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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

CHART OF THE DAY: Who Bought And Sold Apple Shares Last Quarter (AAPL)

We took a look at data on Bloomberg about who was buying and selling shares of Apple in Q1, after seeing some tweets from SAI commenter/contributor Sammy The Walrus IV.

Apple's biggest shareholder, Fidelity, dumped a fairly large amount of stock, ~1.9 million shares. Capital Research Group loaded up on Apple's stock buying 3.7 million shares, which is a 50% increase in its Apple shares.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Microsoft Has Bought Skype For $8.5 Billion

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Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion in cash, Anupreeta Das and Nick Wingfield of the WSJ report.

The deal was concluded late Monday evening.

It is one of the biggest acquisitions Microsoft has ever made.

The price tag is silly on a stand-alone basis, but the deal could make strategic sense for Microsoft: With the rise of Facebook and Gmail and Apple, the company has lost its dominance of online communications. Although Skype's functionality is now a commodity (Microsoft has services that offer the same functionality), Skype's user-base and "social network" are not. If Microsoft can successfully integrate Skype with Exchange and Microsoft's other communications tools (including Windows Phone 7), it would give users more incentive to stick with its products.

And $8.5 billion is chump change for Microsoft.

The deal is a nice flip for Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and other firms that bought 65% of Skype from eBay at a valuation of $2.75 billion two years ago. It also puts $1.9 billion in the pockets of Skype's founders. And eBay shareholders, who still owned 35% of the company, didn't do badly, either. (eBay ended up making nice money on Skype.)

Om Malik has a good analysis of why Microsoft is buying Skype and what it means for the rest of the industry, including Facebook.

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

CHART OF THE DAY: 99.7% Of People Still Haven't Bought A Tablet Yet (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM)

Apple's iPad tablet is probably the fastest-selling new consumer electronics device ever, but the potential for growth in the tablet market for Apple, Google, RIM and others is still massive.

Only 0.3% of the Earth's inhabitants owned a tablet at the end of 2010, RBC analyst Mike Abramsky notes today in a detailed, 88-page report about the future of the tablet market. That means 99.7% of the people on Earth still haven't bought a tablet yet!

In this chart, Abramsky plots the tiny smartphone and tablet user base (394 million worldwide) versus other market, such as TV subscriptions (600 million), total PCs (1.3 billion), and mobile subscribers (5.1 billion).

Abramsky predicts more than 400 million tablet users worldwide by 2014, including 185 million tablets sold in 2014. But he thinks Google Android, not Apple, will come to lead the market, representing 40% of the 2014 tablet market, versus 34% for Apple, 13% for Microsoft, 8% for BlackBerry, and 5% for HP WebOS.

Earlier, we outlined why we think Apple will continue to dominate the market for years to come.

SAI chart Tablet market versus other devices