John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 16 at 11:55 am PT
A two percent decline in mobile phone shipments during the first quarter of 2012 may have hurt some handset vendors, but it did little to slow Samsung.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 21, 2011 at 5:19 am PT
While its earnings results are initially encouraging, subscriber additions were below some expectations. Also: How many iPhone 4Ss has Verizon sold? We hope to find out.
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Christopher Lawton and Arild Moen, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 20, 2011 at 8:15 am PT
Nokia swung to a second successive net loss in the third quarter, but reported better-than-expected results thanks to higher sales of its low-end cell phones. Its shares rose more than 8 percent, as results highlighted an increase in shipments of its cheaper feature phones.
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Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 8, 2011 at 9:45 am PT
HTC Corp. said Friday its first-quarter net profit nearly tripled, driven by strong growth in handset shipments. The Taiwan-based company is now neck-and neck with Nokia Corp. in terms of market capitalization.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 29, 2011 at 8:55 am PT
Nokia’s obsession with Apple has officially crossed over into the Ahabian. Aghast at the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling on its first complaint against Apple, Nokia has filed a second, accusing Apple of infringing its patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets, and computers.”
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 11, 2011 at 4:02 am PT
Nokia has already announced the key piece of its strategy–a shift to Windows Phone for its future smartphones. Now the company is set to talk about the financial implications of that and go through the rest of its strategy, which includes a mix of Symbian and even a dash of MeeGo.
Mobilized has live coverage of the event, which started at around 4 am PT, or noon here in London.
John Paczkowski in News on February 4, 2011 at 8:41 am PT
Some additional perspective on Nokia’s massive mobile R&D spend and a point of comparison for its market return. Extrapolating from Bernstein Research data that estimates Nokia spent $3.9 billion on mobile research and development, Asymco’s Horace Dediu has calculated Apple’s mobile R&D spend, and there’s an astonishingly wide gulf between the two.
John Paczkowski in News on February 3, 2011 at 4:10 am PT
Nokia spent scads of cash on research and development last year, but didn’t see much return on it. Certainly, the investment did little to slow the continuing deterioration of its competitive position.
