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A Crypto Phone? The Company Behind This Leading Cryptocurrency Is Launching One
Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 6:23pm | 772Read More...Technology giants such as Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung may have competition in the mobile phone market soon. A leading blockchain company announced a new mobile phone coming in 2023. What Happened: Solana Labs, the company behind Solana (CRYPTO: SOL), announced a crypto mobile phone in...
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How To Keep Your Mobile Device Safe
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 9:07am | 669Read More...You likely remember the days of the desktop or laptop computer. Everybody had one and everybody remembers when viruses were foremost on their mind. Then, as mobile devices slowly took over, the talk of cyber security calmed down because smartphones, in their infancy, hadn’t evolved enough to be...
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Call Up China Mobile for Growth, Value and Income Investing
Monday, December 9, 2013 - 4:43pm | 551Read More...China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) is the world's largest mobile phone company. It is the gateway to the Chinese market for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the iPhone. On recent news of a deal with China Mobile, the share price for Apple rose. Due to its market position, China Mobile is appealing for growth,...
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Coming in 2014: Free Ad-Supported Mobile Phones Including Free Data
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 11:46am | 548Read More...How would you like a free mobile phone with free calls, texts and data thrown in for good measure? In exchange, would you be willing to put up with advertising? In a recent AdExchanger column, Russell Glass, CEO of Bizo, said with 1.4 billion smartphones in use by the end of 2013, the most...
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Is 'Showrooming' Still a Boogeyman for Retailers?
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 3:11pm | 786Read More...It's become a term retailers have learned to dread: “showrooming.” That's when consumers visit brick-and-mortar stores to test out products they're considering – then head home and buy those items on-line,at a better price. Showrooming has certainly taken a toll on some retailers. A Pew...
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Could Google Glass Be The Death Of Facebook? (FB, GOOG)
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 2:24pm | 559Read More...It’s all about the process of sharing photos. At least for now. To take a picture with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Glass, simply touch the frame or say, “Take a picture.” At that moment, the picture is automatically stored and (if you wish) shared on Google+ according to Business Insider. The...
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Three Out of Four Earthlings Will Eventually Be on Facebook, According to Zuckerberg (FB)
Monday, July 29, 2013 - 11:05am | 514Read More...With more than one billion users, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), is not done growing. Not by a long shot, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who laid out a plan Business Insider said would add five billion more “Facebookers” to the rolls over coming years. With an expected global population of 8.1...
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IDC's 1% Tablet Forecast Increase Masks a Huge Decrease in Expectations for Google Android
Friday, June 15, 2012 - 2:36pm | 821Read More...By Michael Comeau, Minyanville Yesterday, market research firm IDC increased its 2012 tablet market forecast by a measly 1.2% from 106.1 million to 107.4 million units. However, after performing a little seventh-grade math, IDC has an awfully murky outlook for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android...
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Smartphones Account for 40 Percent of Total Mobile Users, 40 Percent Own Android
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 8:05am | 487Read More...The Nielsen Company released new data Thursday showing that U.S. mobile phone users are beginning to adopt smartphones more and more. The charts show that smartphone owners now account for 40 percent of the total U.S. mobile phone usage while the remaining 60 percent of users still use feature...
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Takeout Possibilities in the Mobile Ecosystem
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 8:36am | 1336Read More...On the heels of the pending transaction between Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Palm (PALM) as well as announced Google (GOOG)-AdMob and Apple (AAPL)-Quattro Wireless, we are left wondering what other players are potential takeover targets for either strategic reasons or opportunistic ones. Little...
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Sony Ericsson 1Q10 Signals Issues of Not Being in Smartphones Enough
Friday, April 16, 2010 - 10:04am | 638Read More...This morning Sony Ericsson (S/E) announced March quarter results, which in our view highlight the growing challenges to be faced by a mobile phone only supplier – read that as one that has a weak smartphone product offering. It also underscores our theme of favoring key suppliers over the device...
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Smartphone Battle to Intensify; More Product Announcements in the Coming Weeks
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 5:05pm | 1279Read More...With the vast majority of mobile phone related companies having reported their December quarter results, we have pushed up our sleeves and sifted through the data. In doing so, several observations have come to light that support our key investment themes for the mobile ecosystem. As a reminder...
