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Microsoft’s online business lost $2.6 billion for its fiscal year, mainly due to its investment in search. Yet even with Yahoo’s outsourced search business, Microsoft barely cracks 30 percent in market share, according to comScore. Last week, a Reuters Breakingviews piece that was picked up by the New York Times generated controversy and counter-commentary...
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Riding high from the release of the (admittedly) mid-range Nokia 500, the folks over at the Nokia Conversations blog have just released something else they seem very proud of: new product naming guidelines! Starting with the 500, Nokia is returning to their numerical roots for all of their future handsets. This feels like a...
The iPhone 5 is still only a beast of legend at this point, but that legend is taking on more detail every day. Here’s a brief summary of what we can expect from the next Apple smartphone based on current scuttlebutt, including a new release window just reported early Monday. Design Early case prototypes,...
Android is hot Image: Android via Flickr See Also: CHART OF THE DAY: Android Is Blowing Everyone Away The iPhone 5 Isn’t Coming Until October Android Owners Ready To Ditch Their Phones As Soon As iPhone 5 Comes Out Google’s mobile operating system Android has captured “almost” 50% of the global smartphone market, according...
MBC Ventures, an incubator fund set up by media company MBC Group, is Cairo-bound next week to meet with young Egyptian entrepreneurs looking for mentorships and investments. This is not the first time the Dubai-based fund has traveled around the Middle East in search of the best products and businesses. Last year, it visited Syria,...
With smartphone sales dwindling and both Apple and Samsung now selling more smartphone devices worldwide, Nokia has announced that it has reconsidered how it names its devices and will now label each of its devices with a numerical model, dropping the one-letter prefixes completely. Previously, Nokia has prefixed its devices with C, N and...
While many would call buyers of the 3DS who picked up their console prior to the $80 price cut expected on August 12 “suckers,” Nintendo is calling them “Ambassadors” and they’e offering them special updates to upcoming downloadable titles. These updates will include multi-player support and improved gameplay. While no one is quite clear...
Image: Dan Frommer, Business Insider Microsoft’s Windows Phone revenue is probably somewhat lower than $600 million, Seattle PI estimates via WPCentral. They reach that estimate by subtracting Microsoft’s Xbox revenue away from the whole Entertainment and Devices division, which includes mobile. Seattle PI calls this “abysmal”–by contrast Apple has two thirds of the profits...