By Todd Haselton |
Facebook unveiled its “Facebook Home” Android skin yesterday, alongside the HTC First which will launch with it pre-installed, but one question was left unanswered: how will ads play into the whole experience? We don’t yet know that, but Facebook is expected to make a pretty…
By Todd Haselton |
Best Buy reported its third quarter earnings on Tuesday and noted revenue of $10.75 billion and $0.04 earnings per share for the quarter, down from $11.14 billion during the third quarter of last year. The company missed Wall Street estimates of $0.12 earnings per share…
By Todd Haselton |
Mobile operators make their money from selling data packages (43% of their revenues), unlike in the past when a lot of the revenue came from text messages. Now, it appears that the mobile messaging revenue that carriers report each quarter is beginning to plateau. A…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple and HTC settled a patent dispute recently after HTC agreed to pay licensing fees to the iPhone maker. Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu said on Monday that he estimates HTC will pay Apple between $6 and $8 per handset sold, which will result in…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile released its third quarter earnings report this morning in which it recorded total revenue of $4.9 billion, down 6.4 percent since the same quarter last year. Its service revenues totaled $4.3 billion, also down 8.7 percent from the third quarter of 2011. The carrier continued…
By Todd Haselton |
MetroPCS reported its third quarter 2012 earnings on Tuesday. The carrier, which is in acquisition talks with T-Mobile USA, said it now has more than 1 million 4G LTE customers accessing its network. The carrier’s revenue was up 4% at $1.3 billion over the same…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC makes incredible smartphones, so it’s a bit worrisome that the company’s revenues are down so much year-over year. The Taiwanese firm announced on Friday that its revenues for the quarter came in at $2.4 billion with net profits at $133 million. That revenue figure…
By Killian Bell |
Samsung has this morning announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, and yet again the Korean company has enjoyed a hugely successful three months. Record smartphone sales, largely thanks to the hugely popular Galaxy S III, have helped almost double Samsung’s profits…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple just announced its fourth quarter 2012 earnings $8.67 billion versus street estimates of $8.85 billion in revenue. The company also reported $8.8 billion in net profit. Apple said it sold 25.9 million iPhones during the fourth quarter, 58% more than it sold during the…
By Todd Haselton |
Sprint reported its third quarter earnings on Thursday, in which the company noted a $767 million net loss and a loss of $0.26 per share. Despite that, the company said that its revenue increased 14 percent from a $301 million net loss during the third…
By Todd Haselton |
The iPad mini starts at $329, which is a good deal more than the entry-level Kindle Fire HD, Barnes & Noble Nook HD and the Nexus 7, but it’s still going to scare the pants off of competitors, according to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu.…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T announced its third quarter earnings Wednesday morning. The company noted total revenue of $31.5 billon for the quarter and earnings per share (EPS) of $0.63, which beat Street estimates that AT&T would report an EPS of $0.60. The company’s wireless revenue was up 6.6%…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook beat Wall Street analyst predictions on Tuesday when it published its third quarter 2012 earnings report. The social network reported revenue of $1.26 billion and earnings per share of $0.12, up 32% from the same quarter last year, which beat estimations that the company…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just posted its earnings, apparently somewhat accidentally since they were scheduled to go out after the market closed today, and things aren’t looking great. The company posted revenue of $11.33 billion and earnings per share of $9.03, which missed Street estimates of $11.86 billion…
By Killian Bell |
Nokia announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2012 on Thursday morning, and they don’t make for pleasant reading. The Finnish firm revealed a $754 million (€576 million) operating loss on $9.49 billion (€7.239 billion) in net sales, with just 2.9 million Lumia devices sold…
By Killian Bell |
HTC announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2012 on Monday morning, revealing that revenue dropped to NT$70.2 billion (approx. $2.397 billion) during the three-month period from July to September. Net income lies at just NT$3.9 billion (approx. $133 million). Those figures…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung is preparing to release its third quarter 2012 earnings and, ahead of the official publication of those earnings, has released guidance for the quarter. The South Korea-based firm expects consolidated sales to fall in between 51 trillion and 53 trillion Korean won (approx. $45.9…
By Todd Haselton |
Job cuts aren’t free. Firms typically face high expenses as they lay off employees or force them into early retirement. As such, Google expects that it will spend $300 million this quarter as it cuts 20 percent of Motorola Mobility’s employees. That cost is 9…
By Todd Haselton |
Did you just get back from prom? Happy about how great you looked and want everyone to bask in your glow? You can now promote your posts on Facebook so that it’s bumped higher in your friend’s news feeds. And it only costs $7! I’m…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook recently confirmed that it will begin to charge its partners to post “Offers” on the social network. The company’s Offers option currently allows retailers to post deals on the social network. However, Facebook used to provide this service for free. The big news here?…
By Todd Haselton |
HP just recorded a net loss of $8.85 billion for the third quarter of 2012. Ouch. The company also reported net revenue of $29.7 billion for the quarter, down from the $31.8 billion it brought in last year and $30.6 billion it reported last quarter.…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile USA reported its second quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, in which the carrier noted that its service revenues totaled $4.4 billion for the quarter, down 5.2% from the $4.6 billion recorded during the same period last year. Those revenues, however, remained on a par…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook recently announced a new platform that will allow developers to advertise applications through the social network’s mobile platform. Facebook says it has already driven 146 million users to the iTunes App Store and Google Play in the past 30 days, but the main point…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung may have shipped more smartphones than Apple during the second quarter, but that doesn’t really matter if Apple’s taking home all of the profits. An ABI Research report last month suggested that Apple and Samsung currently take about 90% of smartphone profits and have…
