Motorola to Launch Yet Another “iPhone Killer”
courtesy of Apple Inc.Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Motorola will try to exit a sales dive that started with the end of the popularity of the RAZR close to a decade ago. Motorola will release…
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Newest first · Page 54Stocks to Buy as the Samsung Galaxy S4 Sales Boom
courtesy of SamsungThe Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone went on sale the last week of April across 327 networks in 155 countries. The GS4 is reported to be flying off the shelves and is the top-selling phone…
AT&T’s Brilliant Move to Increase Customer Revenue
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has come up with a brilliant way to increase revenue in its wireless unit. Its explanation of the new fees is almost too complicated to understand.…
Samsung Sells 10 Million Galaxy S4 Units in the First Month
courtesy of SamsungThe Samsung Galaxy S4, often considered the only real rival to the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5, may be posting sales that are even more impressive that the iPhone’s. The South…
Dish Network Cites National Security Threat of Sprint Acquisition by Softbank
ThinkstockIt was perhaps inevitable that the fight between Japan’s Softbank and Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) over Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) would take turn in this direction. In a not-at-all-veiled attempt to paint…
Top Ten U.S. Wireless Trends in 2013 for Investors to Bank On
ThinkstockThe intense battle for the wireless customer and the consumer dollar heated up in the first quarter of 2013. Surprisingly, smartphone activation, which is a key data point for the carriers, actually slowed. While…
Clearwire Shareholders Score Victory with Higher Buyout Offer
ThinkstockClearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) is getting the higher buyout price offer from Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) that has been rumored to be coming. The new increased offer is at $3.40 per share in…
Dish Network Goes After Another Helping of Wireless Spectrum
ThinkstockEarlier this month, wireless network provider LightSquared Inc. received permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use a band of wireless spectrum for a period of three months to test whether or not…
Oppenheimer Offers Communication, Wireless and Cloud Stocks to Buy
ThinkstockWireless continued to be a strong performing sector in the first quarter. While competition continues to squeeze margins, the need for speed and data is becoming the most important part of the earnings equation.…
Samsung Captures Virtually All the Profit in Android Market
courtesy of SamsungTo say that Samsung Electronics dominates the market for smartphones using the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an understatement. The Korean electronics giant reaps 95% of the profit…
iPhone Market Share Falls in Q1: Gartner
courtesy of Apple Inc.In the first quarter of 2013, worldwide mobile phone sales totaled nearly 426 million units, up about 0.7% compared with the first quarter of 2012. Smartphone sales comprised nearly half the…
BlackBerry, Nokia Push New Mobile Phones
Courtesy BlackBerryYou can be forgiven if you forgot that BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) announced a new mobile phone dubbed the Q10 in its late January announcement that included the announcement of its first touch-screen model,…
Verizon Wireless Dividend Creates Smoke Screen over Verizon and Vodafone Merger
courtesy of Verizon WirelessVerizon Communication Inc. (NYSE: VZ) should be a story all about the dividend news today after it said that it would pay out a $7 billion dividend. However, it is not…
Gartner Says Samsung and Apple Sales Up Despite Smartphone Slowdown Danger
courtesy of SamsungFirst-quarter cellphone sales may have been good for Samsung and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), but the numbers were brutal for their smaller competitors. As a matter of fact, most of the industry…
Fifty Billion Apple App Downloads
courtesy of AppleAnother day, another countdown. This one touts the success of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) App Store. Last week Apple launched a real-time counter as downloads from the App Store homed in…