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Google CEO Larry Page went on the earnings call this afternoon to apologize for the accidental early release of the company’s Q3 financial results. He sounded remarkably tired and/or sick, while going through highlights of Google’s accomplishments for the quarter. “It’s a truly exciting time to be at Google,” Page said at the conclusion...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced that enough is enough. The agency has had it with illegal prerecorded telemarketing calls and wants you to solve the problem. The free FTC Robocall Challenge is offering a $50,000 cash prize to whoever creates the best technical solution that blocks commercial robocalls on landlines and mobile...
Microsoft’s quarter wasn’t spectacular. The company missed expectations, and has declined roughly 3% in after hours trading. Time to run for shelter? Not exactly. The leading narrative from the company’s earnings is that the Windows division took a beating. This is true, in a sense. Here’s Microsoft’s own description of the results: The Windows...
There’s finally cause for celebration for the mobile community in India after Google announced that it has finally enabled developers in the country to sell paid apps for Android through its Google Play app store. The move to open the paid app ecosystem in the country, which Google says has grown to become its...
The search giant was supposed to report earnings after the close of business today. Instead it jumped the gun and shocked Wall Street and Silicon Valley with a huge miss on both earnings and revenues. Then news broke that the announcement itself was a mistake. What the hell is going on in Mountain View?...
Google Thursday announced a new $249 Samsung Chromebook, finally delivering a Web-optimized computer at a price that makes sense for consumers. The “new Samsung Chromebook,” as Google executives officially refer to it, will complement the existing $449 Chromebook and the $329 Chromebox computers, both of which are also manufactured by Samsung. Sundar Pichai, senior...
We’ve all been there. The phone rings and it is a number you do not recognize. It might be that potential employer you were waiting to call back or the cute girl you gave your number to at the pub the other day. You pick up the phone answer: “You’ve been pre-selected for a...
While Nokia’s struggles continued in the third quarter, its oft-ignored infrastructure joint venture with Siemens actually had some good news to report. Nokia Siemens Networks posted a record profit of €323 million ($424 million), all thanks to recent successes in LTE equipment sales – a market that NSN was struggling to compete in just...