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 …
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Canadian pension fund CEO: BlackBerry sale ‘the most bizarre sales process I’ve seen’
If you have no idea what’s going on with Fairfax’s plan to buy out BlackBerry, don’t worry — prospective investors seem in the dark as …
Piracy isn’t destroying musicians’ ability to earn a living
Many musicians understandably hate online music piracy but there’s no evidence that it’s turning them into starving artists. Timothy Lee at The Washington Post’s Wonkblog …
Video: ‘Login and Pay with Amazon’ has the online retailer competing with PayPal
Amazon announced the ‘Login and Pay with Amazon’ service on Tuesday, which will allow online shoppers to use their Amazon account information to quickly complete …
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 …
Samsung knows its software can’t compete, hopes deep pockets will help
Samsung is good at a lot of things. It makes great products that consumers have been loving for the past few years, it certainly isn’t …
Sorry, Samsung: Obama’s not bailing you out with an import ban veto
If Samsung was hoping to get the Apple treatment by securing an import ban veto from the Obama administration, it just got a rude awakening. …
BlackBerry VP unloads in epic email thread with shareholder, analysts
BlackBerry VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders hasn’t done a great job in his role. But to pop off like this in an email chain …
HTC trots out the ‘bad marketing’ scapegoat for earnings crash
HTC seems to have moved its headquarters to Egypt because right now it’s swimming in denial. HTC chairperson Cher Wang recently told Bloomberg TV that her company’s collapsing …
ITU report says cellular subscriptions will nearly match global population by year-end
Late last month we shared a report from Pew Internet which stated that 15% of American adults do not use the Internet. Expanding on those …
Samsung seen missing Galaxy S4 sales targets, all to Apple’s benefit
Although Samsung is a wildly profitable company it may be relying on Apple for revenue a lot more than it wants to. Business Insider flags …
Microsoft shares Steve Ballmer’s final shareholder letter
Microsoft has been awfully busy ever since Steve Ballmer announced his retirement back in August. The company bought Nokia, introduced a new Surface tablet lineup, …
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 …
SEC: Apple’s tax dodging is perfectly legal
Stashing profits in offshore havens to avoid taxes might look unseemly but it also happens to be perfectly legal. Per AllThingsD, it seems that the …
Google, Samsung and others reportedly considering BlackBerry bids
It looks like some companies just can’t pass up a bargain. Few seemed to show real interest in BlackBerry back when the future was still …
Patent trolls may have found a way to make everyone hate them even more
Although patent trolls are already one of the least liked groups in the United States, they may have found a way to make themselves even …
BlackBerry seen burning through its cash pile in just 18 months
How big of a bonfire can you make with a $2.6 billion cash pile? We may be about to find out. AllThingsD points us to …
Apple appeals guilty verdict in eBook price-fixing case
In July, when Apple was found guilty of fixing eBook prices, the company released a statement maintaining that it was innocent of any antitrust violations. …
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 …
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 …
