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Groupon was forced to restate earnings results for its first quarter as a public company after discovering “material weakness” in its accounting controls, it said late Friday, forcing us to wonder if they used a Groupon for accounting services. Read More »

 
 

Ever since co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO in January, Google has been getting more businesslike, shutting down projects like Google Health and now Google Labs. While this may be a sign of maturity, it could also make the company less experimental — and less … Read More »

AOL managed to beat analysts’ estimates for revenue and earnings for the latest quarter, thanks in part to some asset sales that boosted the bottom line. But the company’s advertising business continues to shrink rapidly, even as it’s spending hundreds of millions on acquisitions. Read More »

Google today on its quarterly earnings call broke out some numbers that it doesn’t historically give (and doesn’t promise to give in the future): revenue and monetization rates for display, video and mobile advertising. The intent was to show that Google isn’t just a search company. … Read More »

AT&T Bets Big on the Internet of Things

AT&T’s said today its wireless division grew to account for 45 percent of revenues in the first quarter. Indeed, the carrier is betting big on wireless through the sale of phones with data plans and an emphasis on providing wireless connectivity for the Internet of things. Read More »

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz trumpeted the comeback of display ads on today’s earnings call with analysts, saying “Frankly our competition is television.” She said her company is looking to make acquisitions in 2010, including niche web content businesses. Read More »

Intel's Results Rocked, But It Can't Count On the Old Guard

Intel this afternoon reported fourth-quarter profits that rocketed past expectations, buoyed by a rebound in the PC market. But unlike the past two decades, the chip maker can’t count on continued growth in PC buying and other familiar benefactors to keep its momentum up. Read More »

How the Nook Nicked B&N's Q2 Numbers

For Barnes & Noble, sold-out pre-orders for the Nook were a rare bit of good news in its second quarter, but chasing demand for the device is forcing it to hike its investment in manufacturing. Still, it thinks the e-book game is one it can win. Read More »

Rich Carriers Got Richer in Q3

The rich mobile carriers got a little richer in the third quarter, as the nation’s top two operators increased their leads over the rest of the field. Verizon Wireless added a million subscribers and posted revenue of $15.8 billion, up 24.4 percent year-over-year, while AT&T … Read More »

Nokia's U.S. Disappearing Act Continues

Shares of Nokia plummeted after the world’s largest handset maker posted a brutal quarter and a loss of $832 million. And while the company raised its industry outlook for the rest of the year, its dissolving presence in the U.S. is particularly worrisome. And there’s … Read More »

eBay's Frail Recovery Shows How Far It's Fallen

At first glance, it looks like eBay and Amazon are swapping fortunes. eBay’s stock rose 11 percent the day after it posted second-quarter earnings this week, while Amazon’s stock dropped 8 percent in the wake of its own report. Amazon reported better numbers — … Read More »

More Must Reads

Microsoft is changing the way it does business and is opening up, according to a long elaborate press release the company issued this morning. I am reading through it and will try and make sense of it all. At first blush looks like the leopard … Read More »

Ever since Google’s stock-withering earnings report, I’ve had the Flaming Lips’ “Waiting for a Superman” stuck in my head. Things are indeed getting heavy, and everyone was waiting for Google to lift the sun into the sky. That didn’t happen, and Google’s stock was … Read More »

Stock markets around the world are tumbling, with the Dow staying firmly in negative territory even in the face of an emergency interest-rate cut. And ready or not, the parade of technology earnings is on its way as well. A handful of tech bellwethers have already … Read More »

I am one of two founders in a startup. Both of us come from a creative background – but even though *we are artists,* we are both firmly grounded in and have a good grasp of technology and business. Still, one of the core qualities of … Read More »

One observation about this whole Web 2.0 thing – all the smart entrepreneurs are incredibly young. I just thought it would be fun to give them a little bit of a history lesson and introduce them to names, ideas, and things from the recent past – … Read More »

Xero Mobile, a MVNO with roots going back to the infamous Gizmondo device company has now gone public by executing a reverse merger with a shell company. This is the kind of move which waves all sorts of red flags. Never mind it … Read More »

There was time, like a year ago, when CES was all about cool gadgets. Not any more – take this latest gizmo from Sony Japan. Its a hybrid mouse and a voip phone. Aka Mouse Talk. Plug-into the USB port of any Windows PC (not … Read More »

GigaTunes December 2005, an ethereal mix of globetronic sounds to wind down 2005! Read More »

As Jeff says, enough of this Web 2.0 stuff. I am going back to the roots. You will see what I mean. Read More »

Crain’s New York Business is reporting that EarthLink will soon start selling its service over Con Ed’s power lines in Manhattan in the next several months, following an FCC vote last week to set new ground rules for commercial deployment of the service. The company … Read More »

This is the kind of day most start-ups wait for. Flarion has just learned that that Siemens will build wireless equipment based on its Flash-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology, and will market it to the new and emerging telecom markets like those in Eastern … Read More »

Can you believe it? It has been almost a year since I wrote about TowerStream, a tiny Rhode Island company that proved that if you use enough common sense you can make fixed wireless work, and that you don’t need to raise billions from the stock … Read More »

Forbes has a fascinating look at NTT DoCoMo and the changes inside the company, and its decision to embrace open standards. The story is about Kei-Ichi Enoki, an executive vice president at the company and how he is pushing I-Mode into new markets. “Consumers … Read More »

AOL is finally getting its VoIP act together, and is about to start beta testing its VoIP services, powered by Level 3. A poster on DSLReports forum posted this introductory email: “Thanks and congratulations! You have been successfully registered as an AOL VoIP Trial Enabled … Read More »

First is said no way, today it says maybe. Sprint is going to test and experiment with Flarion’s 4g wireless technology, according to this report. Speaking at a Lehman Brothers’ conference, Sprint Chief Operating Officer Len Lauer said that his company will be looking at … Read More »

SBC is finally flexing its muscles in the UNE-P side of things, The company and clueless Washington have once again proved that with enough money, anything is for sale. In case you were wondering about my rant, I was responding to this news that SBC has … Read More »

Looks like Texas Instruments is becoming the big winner of this trend towards more powerful feature packed phones. Healthy demand from the phone makers is helping TI boost its revenues and sales, as per its mid-quarter update on March 8, 2004. The company narrowed its revenue … Read More »

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