All the stories tagged with: business
Qualcomm Hits Records Revenues in Q1
02/01/2012, Qualcomm has just announced record revenues for the first quarter of 2012 (Q1 2012), which is no small feat given that the company is already flying high. For comparison, the revenues of $4.68B are up 14% from last quarter, and [...]
Samsung revenues and profits soar
01/26/2012, Samsung has reported that its quarterly earnings have soared, thanks to record sales of the Galaxy line of smartphones. In the end, Samsung’s profit has gone up by 76% year over year, and up 25% quarter to quarter. Both figures [...]
Microsoft earnings don’t detail Android’s contribution
01/19/2012, Earlier today, Microsoft has announced its earnings which have met investors expectations, at least when it comes to the overall revenues and profits. Some reports have been dramatizing the 6% drop of the Windows business, but it is probably due [...]
Sony store strategy is paying off
11/29/2011, We had an opportunity to talk to Phil Molyneux (President and Chief Operating Officer, Sony Electronics Inc) in San Francisco, and we discussed about Sony’s efforts to change its overall user experience, including the store experience. As Phil Molyneux would [...]
HTC massively cuts revenue estimates
11/23/2011, HTC just tamed its growth expectations by filing a document with stock market authorities in which it says that Q4 revenues will fall short of expectations by 15%-23% (depending on each analyst expectations). The new guidance equates more or less [...]
WebOS write-off costs HP $3.3B
11/21/2011, In today’s earning call from HP, the world has learned that HP has spent $3.3 Billion to write off things related to Palm and WebOS. This comes less than two years after HP spent $1.2 Billion to acquire Palm in [...]
Intel Shows 50 Cores Chip, wows to break Exaflop barrier
11/15/2011, While Intel has talked about its Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture for some time, it has shown its 50 Cores chip for the first time today at the SC11 supercomputing conference. Codenamed Knights Corner, many 50-core chips will work as [...]
Iongrid Nexus Enterprise Cracks BYOD
11/15/2011, IonGrid just launched Nexus Enterprise, a solution that securely streams documents from an Enterprise server to an iPad, and it does so while preserving the original rendering of the document (it’s not as common as you’d think). While this may [...]
WP7 Apps @ Mobile Acceleration Week
11/10/2011, We met with Windows Phone developers who are part of a small group of companies that participate in Microsoft BizSpark, a worldwide program aimed at helping startups use Microsoft technologies (and stick with it for the long haul). They were [...]
Adobe to give up on Flash for mobile browsers
11/09/2011, Adobe has spent a great deal of time and energy making Flash work for mobiles but although Flash is relatively successful on tablets, Adobe is reportedly giving up on Flash for mobile browsers. At this point, its usefulness is relatively [...]
Pioneer Launches ZYPR Mobile API and Revenue Sharing Model
11/07/2011, Pioneer has just announced that it has launched its voice-powered ZYPR API for mobile and embedded applications like smartphone, tablets and automotive entertainment systems. The idea behind ZYPR is quite simple: there are dozens or hundreds of web services today, [...]
Sony Out of Samsung LCD Joint Venture
10/30/2011, Sony is reportedly selling some or all of its share of the Sony-Samsung LCD joint venture, which started years ago, when LCD was booming. Both companies started working together in 2004 as Sony realized that Samsung had advanced manufacturing and [...]
Amazon Profits Down 73%
10/25/2011, Amazon has been investing a lot on its tablets (including the Kindle Fire), and this shows on its quarterly earnings: the profits for the giant online retailer are down 73%, and the stock is taking a dive in after-hours and [...]
