Peter Kafka in Media on March 13 at 8:19 pm PT
Walmart will move your movies to the cloud, if you bring your discs to their stores and pay up. But it won’t work with Disney films, Android machines or iOS downloads. Interested?
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 6, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Games continue to dominate the charts as the most likely category of applications to be downloaded. Surprisingly, a majority of players are willing to pay for them.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 9, 2011 at 4:01 am PT
Good news for lots of content companies like Netflix and Rhapsody. But Amazon, among others, is still going to have a big problem.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 7:32 am PT
With demand for its iOS devices growing, Apple is once again moving to secure vast storehouses of parts with which to build them. Cupertino is said to be finalizing a massive component contract with Samsung, one that would make it the company’s single largest customer.
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Shayndi Raice, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 14, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
AT&T will offer a new social gaming platform on its Android phones, as the company invests more heavily in the Google operating system in the wake of losing its exclusive hold on Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
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Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 21, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
It may not be so obvious why a Japanese mobile phone carrier would want to make Skype available on its handsets and encourage subscribers to use the Internet-based telephony service. Plus, you can already use Skype on iPhones by downloading the application…so isn’t this an old idea?
Peter Kafka in Media on October 19, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
Steve Jobs concedes that Google is indeed shipping a lot of phones. Here’s what that looks like (sort of) in the mobile ad world.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 18, 2010 at 1:37 pm PT
First hit from Apple earnings: EPS of $4.64 and revenues of $20.34 billion. The consensus was $4.05 and $18.8 billion.
The Street won’t like guidance, though: Apple is predicting Q1 EPS of $4.80, below the $5.04 analysts were looking for. They will also sputter a bit on this number: Apple sold 4.19 million iPads, and the consensus was 4.7 million. The good news: Apple sold a
lot of iPhones–14.1 million.
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Ben Worthen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 24, 2010 at 9:07 am PT
When Apple Inc.’s first iPhone came out in 2007, many companies told their employees that the device wasn’t appropriate for the workplace. The iPad is a different story.
