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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on August 2, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT
MetroPCS Communications Inc. reported a sharp slowdown in subscriber growth as the sputtering U.S. economy forced customers to drop their wireless service, a trend the company sees continuing.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 21, 2011 at 10:17 am PT
The surging smartphone market allowed the Taiwanese cellphone maker to report solid quarterly results and offer a prediction of more to come, but some analysts had been looking for an even rosier prediction. The Android and Windows phone maker expects to sell 8.5 million smartphones in the January quarter.
Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2010 at 8:04 am PT
In a highly hyped announcement, Cisco today unveiled a new version of its key routing system, which the networking giant said has a dozen times the traffic capacity of competitors and three times as much as the company’s previous version.
Cisco’s CEO John Chambers said the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System is aimed at the huge growth in video on the Internet, a trend that has also caused increasing slowdowns.
Cisco claimed the system could deliver all the movies ever made in just a few minutes or allow everyone in China to make a video phone call at once.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 22, 2009 at 8:58 am PT
Even as the rest of the retail world stumbled in the past year, Amazon kept cruising and increasing market share. So if a cratering economy can’t hurt the e-commerce giant, what could? Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney throws out a suggestion: Movies, books and music–the same stuff that helped Amazon get the lead it enjoys today.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on April 1, 2009 at 3:40 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions about switching networks to buy an iPhone, how to forward an email in Gmail, and more.
John Paczkowski in News on April 1, 2009 at 12:00 am PT
Global information technology spending will fare worse in 2009 than it did during the dotcom bust of 2001. That’s the grim news from Gartner, which Tuesday predicted that worldwide IT spending will slip to $3.2 trillion this year from $3.4 trillion in 2008. If that should happen, the drop will be the greatest decline in IT spending in nearly a decade.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 10, 2009 at 6:14 am PT
For much of 2008, the big ad conglomerates seemed unaffected by the global slowdown. But that had to stop sometime: Omnicom Group just announced that its fourth-quarter revenue and earnings dropped seven percent and 13.7 percent, respectively. The good(ish) news: The company thinks things will stink for at least another nine months, but sees a light at the end of the tunnel.
John Paczkowski in News on January 29, 2009 at 7:22 am PT
So the seemingly unfailing demand for Nintendo’s Wii? Failing. Though Wii manufacturer Nintendo posted a 21 percent gain in quarterly operating profit on brisk demand for the videogame console, it slashed its forecast for full-year sales of the device.
John Paczkowski in News on December 9, 2008 at 2:29 pm PT
If Motorola were a Greek tragedy, we’d be at that point in the narrative where the company is just about to blind itself out of grief–with a pair of RAZRs, of course. Two reports issued today show an already grim scenario for Motorola growing markedly worse.
John Paczkowski in News on December 9, 2008 at 2:29 pm PT
If Motorola were a Greek tragedy, we’d be at that point in the narrative where the company is just about to blind itself out of grief–with a pair of RAZRs, of course. Two reports issued today show an already grim scenario for Motorola growing markedly worse.
