Sorry, Samsung: Obama’s not bailing you out with an import ban veto
If Samsung was hoping to get the Apple treatment by securing an import ban veto from the Obama administration, it just got a rude awakening. …
Articles by Brad Reed
HTC trots out the ‘bad marketing’ scapegoat for earnings crash
HTC seems to have moved its headquarters to Egypt because right now it’s swimming in denial. HTC chairperson Cher Wang recently told Bloomberg TV that her company’s collapsing …
BlackBerry’s best chance may be in the boring – but profitable – world of corporate MDM
What’s often lost in all the gloom surrounding BlackBerry’s collapsing handset business is that the company is set up pretty well to become a more …
LG plans to release its first curved-screen smartphone in November
Here comes the next big smartphone fad: Curved, flexible displays. Reuters reports that LG Display has started mass producing flexible smartphone displays that LG will …
Samsung seen missing Galaxy S4 sales targets, all to Apple’s benefit
Although Samsung is a wildly profitable company it may be relying on Apple for revenue a lot more than it wants to. Business Insider flags …
Meet the Galaxy J, Samsung’s first ‘phablet mini’
It was only a matter of time before Samsung decided to create a hybrid combining its most popular smartphone with its most popular phablet. Engadget …
The HTC death watch has officially begun
HTC’s ability to survive as an independent company may be past the point of no return. Asymco’s Horace Dediu notes that once most manufacturers start …
Samsung rumored to be working on its own version of Google Glass
Samsung see, Samsung do. Eldar Murtazin, the founder of Russian website Mobile-review, writes on his Twitter account that Samsung is planning to unveil its own version of Google …
SEC: Apple’s tax dodging is perfectly legal
Stashing profits in offshore havens to avoid taxes might look unseemly but it also happens to be perfectly legal. Per AllThingsD, it seems that the …
Video: Samsung’s Galaxy Gear ad is cooler than the actual watch
Critics may have savaged Samsung’s first Galaxy Gear smartwatch but that hasn’t stopped the company’s crack marketing team from churning out a terrific ad that’s …
Patent trolls may have found a way to make everyone hate them even more
Although patent trolls are already one of the least liked groups in the United States, they may have found a way to make themselves even …
BlackBerry seen burning through its cash pile in just 18 months
How big of a bonfire can you make with a $2.6 billion cash pile? We may be about to find out. AllThingsD points us to …
Apple and Samsung are still the only smartphone companies winning in the U.S.
It’s hard to make a case that any company other than Apple or Samsung has any momentum in the American smartphone market. The latest numbers …
Did BlackBerry ever really stand a chance against iOS and Android?
There’s no shortage of articles out there — some of which may have been posted on BGR from time to time — highlighting all the …
The bitterest pill: BlackBerry Z30 won’t be sold by Canada’s largest wireless carrier [updated]
It’s been an ugly year for BlackBerry so far and now it seems that the company can’t even count on one of its home country’s …
iPhone 5c price slashed to $50 at Best Buy after just 2 weeks
In a potentially ominous sign for early sales, Best Buy has slashed the price of the iPhone 5c in half after just two weeks. ABC …
HTC’s latest cunning comeback plan: Dual-boot Windows Phone onto its Android handsets
HTC may have found an even worse comeback plan than building a third Facebook phone. Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that Microsoft has approached HTC with …
HTC posts first ever quarterly loss on summer sales slide
Things are getting very ugly for HTC. Per Bloomberg, HTC on Friday released a horror-filled third-quarter earnings report showing that the company had posted a …
Samsung says it’s on pace for a record operating profit
The Samsung train just keeps rolling. The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung has issued guidance for its upcoming third-quarter earnings report projecting that the …
Android is huge in China but it’s also out of Google’s control
There’s no question that Android is far and away the No. 1 mobile operating system in China but that might not be as good for …
Google acquires gesture recognition tech company Flutter
Google looks like it’s getting deeper into the world of Kinect-like gesture recognition technology. Gesture recognition software startup Flutter announced on Thursday that it has …
All good things must end: Instagram officially bringing ads to user feeds
Come on, Instagram users: You didn’t think your feed would stay blissfully ad-free forever, did you? Instagram announced on Wednesday that it will start delivering …
Nobody wins in a government shutdown… except Netflix
With around 800,000 federal employees on furlough due to the government shutdown, they’ll have a lot more time to catch up on missed episodes of …
Apple acquires personal assistant software Cue, presumably to give Siri a brain boost
Apple is still investing to make sure its own voice-enabled personal assistant keeps up with the times. TechCrunch reports that Apple has spent at least …
Amazon’s ‘Firetube’ set-top box reportedly set for holiday launch
Forget the battle for smartphone supremacy: The war for consumers’ living rooms is where the action is. 9to5Google notes that Amazon has filed a trademark application …
Early build of Android 4.4 KitKat shown in leaked pictures
We know that Google is planning to release a new version of its mobile operating system in the near future called Android 4.4 KitKat and …
Just in time for Android 4.4 KitKat, Jelly Bean adoption rate nears 50%
It’s taken more than a year but Jelly Bean is finally approaching a 50% adoption rate among Android users. The latest numbers posted on the …
Bitcoin bust: Feds break up country’s largest Bitcoin drug ring
It’s a shame that Breaking Bad had to end before we could see what would have happened if a distributor had tried to pay Walt …
Dell unveils the Venue 11 Pro, a Windows 8.1 tablet priced to beat the Surface Pro 2
Anyone who thinks the new Surface Pro 2 looks terrific but is put off by the price may have a new alternative. Dell on Wednesday …
BlackBerry layoffs to cost $400 million, quadrupling earlier estimates
BlackBerry’s cash reserves look set to take another hit. Bloomberg reports that BlackBerry said in a regulatory filing this week that laying off 4,500 workers …
