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Many entrepreneurs dream of leaving the business they created to their offspring. But passing the business along to the next generation might not be part of your plan. Instead, it may be time to take what you've built with blood, sweat and tears—and cash out.
Selling a business is a lot like sprucing up your house for sale: you'll want to make sure everything is neat, orderly and presented in the best light possible for maximum dollar. And much the way a home owner might use the services of a real estate agent, you'll likely want to enlist the services of a business broker or a merger-and-acquisition specialist.
That's because unless you have started and sold many businesses, you likely are not familiar enough with the ins and outs of the process. You'll want to make sure you deal with an expert who is well schooled in assigning a value, structuring a sale in the most tax-friendly manner and negotiating the best price, especially if there are multiple potential buyers. As a rule of thumb, businesses that post less than $1 million in annual revenues typically use a business broker; multimillion-dollar businesses often use the services of a merger-and-acquisition specialist. Ask your lawyer, banker, accountant or other business owners for a referral; sites such as BizBuySell.com provide more information on the process.
To find out what's it like to sell a company, I spoke with Barry Evans, owner of Acquisition Services Group, a La Jolla, California, merger-and-acquisition firm that assists individuals who want to sell privately owned companies with market values between $1 million and $20 million. He spelled out the documents that you'll need to prepare a valuation of your company, which is the first step in selling your company.
• Tax returns from the past five years
• Internal financial statements from the past five years
• Year-to-date financial information
• Year-to-date financial information for the year-ago period
• Minutes of board meetings and annual meetings (if a corporation)
Those documents, of course, are just the start, Mr. Evans says. Most businesses will need to adjust financial statements to better reflect actual earning power—a process called recasting, which is widely accepted in the industry. Essentially, while operating the company, you may have employed tactics—such as giving yourself perks, putting family members on the payroll, or steering profits into capital improvements—designed to keep the company's profits low, for tax purposes. When you recast, you add those expenses back in to present a picture of the company's normal operation.
Another piece of the valuation is an analysis of risk. For instance, a company that relies heavily on one big customer for the bulk of its revenues would be considered high-risk, while a business that has hundreds of customers, a long-term lease and noncompete agreements already in place with its employees would be lower risk.
Once you've got a valuation, there's more work to be done, according to Mr. Evans. Essentially, you'll need to disclose the nittygritty details of your business in a selling memorandum that would be confidentially marketed to potential buyers. Some typical information it might contain:
• A history of when you started the business, hired employees and (if applicable) secured patents
• A roster of employees (including yourself) outlining job descriptions, levels of experience, salaries and whether they are unionized
• A description of your customer base, detailing customers' size, location and the amount of business you conduct with them
• A review of your location, such as whether you own or lease the space (If it's a lease, indicate if it's assumable by a new owner.)
• A listing of all owned or leased equipment, trucks or trailers, with a description of their condition
A special note: You'll also want to disclose any litigation or regulatory hurdles you've dealt with in past years—and any other negatives that may become a headache for the new owner. By disclosing that information, you'll help protect yourself from a lawsuit down the road, Mr. Evans says. You'll also want to outline any improvements that the new business owner might make to the business.
Keep in mind that readying your business for sale requires far more than preparing financial statements and getting your documents in order. You may need to renegotiate lease, vendor and employee agreements and pay all back taxes or other outstanding debt.
And in a tough economy, you'll want to take steps to maximize revenues and minimize operating expenses, Mr. Evans says. After all, it's your profits that will undoubtedly attract buyers to your business. That might require some cutbacks, such as trimming staff if need be. You may also need to tighten up any operating problems, such as investigating why inventory routinely goes lost or missing. And you might want to reexamine your credit-granting procedures, especially if you're worried about customers missing payments.
Once you've got your business's financial and operational houses in order, your broker or specialist should actively market that information to potential buyers. (Potential buyers, who may be competitors, should be required to sign a confidentiality agreement before reviewing the information.) You'll also want to keep mum about your plans to employees, vendors and customers, all of whom might take flight upon learning that you wish to sell the business. Ideally, you'll inform them of your plan to leave when you're announcing the new owner, says Mr. Evans. Often, a business owner will stay on for a period of time as a consultant during the transition process.
In the best of circumstances, you'll get offers from numerous buyers—and a critical next step will be deciding how to structure the deal in the most tax-advantaged way possible. Most small businesses are sold through either a stock sale or an asset sale, and there are various tax consequences depending on your company's legal entity, your personal investment and other factors. If your company is valued at $1 million, you might end up with after-tax proceeds in the range of $450,000 to $850,000, depending on those variables, according to Mr. Evans. To ensure the most profits, he says, plan the sale far in advance so you can eke out as much tax savings as possible.
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Michigan Freedom Fund launches TV, radio ads supporting 'right-to-work' By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Dec 5, 2012 screenshot / YouTube After an onslaught of TV and radio ads this election season, Michigan residents could be forgiven for hoping they had seen the last of political spots for a while. But the ads are back. A group calling itself the Michigan Freedom Fund is now running television and radio ads in support of rumored "right-to-work" legislation. The nonprofit advocacy group is being run by Greg McNeilly, an employee of Dick DeVos' investment firm Windquest Group, MLive reports. McNeilly was campaign manager for Devos during his gubernatorial campaign and served as executive director of the Michigan Republican Party. The Free Press reports that one of the first TV spots aired last night in the Detroit area. Here is a look at the ad: 'Right-to-work' builds momentum in Michigan By Rick Pluta • Dec 4, 2012 dannybirchall / flickr The question hanging over the state Capitol is whether the Legislature will take up a so-called "right-to-work" bill during its lame duck session. Activists on both sides of the issue showed up in force to lobby lawmakers. A growing chorus of conservatives says this is the moment for Michigan to join 23 other states that have enacted laws to end the closed shop and allow workers to opt out of paying union dues. Scott Hagerstrom is with the group Americans for Prosperity, one of the champions of right-to-work. State lawmakers committed to passing education overhaul by end of the year By Jake Neher • Dec 4, 2012 Jennifer Guerra / Michigan Radio Republican state lawmakers say they are committed to passing an overhaul to public education in the "lame duck" session. Opponents of the bills have been ramping up pressure to hold off until next year. The bills include the expansion of a state-run district for struggling schools and a measure seeking to increase school choice. House Education Committee Chair Lisa Lyons said the legislation can't wait. "We need to allow these schools and parents and students all the time, as much as possible, to transition and to plan for the education that they are going to receive next fall," Lyons said. A coalition of Michigan public school officials says the legislation would strip local control of schools. Supporters say too many schools are failing to provide quality education. They say the measures are the best way to turn that around. Lobbyists descend on Lansing in anticipation of right-to-work bill By Rick Pluta • Dec 4, 2012 Rick Pluta / MPRN Activists on both sides of the issue are lobbying Lansing lawmakers over a so-called "right-to-work" bill that could be introduced in the lame duck session. Tea party activists and union supporters crowded into the halls of the Capitol Tuesday as Republican leaders held talks on whether to take up legislation that would end the closed shop and allow workers to opt out of paying union dues. Governor Rick Snyder says the issue is not on his agenda – but won't say what he would do if a bill reaches his desk. Emergency manager law rewrite could spring this week By Rick Pluta • Dec 3, 2012 Flickr Governor Rick Snyder and legislative leaders are talking about a possible replacement to the emergency manager law that was rejected by voters nearly a month ago. The governor says he'd like to see it done before the Legislature wraps up its "lame duck" session. Governor Snyder says a new law would have to respect voters' decision that the old emergency manager law was too sweeping. Under one version being discussed, local governments in financial trouble could ask the state for an emergency manager – otherwise, they would face the prospect of federal bankruptcy. Right-to-work rumors dominate lame duck session By Rick Pluta • Nov 29, 2012 Lester Graham / Michigan Radio The Legislature is wrapping up the first week of its "lame duck" session with lots of things to do – but everyone is wondering if Republicans intend to put "right-to-work" legislation on their end-of-the-year to-do list. The halls and lobbies of the Capitol were packed with union members urging the Legislature to not take up a right-to-work bill in the "lame duck" session. Additional State Police troopers were called in as a precaution. Governor Rick Snyder said he would rather see lawmakers focus on things other than right-to-work. Stateside: Addressing Michigan's lame-duck session By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Nov 19, 2012 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio Listen Listening... / 8:23 Michigan lawmakers are currently in a "lame-duck" session. With some politicians nearing the ends of their terms, a mixed sense of delay and progress pervades Lansing. David Eggert, political contributor for MLive and Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry talked about the typical work ethic of a lame-duck period. "Some of these folks won't be coming back, so I think they feel somewhat liberated and also under pressure to get things done," said Lessenberry. After already calling it quits for the year... state lawmakers return to Lansing By Zoe Clark • Dec 15, 2010 Matthileo / Flickr Leaders in the state legislature have called lawmakers back to the Capitol today for a final meeting of this year's legislative session. The news comes after lawmakers had called it quits earlier this month. As Laura Weber of the Michigan Public Radio Network reports, lawmakers have to go back to Lansing to correct a few procedural mistakes from the earlier lame-duck session: The state Senate has a few bills sent back from the House for final approval, including a measure that would lower the minimum age for blood donation from 17 to 16. The House also needs to meet Wednesday to approve a resolution to adjourn for the year. But it's unclear if enough lawmakers can be wrangled on short notice to return to the state Capitol to vote. And, as The Associated Press reports: Lawmakers might enroll and send to Gov. Jennifer Granholm legislation allowing sale of the Michigan School for the Deaf site in Flint to a developer who wants to redevelop the property and keep the school open. Bills that would regulate billboards for sexually oriented businesses are among the others that need final approval or procedural votes before they can be sent to Granholm. It doesn't appear that either chamber will take up controversial measures including teacher-tenure reform or insurance for autism treatments. They're back... Lawmakers to make a (quick) trip back to Lansing By Zoe Clark • Dec 14, 2010 Terry Johnston/Flickr Well, it appears that state lawmakers aren't quite done with this year's lame duck legislative session. It's been announced that both the Democrat-led House and Republican-led Senate will convene at the state Capitol tomorrow. The news comes after lawmakers declared their two-year session was done on December 3rd. However, the Associated Press reports, that neither chamber is expected to take up any controversial issues: The House is expected to deal with legislation cracking down on human trafficking and a few other issues. The Senate will deal with bills that can't be sent to GovernorJennifer Granholm because they didn't get an immediate effect vote or because they were changed by the House. Lawmakers aren't expected to take up insurance coverage for autism, teacher tenure rules or other sensitive subjects that were left unaddressed before adjourning earlier this month. 'Lame Duck' comes to a close By Zoe Clark • Dec 3, 2010 Terry Johnson/Flickr Lawmakers worked throughout Thursday night and into early the early morning hours on Friday to complete their 2009-2010 legislative session. Lawmakers approved $10 million dollars for the 'Pure Michigan' advertising campaign. Governor Granholm had wanted $25 million for the campaign. Democratic state Representative Dan Scripps said the deal could have been better: You know, we've put two options on the Senate's desk, and the governor's put a third one, and essentially they punted and raided from another pot and I just don't think that's the way to go. We can do better than this. Efforts to enact teacher-tenure reforms that would make it easier to fire teachers failed as did a law that would require insurance companies to cover autism treatments for children. House OKs bill for Detroit Institute of Arts By Zoe Clark • Dec 1, 2010 Maia C/Flickr A bill approved today in the state House would allow the Detroit Institute of Arts to ask taxpayers for more money. The Associated Press reports the bill would: ...allow counties to form authorities that could ask voters for property taxes to fund arts institutes... The property taxes would have to be approved by voters in the region to take effect. Art institute authorities could ask for up to 0.2 mills. The bill now heads to Governor Granholm for her signature. The state Senate already approved the measure. 'Lame Ducks' convene in Lansing By Zoe Clark • Dec 1, 2010 Terry Johnston/FLICKR Michigan lawmakers continue their 'lame duck' session in Lansing today and they're still trying to figure out the last pieces of legislation to pass before the 2009-2010 session comes to a close. The Associated Press reports: It's a safe bet lawmakers will pass a bill to distribute more than $300 million in federal money to schools. But... bills dealing with teacher tenure, fireworks sales, insurance coverage for autism treatments and dozens of other items could be voted on before the Legislature adjourns at the end of the week. Bill Ballenger, the editor and publisher of the "Inside Michigan Politics" newsletter told Michigan Public Radio Network's Rick Pluta earlier this week that, "The chances of getting all of it done are slim." 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Anyone use E3 diamond fire plugs in a V10?
After seeing a TV show that did a motor dyno run comparing standard plugs and E3s, I'm thinking about trying them in my V10.
The E3s made more horsepower and had a little less fuel consumption.
Has anyone tried them in your V10?
I use them on my 4.7 and I noticed a slight differance I also use royal purple lubs in all areas. I found that it keeps everything cooler and in turn will make everything run better its just expensive to switch everything over at one time. Biggest differance was the transmission. I noticed better and smoother shifting all the way through. The E3's Work much better than my previous plugs Bosch Platinums. After I resolve my rear end issues I was think about droppin a MSD in and seeing how that would help but I was told it may disrupt my sound system.
yeah i was curious about them 2 i have a stock 5.2L that i'd like to try them in
i havent installed them yet but after seeing the dyno proof and everywhere you look they do claim a signifigant hp increase i dont see how it could hurt trying them out. maybe you could be the first to provide the info to the next owner who comes along with the same question.if you do try them please let us know what kind of gains you get =)
I put them in my 5.9. Didn't really notice any change, and I also replace the cap, rotor, and installed 8mm wires. Nothing looked bad, it was just time to service them.
iv got e3's in my 95 ram v10. no noticeable power or fuel economy difference although exhaust smells a little cleaner (no cats on mine so it has a unique scent) however on hot days under heavy load or acceleration i get alot of spark knock around 3/4 throttle
DO NOT PUT THOSE PLUGS IN YOUR V10!!! they are known to cause MAJOR problems. i had a v10 come into the shop i was working at. the owner was running them. they came apart in his motor the tips are way brittle and they fowl easy. screwed the engine. funny thing is he got them put in at the DEALER.
i highly recomend running the irridium plugs. found below.
i hope i dont get into trouble for linking you there. the above plugs are what they run in the v10 vipers.
In general Dodge don't do well with these plugs especially with the Hemi, it don't like them at all.
iv ran my truck hard and never had one fail on me, but as i said before i noticed some spark knock during major abuse or real hot temps outside
I will not put these plugs in my truck.:smiledown:
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Skip to comments.Report: Crabtree offer is reduced
Posted on 09/23/2009 10:44:56 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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As a free market economist, I have no problem with him holding out for what he thinks he is worth, even if it is delusional.
$20,000 a year for an education is not worth what elite football players bring to big schools. the NCAA is a travesty.
I worked my way through college. Full time job, paid my living expenses and college costs. If anyone had offered me a sports scholarship I would have jumped at it.
Big sports like football and basketball generate revenue, but other sports are a revenue drain on a school, yet they also give out scholarships. The larger sports pay for the smaller ones.
not buying it. they should be paid in some way. or that ridiculous rule about not being able to enter the draft until 3 years removed from your last high school game should be tossed.
they are literally stopping these guys from being able to make a living. all the while the NCAA makes millions and millions.
That's actually a bad idea. I haven't seen any recent figures, but running backs used to have something like a season and a half average career in the NFL.
My impression is that the average college player ends up with neither a real education nor an NFL career while the more prestigious football schools make a ton of money off the program. What's wrong with paying them as the professionals they are in college?
There's nothing glamorous or noble about amateur athletics. If there are people willing to pay to see them play, the athletes *should* get some of the take.
This guy is going to be living in the same body for the rest of his life and it cannot be any fun getting smashed by a 300lb side of beef while you're catching a pass. He's entitled to as much money as he can get (which includes $0 if he's really screwed it up).
(Oh and go Dolphins!)
they are literally stopping these guys from being able to make a living. all the while the NCAA makes millions and millions.
they should be paid in some way. or that ridiculous rule about not being able to enter the draft until 3 years removed from your last high school game should be tossed.
The 3 year rule is an NFL rule. Colleges have nothing to do with that.
I don't disagree that there should be some type of stipend for college players for living expenses.
I think where we differ is the going pro part. The bottom line is 99% of college football players NEVER go pro, because they aren't (and never will be) good enough to play in the pros. If they weren't playing college footbal to pay for their college education, they'd be working somewhere (restaurant, warehouse, retail, etc...) to pay their way through college.
For the 1% of college players that go on to have a career in the NFL, that $20,000 a year scholarship isn't a good deal. For the other 99% it is.
it doesn't matter how many go pro. it should be a free market. we don't whine about kids who are auto mechanics because they didn't go to college. why should we whine about athletes who want to go pro out of high school or 1 year out of high school?
But you repeat yourself...
WTF is going to draft and sign him next go around? He will have missed a year of organized ball and he's proven to be a headache. The NFL has a salary slotting system. Too bad that he didn't get picked higher but that's life in the NFL.
Yeah. Like I said in the post above, I think that there is something to the rumor that the Jets are telling him to hold out so that they will be eventually be able to sign him.
Or a host of other top college WRs who have been busts....
Who? Wasn't he supposed to be a hot shot player? Nobody now
Nothing free about it. And, if you are scholarship you are not even allowed to work a part-time job.
Doesn't work that way. Players agree to take a large % of the revenues in exchange for the right to teams having a draft.
The prison team....
He got a 5 year bid for robbery
There is revenue sharing among the teams. Quite a bit of it, not total revenue sharing but that would be silly. As it is the revenue from the TV contracts is enough to pay the cap.
But when it comes to signing players one needs to keep in mind that NFL teams (like other sports teams) are not independent corporations, they're FRANCHISES, in a franchise system much like McDonalds which has an overseeing corporate body. And said corporate body institutes rules. One of the rules that pretty much all franchise systems always institute involve the availability of employees to other franchises, nobody wants one franchise holder to snipe all the good employees so a system has to be put in place. While franchise holders compete, they also co-operate to make a valuable whole.
Baseball is dominated by large market teams with an occasional appearance by a small market team. They way they balance it out is a revenue sharing deal.
Every minute Crabtree holds out proves Davis was right to skip him. Crabtree should get paid for what ACTUALLY happened, not for what Mel Kiper said was going to happen. The whole "well I shoulda been drafted earlier" argument is just proving that he's a complete idiot, and complete tend to be failures in the NFL. This whole incident is proving the critics half right, this level of intellect shouldn't have been picked 10th, this level of intellect shouldn't have been picked until the second day, maybe even the supplemental draft.
The NFL isn't a free market system though save for free agency.
That is a great point. Success in the NFL is about more than athleticism. It's about brains.
There are plenty of great athletes who couldn't make it because they weren't smart enough. Football, believe it or not, really is a thinking mans game.
Yup, you could have the body to be the next Jerry Rice, but without the brains... So far Crabtree is looking like he's the next Ryan Leaf.
my point exactly! try to bust up a well run BUSINESS with stupidity and you will lose. Punk tried to be an exception to the rule. I really like the rookie minimum idea, hey the vets have one, it truely has merits and would work well with the current cap system.
But he wasn't the Number 7 pick. He was the number 10 pick, so he'll get number 10 money. If he holds out and re-enters the draft next year, he'll get whatever the dollars are that are slotted for that pick.
Here, friends, is the wrinkle that makes Crabtree's move extra stupid. The NFL's collective bargaining agreement expires following next season. The NFL has been angling for a rookie cap, very similar to that found in the NBA. It's possible, though not likely, that the NFL will reach an agreement with the NFLPA for a new collective bargaining agreement prior to the '10 draft. If the new CBA contains a rookie salary cap, Crabtree will have cost himself millions of dollars.
They knew what they were getting going in. Might actually try to get an education it could come in handy.
for athletes who never go to the pros, the system might work.
He needs to remember his ex-college QB is playing in Canada.
College isn't the only way to get into the pros. It's the most common way, but there's guys that go to various semi-pro leagues instead and still manage to get into the NFL. Then there's the really weird ones like Antonio Gates who played basketball in college but still managed to be NFL players.
So they have a right to go to the pros ?
There will be a rookie cap in 2011 and the veterans won't mind since it means more $$$ for them and less for the guys who are signing big contracts without having played a down in the NFL.
The salary cap in 2002 was $71 million, This year it's $127 million. That's an 80% increase in 7 years and well past the rate of inflation. No one save for some unproven rookie is going to want to buck that system
if an 18 year old is good enough to play in the nfl or nba, he should have the option. the free market takes care of that kind of thing.
There is nothing free market about professional sports
I found it interesting that the player on the other end of Crabtree's college stats, never got picked up (Graham Harrell). It's kind of hard to think of Crabtree as all that special, if his QB wasn't...
And Jerry Rice was the 16th pick. Wiki says only a few teams were interested because of his 4.71 40-yard dash. Much too slow to be a good NFL receiver (hehehe)....
All part of the fun with draft picks. It's like any other hiring decision, you can come up with all kinds of measurements and what not but in the end it's a crap shoot. That's the one good thing about these rookie contract holdouts, we find out if they're any good pretty quick, it's a rare thing for a guy that holds out on his rookie contract to actually put together a good career, it's the guys that take what's offered hoping for the big SECOND contract that become stars.
What if they get a career ending injury in the first year?
Socialism rears its ugly head here ar FR. Is no place safe?
Why should a team have to pay if they can't perform after the first year? Would your job continue to pay you?
My job didn't restrict how much I could earn on my first year.
And I'm assuming they didn't offer you multi-millions either.
The problem, is the league isn't a collective. They have limited revenue sharing, but since the revenue is distributed unevenly, they have to force the players into a collective in order to control costs. If the league shared revenue, and required player salaries to be paid out of that revenue, then there would be no need to impose salary caps.
Only partially. That's why they impose salary caps on players.
Well then he would have gambled and lost. That's how capitalism works sometimes.
I know what the players have agreed to. The players are a costs of doing business. However, the top performing players would like to be able to demand an even bigger share of the revenue, without the artificially of salary caps and league minimums to constrain the free market.
I was a few dollars short. Football players wouldn't be getting multi-millions using your system.
It'd be a shame if he blew his knee out today and never gets signed thus losing all that cash. Would all of his posse pay him back for the bad advice?
For all intents and purposes the player salaries are paid out of the shared revenue. If you take the total amount of the TV contracts (shared revenue) and divide by 32 (number of teams) you get a number that's right in the ball park of the cap. And that doesn't even count the visiting ticket gate and a few other revenue streams that are shared.
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hmm. would use new rings dude! and then rehone the bores (can you even do that safely with the crank etc in?)
its an idea tho, apart from i simply cant afford it mate, i am struggling to get 150 quid! plus the mot and tax are up next week & end of month
this way i get very nearly the same power and its a 10 minute job for 150 quid, it really does make bhp/£££ sense!
doing the 215 job would give me about 2-5bhp more and cost 5 times as much assuming you mean get even wilder cams which will cost me, or just the piston work and rings & rebuild bits would be over 150 alone and give me no gains over the standard.
this way i can also go for high comp intruders and adj pulleys for more torque at a later date.
plus theres the fact hardly anyone runs this setup so its a bit different innit


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Huawei closes in on Apple in China
Right now, the Android operating system is absolutely dominating the Chinese market. To get a snapshot of this, we can look at how iOS smartphones accounted for about 25% of urban sales in 2014, with the Android operating system constituting an overwhelming majority of the remaining 75%. However, Apple is responsible for that entire 25%, whereas Android sales are scattered across a slew of competing companies like Huawei, Xiaomi, Meizu, and Oppo. However, the growth of iPhone sales has been in decline since 2014, and now one of the Android companies is closing the gap.
Huawei is the dark horse that everybody is starting to notice. Back in 2014, the scrappy company only sold 5% of Android smartphones worldwide. By the beginning of this year, Huawei had nearly tripled this figure, snagging 14% of the global smartphone market. That's a pretty massive figure for a company that hardly has any presence at all in the US, and has only recently broken into European markets. Huawei's invasion of Europe has been pretty damn successful, with their numbers doubling in both France and Great Britain over the course of 2015 to secure a number-four position in brand ranking, while achieving second place in Italy, Spain, and Germany.
But that doesn't even touch on where Huawei is really killing it, because these guys have quickly become a force to be reckoned with on their home turf of China. While Apple's growth has slowed substantially since 2014, Huawei has been briskly closing the gap, capturing fully 24.3% of the market. Love 'em or hate 'em, this Chinese company is establishing itself as a major global player in the smartphone industry, and they've got some crazy momentum on their side.
What are your thoughts regarding the ongoing rise of Huawei? Have you had experience with their products before? Let us know your opinions in the comments below!Next: Apple iPhone 6 vs Huawei P8 – hands on67
- Dizzle
I only have the Huawei smart watch, and so far I like it.
- RiTCHiE
Think my next phone might be a Huawei if they hammer the camera with RAW support :)
- Andre Senge
You should jump to Huawei , they are a great company with great products.
- RiTCHiE
yea the hardware always looks nice and think they push tech way more then brands like samsung. But how is huawei on the software side?
- Andre Senge
Well my opinion the software is a whole lot better looking then Samsung Touchwiz and LG's. They say some features don't work right with Huawei's EMUI but haven't noticed anything wrong with it and that it looks like IOS? Not really and if so well so what, its still an Android phone and for there to be a hint of IOS is kinda cool.
- iDroid0
The software's a bit of an iClone if you're OK with that, but all the system animations run at a super smooth 60FPS and there's less lag than stock, so it's pretty cool. Just make sure to go to the "Security Center" and turn off "auto-close" for all of your apps that send notifications, otherwise you might not get notifications.
- Filly Jnr
Only problem is software… Its shiet
- Andre Senge
Its not perfect nor is it bad either.
- itfa
The 5x is very bad.
- Milomar
I have the Huawei mate 7, best phone I ever had.
- colin haller
I bought one for my daughter — the value proposition is unbeatable
- Link_Alcera
For me it's like the story of Blackberry and Mac/Iphone all over again where as before Iphone took over and now its the other way around if Mac/Iphone don't make something "innovative". Just my two cent… ^_^'
- Filly Jnr
- the Apple is NOT that big
Apple 25% market share is for URBAN CHINA (city)
for all china, apple is bellow 10%.
- The-Sailor-Man
WTF is this "urban china" BS? Who invented it and why? Oh wait….
And why AA use it without to mention it?
- Anon
urban china's population is already larger than double the entire american population so yea. it's already a very serious market
- balcobomber25
Urban China is a term used by the World Bank. Roughly 56% of Chinese citizens live in Urban China. That is about 760 million people, only India would have more people if Urban China was it's own country. You really need to do some research before posting about things you have no clue about.
- coldspring22 .
What's pretty shocking is factory workers in China buying an iphone with several months of salary to make a fashion statement. Realistically, given a base iphone 6S is over $850 in China, much smaller fraction of population can really afford it – even in urban China. Longer term, 25% Apple market share of urban Chinese market is not sustainable, at $1000 per iphone pop
- abazigal
Haven't we been through this already?
1) Market share is the means, profit is the end. All the phones sold in the world doesn't mean anything if they don't allow you to make a meaningful profit (LG's legendary 1.4 cents per handset sold last year comes to mind). What is Huawei's profit looking like?
2) I am of the opinion that the line between iPhones and Android phones is more deeply drawn than ever. I have every reason to believe that Huawei's success will come more at the expense of its other Android competitors than to Apple's detriment.
First it was Samsung. Then Xiaomi. Now Huawei. How many companies have been touted as the next "iPhone killer" and failed miserably? I think the website would be better served worrying about the "race to the bottom" impact these entrants will have. Beneficial to consumers in the short run due to lower prices, not doubt, but I can't see it boding well for the long-term viability of these companies.
- The-Sailor-Man
Samsung still is selling more than Apple in China.
This article is misleading.
- Diego
They almost don't make a profit tho.
- The-Sailor-Man
No . Huawei don't make profit.
Samsung make much profit but spend also a lot for R&D
But this atricle is about market share. Right? And AA lie.
- balcobomber25
Get your facts straight instead of just making stuff up to look smart. According to multiple actual sources Huawei had a profit of 5.5 billion last year.
- Diego
Samsung sells more low end and mid range smartphones then flagships.
- The-Sailor-Man
That's just your guess. Right?
Apple also sell many old models that counts as low end.
- Diego
Old iPhones hold their value tho.
- The-Sailor-Man
Did you read what is the article about???
Yes , 25% market is a lie. Period.
- RiTCHiE
isn't it about how much money you make of the phones then about how many you sell? You can sell 5 million units with like 2 dollar profit or like 1 million with 100+ dollar profit.
- The-Sailor-Man
No! It isn't.
It's about market share.
Read the article.
- mrochester
This. The whole point of having a business is to produce products and to make money. This is the single biggest metric which we should use to determine how successful a company is. Marketshare does not pay wages.
- HotelQuebec
Only an idiot consumer worries about someone else profiting. Do you have the same idiot mentality when you go buy a car and gloat about profitable you made the car lot? Most smart consumers try to pay near or below invoice.
- mrochester
So what do you propose we should use as a metric to measure how successful these companies are?
- abazigal
Only a fool would dismiss the importance of profit margins when analysing how successful a company is either.
Profits are what pay the bills and ensure that the company in question will continue to remain around in the long run to churn out the products that you love.
How or why the company in question is profitable is irrelevant here.
- coldspring22 .
So that's why Microsoft, the king of profit center in 90's with billions sitting in the bank, totally crushed Google and Apple? Billions sitting in the bank is one thing, but that's pretty much meaningless if a company has a clueless leadership. And don't be shocked if Apple (already) has clueless leadership in place. Only Steve Jobs seem to have any clue about running Apple and he's not coming back for third time!! Apple is the next Microsoft (if they are lucky)!
- seattle tech
There are reasons why some of these companies never disclose profit. It's because they aren't making any or it's slim. It would show the true value of the companies like xiaomi. It's ok though because they are getting billions injected by the state.
- balcobomber25
Huawei had a profit of 5.5 billion last year, I would say it is looking pretty good especially considering they weren't in some of the largest markets in the world till this year like the US.
- AbbyZFresh
5.5 billion from its telecommunications division. their smartphone division is hardly making net income.
- balcobomber25
You must have access to their detailed financial report, so prove it.
- Huawei P9 User
Here you go again bashing Huawei like a jealous little girl. Smh
- coldspring22 .
That might be true for company run by bean counters (e.g. Apple), but not true in general. American companies usually put high profit as ultimate goal of business, and sell out when profit margin becomes low. That's why Asian companies now dominate virtually all of consumer electronics business. Believe it or not, Apple has lost smart phone war and the future dominance in smart phone market because of Apple's short sighted goal for maximization of near term profit. Total luxury smart phone market (phones sold over $600) may be 300 million units today, but it might become 200 million, then 100 million units total, as people find mid range and entry level phones becoming ever more compelling, and plenty capable for their use cases. Apple's share in global smart phone market is destined for continual decline, eventually ending up in single digit range, just as their mac business, confined to the boutique niche.
- abazigal
You wouldn't be the first person to claim that Apple is doomed, and you wouldn't be the first person to be dead wrong either.
Apple today is more successful than ever, and I believe this simply represents the start of its ascent all the way to the top. Admit it, Apple is going to keep doing what it is doing for a very long time, and there is nothing its competition can do to stop this. Today, Apple has grown so powerful that its notable struggles are with the govt and the FBI. Not Microsoft. Not Google. Not any Android OEM.
Yes, smartphones may have reached "good enough" but guess what? These are Android phones, not iPhones. The people who want iPhones and the benefits of the Apple ecosystem are still going to get an iPhone in the near future. Apple's market share may fall, but you are forgetting that even a small market share is still a very large number of phones sold in an absolute sense. Each piece of Apple hardware sold this way is extremely profitable in its own right.
Apple has won.
- coldspring22 .
LOL, Apple has won? isheep chewing on weeds? Nope, Android has won!!. Only ifanboys and Apple brass doesn't know it yet. In 2009, ifanboys said Android was DOA! How did that predictoin go? LOL!! Since then , Android went from less than 20% market share to 85% market share global!! And where did Iphone and IOS go from 2009 to 2016? Don't look yet, but Apple had historic first down quarter for iphone sales already (74.5 million sold to consumers Q1 2015 —> 71.5 milllion sold to consumers in Q1 2016). Next quarter will also be another down quarter for iphone (per Tim Cook!!). And next one? Can iphone learn to do ipad dance and go for 8 straight quarters of YOY decline?? BTW, Who said anything about doomed? Ifanboys always bleet DOOM DOOM DOOM whenever anyone has even tiniest criticism for their cherished Apple corp. I just said Apple will shrink back to be one of the companies in the pack of many other OEMs out there (except they are always trying to compete alone against rest of the world), and the Android has totally crushed all competition and will increasingly dominate the future of smart phone market, regardless ifanboy fantasies.
- The-Sailor-Man
How did you invented this 25% for Apple in China, iboys????
This is total lie!!!!
Same trick , as you did long ago , to divide the Galaxy S4 on two – US and International , so iphone sale to be on first place , followed by S4 International and S4 US on second and third place.
- Exare
For why you type space in front comma?
- The-Sailor-Man
Good question .
- Fifth313ment
For why you don't? LOL
- balcobomber25
How did you invented your own language??
As for Apple they have had between a 15-20% share of the Chinese market the last year, 25% isn't out of the question.
- The-Sailor-Man
25% is out of the question. Lie
Apple is declining. Now is less than 10% in whole China.
The trick AA made to promote their lovely Apple is to invent the term "Urban China" and ignore China. LOL
- balcobomber25
Urban China makes up more than 50% of the entire country, over 700 million people. According to the most recent research they around 13% in the whole of China. The difference between Urban China and the rest is Urban China is the only place Apple markets their products. The poor farmers and factory workers in rural China can't afford iphones.
- abazigal
This. The people who look at raw market share in a vacuum fail to acknowledge that not all customers are created equal. That small percentage of people in China who do buy an iPhone also happen to represent a sizeable majority of people with enough disposable income to afford an expensive, high-end flagship phone in the first place.
- balcobomber25
On sites like this China scares a lot of people. And it is because of this fear that they often say things without thinking or without having any facts to back it up. They live in a glass bubble and ignore the problems of their own countries. They don't realize that for the most part China is just like any other country.
- coldspring22 .
True, no way 25% of Chinese people can afford massively overpriced iphone (particularly in China, where base iphone 6S with measly 16G storage goes for over $850). Annual average family income in China is just $10K per year. If a family with two kids were to buy iphone for everyone every year, that would forking over $4000 out of $10K to Apple. Hope the iphone crazy Chinese family doesn't needs to eat or have a roof over their head!!
- Hector Diaz
Huawei is not a bad product but it has a bad support. I can say because it because I owned Huawei G700, G735, P6 and P7. The last 2 their top smartphones but they don't give any upgrade to international customers. The G700 came with Android 4.2.1 and still there the P6 with 4.2 and the P7 on KitKat and still there. That's why I change to Nexus phone because you buy I phone brand new to get at list some update and still waiting. Companies that doesn't give support shouldn't be on the Market.
They lose me and my family as customers because of that.
- Chesz Heaven-
They do upgrade OS'. I have a mate 7 kitkat and I upgraded to Lollipop to Marshmallow. Maybe you're not checking the Updater..
- Harry Garland
I have the Nexus 6P which is manufactured by Huawei and is probably the best phone I have owned.
- micah Owensby
Same as Dizzle. I own a Huawei Watch, and by God it is a fine, fine device. if Huawei releases some of their high end devices through a carrier ID be more than happy to pick one up.
- jay
Apple will always have a hard time were the price is to high. Canada iPhone 6s plus is around 1300. Huawei is 279$. My wife has one and is really a good phone. Is around 1000$ cheaper and has all these bells and whistles
- RiTCHiE
Well people that buy apple, buy it for the brand and ecosystem because they think owning a iphone makes them a better human ;) But you have to see this 50/50…. 50% just follow the hype and buy whatever and 50% wants to have the best phone for their needs. I love android but know that old people and kids love iOS where teen and young adults love android due to its customizability.
- jay
Well don't think teens buying android due to Imessage. I see it on my son he needed an iPhone because all his friends have one. So he preferred an iPhone 5s over the note 4.
- balcobomber25
Not all Huawei models are cheap. The P8 launched for $530 (16GB) and $630 (64GB), the P8 Max was $588 (16) and $688 (32). In many countries an iPhone isn't that much more expensive. In China specifically the difference is about $200-300.
- jay
Prefer paying 600 than 1100
- balcobomber25
1100 depends where you live. In some countries the prices aren't that different, for instance when I was living in Thailand, the newest Huawei flagship was selling for around $750, the iPhone 6 was selling for around $800.
- spewak
Nexus 6p. Solid look, feel and construction.
- seattle tech
How is Huawei a dark horse? It's the 800 lb country owned gorilla
- balcobomber25
Huawei is an employee owned company, Financial Times did a complete investigation of them and found that the ownership shares are split between 80,000 employees. They could find no links to the Chinese government.
- Andree Lopez
The Nexus 6p and the Mate line are examples of what this company can bring to the Market
- itfa
They also produced the 5x, which shows exactly how bad their software engineering can be as well. They need to work on consistency.
- shihantha
The 5x is developed by LG. Not Huawei.
- itfa
Go ahead and look up the Huawei Honor 5X. It's a $200 phone available in the US market. Good specs, good build quality, absolute garbage software.
- Karly Johnston
The 615 is a garbage processor so not so good specs.
- Ali Algureishy
Good job Huawei keep fucking apple
- Hung Solo
And what percentage of those android handsets are iPhone clones? Lol!
- balcobomber25
Not many. Clones are going away, some Chinese looks similar just like the iPhone 6 looks similar to the HTC One.
- hiya
i have honor 7 and its a fantastic phone, with astonishing price/quality ratio
i dont really like huawei's os but thats fixed with launchers like nova
- Roger Allen
Ive had four Huawei devices and they have all been amazing devices (Mate 7, P8 Max, Mediapad M1 & M2). I can see why they are quickly climbing up the rankings. Hope they continue to build impressive devices…..but change the software! :-)
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London Independent | April 15, 2007
Rupert Cornwell
As energy-rich Russia grows ever more confident, accusing the US of flouting international law, and Washington moves to deploy an anti-missile system on Moscow's doorstep, you could be forgiven for believing that we're back to the bad old days of Soviet-US confrontation .
Take a Russian leader who accuses the US of flouting international law and threatens a new arms race. Add an American President who accuses Moscow of bullying its neighbours and who wants to deploy an anti-missile system on the outer marches of the old Soviet empire to protect them. Stir in an increasingly autocratic Kremlin that seeks to eliminate (perhaps even physically) its enemies, be they at home or in exile abroad.
A bare couple of decades ago, such ingredients added up to the old, real Cold War. History never repeats itself, Mark Twain famously remarked; at best it rhymes. Right now, however, the rhyming is becoming quite deafening.
The Soviet Union may be no more, and Russia no longer a superpower. But study the mix of circumstances, and a casual historian could be forgiven for believing a new Cold War is upon us.
For all the above elements are in place today, as they were back in the 1970s and early 1980s. "The United States has overstepped its national borders in every way," thunders the master of the Kremlin, "and as a result, no one feels safe... such a policy stimulates an arms race." The speaker could have been Leonid Brezhnev a generation ago. In fact, it was Vladimir Putin, addressing a European security conference in Munich in February.
Back in those same early 1980s, Ronald Reagan sketched out his "Star Wars" vision of a strategic defence system to destroy incoming Soviet missiles. Today, the US is about to install an anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic, which Moscow denounces as the first step towards an American encirclement, aimed at rendering its own nuclear arsenal useless.
Domestically, too, Mr Putin's Russia is rekindling memories of the old repressive Soviet Union. These days, it is true, opposition is permitted - but not much. Criticise too harshly, and you risk sharing the fate of the crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in Moscow by persons unknown, or of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent and Putin critic who was poisoned by polonium in London last year, in equally mysterious and suspicious circumstances.
Despite appearances, however, this is not a return to the past. The real Cold War ended in the storm-tossed seas off Malta in December 1989 - as this correspondent, who was there and not noted for his sea legs, uncomfortably and vividly remembers.
The Soviet Union staggered on for two more years, but at their summit aboard the cruise liner Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Gorbachev and the father of the current President Bush buried the hatchet. From that moment, the two countries no longer regarded each other as enemies - as Gennady Gerasimov, the suave Kremlin spokesman of the day, put it in a rhyme that Twain would have enjoyed: "From Yalta to Malta."
Almost 18 years later, that remains the case. "This isn't the first time since the end of the Cold War that that there's been talk of a new one," says Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of state and President Bill Clinton's point man for dealings with Russia. "Back in 1995, Boris Yeltsin talked of a 'cold peace'. What I see now is not a return to the old difficulties, but the exacerbation of new ones."
These new difficulties fall far short of war. In war, whether hot or cold, each side seeks victory. Right now Russia and the US glare icily at each other, but neither is seeking the elimination of the other. No longer do they offer rival ideological models; no longer is Europe, the prime battleground of the real Cold War, divided into two opposing, heavily armed military blocs.
True, Russia - not al-Qa'ida, Osama bin Laden or even China - remains the one state capable of wiping the US off the face of the Earth. But it has neither the intention nor the incentive to do so. In the bad old days, none knew better than Moscow's intelligence services the weaknesses of the Soviet Union and the limits to its power. That applies to the new Russia under Mr Putin, an old KGB hand himself.
Beyond argument, relations have gone from bad to worse since 2001, when this President Bush proclaimed after his first meeting with Mr Putin that he had been able to "get a sense of his soul" and the 9/11 attacks made Moscow and Washington allies in the war on radical Islamist terror. Then came the unilateral US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, cornerstone of every superpower arms agreement since 1972, followed by the US-led war on Iraq that Russia, like "Old Europe", so vehemently opposed.
Trampling on Russian sensibilities, the US pushed strongly to have the three Baltic states, former constituent republics of the Soviet Union, admitted to Nato in 2004. As Mr Putin tightened his domestic grip, Washington handed out ever more frequent lectures about the "democracy deficit" in Russia. Then came the plans to install the missile shield in two former Warsaw Pact states - provoking Mr Putin's tirade in Munich against "a world in which there is one master, one sovereign, with a greater and greater disdain for the basic principles of international law. Who likes this? Who is happy about this?" Most certainly not Russia.
But Mr Putin's complaints are not a return to specifically Soviet, Cold War attitudes. They are the refrain of Russia's rulers throughout the ages, be they tsars, general secretaries or elected presidents. This is the Russia eternally paranoid about encroachment from the West, the Russia that was invaded by Napoleon in 1812 and by Hitler in 1941, the Russia that believes that control of the countries that border it, especially to the west, is essential for its own security.
To outsiders - not to mention those neighbours Moscow wants to push around - such assertiveness comes across as bullying aggression. But that is not how Russia sees it. Even the most revanchist accept that the outer ring of old Eastern Europe is gone, probably for good. But Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania belong to the "near abroad", the inner ring of non-Russian republics that were actually part of the Soviet Union. Their accession to Nato was thus seen as the West pushing Russia's back against the wall.
The difference now is that Russia can push back. A decade ago, under the chaotic Mr Yeltsin, the country almost fell apart. It could bluster, but invariably, and humiliatingly, it had to give in. No longer. Thanks to its vast energy riches, today's Russia is solvent, self-confident and awash in the commodities everyone craves. Mr Putin's political methods may not be pretty, but Russia once again has a strong central state that demands respect.
Though the Soviet Union and the former Communist Europe are gone, Russia can legitimately claim to be a great power. But, Mr Talbott asks: "What do they mean by great power? They want to be part of the globalised world. Yet they want the rest of the world to accept them on Russian terms. That can't be the end of the conversation. They have to accept the rules of the international community, the rule of law and so on." Which, of course, is exactly Mr Putin's complaint against the US.
In that sense we are back to the Cold War, when each side used double standards. Today, the US condemns Russia for seeking to meddle in the affairs of its neighbours, even as it meddles in Ukraine and Georgia. Russia answers in similar vein, even as it opens and shuts the oil and gas taps to show who's boss. The White House says Russia must let events in Ukraine and elsewhere take their course - but would it sit idly by, were Moscow to actively seek pro-Russian governments in Mexico or Canada?
The row over the anti-missile shield should be seen in this context. Both sides' arguments make sense, up to a point. Russia is right to point out that neither Iran nor North Korea, the "rogue states" Washington claims are the reason for the shield, is going to launch an attack on Western Europe, nor is an Iranian long-range threat against the US likely for a decade at least. So why the rush?
The US can equally argue that it is ludicrous for Moscow to claim that this tiny deployment - an initial 10 interceptors in Poland and a hi-tech radar system in the Czech Republic - could nullify the thousands of warheads in Russia's arsenal.
Mr Talbott himself calls the proposal "a big mistake". Not only is it unclear if the scheme would work ("Basically, it's the ghost of 'Star Wars' clunking around in heavy chains"); it also puts further strain on an already wobbly arms control system.
"A unilateral anti-missile project would fundamentally alter the continent's strategic landscape" and be "an affront to all Europeans", Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, told the FT last week. Moscow's game could not be clearer. It has noted the differences between Europe and the US, and seeks to drive the wedge deeper. But that's not war, not even a cold one. It's just a cold shower of reality.
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