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Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion were up 11% in early trading Friday after the company late Thursday posted Q2 results that beat Wall Street expectations. For its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 1, the smartphone maker reported revenue of $2.9 billion, above consensus estimates of $2.5 billion of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. […]
Crown Castle International said Friday it would acquire 7,200 cellphone towers from Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile U.S.A. for $2.4 billion in cash. Shares of Crown Castle edged down a fraction in midday trading Friday but are up 44% in 2012. “CCI paid a very full multiple for the T-Mo assets,” Macquarie Capital analyst Kevin Smithen wrote […]
Google’s newest app will track your mobile phone’s location and tip you off when you’re near a field-trip-worthy landmark, park or restaurant. The Field Trip app released Thursday for Android operating systems is one of a growing number of mobile apps that guess what users might want to eat, look at or do. These apps […]
On Thursday, AMD announced the launch of AppZone, an “online showcase” for applications and games which offers access to over 500,000 Android apps, ready to run on AMD-based Windows PCs. The emulation software enabling this crossover was developed by BlueStacks – the company responsible for technology that “married” Android and Apple’s Mac OS in June. […]
Fabless semiconductor firms are expected to face low demand in their products in the coming months, said a report from Jefferies & Co. Fabless firms develop the designs of semiconductor chips and then outsource the making to other manufacturing firms called foundries. This helps them achieve and maintain premium manufacturing standards. However, their competitors like […]
Travel industry is facing a hard time in churning profits from social media networks. Being in the recreation industry, travel agencies are the most likely candidates to convert a social network like Facebook and Twitter into a money-making machine. However, recent report from PhoCusWright says that percentage of users being referred to a travel booking […]
Research in Motion was up in the stock market on Wednesday afternoon after it released the second quarter report. The second fiscal term, ended September 1, showed optimistic view of the company compared to year-earlier quarter. Although the company announced a loss in EPS of 27 cents a pop, it was better than the 40-cent […]
The semiconductor industry is in a downward trend since mid-2012. Both US- and Europe-based chipmakers are seeing low demand of their products. Texas Instruments share were down on Wednesday, so were Infineon and Linear Technology. The second largest chipmaker in Europe, Infineon, said in a report that its third quarter results will be down slightly […]
Hewlett-Packard has been in the PC business for as long as one can remember but the wave of tablets has hampered its profitability in the industry. Its recent efforts of a turnaround have not panned out and now the company is attempting to have a take at the tablet market, again. HP is one of […]
Bank of America is getting started to enter the new market of the electronic payment via mobile devices. The bank launched a pilot software to test the technology that is in the making as well. The trial is scheduled to run for three months in which 5 retail shops are included in the area of […]
Wireless spectrum sharing is catching attention as the government says it is an option of choice. The regulators, chiefly the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are getting involved in getting the proposition to an acceptable end. In a recent statement the Obama administration has approved of the spectrum sharing proposal and has given a go-ahead to […]
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt announced on Tuesday in Tokyo that the company has not submitted a new version of Google Maps with Apple for the iOS 6. He further remained a man of few words on the making of such application for App Store. Google Board of Director’s Chairman did not answer many questions regarding […]
