All Entries Tagged With: "$NOK"
HP’s TouchPad Sign of a Revolution?
Last week, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) announced that it would be discontinuing production of its TouchPad tablet. The company slashed the price of its tablet to $99, in an apparent effort to quickly liquidate existing stockpiles. Perhaps coming as no surprise, demand for the tablet skyrocketed, and retailers ran out within days. At $99, the tablet [...]
What Microsoft Wants from Skype
News that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has acquired Internet communications company Skype was not a big surprise. The surprise was how much it cost. Microsoft is paying about $8.5 billion in cash for the company. The investor group that is selling Skype paid about $2 billion for the company just two years ago. Skype claims [...]
Smartphone Maker HTC Adding Software
Continuing an effort to move up the smartphone value chain, Taiwanese handset maker HTC Corp. has acquired multi-media delivery specialist Saffron Digital and purchased a stake valued at $40 million in online gaming company Onlive Inc. The market for mobile software makers is at least as competitive as the hardware market for handsets, but HTC [...]
Nokia Kills New AT&T Phone
The world’s leading maker of mobile phone handsets, Finland’s Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), has struggled with getting a competitive smartphone into the US market ever since Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone nearly four years ago. The company’s latest hope was a phone using the latest version of the Symbian operating system, dubbed the [...]
Top Management Shake-Up and New Symbian OS – Still, Betting Against Nokia?
For anyone wondering what’s happened to Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK), there does not appear to be a simple answer. The Finnish company has been slowly losing market share although it still ships more mobile devices than any competitor. Nokia, which has led its industry for at least a decade, very likely became too conservative to keep [...]
Motorola Ships Fewer Phones, Makes Bigger Profit (MOT)
The Q2 earnings report from Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) beat expectations and might have been even better if the company had been able to meet demand for its newest smartphones. The Droid phones, based on the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), sold exclusively by Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone plc, have sold [...]
