The Sony we used to know and love is slowly returning. With products like the Xperia Z, awesome headphones, some seriously good TVs, and cutting out the crap, Sony's managed to drag its loss-making arse back into the black. It made its first annual profit of £280 million in five long years, but it's not all good news. Read More >>
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"Yep, this is mainly a result of asset sales and the fall of the yen, so a lot of manipulation involved. However they are taking some positive steps, ..." More »
The good news, if you're Amazon? You just sold £38.75 billion worth of stuff in 2012. That's roughly the GDP of Croatia! The less good for you but pretty funny for everyone else news? You somehow lost £25 million doing it. Business! Read More >>
Microsoft announced its latest set of financial numbers last night, with Windows 8 helping the company's Windows division to record a 24 per cent increase in profits. Read More >>
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""double-digit percentage revenue growth in SQL Server and System Center."
Now that's more a like! However, shipping Powerview with Excel and ShareP..." More »
Samsung's quarterly profits exploded by 76 per cent in the final three-month chunk of 2012, thanks to soaring demand for its smartphones and the many internal bits it supplies to other makers. Read More >>
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"Apple should be a case study in how to market a premium product to a mass-market audience. They've got it down to a fine art." More »
Twitter has finally filed its UK accounts after a bit of a delay, claiming to have made a profit of only £16,500 from its new UK office. To be fair, Twitter only started trading in the UK in May of 2011 with a skeleton staff of hipsters huddled around a hot-desk in London's Silicon Roundabout tech zone, so the figures might be genuine and not just another massive tax dodge. No need for a boycott and mass exodus just yet. [Guardian] Read More >>
Even the Mayans could've seen this coming. BlackBerry maker RIM has seen its profits collapse this year, with the troubled phone company banking just £5.5m last quarter compared with £163m the year before. Read More >>
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"Track record for BlackBerrys at Carphone Warehouse, 47% of entire repair amount booked in by customers are BlackBerrys, 68% the handsets replaced by B..." More »
HTC's revenue and profit numbers for the last quarter show that it's struggling to return to the sensational form of previous years, with both numbers showing huge drops on the same period of 2011. Read More >>
Featured comment by ilesal:
"HTC saturated the market with loads of devices, most people are locked in two year contracts. What do they expect? If each company (HTC, Samsung, Moto..." More »
Component supplier guesstimates have given us a rough idea of how much it costs Apple to make the iPhone 5, with the cheapest 16GB costing Apple around £127 in bits and manufacturing fees to build. It's going to make a nice bit of money out of it, to say the least. Read More >>
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"Why are my fellow Brits so pathetically stupid that thousands of them can read this article, dozens of them can comment, and not one can ask the quest..." More »
HTC's fortunes aren't going so well. At the start of the year, the company announced a 22 per cent decline in operating income, year-on-year. Today, it's had the misfortune to announce that its second quarter net profits for 2012 are down a hideous 57 per cent compared to the year before. Read More >>
We're constantly hearing about the imminent death of the home console business from those who think mobile gaming's destined to obliterate it at some point between now and the end of mankind, now we have some data to back that up. Read More >>
Featured comment by Nick Acott:
"Naturally its more profitable for them - there's only two stakeholders in it. Epic (Content producer) & Apple (Distribution) where as tradition ga..." More »
Nintendo's casual gaming based world domination seems to be coming to an end, in money-making terms at least, with the Japanese gaming giant reporting its first ever loss for the last financial year. Read More >>
Featured comment by bingowings85:
"http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3#-35
Slide 35 is Angry Birds Downloads vs Nintendo DS Sales" More »
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