Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 42% to $9.5 Billion
Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — 126.03 — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009.
Unicode nearing 50% of the web
About 18 months ago, we published a graph showing that Unicode on the web had just exceeded all other encodings of text on the web. The growth since then has been even more dramatic. — Web pages ca...
Collage of Shame: Media Who Took Obvious iPad Prank Seriously
Web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis' prank claims about the Apple tablet yesterday were so over the top, we had to laugh. Until prestige media started reprinting them like they had merit, and our good h...
Ex-Broadcom CEO Nicholas Cleared Of Pushing Drugs On Broadcom Clients
Henry T. Nicholas, the former CEO and co-founder of Broadcom, was cleared of felony narcotics charges today. — Said U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney before dismissing the charges:
Wall Street expects Apple's ‘risky’ iPad to sell 1M-5M in first year
With an aggressive $499 starting price point, Wall Street analysts believe Apple's e-reading, game playing, media consuming iPad device is a worthwhile risk that will become a multi-million seller in ...
Michael Dell shows off the Mini 5, confirms US arrival?
The Dell Mini 5, Dell's Android-powered Snapdragon slate, popped up at CES this year but we never got a clear look at it. However, when the CEO of Dell rolls into the World Economic Forum in Davos, S...
Earnings take-away: Microsoft is still powered by Windows
Microsoft's brass is always looking for the next billion dollar business and has stuck a toe into everything from healthcare to energy monitoring. But as the company's second quarter earnings for fis...
McGraw-Hill: We Didn't Get Booted From the iPad Launch, Because We Weren't Part of It
Though it may have seemed like another of Apple's perfectly timed third-party leaks (and I certainly mistook it for that), McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw's remarks to CNBC earlier this week were nothing...
Apple's A4 IPad Chip Could Find a Home in IPhones
Apple's A4 chip, being used in the iPad, could ultimately provide a speed bump to future versions of the company's iPhone, analysts said on Thursday. — Apple on Wednesday introduced the iPad handhel...
8 Things That Suck About the iPad
A lot of people at Gizmodo are psyched about the iPad. Not me! My god, am I underwhelmed by it. It has some absolutely backbreaking failures that will make buying one the last thing I would want to...
Three Reasons Why the iPad WON'T Kill Amazon's Kindle
It may be suddenly fashionable to say so, but the new Apple iPad tablet won't kill Amazon.com's Kindle. Here are three reasons. My colleague, Nick Bilton, has weighed in on this topic from the oppos...
Nokia Shipped 127 Million Units In Q4 2009, Profits Soared 65%
Nokia, still the world's top mobile phone maker, reported a stronger-than-expected 65% rise in fourth-quarter net profit this morning. The Espoo, Finland-based company reported net profit of €948 mil...
MSI plans to launch an US$500 tablet PC in 2H10
Micro-Star International (MSI) is set to launch a Nvidia Tegra-based tablet PC in the second half of 2010 priced US$500, according to company sales director Sambora Chen. — Chen pointed out that MSI...
AT&T Already Has One Million eReaders On Its Network, Without The iPad
Mobile data devices are a boon for AT&T. The company reported strong earnings this morning, seeing a 26 percent rise in fourth-quarter profit. AT&T sold 3.1 million iPhones in the fourth quarter …
Motorola Building a Google Only Phone
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (TheStreet) — Motorola (MOT Quote) says it is working with Google (GOOG Quote) to make a mobile phone to be sold directly to consumers. — On a conference call with analysts Thursday...
Microsoft roadmap has Windows 8 shipping in 2011
A new discovery of a recently-departed Microsoft employee's blog has revealed a rough version of Microsoft's roadmap for key software, including Windows 8 (PDF). If a reflection of Microsoft's tentat...