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If you've had your fill of endless runner type of games on smartphones and tablets, you have no one but Imangi Studios to thank or blame. The game studio has just announced that the popular Temple Run game and its sequel has been downloaded a total of 1 billion...
The Verizon Wireless Q1 2014 quarterly report is in and it looks like revenues are up year-over-year. Details from the report show the first quarter total revenues as $20.9 billion, which is a 6.9 percent year-over-year increase. Additionally, service revenues were $18.0 billion and that made for a 7.5...
Gartner has released a new study today, and they’re forecasting big mobile phone and tablet shipments for 2014. They believe that at the end of 2014, OEMs around the globe will have shipped 1.895 billion devices, a 4.6% increase over 2013. According to them, lower-end and mid-range devices are...
Facebook made a somewhat surprising acquisition yesterday afternoon. Just in case anyone missed that bit, Facebook grabbed Oculus VR for $2 billion. But along with news of the acquisition came word of active users for both Facebook on mobile devices, and also for Instagram.
During an investor call dealing...
In an interview with CNBC at MWC this week, Blackberry CEO John Chen was asked about the WhatsApp purchase. Considering he runs a company that exists almost solely as a messenger service for consumers, putting him in direct competition with WhatsApp, his opinion is of interest. The answer to...
The Nokia X is official, an €89 ($122) Android smartphone reskinned with a Windows Phone-style UI and priced to sell in the sort of developing markets Nokia and Microsoft see as being the next-but-one generation of Lumia buyers.
Inside the brightly colored interchangeable casing - available in green, black,...
With Facebook’s massive acquisition of WhatsApp, many were curious as to why the social networking giant would be interested in a messaging platform. More to the point, why were they interested to the tune of $19 billion? Even more curious was WhatsApp’s rebuffing of Google’s apparent advances to acquire...
In the aftermath of Google’s Motorola sale to Lenovo, some are immediately questioning the monetary loss. Did Google just cost themselves $9.5 billion? Fortunately, no. While there is likely an immediate short-term loss, the longer play could prove fruitful for Google.
When Google purchased Motorola, the final price was right...
It’s official: Motorola is now a Lenovo company. The purchase is worth $2.91 billion, and includes $1.41 billion to be paid at closing. The rest will be in the form of a three year promissory note.
Of the $1.41 billion to be paid at the time of closing, $660 million...
According to the International Data Corporation or IDC, global smartphone shipments have reached a staggering 1,004.2 million units in 2013, a few million short of its forecast of 1,010.4 million units. This represents another milestone in the smartphone industry, which has grown by 38.4 percent from the 725.3 million...
At a conference in Germany, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum had some interesting remarks. The most newsworthy of which being that the messaging service now traffics over 50 billion messages daily. That’s impressive, especially when you consider there are only about 50 people working at WhatsApp, and 430 million users...
Blackberry news never seems to be good these days. CEOs being fired, executives leaving, and a buyout that never was. The canadian company just can’t seem to catch a break. Though there is a slim silver lining to this dark cloud, the news that Blackberry lost $4.4 billion in...