Motorola (MOT) Bludgeoned By Sprint (S) Samsung Phone
Wall St. is tearing into Motorola (MOT) today. The shares are down 5% to a new 52-week low at $8.14. Part of the trouble is that Sprint (S) is launching a new smartphone from…
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Newest first · Page 121Leap Wireless Tapping Capital Markets (LEAP)
Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) has a proposed $400 million offering of senior notes broken up int two groups of $200 million each this morning. Both tranches are unregistered as 144A placements. One…
Verizon (VZ) Ups Broadband Speed, But Who Will Know?
Verizon (VZ) is going to make its FiOS fiber-to-the-home product deliver even faster broadband speeds. It is hard to imagine that their customers will even know. The new product will run at 50 Mbps.…
Yahoo!’s (YHOO) 600 Million Mobile Customers (GOOG)(MSFT)(BIDU)
After some deals in Asia overnight, Yahoo! now claims that its search feature is on 600 million phones. According to Reuters, "the mobile advertising market is expected to rise to $16.2 billion in 2011…
Alcatel-Lucent Scores $1 Billion Chinese Order (ALU)
Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) announced after the close that it has signed a $1 Billion (one billion dollars) framework agreement for 2008 with China Mobile where it will provide mobile communication equipment and services to…
Nokia (NOK) Offers New Smartphone, No RIM (RIMM) Blackberry Service
Nokia (NOK) has come to market with two smartphones aimed at business users. They do not have RIM (RIMM) Blackberry e-mail services, so new customers and IT officers will have to start from scratch…
Qualcomm Surprises, Again (QCOM)
Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is seeing a very positive reaction this morning after the company raised guidance. The company sees earnings at $0.54 to $0.55 EPS, above its prior targets of $0.50 to $0.52…
Free Internet For The Masses
FCC chair Kevin Martin can’t get off the "free internet" hobby-horse. US citizens do not get free water, electricity, gas, or telephone service. Mr. Martin believes that access to the worldwide web should be…
RIM (RIMM) Ignores Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone
When Apple (AAPL) came out with its new 3G iPhone today, shares in Steve Jobs’ company fell. Shares at rival smartphone company Research-In-Motion (RIMM) rose. The new iPhone has a number of features, including…
Safaricom Soars in Kenya IPO (VOD, GAF, EZA, TRAMX)
Today was a feature we have loosely been covering on occasion, and that is investing on the final frontier here on Earth: Africa. Interestingly enough, Vodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD) is tied into this…
Nokia (NOK) Makes Another Run At Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone
Nokia (NOK) can’t seem to get the message the consumers don’t want pseudo Apple (AAPL) iPhones. The world’s largest handset maker will release its new N96 super-sophisticated handset later this year. According to Reuters,…
Patent Pool To Drive WiMax Adoption, If Anyone Wants It (S)(CSCO)(INTC)(ALU)((CLWR)(T)
Several companies which hold most of the patents for super-fast wireless broadband technology WiMax have creating a patent pool to keep licensing fees down. Included in the new arrangement are Cisco (CSCO), Intel (INTC),…
O2 May Give Free Apple (AAPL) iPhones In UK
O2, which has the exlusive distribution rights to the Apple (AAPL) iPhone in the UK, may give away free 3G versions of the handset when it comes out next week. Why? If a customer…
Reader Comment: Wang Jianzhou, Head Of China Mobile Will Be At Apple (AAPL) WWDC
We rarely publish reader comments or letters, but we want to pass along one from Kirit Vora, who has an MIT e-mail address, and may be the same man who is president of staff…
Apple (AAPL) Faces Potential Revenue Drop On iPhone
Apple (AAPL) is almost certain to make two changes to its iPhone pricing model when it releases version 2.0 next week. The first is that it will drop the price that consumers will pay…