Twitter’s triumphant IPO means party time for mobile messaging apps
Twitter stock opened trading at $45.10, instantly soaring 80% above its initial public offering price. This means that having a lot of users is much more important …
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 marketing power of messaging apps
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Netflix’s furious growth keeps Q3 entertainment spending from tanking
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A dark month for Canada
November is starting fairly disastrously for the gentle giant of the north. Apart from crack-huffing mayors and bordello-visiting pop stars, Canada must now face another …
Strong iOS game sales could spell doom for the PS Vita and Wii U
The most recent Fiksu data indicates that the iOS app market is still chugging along nicely in America. The launch of the new iPhones triggered …
Sony sees suprising smartphone traction as it gnaws at HTC’s corpse
Sony’s dreadful quarters are becoming something of an earnings season tradition. This autumn was no exception; movie flops, weakening camera sales and the slumping PC market …
Facebook’s mobile growth dazzles – and has implications for BlackBerry
Facebook delivered 18% growth of monthly active users (MAU) in its most recent quarterly earnings report — no mean feat for a company its size. …
Spotify-Tango collaboration takes messaging apps in a whole new direction
Tango and Spotify are kicking off a collaboration aimed at offering a new music sharing opportunity for Tango messaging app users. Anyone using Tango can …
20 million new BBM users in a week – what does it mean?
BlackBerry just announced that it has added 20 million iOS and Android users to its BBM messaging service in one week. This rockets BBM’s total monthly active user …
iPad sales are the lone dark cloud on Apple’s horizon
Apple beat expectations on earnings, revenue, iPhone sales and Mac sales in its fiscal Q4 earnings report on Monday. But the tablet unit remains a thorn …
BBM’s continued success is truly stunning
Something pretty strange is going on. BlackBerry is having a great week for the first time since Natasha Bedingfield topped the charts. On its third day, BBM …
BBM is conquering the iPhone as it tops iOS app charts in 66 countries
A day after being released, BBM became the most popular messaging app in the world. By 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, it was ranked as the No. 1 …
Apple is absolutely terrified of eroding tablet margins
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Netflix is now in Beast Mode
It’s hard to beat expectations after your share price has soared from $60 to $330 in a year. Incredibly hard. Yet that is what Netflix …
LG’s cruel BlackBerry death taunt triggers fierce backlash
It is not clear whether it’s ever a good idea to gloat over the destruction of your enemies. But it definitely isn’t a good idea …
A glimpse at the future of the global smartphone market
In some ways, South Korea is a snapshot of where global smartphone trends are heading. The country leads the world in smartphone market penetration by …
Why is a Japanese carrier paying $1.5 billion for half of a Finnish app vendor?
Japanese carrier SoftBank and GungHo just paid $1.5 billion for a 51% stake of Supercell. What the heck is going on? Valuing Supercell at $3 billion …
Netflix may come to cable boxes – is Breaking Bad the catalyst?
According to a recent report, Netflix is negotiating with several American cable companies in an effort to become a feature in regular set-top boxes. Comcast …
Nokia’s budget Lumia success may leave HTC with nowhere to run
HTC’s disastrous Q3 performance has triggered speculation about how the company may try its luck in the Windows Phone market after getting clobbered by tough …
Debt ceiling delay may blacken Black Friday
Retailers are already busy as beavers planning their Black Friday promotions for November 28th. But guess what else might arrive on November 28th? Default on the …
The twice cursed town called Nokia
Over the past 600 years, the tiny town of Nokia, Finland has flirted with greatness twice… only to see “Nokia” become extinct twice, first as a silky …
Amazon’s European woes: Strikes in Germany, discounts banned in France
European antipathy towards American technology giants has been at a slow boil for a couple of years and Amazon is facing growing backlash this winter …
Mario, Yoshi, other Nintendo characters now flooding Windows app store
The Windows 8 app market has struggled to gain any real traction, dwarfed by the gigantic iOS and Android app stores. But it does seem …
Twitter’s growth problem in America
It is surprising that Twitter only grew its U.S. monthly active user base by 1 million between the March and June quarters — from 48 …
Lose money, no problem: Twitter’s IPO is a California dream
The tech industry is captivated by two upcoming IPO’s, which offer an interesting contrast. Twitter is a great example of what software companies used to …
The alarming behavior of HTC’s management
The latest quarterly report horror from HTC had a psychologically fascinating element. The third-quarter loss of $100 million was nearly twice as big as the analyst consensus …
BlackBerry’s recent filing was so scary that Bernstein downgraded the stock 72 hours after upgrading it
Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferregu is known for his dramatic whiplashes — he was strongly optimistic about Nokia during its big dive and then turned deeply …
WhatsApp’s engagement drop could be a big red flag
Even as rival messaging apps such as WeChat, LINE, Kik and Tango have made progress in various markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia, it has seemed …
Another blow for HTC: Company must change chip design after losing patent fight with Nokia
HTC is working with Qualcomm to alter a chip design that has been judged to infringe on Nokia’s radio patents, The Wall Street Journal reports. …
Samsung’s messaging service hits 100M users as handset vendors’ role continues to evolve
Many people have wondered over the past years why handset vendors aren’t better at leveraging their massive device bases in launching new apps. Samsung is …
