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HTC Sales Continue Steep Upward Trend

Ina Fried in Mobile on July 29, 2011 at 12:05 pm PT

The Taiwanese cellphone maker had another record quarter, with profit and revenue both doubling from a year earlier.

HTC and AT&T Update Their Facebook Status to “Coming Soon”

Ina Fried in Mobile on June 29, 2011 at 10:47 am PT

The companies confirm the Facebook-centric HTC phone, now known as the Status, will be hitting AT&T this summer. The device, first shown at Mobile World Congress in February, has a dedicated button for sharing all manner of content to the social network.

HTC Posts Strong Results and Outlook, Plans to Add 1,000 Workers

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 29, 2011 at 12:02 pm PT

HTC reported a huge first quarter as phone shipments nearly tripled from a year ago. The Taiwanese phone maker predicted continued growth for the current quarter and said it plans to hire 1,000 people as it seeks to further distinguish itself from its rivals.

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Q&A Service ChaCha Raises $20 Million More

Peter Kafka in Media on October 13, 2010 at 5:53 pm PT

Q&A service ChaCha, which has already raised $52 million in funding, has added another $20 million. This round was led by Rho Ventures and VantagePoint, and sources familiar with the transaction insist that the money is for growth and not liquidity for early investors. ChaCha competes in a field chock-full of rivals, from Yahoo and Answers.com down to new entrants like Quora. The company last raised $7 million in an E round in December 2009; the company claims to reach 15 million unique users between its online and mobile platforms.

How Does ChaCha Make Money?

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on May 1, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Walt Mossberg answers questions about the ChaCha cellphone search service, sharing bandwidth and the Dell XPS One all-in-one desktop.

If You Have ChaCha and a Cellphone, You Have Answers

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on April 24, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

A free cellphone service called ChaCha lets you ask any question answerable via a Web search, by simply making a voice call. In most cases, it gave fast, accurate answers. But it has a few weaknesses.