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 …
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HTC posts first ever quarterly loss on summer sales slide
Things are getting very ugly for HTC. Per Bloomberg, HTC on Friday released a horror-filled third-quarter earnings report showing that the company had posted a …
Samsung says it’s on pace for a record operating profit
The Samsung train just keeps rolling. The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung has issued guidance for its upcoming third-quarter earnings report projecting that the …
Google acquires gesture recognition tech company Flutter
Google looks like it’s getting deeper into the world of Kinect-like gesture recognition technology. Gesture recognition software startup Flutter announced on Thursday that it has …
All good things must end: Instagram officially bringing ads to user feeds
Come on, Instagram users: You didn’t think your feed would stay blissfully ad-free forever, did you? Instagram announced on Wednesday that it will start delivering …
Twitter makes IPO filing public, will look to raise $1 billion
In line with earlier reports, Twitter on Thursday made its IPO filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission public. Twitter filed an S-1 …
As awful as the past year has been for Apple’s stock, it’s been through much worse
Fiscal 2013 was not a good year for Apple shareholders, but they have been through much worse. Apple’s fiscal year closed this past weekend and …
Samsung accused of illegally disclosing classified Apple-Nokia documents
As Samsung attempts to deal with the minor PR threat that came along with allegations of artificially boosting benchmark results on smartphones and tablets, new …
The dark side of Apple’s iBeacons
Alongside the introduction of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 7, the company also rolled out its answer to the NFC technology it has gone …
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 …
Leaving no stone unturned, BlackBerry ponders property sale
As struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry continues to look for outs, the company must explore every possibly avenue that might be helpful in raising cash. One …
Bitcoin bust: Feds break up country’s largest Bitcoin drug ring
It’s a shame that Breaking Bad had to end before we could see what would have happened if a distributor had tried to pay Walt …
BlackBerry layoffs to cost $400 million, quadrupling earlier estimates
BlackBerry’s cash reserves look set to take another hit. Bloomberg reports that BlackBerry said in a regulatory filing this week that laying off 4,500 workers …
Apple’s $147 billion cash pile accounts for 10% of all U.S. corporate cash
So it seems as though Apple has been doing pretty well for itself over the past few years. Per The Wall Street Journal, Moody’s now …
BlackBerry filing shows that company is falling apart everywhere in the world
When BlackBerry 10 first rolled out, many believed that the platform could be successful even if it never caught on in the United States as long …
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. …
Study suggests Microsoft’s ‘Bing-it-on’ claims are false [updated]
Surprise! It turns out that people who take Microsoft’s “Bing it on” challenge don’t actually prefer Bing to Google by a rate of 2-to-1. Yale …
BlackBerry reportedly draws buyout interest from Cerberus and co-founder Lazaridis
With the Fairfax Holdings deal all but certain, BlackBerry is reportedly drawing interest from at least two other suitors, a potentially positive note that could …
Comcast seen increasing speeds solely as a way to further gouge customers
It’s true that Comcast has been aggressively boosting the speeds on its network, but it may only be a pretense for getting its customers to …
Apple acknowledges iMessage issue preventing messages from being delivered
Apple has confirmed an issue with its iMessage text and picture messaging service that has left many users unable to send messages at times. The …
Google seemingly close to settling EU antitrust case
Google looks like it’s about to skate it yet another antitrust probe. The Wall Street Journal reports that Joaquín Almunia, who serves as the European Union’s …
Former Microsoft privacy advisor: ‘I don’t trust Microsoft now’
It’s doubtful that Microsoft will recruit its former privacy advisor Caspar Bowden to help it come up with witty one-liners for its next round of “Scroogled” …
Samsung Galaxy Gear review
Top smartphone makers have a bit of a problem. They got so good at selling smartphones that there aren’t enough people left to buy them …
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 review
Samsung has a problem, but the first step on the road to recovery is admitting it. There are a few common themes that characterize all …
BlackBerry: Where it all went wrong
It’s not just about the second-quarter earnings which showed a near $1 billion write-down for unsold BlackBerry Z10 phones. It’s not about the fact that …
Sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Note lineup reportedly top 40M, including 30M Note II handsets
Less than three weeks ago, Samsung announced that channel sales of its Galaxy Note lineup had topped 38 million units globally. According to a report …
iPhone 6 again rumored to see Apple begin moving away from Samsung for chip production
Samsung was still very much a part of Apple’s latest flagship iPhone 5s, having been tasked with building the 64-bit A7 processor Apple designed to …
Why Ford CEO Mulally could be the right person to lead Microsoft
With Stephen Elop’s tenure at Nokia now shrouded in controversy, Microsoft may be looking in a different direction when it comes to picking its next …
NSA admits that analysts spied on their love interests
When Sting wrote “Every Breath You Take,” he probably never imagined that someone in the future could literally act out the song word for word. …
Google looks to scoop up engineers in BlackBerry’s hometown
Former BlackBerry employees may want to get their résumés in order: Google is coming to town. Reuters reports that Google’s Motorola Mobility division is setting …
