Wall Street is extremely ‘impatient’ with corporates, who do not live up to its expectations – it ruthlessly beats down their stock. This compels corporates to take decisions, which will pander to Wall Street’s ‘greed’.
Airbnb, founded in 2008, has ‘literally’ no asset but is valued at $25.5 billion, dwarfing Marriot International’s Market Cap. of $ 20.9 billion. (Source: WSJ). This seems to indicate that Wall Street has more confidence in future of Airbnb than even established hospitality chains who have in business for decades.
Snapchat is a platform for users to enjoy fast and fun mobile conversation! A user can ‘snap’ a photo or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend. They'll view it, laugh, and then the Snap disappears. The concept has gained traction among users. So much so that FB had made an offer to buy it out for $3 billion.
When you enter Mitsukoshi departmental store you are greeted in honorific Japanese. But it is not a person greeting you, but hold your breadth – a lifelike robot. (See Image above).
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” – Helen Keller
Postal services all over the world were given a knock out blow by courier companies. And of course e-mail did the rest.
Airlines go to great length to pamper their ‘best & profitable’ customers.
In Sri Lanka, merely 3 million people are connected in some internet, out of the total populations of approx.. 22 million. Imagine if every citizen of Sri Lanka were connected to Internet? It would change so many lives!
Wall Street is extremely ‘impatient’ with corporates, who do not live up to its expectations – it ruthlessly beats down their stock. This compels corporates to take decisions, which will pander to Wall Street’s ‘greed’.
Airbnb, founded in 2008, has ‘literally’ no asset but is valued at $25.5 billion, dwarfing Marriot International’s Market Cap. of $ 20.9 billion. (Source: WSJ). This seems to indicate that Wall Street has more confidence in future of Airbnb than even established hospitality chains who have in business for decades.
Snapchat is a platform for users to enjoy fast and fun mobile conversation! A user can ‘snap’ a photo or a video, add a caption, and send it to a friend. They'll view it, laugh, and then the Snap disappears. The concept has gained traction among users. So much so that FB had made an offer to buy it out for $3 billion.
When you enter Mitsukoshi departmental store you are greeted in honorific Japanese. But it is not a person greeting you, but hold your breadth – a lifelike robot. (See Image above).
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” – Helen Keller
Postal services all over the world were given a knock out blow by courier companies. And of course e-mail did the rest.
Airlines go to great length to pamper their ‘best & profitable’ customers.
In Sri Lanka, merely 3 million people are connected in some internet, out of the total populations of approx.. 22 million. Imagine if every citizen of Sri Lanka were connected to Internet? It would change so many lives!
