mobile phone company Nokia announced a huge loss in the first quarter of this year.

Nokia revealed a net loss during the first three months of 2012 reached 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.

Nokia Chief Executive, Stephen Elop, said the company is facing much tougher competition from other companies.

“Over the past year which we apply the strategy has paid off. But the challenges and competition that we faced were far greater than expected,” said Elop.

“We recorded a good performance in a number of markets, including in the United States, but took other markets were not as easy as we thought,” said Elop.

He explains the rapid changes in the global telecommunications industry Nokia should continue to make the transition quickly.
Leave Symbian

Under the leadership Elop, Nokia make changes slowly left the Symbian operating system and install Windows on their smart phones.

Named Lumia, Nokia launched a mobile phone Windows operating system in October last year.

Analysts say Lumia has not managed to establish a position in the smart mobile phone market as handset sales data shows this class dropped to 12 million units in the first quarter of this year, while the year before Nokia managed to sell 24 million smart phones.

Overall Nokia sold 83 million phones in the period, down from 108 million were sold on the Nokia 2011.

Responding to sluggish consumer responses to Lumia, which sold two million units worldwide, Elop said was a clear sign that Nokia needs to implement a more aggressive strategy.

Nokia is still the largest cell phone maker in the world, but the popularity of smart phones made ​​by Samsung and Apple makes Nokia market share continues to shrink.

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY DIGITAL PRINT IS PROMISING

Photo printing business is expected to die to meet the digital era in the future. This could happen if not creative photo studio owners and businesses are reluctant to use technology to survive.

Photo printing business trends will be increasingly replaced the use of digital cameras, camera phones to cameras in the tablet. Based on HP’s research, the conventional photo printing business in the world in 2013 is expected to decline 4 percent.
Creative photo business and personal publishing is a business that has a core business of digital photo printing, but combined with conventional products. For example, photo book, calendar or products that use the photo.

The way businesses work is combined with high-tech photo printing, easy to use and affordable investment for business owners.

Especially when looking at the market, customer demand is still great in print. Especially in print documentation such as marriage, birth, graduation or school graduation, birthday and other days.

ASIA STOCK: DOWN

Asian stocks fell on Monday, March 12, 2012, as investors waited for the moment the U.S. employment data, which could lower the expectations of policy easing ahead of U.S. Fed meeting. Meanwhile, fears of a slowdown in China’s economy is also an additional negative sentiment.

As quoted by Reuters, MSCI Asia Pacific excluding Japan fell 0.3 percent after rising as much as 1.3 percent on Friday – though down 1.5 percent in the week.

Japan’s Nikkei index rose on average to its highest level in early trade on Monday, after rising 2 percent on Friday to the summit at 10,000 level for the first time in seven months.

Greece managed to avoid the immediate threat of an uncontrolled standard when a number of private creditors agree to exchange the bonds on Friday that would cut the public debt and provide a path for a new bailout.

While Europe’s debt-related concerns will not fade with the completion of the debt swap Greece. According to Barclays Capital analyst’s current focus is likely to change to global growth and monetary policy.

Data last week showed China’s trade balance fell U.S. $ 31.5 billion in February. It shows weak foreign demand.