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10 months ago Ms. Huberty released her price target for April 2010 (see graph) at between $100 and $105. The stock was trading at $121 then and her forecast was for a 14% decline. She wrote: Investment Conclusion: The…
Dave Whalen and I just returned from a very successful meeting with Verizon Wireless, where they acknowledged that their execution of our launch was below expectations and recommitted to working with us to improve sales.…
Weak spin from both on reasons to leap off a sinking ship. Skype has just discontinued Windows Mobile version of Skype client: We’ve chosen to withdraw Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile because we want to offer our…
Admob did an interest survey. Although limited by its methodology (see below) the data is incrementally interesting as it also relates to the ChangeWave survey. ChangeWave suggested that 13% of early adopters claim they…
full-year revenue would be “well below” its previous target of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion. Wall Street was expecting $1.6 billion If we assume $1 billion/yr. revenues, that works out to about 3 million smartphones a…
90% off. Amazon.com: Motorola DROID A855 Android Phone (Verizon Wireless): Cell Phones & Service
Palm warns of 30% miss on estimates. Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Palm Inc. said it expects that adjusted revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 will be in the range of $300 million to $320 million. The average…
The last four months have seen tremendous app growth. Apple grew by 59k apps while Android added nearly 10k and Nokia added 5.5k apps to Ovi. As a percent, Palm grew the fastest with 1,352%, followed by Ovi with 827%.…
The consequences of licensing a mobile OS: Sales of H.P.’s hand-held products, including its iPaq smartphone, dropped to $25 million in the quarter, down from $57 million in the same period last year. Apple, by contrast,…
Tim Cook confirmed at a Goldman Sachs press conference yesterday that Apple is calling themselves a “mobile device company” officially. The “traditional model” of having companies sell different things — hardware,…