You have 1 month to finish your LEGO design proposal before the May deadline
LEGO has just announced six product proposals that passed its Winter 2014 Product Review. They include Legend of Zelda and UCS DeLorean Time Machine designs. …
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 most ominous Bitcoin trend
Last week, Bitcoin’s value tumbled 9% in one day on news that China’s central bank had ordered banks and payment companies to close trading accounts belonging to more …
Apple’s ultimate revenge: It just made Microsoft relevant again
“Windows” has one of the five biggest trending topics on Twitter this afternoon. All four of the top iPad apps measured by download volume in America are …
Meet the $1,000 smartphone designed to take the highest-quality selfies in the world
Smartphone volume growth is slowing down sharply right about now. Average sales prices for even high-end handsets are tumbling and sub-$200 smartphones without subsidies are becoming a …
Clock ticks for mankind as ‘Cyberdyne’ goes public
Of course, Skynet cannot triumph over humanity until a corporation solves the problem of how to create sentient killer machines. We are now one step closer …
The man who took the iconic Windows XP wallpaper photo has bitter regrets
Lush green hills under a cobalt blue sky with precisely the right amount of fluffy clouds floating about. Who hasn’t been lost in reverie staring …
BlackBerry’s big moment: Can it make money with BBM?
The messaging app market has really started to heat up after Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion and after Alibaba’s investment in the far more obscure …
On Oculus Rift and Facebook’s grand acquisitions
So… Microsoft buys Nokia, Yahoo buys Tumblr, Twitter buys Vine, Google buys Nest, Facebook buys Instagram, Facebook buys WhatsApp, Facebook buys Oculus Rift. Notice the pattern …
Spring iPhone sales are looking extremely weak
Apple is basically facing a triple whammy for iPhone sales this spring. The overall smartphone market is currently going through a notable slowdown in sales …
Can Ray-Ban’s manufacturer make Google Glass hip?
Google Glass has been mercilessly mocked as clunky and nerdy, despite attempts to associate the pricey device with fashion shows and trendy magazine pieces. A …
Microsoft finds surprising new ways to undermine Windows hardware
It seems increasingly likely that Microsoft Office will be announced for the iPad within days. This could be a substantial blow for Windows tablet manufacturers …
Yes, the maker of Candy Crush Saga could really be worth $8 billion
There was much excited or dismissive chatter about British mobile game titan King on Wednesday after the Candy Crush Saga maker announced its initial public …
Apple’s end goal: Cripple Samsung’s ability to profit from smartphones
Florian Mueller, the leading phone patent maven, writes about a fascinating new twist in the handset industry patent wars. Mueller has in the past been …
Is Nokia about to become a giant unstoppable patent troll?
The Korea Electronics Association has submitted a petition to Fair Trade Commission opposing Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s phone unit. Koreans are restating the theory that many …
Sprint owner’s promise: Give me T-Mobile and I will deliver a price war
Japanese tech titan SoftBank bought Sprint last year and now it really wants to buy T-Mobile. So much so, in fact, that SoftBank’s President is …
How Facebook is grinding its mobile app rivals into dust
Yahoo keeps grimly churning through acquisitions; buying and shutting down small tech firms with mechanical fervor. Facebook is buying far bigger, far more expensive companies …
Amazon looks primed to give HTC, Motorola and LG a knockout punch
The latest Chitika statistics show Samsung gobbling up 55% of web traffic that Android devices generate in North America. No surprise. But what is intriguing …
2014’s smartphone slowdown is extremely painful for Apple
Apple’s profit growth has stalled. The company started an aggressive Chinese expansion program this winter to rejuvenate its iPhone division. Now IDC is sketching out a …
HTC may shock the world with its smartest move in years
In Barcelona’s Mobile World Conference, there was something that the industry has not seen in three years: Buzz about HTC. In particular, there was speculation …
Netflix’s next game-changer
New York has won the competition to become the shooting location for the four Marvel miniseries that Disney is producing for Netflix. These 52 collective …
T-Mobile’s ‘Uncarrier revolution’ could fizzle out
T-Mobile’s aggressive new plans have generated massive media coverage and its flamboyant CEO has turned into a bit of a nerd superstar. But now that …
Nintendo’s new nightmare
Sony’s PlayStation 4 has finally debuted in Japan… and it is a big problem for Nintendo. According to Famitsu, the PS4 had a pretty great launch …
Nokia’s new Windows Phone strategy is guaranteed to confuse everyone
How is Nokia going to explain the differences between its Asha feature phone application system, the Windows Phone 8 app system and the new Asha/Windows/Android …
WhatsApp backlash drives 5 million users to a Russian rival app… in one day
Telegram Messenger is the blockbuster app of the moment as backlash against the Facebook-WhatsApp merger gathers steam. Anti-WhatsApp sentiment has helped the obscure Russian app …
WhatsApp’s hidden weakness
WhatsApp’s global success has been nothing short of epic, of course, By now, the app is hitting 450 million monthly active users. It’s a reach …
Mobile games have become ridiculously lucrative over the past year
Why was there such a media storm over Flappy Bird? Why is the upcoming IPO of King getting so much coverage? Maybe because mobile game …
Elop’s last gift: Nokia’s brand value is swirling down the drain
The latest Brandirectory survey on global brands is out and it’s got some grim news for Microsoft: The value of the handset brand it bought …
Viber sold for nearly $1 billion – how much is BlackBerry’s BBM worth?
Japanese internet powerhouse Rakuten announced that it acquired Viber for $900 million. Viber has 300 million registered users and is known for its strength in Africa, …
We just learned that the leading mobile app makes 60 times more money than Flappy Bird
This has been an illuminating month for the mobile application business. Based on its daily download volume (as high as 2 million) and simple banner …
