Google is being flooded by thousands of demands to erase search results
Google has been hit by more than 12,000 requests to erase links to personal history after a landmark European court ruling, Reuters reports. On May …
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
Netflix’s real rivals: Makeup tipsters, Swedish hipsters and Keyboard Cat
We’ve already heard a lot about the triumphant success of Netflix and the rapid growth of on-demand video services from cable companies. But a brand new ARRIS …
Nintendo’s horrors multiply
Game revenue stats from the first quarter of 2014 are grim reading for Nintendo. The ailing giant is now being overtaken by multiple mobile app companies, …
Microsoft has three monsters to slay
To paraphrase the Prophesy of Daenerys from Game of Thrones: “Three beasts shall Microsoft slay – one is slate and one is late and one …
Now we know why companies are spending insane money to buy mobile apps
Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp is not going to be the last jaw-dropping deal in the mobile app industry. If you’re looking for reasons …
Interest in 3D food printing seems to be crashing pretty spectacularly
The 3D printing market has seen an explosion of creativity in recent months and it’s hard to say whether this stems from healthy demand or …
Is Bitcoin staging a stealth comeback?
The perfect storm hit Bitcoin 1 to 2 months ago: Media overexposure, weird drama about Satoshi Nakamoto, the collapse of a large Bitcoin exchange called Mt. …
Apple yanks top weed game from App Store as sleaze app popularity surges
Over the past month, one obvious trend has taken the App Store by storm: sleaze apps. Make It Rain hit the top of the iPhone …
Wolfenstein game franchise finally debuts in Germany – without Nazis
The kitschy triumph of bad taste gaming, “Castle Wolfenstein”, debuted on Apple II 33 years ago (in case you weren’t already feeling old today). The …
GoPro showed us how well defying the smartphone market can work
The biggest consumer market trend of the past decade has been how smartphones have suffocated one consumer product category after another. Portable video game consoles, …
How did this smug, 20-something Swedish hipster become YouTube’s biggest star?
Game of Thrones recently made a splash by hitting 7 million viewers for a recent episode. This was an epic number for HBO, the biggest …
The iPhone 6 may deliver a devastating blow to iPad sales
We’ve known for a while that tablet market growth has not been what people expected. Apple’s double digit sales decline of iPad units in the …
Apple suddenly looks a lot like Nokia
A mobile phone company became the leading brand in the world with shocking speed, electrified by the leadership of a charismatic, ruthless CEO. After that CEO …
Incredible nanogold paint changes color as it responds to touch
Scientists at the University of California have come up with a nifty new way to utilize nanoparticles of gold. A solution of gold particles embedded …
Why Apple’s iWatch might be much more ambitious than you think
As ZDNet reports, some recent LinkedIn profile updates indicate that Apple has hired biomedical engineers from companies including Vital Connect, Sano Intelligence, O2 Medtech and …
Future travel: Don’t pack, just email what you need to a 3D printer
An Amsterdam art gallery called Galerie VIVID is having an exhibition that amounts to a meditation of how 3D printing could reshape travel. The artist …
Amazing 3D printing pen raises $500,000 in a day
Kickstarter continues its hot streak in funding 3D printer projects. The $300 Micro has blown past $3 million, weeks after the Robo3DPrinter raised nearly $650,000 in …
Cheap 3D printers are poised to wreck companies’ powers to enforce their IP
Ten days ago a 3D printer called The Micro started a Kickstarter campaign with the modest goal of raising $50,000 in a month. With 18 days to go, …
Tablets are killing consoles in the video streaming market
There’s a major fight brewing in the rapidly growing video streaming market over which device consumers use the most to watch their favorite online content. …
Who are we to judge disaster selfies?
When camera phones begun proliferating back in 2002, many predictions were made about how they might shape future. But nobody really saw funeral selfies or post-crash ER …
Staples is about to bring 3D printing to the masses
We’re about to learn whether 3D printing will ever have mainstream appeal because Staples is now offering both an in-store printing service as well as actual …
Is Samsung’s Oscars selfie worth $1 billion?
Hollywood Reporter quotes a stunning claim made by the CEO of Publicis, which handles the international marketing for Samsung. According to Maurice Levy, the famous …
The three worst phone names the world has ever seen
We live in an age of miracles for true connoisseurs of awful phone names. We have always been able to enjoy spectacularly dumb handset branding, but …
How a careless text message cost one man $53,000
One careless text message ended up costing a Buffalo, NY-area man $53,000, Buffalo News reported earlier this week. Louis J. Billittier Jr. dumped his fiancee with a …
Another massive threat emerges for wireless carriers: Facebook
Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp has some interesting implications. Among them is the fact that Facebook is now starting to challenge mobile operators in major Western …
Cheap 3D printer raises $1 million on Kickstarter in just one day
Micro, an unusually sleek 3D printer, is about to hit $1 million in funding on Kickstarter just a day after it started raising funds. The project …
Samsung profit slides for second straight quarter in Q1
Samsung is wrestling with the same headwinds as Apple: slowing global smartphone volume growth and falling prices. Bloomberg reports that Samsung’s unaudited results show a first-quarter drop …
New Captain America movie with clear anti-NSA message is a massive hit abroad
When the original Captain America movie came out, many wondered how well it would play in massive new Asian markets like China. Would a superhero …
Internal Apple presentation on the iPhone: ‘Consumers want what we don’t have’
Three pivotal slides from the epic Samsung-Apple litigation marathon have been picked up by 9to5Mac. The most fascinating among them, titled “Consumers want what we don’t have,” …
Patent litigation jackpot: A university won a $1.5 billion suit against Marvell
The smartphone industry is caught in a maelstrom of patent litigation, with Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola and other major companies entangled in a complex matrix …
