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As Apple and Samsung accelerate, HTC’s sales fade away
gigaom.com
Once high-flying Android manufacturer HTC reported weak fourth quarter results and forecast an even tougher first quarter as competition from Apple and Samsung squeezed the Taiwanese smartphone maker. HTC reported revenue of 101.42 billion Taiwan dollars or $3.48 billion with earnings of 10.94 billion Taiwanese dollars or $369 million, good for...
LivingSocial launches branded Visa Card in cahoots with Chase
thenextweb.com
LivingSocial has announced the launch of the LivingSocial Rewards Visa Card in conjunction with Chase Card Services, the US consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. In what is being touted as the “first ever partnership of its kind”, the card promises to give LivingSocial users additional...
Live Blog: Apple Announces Cash Plans
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What is Apple Inc. doing with its roughly $100 billion cash pile? Bloomberg Apple has far more cash than any other U.S. corporation, thanks in part to the sales of its iPad tablets. Apple this morning announced it will issue its first dividend since December 1995 — a $2.65 per...
Online work marketplace oDesk lands $15m, former Chegg exec as new CFO
thenextweb.com
Online workplace company oDesk, originally founded in 2003, has raised $15 million in Series D funding. The fresh capital comes from T. Rowe Price, Globespan Capital Partners, Benchmark Capital and Sigma Partners. Furthermore, the company has scored a coup by hiring Gregory Stanger as its new chief financial officer. A...
HTC reaffirms its commitment to Beats Audio, says media speculation is “categorically inaccurate”
thenextweb.com
HTC has moved quickly to rubbish claims that the company is dissatisfied with its partnership with Beats Audio, today confirming that it is committed to developing its brand with the audio-centric company. The company recently appointed Chia-Lin Chang as its new Chief Financial Officer, replacing Winston Yung, who transitioned to a corporate...
HTC: Apple And Samsung Are Clobbering Us (AAPL, GOOG)
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Remember when HTC was the hot Android phone maker? Those days appear to be over. Ryan Kim at GigaOm reports: In the first quarter, HTC said it was expecting revenue of between 65 billion and 70 billion Taiwanese dollars or $2.20-2.37 billion, which could amount to as much as a...
Google Fiber launches in Kansas City
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Google opened its announcement of Google Fiber in Kansas City with this animation. Google Google announced its highly-anticipated Google Fiber service today, bringing 1Gbps Internet access to selected residents of Kansas City. The service will be available for a $300 installation fee to households in Kansas City, and will launch...
While its stock price declines, EA hires former Yahoo CFO to head up its financial operations
thenextweb.com
Digital entertainment giant Electronic Arts (EA) has appointed Blake Jorgensen as its EVP and Chief Financial Officer, a role that will see him report directly to CEO John Riccitiello. Jorgensen starts in early September and will have responsibility for the company’s global financial operations. Jorgensen, who lives in the San...
Facebook’s record-breaking IPO reportedly set for May 18th
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Social networking giant Facebook is reportedly set to make its initial public offering on May 18th, a day later than earlier reports had claimed. Company co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and chief financial officer David Ebersman will take part in a roadshow beginning...
Facebook Will Start Offering Paid Apps, Beta Program Starts Now
techcrunch.com
Facebook’s platform may have come to life on the back of freemium apps, but now it’s taking another page from Apple’s playbook by offering paid apps. A beta program starting now will let developers charge Facebook users a flat fee to use their apps. This will cover both HTML5 apps and...
Cloudability Raises $8.7 Million From Foundry Group For Service To Track Cloud Spending
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Portland-based Cloudability has raised $8.7 million from the Foundry Group in a Series A round for its service that tracks cloud costs and gives better visbility into spending for online services that often go unmonitored. Other participants in the round include 500 Startups, Trinity Ventures and Wieden + Kennedy, one of...
Canada To Launch Its Own Version Of BitCoin Called MintChip
www.fastcompany.com
Last week, Canada's finance ministry announced the country would soon no longer be distributing the country's one-cent piece, effectively killing the penny. Now, in yet another sign that money is transitioning away from physical currency, the Royal Canadian Mint, the government-owned corporation that produces Canada's coinage, is set to...
Facebook IPO set for 18 May
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Mark Zuckerberg to join Facebook IPO roadshow ahead of company stock market float on 18 MayFacebook shares will float on the US stock market on Friday 18 May, with a "roadshow" for the company's enthusiastically-awaited initial public offering to begin next Monday including its founder Mark Zuckerberg, according to Silicon...
HTC Is Getting Clobbered After Its CFO Unexpectedly Leaves The Company
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Shares of HTC Corp fell as much as 6 percent on Tuesday after a change in its chief financial officer and the imminent launch of a new phone by arch rival Samsung Electronics raised concerns over the Taiwanese firm's recovery. HTC has been losing market share to...
WordPress.com Parent Company Automattic On Track To Make $45M In Revenue This Year
techcrunch.com
Automattic, the software company best known for running the for-profit fork of the WordPress blog publishing system, is perhaps the best proof out there that blogging can be a real business. The company, which was founded in 2005 by 28-year-old WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg, disclosed some big numbers in an...
Verizon Executive Potentially Hints at iPhone Launch in Fourth Quarter 2012
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As noted by CNET, Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo made a comment during today's earnings release conference call that many are interpreting as a hint that the next-generation iPhone will be launching in the fourth quarter of this year.Apple's next iteration of the iPhone could drop in the fourth...
EA Shares Slip 9% In After-Hours As The Company Forecasts Losses For The Quarter
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EA shares slipped 9.5 percent in after-hours trading to $13.70 as the company said it expected losses of 40 to 45 cents a share for the next quarter. It said it expects to make $4.1 billion for the year and will lose 16 to 36 cents a share, on a...
Verizon Clarifies Discontinuation of Grandfathered Unlimited Data: Applies to New Subsidized Devices
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Verizon yesterday made headlines for comments from Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo revealing that the carrier is planning to discontinue its grandfathered unlimited data plans when the carrier rolls out new shared data plans this summer. Verizon dropped those unlimited data plans within months of introducing the iPhone early last...
Verizon Clarifies Discontinuation of Grandfathered Unlimited Data: Applies to New Subsidized Devices
Yelp’s Post-IPO Earnings: $27.6M in Revenue, Up 59% From A Year Earlier, But Net Loss Triples
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In its first ever earnings report as a publicly-traded company, Yelp said it earned $27.6 million in revenue up 59 percent from the $16.5 million it made in the same time a year ago. It lost $9.8 million, more than triple the $2.7 million it lost in the same time...
Apple plans dividend, buyback — will pay out $45B over 3 years
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Apple this morning confirmed plans to start start issuing a dividend for the first time in 17 years — part of a plan to pay out $45 billion over three years as a means of reducing its cash balance, now approaching $100 billion. A quarterly dividend of $2.65 will start sometime...
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha: “Entrepreneurs Don’t Appreciate When They’re Onto A Good Thing”
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TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington sat down with Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha in another fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012 this morning. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Botha served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal during its sale to eBay, and today considers himself a champion of consumer web plays....
Facebook Execs Feel Betrayed By Nasdaq, But They Won't Switch Exchanges (FB)
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It looks like Facebook is choosing to be frenemies with Nasdaq. Facebook's executives have decided to keep the company's stock listed on the Nasdaq rather than switching to the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reports. The reason, according to the Journal, is that Facebook's executives are concerned...
Facebook’s roadshow video will tug at your heart
venturebeat.com
Facebook has released its “retail roadshow video,” encouraging more than just bankers to get in on Facebook’s stock, but speaking to a broader public — a public who has used Facebook every day since 2005. “Your life is an amazing story that a lot of people would be interested...
Zynga insiders sold $500,000,000 of stock ... four months before the stock cratered
venturebeat.com
Uh oh. This one really doesn’t look good. In fact, the optics are about as bad as they can get. As Henry Blodget points out, Zynga insiders including Marc Pincus cashed out just last quarter, selling 43 million shares for over half a billion dollars. Just yesterday, results for the...
Baidu earns $1.26 per share on $859 million in revenue in Q2, beating analyst projections
thenextweb.com
Baidu reported second quarter earnings of $1.26 per share, and revenues of $859 million. Both figures exceeded analyst expectations. This is a breaking story, please refresh for updates. What follows is the company’s full release: Second Quarter 2012 Highlights Total revenues in the second quarter of 2012 were RMB5.456 billion ($858.8 million), a...
Verizon drops hint on iPhone 5, calls for Q4 launch
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Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo gives a potential time frame for the launch of the next version of Apple's smash-hit phone. [Read more]...
First Zynga stock sell-off insider trading lawsuit filed
venturebeat.com
Soon after Zynga’s crash-and-burn quarter reduced its stock to the $3 level, five legal firms announced investigations into allegations of insider trading. The problem? As we reported before, Zynga executives and investors including CEO Marc Pincus sold over $500 million in stock just three months before. Pincus sold $200 million of Zynga...
HTC promises change after admitting its bulky LTE phones have been weak so far
www.bgr.com
HTC on Monday reported that the company’s fourth quarter earnings missed analysts’ estimates. While speaking on the vendor’s earnings call, HTC’s chief financial officer said that the manufacturer ”dropped the ball” with its 2011 devices, SlashGear reports. Winston Yung admitted that the company’s LTE handsets were too thick, offered insufficient battery life...
Boot up: Oracle sues over Lodsys, Vint Cerf on net regulation, Asus' 'sexist' tweet, and more
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Plus flexible glass displays for phones, and Henry Blodget on the TV businessA quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamOracle sues to smash patent troll Lodsys >> Mobile Technology NewsOracle, it seems, is not one for irony. Right after an epic...
Apple LTE chip supplier Qualcomm unable to meet demand, could push back next iPhone launch
9to5mac.com
According to a report from Reuters, Apple’s LTE chip supplier Qualcomm is having “trouble meeting demand” for smartphone chips and will continue experiencing manufacturing constraints throughout the rest of the year. Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs told analysts on a conference call yesterday, “At this stage we cannot secure...
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