Skype faces trouble on both desktop and iPhone
It’s no surprise that AIM and Yahoo Messenger are collapsing, with unique visitor counts declining by about 30-40% year on year, according to comScore. But …
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 horrifying Wii U sales collapse
There are rumors about Wii U sales in North America slipping below 40,000 units in April. But it’s a fact that Wii U sales in …
Are the new messaging apps from Facebook and Google a sign of fear?
It’s pretty fascinating that Facebook and Google debuted new messaging paradigms within six weeks of each other. Facebook Home’s one key feature is the prominent …
Good news for Google Fiber: Broadcast TV audiences are cratering faster than ever
The early reviews of Google Fiber are in from Kansas City and one of the most attractive features of the service seems to be how …
Amazon tablets soar in mobile content consumption
Millenial Media, a leading mobile advertising platform, is out with another Mobile Mix report. It shows Amazon’s tablets gaining share in the mobile content market at …
Fear of American pop culture drives European smartphone, tablet taxes
European governments are casting a baleful eye on the explosive smartphone and tablet growth. The problem for many Europeans lies in the way these devices …
Samsung, Apple and others escape as slumping feature phone sales haunt Nokia
The PC market isn’t the only tech sector in trouble. According to Gartner’s new numbers, Asia-Pacific is the only region in the world where mobile phone …
BlackBerry and the fateful Q5 pricing question
When BlackBerry really began its tailspin in the summer of 2011, the reason was clear. Handsets in the new Bold lineup were too expensive for emerging …
As NASDAQ rallies, smartphone sector has been a crushing disappointment
Over the last 12 months, the NASDAQ has moved up by 17%, a respectable performance. However, most of the best-known hedge funds in the world …
iPhone rebounds in the world’s biggest smartphone market
Chinese smartphone shipments hit a heady 82 million units in the first quarter this year. This is more than three times the smartphone shipment volume …
The bitter irony of Nokia’s camera fixation
Nokia’s Lumia 928 will launch soon and once again, Nokia is betting the farm on camera quality to sell its flagship phone. The chances that consumers …
Messaging apps’ bold new plan: Cut deals to be preloaded onto phones
A few weeks ago, Nokia launched a WhatsApp phone that featured a special button that gives direct access to the messaging app. Now Path has …
It’s now or never — will Verizon finally back Nokia?
BlackBerry’s market share at Verizon has crashed below 0.5% even as the Windows Phone share ticked up above 5% during the first quarter of 2013. …
America’s newfound messaging obsession rocks the mobile app market
What makes Onavo’s AppRank chart so interesting is the sharp contrast it reveals compared to download charts. AppRank tells us what portion of iPhone owners …
New twist in the Zynga tragedy
Soon after its IPO, Zynga’s share price spiked above $15 in early 2012. Very little has gone right since then. Just last month, Zynga issued …
Dawn of a new era: Barnes & Noble cuts Nook price by 63% in the U.K.
Cor Blimey — beginning on Wednesday, British consumers are staring at a huge 63% price cut of the cheapest Nook eReader. The Nook Simple Touch …
Nokia’s Lumia faces a brutal May challenge from low-end Android vendors
A month ago, Nokia was surfing a wave of enthusiasm in Asia. The cheap Windows Lumia 620 and Lumia 520 models both debuted in the …
Android is now dominated by messaging apps
Perhaps the most fascinating trend in App Annie’s new March statistics is the transformation of the Google Play Android app store into a messaging app distributor. …
Twitter Music for iPhone barely outshines Nokia’s last iOS app
It is difficult for big tech companies to create hot apps. Very difficult. A few months ago, Nokia’s mapping app called HERE created a big …
T-Mobile losing its grip on smartphone sales as Sprint reaps the benefit
The latest Kantar smartphone report had many interesting tidbits about Windows Phone and iOS market share trends, but perhaps the biggest bombshell was buried in …
Broadcast TV’s nightmare begins as mobile apps dominate prime time
The latest data from analytics firm Flurry research shows that mobile apps are now used by more than 50 million people in America during the most …
Chilling deja vu as Apple starts to echo Nokia circa 2007
For those who followed Nokia closely in the past decade, some of Tim Cook’s comments are starting to trigger a weird sense of dislocation. “Our …
Messaging mania: Nokia launches a WhatsApp phone while Kik raises $19.5 million
Nokia on Wednesday launched a WhatsApp phone that includes unlimited WhatsApp messaging rolled into the retail price. And the retail price is just $72. The Asha …
Apple sees big boost from Asia Pacific growth
Apple’s March quarter shows an interesting reversal of certain key December quarter growth patterns: Asian growth outside of China was reignited with real vim, while …
iPhone sales projections are now so low it’s ridiculous
If iPhone sales volumes fall as low as some Wall Street analysts now expect during the spring quarter, the decline would actually be worse than the …
Google is trying to shrink Motorola into success
It is hard not to admire Sanjay Jha’s cool genius in handling Motorola’s sale to Google. He leveraged Motorola’s old sales contacts in Asia and …
Nokia faces the feature phone collapse it dodged in 2012
In the spring of 2012, Nokia started rolling out a broad new range of Asha feature phones and managed to astonish Wall Street for a …
Gap keeps narrowing: Google Play now delivering 90% of iOS app download volume
App Annie’s Market Index for the first quarter of 2013 shows Google Play continuing to narrow iOS’ lead in app download volume and revenue creation. …
Designer unveils $15 million iPhone 5 with 26-carat black diamond home button
We have seen luxury phones encrusted with diamonds before, and some of them are worth more than $1 million. But a British designer named Stuart …
WhatsApp now bigger than Twitter, but lead over rivals no longer seems so vast [updated]
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has been talking at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference and he revealed some numbers about the company’s performance. The figures …
