The distinction between “confirmed new technology trends” and “exaggerated or unconfirmed new technology trends” listed above is quite strict. “Confirmed new technology trends” must be accepted by the market, uncontroversial, widely adopted by general users, truly proven to be disruptive, and profitable. Moreover, the list above is purely my personal subjective opinion and viewpoint.
Category: Internet
Wix, the leading brand of online website building
According to data from W3Techs, a technology survey website, as of September 2023, 2.5% of websites worldwide use Wix. As of the latest report in June 2024, Wix has over 260 million users worldwide.
Cisco, ex-biggest company, the representative of dot-com bubble
Cisco (ticker: CSCO) was founded in 1984 by a pair of computer scientists from Stanford University, Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner.
Reddit first profitability sent stock rally 2.5 folds
by Similarweb, Reddit is the ninth most visited website in the world. Reddit is currently the fifth largest website in the United States, with traffic second only to Google, YouTube, Facebook and Amazon, and 330 million monthly active users.
VeriSign, one of Buffett’s few long-term tech holding, performance is not that good
VeriSign first became famous in the late 1990s, when the Internet was booming. Its stock price more than doubled in the year it went public, and soared nearly 12 times in 1999.
GoDaddy, world’s largest hosting platform, snapped the best year of share performance since listing
As of 2023, GoDaddy hosts more than 62 million registered domains, making it the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar, serving more than 21 million customers. In terms of market share, GoDaddy is the fifth largest web hosting provider in the world.
Apple search engine, the possibility and necessity to inhouse develop
Whether Apple should develop its own Apple search engine has been a headache puzzled Apple management. Search engines are the “most fundamental technology” for monetizing all advertising on the Internet today.
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent comapny, the world’s most valuable unicorn
It is generally believed that Xing Wang of Meituan, Colin Huang of Pinduoduo, Yiming Zhang of ByteDance, the world’s most valuable unicorn, and Wei Cheng of Didi are the third generation of Chinese Internet entrepreneurs.
How does the all-powerful Huawei make money?
No company in modern corporate history has ever won this honor. You can imagine the importance of this enterprise. The United States has discovered the signs of Huawei’s development. For the first time in history, the Department of Defense replaced the Department of Commerce to supervise Huawei.
Datadog, a rising star in cloud monitoring
Datadog provides overall monitoring and management services for the cloud computing environment platform