The bright side of Google’s huge miss
Google’s second-quarter earnings badly missed Wall Street expectations, as costs-per-click (CPC), a key advertising metric, continues to show weakness. But despite the worries over mobile …
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Samsung nudges into BlackBerry’s territory, close to scoring U.S. government contract
Samsung’s plans to make its Galaxy smartphones enterprise-friendly seem to be bearing some fruit. The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung is nearing a deal …
Nvidia undeterred by gloomy projections, pledges loyalty to Windows RT
Even though manufacturers keep running away from Windows RT, chipmaker Nvidia is sticking by its commitment to make GPUs for devices based on Microsoft’s tablet …
Motorola is turning into a rotting albatross around Google’s neck
The albatross was a sacred animal to old mariners. The punishment for killing the big bird on a sailing ship was having to carry it around your …
Microsoft reports Q4 miss: $0.59 EPS on revenues of $19.89 billion
With PC sales tumbling and Microsoft continuing to struggle to find its place in the mobile market, all eyes turn to the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings …
Google posts big miss with Q2 EPS of $9.56
Google on Thursday reported earnings of $9.56 per share on revenues of $14.11 billion, thus missing Wall Street’s second-quarter EPS consensus of $10.78 on $14.4 …
Elop finally admits why Nokia didn’t switch to Android: Samsung scared him away
Every single time Nokia unveils a new smartphone or reports numbers of any kind, a familiar question is raised: What if Nokia had switched to …
Verizon intros ‘Edge’ accelerated upgrade plan as subscriber squeeze continues
With U.S. wireless carriers’ revenue growth in jeopardy, they now have no choice but to use new fees and new tricks in order to increase …
Good news amid the gloom: Lumia sales now outnumber BlackBerry sales
Investors sent Nokia shares sliding on Thursday after the vendor posted less-than-stellar results for the second quarter this year. Nokia narrowed its loss substantially in …
Verizon posts $2.25 billion Q2 profit, adds 1 million new subscribers
Verizon on Thursday posted its results for the second quarter of 2013. Wall Street was looking for earnings to climb 14% to $0.72 per share …
Nokia’s smartphone prices are dropping like a rock
Overall, Nokia’s second-quarter sales and earnings came in above expectations thanks to the strong network unit performance. But the smartphone unit volume was light at 7.4 …
Nokia narrows Q2 loss; Lumia sales reach record 7.4M, but U.S. sales slide 17%
Nokia on Thursday posted earnings results for the second quarter of 2013. The company narrowed its loss to €115 million, or approximately $151 million, which is …
Yahoo ups its efforts to compete with Google’s mobile ad powerhouse
Yahoo has been acquiring companies left and right since former Google executive Marissa Mayer became the company’s chief executive. Mayer has emphasized the importance of …
Instagram terms of service lawsuit dismissed
Instagram revised its terms of service last December in an attempt to open new doors to potential advertisers. The change was met with intense user …
Google’s antitrust proposal has been rejected by the EU
Officials from the European Commission are not satisfied with Google’s antitrust settlement proposal. The company previously said it would display links to rival services on …
Why the NSA will have a tougher time spying through the Xbox One Kinect sensor
Given all the allegations surrounding Microsoft’s supposed cooperation with the United States government on implementing the PRISM surveillance program, it’s not too far-fetched to worry that the National …
NEC and the sorrow of Japan
Sadly enough, NEC’s share price rose 2.6% on the news that it is going to shutter its mobile phone unit. It’s a tragic epitaph for what …
Huge Surface RT price cuts said to be unlikely to boost sales
Microsoft’s debut Surface RT tablet hasn’t been the runaway success the company was hoping for, so Microsoft recently slashed the price of the tablet — just …
Moment of truth for Nokia
Nokia reports its spring quarter on Thursday — and the stakes are very high, indeed. The substantial spring revenue weakness from BlackBerry and HTC implies that many second-tier …
After iPhone 5S and iOS 7 debut, Apple customers may be nearly impossible to steal
Apple users are already notoriously faithful to their consumer electronics brand of choice, but one industry watcher thinks Apple customers will soon be almost impossible …
Google, copyright holders agree on plan to starve piracy sites of cash
Google has followed through on its pledge to help copyright holders come up with a plan to starve piracy websites of funding. The Guardian reports …
HTC and Sony defeat patent troll
A federal jury in Texas on Monday found that HTC, Sony, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent do not infringe Wi-Lan’s technology, The Wall Street Journal reported. Wi-Lan, …
The never-ending Apple-Samsung patent battle goes back to court next month
Attorneys for Apple and Samsung will be heading back to court early next month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington …
Video: Samsung exec David Eun discusses new Silicon Valley accelerator
Samsung recently broke ground on a brand new Silicon Valley headquarters that just so happens to be mere minutes from Apple’s Cupertino, California campus, but …
Is Spotify helping kill off music piracy?
Artists may like griping about subscription-based music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora, but they appear to be doing a lot to kill off music …
BlackBerry reportedly slashes Z10, Q10 production in half as sales slow
BlackBerry posted fiscal first quarter results that missed analysts’ estimates by a wide margin. The company’s surprise loss was obviously troubling, but even more so …
Do the new Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T plans signal a big smartphone downturn?
Last week, Bloomberg reported that T-Mobile is about to announce the first quarter of contract subscriber growth since 2010. The timing of the Bloomberg bombshell was …
BlackBerry may now be stuck in a no-win situation
With BlackBerry’s comeback momentum seemingly stalled, many analysts have started coming up with ideas for how the company can survive if its current plan to …
How do wireless carriers plan to milk subscribers as growth slows? New fees, new tricks
How do you put your company in the best possible position to grow when you’ve seemingly squeezed customers as much as they can possibly be …
Apple reportedly in talks to acquire Kinect inventor PrimeSense [updated]
A new report suggests that Apple is interested in acquiring the company whose technology powers Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor. According to Calcalist, Apple is in talks …
