Netflix is accountable for a major chunk of US internet traffic

NFLX is basically a video streaming services which allows users to access to various content which are available on a diversified number of platforms. Netflix is the leading and largest provider of Internet streaming services of movies and TV shows. It is believed that the network of Netflix has over more than 9,000 movies to watch with over 50 million subscribers in about 40 countries. Hence, Netflix is the most popular TV show and movie streaming service. Due to substantial use of Netflix in recent times, it is believed that Netflix now accounts for 35 percent of overall United States internet traffic.

35 percent of overall United States internet traffic is a huge chunk of contribution towards the traffic. According to a new report from Sand vine, a company that builds equipment for consumer internet service providers, Netflix has topped 35 percent of overall United States internet traffic. Hence during peak hours, the average home is now using 20.4GB every month for Netflix alone when compared to last year’s 31.6% of overall bandwidth usage in the United States.

Talking about stats, Netflix is second only to BitTorrent traffic for upstream bandwidth, with the torrenting protocol at a huge 25.49 percent. Netflix has become huge in the past years despite of tough competitors coming in its way. The company has managed to give its viewers great amount of streaming hours and from top rated movies to new block busters, the viewers are content.

Alibaba To Launch International Taobao

Alibaba is one of the fastest growing businesses in the world. The company is also the largest B2B business company in the world. Moreover, it has achieved so much in a short span of time that it is known as the Google of China. The business of Alibaba is massive and they take on every single opportunity in their way. This is the reason as to why over 120 million people shop on Alibaba sites every day. It is known that Alibaba owns and operates its three main business sites which are Taobao.com, Tmall.com and Alibaba.com. These sites are the version of EBay for the booming Chinese market.

Reuters reported that Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma said Thursday the company plans to create an international version of its online marketplace Taobao. The plan is to serve shoppers worldwide and be available in multiple languages, including English. However it is still not known that when will the international launch will take place. After raising a record breaking $21.8 billion in US initial public offering (IPO), something like this was expected from company’s side. Hence, expansion plans of BABA are no surprise to the ana

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Talking about the IPO of the company, Alibaba has taken Wall Street by storm by posting record breaking IPO. Hence it further planned to mark its presence in other markets. Therefore, Alibaba taps Taobao for international expansion. Jack Ma has said that the consumer-to-consumer marketplace will be available worldwide in multiple languages. According to the company, it is believed that “Taobao is a crucial component in Alibaba's operation. Launched in 2003 in China, Taobao is a consumer-to-consumer marketplace similar to eBay -- the site actually managed to push eBay out of business in China.”

In the end, the international expansion plans for Taobao will prove to be beneficial for the company as it will open the doors of international market for the company in the future.

Burger King terminating contract of over 89 franchises

Burger King is commonly known as BK. Burger King owns and runs a global chain of fast food restaurants. The company is known as one of the most expanded with respect to its stores in the world. It is one of the most reputable well known global chains of fast food restaurants. People who loves fast food, loves going to BKW to eat their tasty succulent burgers. The company believes and guarantees producing the best quality foods for its customers. However, the recent news tells that Burger King has planned to axe 89 franchises.

The fast food giant, Burger King announced that it will be terminating contracts of over 89 franchises and outlets because of continued poor treatment of staff and poor hygiene. This move turned out to be effective immediately but the German franchise holder said to be operating the outlets until the foods stocks is finished. Burger King said that it was a “difficult but necessary decision was taken after Yi-Ko repeatedly failed to observe contractually fixed working conditions for its 3,000 restaurant staff. Then move affects 89 of the fast food chain's almost 700 German outlets, and 3,000 employees now face an uncertain future.”

As the local news has reported that a few franchised outlets have already been shut down. Many of the outlets had already been temporarily closed for improvements to hygiene standards and working conditions. The head of Burger King's German operations, Andreas Bork earlier said that “After the hygiene scandal in May there were many improvements, but since the summer there were fresh breaches of existing agreements. We are now putting an end to it with this decision. Its other 599 restaurants in Germany would continue to operate as normal.”

Alibaba planning global expansion for Taobao

Alibaba is one of the fastest growing businesses in the world. The company is also the largest B2B business company in the world. Moreover, it has achieved so much in a short span of time that it is known as the Google of China. The business of Alibaba is massive and they take on every single opportunity in their way. This is the reason as to why over 120 million people shop on Alibaba sites every day. It is known that Alibaba owns and operates its three main business sites which are Taobao.com, Tmall.com and Alibaba.com. These sites are the version of EBay for the booming Chinese market.

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Cnet.com reported that the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has recently taken Wal-Mart by storm and it has further planned to mark its presence in other markets. Therefore, Alibaba taps Taobao for international expansion. Jack Ma has said that the consumer-to-consumer marketplace will be available worldwide in multiple languages.

Reuters reported that Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma said Thursday the company plans to create an international version of its online marketplace Taobao. The plan is to serve shoppers worldwide and be available in multiple languages, including English. However it is still not known that when will the international launch will take place. After raising a record breaking $21.8 billion in US initial public offering (IPO), something like this was expected from company’s side. Hence, expansion plans of Alibaba are no surprise to the analysts. Moreover, those funds were majorly used to grow and expand its operations overseas. The company is now a great threat to the e-commerce leaders in the market, Amazon and EBay.

According to the company, it is believed that “Taobao is a crucial component in Alibaba's operation. Launched in 2003 in China, Taobao is a consumer-to-consumer marketplace similar to eBay -- the site actually managed to push eBay out of business in China.”

Hence in a nutshell, the international expansion plans for Taobao will prove to be beneficial for the company as it will open the doors of international market for the company in the future.

Tough call for Yahoo! Inc.

Ms. Marisa Mayer is in a crucial situation now where she is left in a dilemma to make a fairly tough call. The extracts of the decision is that will she would give up on her own plans to cater to the stakeholders need. 

According to a report by Bloomberg, Ms. Mayers is in a tough situation where she has to decide if she wants to give the shareholders at YHOO higher value or run the massive business on her own. Whatever decision she makes, she has to let go of one thing or the other. YHOO currently plans to sale out its remaining stakes to the Chinese Ecommerce giant Alibaba. The issue the company is facing currently is that if it chooses to sell out then they would be liable to pay tax deductions which are expected to compound to 35 percent. In general if it agrees to do so them the company will be liable to the government an amount of 15 billion dollars out of their total net worth of 44 billion dollars.

Mayer currently plans to opt for something that can result in a tax free arrangement. One way deduced is that she spins off YHOO holdings in Alibaba to a separate company. This will result in offering the remaining value to the shareholders at Yahoo. This option that does not seem quite possible at this stage since it would require Mayer to lead the company almost a quarter of YHOO’s size.

The issue remains to be a mystery since no such comment has been received from authorities regarding the matter. Although it is expected that Ms. Mayer would soon stand steadfast regarding her plans about the divestiture.  Ms. Mayer is most likely to address other issues regarding the company soon when she addresses the masses.  In a conference call held recently by Mrs. Mayer  stated that, the company has hired  top notch tax experts that would help them to come out of the mess they are currently into. The company needs to come up front and state what they really expect and what they plan to do.