Monthly Archives: February 2016

Play Music Valentine’s Day deal will save someone you love 50% off a subscription, even if it’s you

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Play Music pricing is competitive with the rest of the streaming music world at $9.99 a month, and for YouTube fans the added bonus of ad-free bliss with YouTube Red makes it an even more compelling offer. But regardless of whether the standard pricing is fair or not, I’m sure no one is going to get upset at the idea of saving a few dollars on it every month.

And that is precisely the deal that Google is offering up for those that are looking to give the gift of Play Music this Valentine’s Day. You can save 50% off the standard $9.99 a month pricing by purchasing either a 1-month, 3-month or 6-month subscription at $4.99, $14.98 or $29.97, respectively. I’ll leave it up to you as to whether Play Music is the right fit as a Valentine’s gift for someone in your life, but if it is, this is a nice little savings on your generous gift.

Unlike Amazon Prime, Google isn’t preventing users from giving themselves the gift of Play Music with this offer. It comes as a completely standard subscription, so you should be able to tack this on if you are an existing subscriber. And because the subscriptions don’t expire, I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t also take this opportunity to stock up on subscriptions if you want to lock in this $4.99 price for the foreseeable future.

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Key Takeaways From Expedia’s Robust Q4 2015 Earnings Result

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Expedia released its Q4 2015 earnings on February 10th. Riding on both core organic growth and its host of acquisitions, the company, as predicted, delivered yet another quarter of robust performance. In Q4 2015 (excluding eLong), Expedia’s gross bookings grew by 40% year-over-year to around $15 billion and its revenues were higher by 29% to $1.7 billion. Out of this, the acquisitions added around 28 percentage points and 19 points to gross bookings growth and revenue growth, respectively. For the full year 2015, Expedia has completed around $6 billion worth of acquisitions. The main points in the earnings call was Expedia’s recent HomeAway acquisition and how it has made the OTA the largest accommodation provider in the world with 1,508,000 listings across its platforms. Expedia’s eLong divestiture and the acquisition of Travelocity, Orbitz, Decolar, and finally, HomeAway, are all strategic decisions that are working really well for the company. However, the company might be more interested in international takeovers in 2016 and beyond. Finally, Expedia is gradually changing the economics of hotel listing on its websites by offering hotels a bidding option to choose for top slots on its pages. Though in the initial stages, this move might change the way OTAs do business with hotels in the long run. 

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What’s The Upside For BlackBerry If It Doubles Its Handset Market Share?

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There could be 70% upside to BlackBerry’s EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) if it doubles its handset market share to about 0.5% this calendar year, driven by its new high-end Android devices. This could result in a similar upside to its value, using EBITDA multiple valuation.

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