Why BlackBerry needs an entry-level BB10 phone so desperately
It’s pretty interesting that 3% of BlackBerry users globally are Nigerian. But it’s downright shocking that more than 18% of BlackBerry’s entire worldwide subscriber base resides in …
Tero Kuittinen
After launching mobile game company SpringToys tragically early in 2000, Tero Kuittinen spent eight years doing equity research at firms including Alliance Capital and Opstock. He is currently an analyst and VP of North American sales at mobile diagnostics and expense management Alekstra, and has contributed to TheStreet.com, Forbes and Business 2.0 Magazine in addition to BGR.
Articles by Tero Kuittinen
The smartphone price crash is about to wreck two major vendors
The latest IDC estimates of smartphone price decline give us a pretty good explanation to why most phone vendors had such lousy spring quarters. The global …
Tension runs high as Netflix reports on subscriber growth
This afternoon, Netflix will report its spring quarter numbers and investors are on edge. Netflix’s share price has soared from $53 to $263 in one …
Does Verizon, T-Mobile subscriber growth spell trouble for AT&T?
Last week, Bloomberg revealed that T-Mobile is now expected to grow contract subscribers in the second quarter of 2013. The surprise development is likely tied …
Motorola is turning into a rotting albatross around Google’s neck
The albatross was a sacred animal to old mariners. The punishment for killing the big bird on a sailing ship was having to carry it around your …
Gather, darkness: The smartphone market’s witching hour is near
So Nokia missed its smartphone volume expectation by about 10%. BlackBerry missed its BlackBerry 10 volume consensus by about 15%. And HTC missed its earnings …
Nokia’s smartphone prices are dropping like a rock
Overall, Nokia’s second-quarter sales and earnings came in above expectations thanks to the strong network unit performance. But the smartphone unit volume was light at 7.4 …
NEC and the sorrow of Japan
Sadly enough, NEC’s share price rose 2.6% on the news that it is going to shutter its mobile phone unit. It’s a tragic epitaph for what …
Moment of truth for Nokia
Nokia reports its spring quarter on Thursday — and the stakes are very high, indeed. The substantial spring revenue weakness from BlackBerry and HTC implies that many second-tier …
Apple has alienated two of the largest mobile carriers in the world
MTS, Russia’s largest mobile operator, made a splash last week by announcing it will stop offering iPhones due to the high subsidies and marketing support demanded …
Do the new Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T plans signal a big smartphone downturn?
Last week, Bloomberg reported that T-Mobile is about to announce the first quarter of contract subscriber growth since 2010. The timing of the Bloomberg bombshell was …
Messaging apps escalate their global war
The triumph LINE has had with translating expensive TV campaigns into breakthrough success in three key markets — Japan, Spain and now India — has …
Hulu’s dithering is rocket fuel for Netflix
Netflix’s share price almost hit a giddy $26o on Friday as it became clear that Hulu was not going to be acquired by DirectTV or Time …
Never mind the Lumia 1020 – Nokia’s future rides on the Asha 501
Nokia on Thursday announced the $300 Lumia 1020, yet another U.S. flagship phone that is likely doomed to top out at around 300,00 to 500,000 units …
The app that ate Finland
It had been 18 months since I was last in Finland, so the extent of Angry Birds’ brand saturation came as a shock when I …
Instagram is now completely crushing Vine
On June 20th, Instagram debuted a video-sharing feature that comes very, very close to replicating Vine’s functionality. In less than 10 days, Vine shares on Twitter plunged …
PS Vita is now crushing Nintendo’s Wii U
A fascinating drama is playing out in Sony and Nintendo’s home market — the PS Vita has found a new lease on life, while the Wii …
The specter of a smartphone slow-down haunts the industry
BlackBerry missed BB10 shipment expectations by more than 20%. HTC missed profit expectations by more than 30%. Even Samsung missed profit expectations by 10%. This is starting to …
Wall Street is now convinced that Nokia will sell its handset business
Here is a puzzle: Nokia’s cash position has suddenly shrunk from 4 billion euros to 2-2.5 billion euros… but the company’s share price is higher …
The budget iPhone needs to look hideous
Pictures of candy-colored entry-level iPhones with rounded corners have started circulating. Many have branded them hideous, crude atrocities. They need to be. Apple is facing a unique …
France tightens the noose around Apple’s neck
French authorities have raided Apple’s offices in the latest escalation of hostilities between France and American technology giant, Financial Times reports. France has been slowly constructing …
German rage, French glee over new NSA spying allegations
Fury was building in Europe on Sunday as new leaks about NSA spying were published by various newspapers and magazines. Perhaps most notably, Der Spiegel …
Nokia buys Siemens stake in NSN joint venture – will an exit from the phone business follow?
For the past three years, markets have been trying to guess whether or not Nokia would dump its stake in the Nokia Siemens Networks, a mobile …
BlackBerry’s risky pricing strategy has backfired
So BlackBerry missed the BlackBerry 10 volume expectation by about 800,000 units over the last quarter. It shipped 2.7 million and the consensus was probably …
Not revealing BlackBerry 10 unit sales was a big mistake
BlackBerry’s May-quarter handset shipments of 6.8 million units was probably at least 400,000 units short of what the company needed for the quarter. That is …
iPhone app downloads up 31% in May, but Android narrowed the gap
According to Fiksu, downloads of free iPhone apps grew by 31% in May compared to the same month in 2012. This is nothing to sniff …
BlackBerry’s comeback momentum hinges on the Q5
The handset industry is waiting for BlackBerry’s May quarter report, set to be released on Friday. But it’s the August quarter guidance that may turn …
Apple and BlackBerry continue to play cruel tricks on hedge funds
One of the most popular trading ideas among tech funds is to short BlackBerry — more than 30% of its stock was sold short recently. …
BlackBerry continues to baffle Wall Street as estimates swing wildly
Wall Street’s views on BlackBerry 10 sales have been all over the map in recent months. As we approach the company’s earnings announcement for the May quarter …
Instagram video is already hurting Vine
Interestingly, Vine downloads seem to already have started sliding in several key markets just a few days after Instagram began attacking it directly. Last Thursday, Instagram added a notably …
