Apple sold a lot of iPhones, iPads and Macs during the most recently quarter, yet Wall Street is very displeased. Based on the questions from analysts during the company’s investor call Tuesday, concern seems to center on the number of iPhones Apple sold during the quarter. Read More »
Archive for October 2011
Consert, a startup that uses Verizon’s 3G network to curb energy consumption of homes, is in the process of raising $8.75 million in equity and debt, according to a filing. Read More »
Mobile data traffic is set to explode, driven by more smartphones and tablets and the incredible growth of video traversing mobile networks. But a new video format is on its way, which could deliver the same high-quality video in half as many bits. Read More »
Cloud-storage startup Dropbox has its eyes set on being the foundation of a future where we’re never without our data. Phone, tablet, TV, car, you name it. Dropbox wants integration into everything, with its icon becoming to file access what Facebook’s icon is to sharing. Read More »
How can Vdio possibly compete with Netflix and its 25 million subscribers? That’s a question we heard a lot when we broke the story about the new video service backed by Skype’s co-founder Janus Friis yesterday. The answer may have to do with timing and location. Read More »
As national brands direct more ad spend to online video, they’re looking to deliver significant relevance. While some elements of relevance are a matter of back-end technology, like delivering a consistent view across different platforms, most critical elements lie directly in the hands of publishers. Read More »
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talked about the company’s recent growth during an interview at the Web 2.0 conference, but he also made some strong statements about Twitter’s commitment to free speech and to defending the rights of its users against governments in Britain and the U.S. Read More »
TechStars New York, now a TV brand thanks to a new Bloomberg series, graduated its second class today of would-be break out stars. The class shows that the program is still churning out a lot of quality, with a pretty polished group of graduates debuting. Read More »
Apple released its fourth quarter 2011 earnings Tuesday, reporting revenue of $28.7 billion, and earnings of $6.62 billion or $7.05 per share. That misses what Wall Street analysts had been expecting–revenue of $29.45 billion and earnings of $7.28 per share–but is above what Apple had forecast. Read More »
Motorola’s big news was supposed to be the resurrection of the Razr brand with the Droid Razr but the manufacturer took people by surprise with a new fitness and music watch called MotoACTV that drops Motorola into a fast growing market for mobile fitness devices. Read More »
Join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor DataStax for “NoSQL for big data in the enterprise: ready for prime time,” a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, at 1 p.m. PDT. We’ll cover the biggest challenges of incorporating big data and NoSQL into complex… Read More »
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