Tag Archives: Q4 2011

Panasonic racks up a record loss for 2012, looks forward to profits and a partner for OLED TVs

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Panasonic’s yearly earnings are in and the red ink added up to a record $9.7 billion net loss for 2011. Number one on incoming president Kazuhiro Tsuga’s list is turning around the company’s TV division, where its heavy investments in both plasma and…


Sony’s final 2011 report shows a record net loss, optimism for 2012

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After a slew of bad news and drastically restated projections, Sony has reported the numbers for its full 2011 financial year and as expected, they’re not good. The company experienced a record net loss of 456.7 billion yen ($5.73 billion) and an ope…


Nokia is the largest Windows Phone maker in the world, after one quarter

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While we can’t really say that we’re surprised, Nokia has snagged the top spot for Windows Phone devices. Strategy Analytics reports that the Finnish smartphone maker now sits atop the global charts for the Microsoft mobile OS after being in the game…


MetroPCS Q4 results are in: increased revenue, slowing growth

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The nation’s fifth largest wireless provider — MetroPCS — has checked in with its Q4 2011 financials, and on the whole, the company looks to be doing quite well. Metro reported $1.2 billion in consolidated quarterly revenues and $362 million in ear…


NPD: Apple grabs over a quarter of the mobile PC business in Q4 2011 (including iPads), HP tops with laptops

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Just what is a “mobile PC” these days? According to market research firm NPD, that category now includes both tablets and laptops — and by that definition, Apple is unsurprisingly way ahead of its competitors. Based on its preliminary numbers, Apple…


T-Mobile lost more customers in Q4, will launch LTE in 2013 with AWS spectrum from AT&T

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In T-Mobile USA’s first earnings report since the proposed merger with AT&T fell through in December, it noted a loss of 802,000 customers in Q4 (being the only carrier not to have the iPhone is a lonely, lonely circumstance). But there is some go…


Amazon elbows past Samsung for No. 2 tablet spot in Q4, Apple’s iPad still No. 1

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Amazon had some serious trombone action going on last year — what with all the horn tooting it did about Kindle Fire demand. Turns out Amazon was on to something, as the company officially grabbed the No. 2 spot from Samsung for tablet sales in the …


Amazon elbows past Samsung for No. 2 tablet spot in Q4, according to IHS

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Amazon had some serious trombone action going on last year — what with all the horn tooting it did about Kindle Fire demand. Turns out Amazon was on to something, as the company has apparently grabbed the No. 2 spot from Samsung for tablet sales in …


Comcast slows the flood of video customer losses in Q4 2011

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It’s not often that a company announced it lost 17,000 customers in a quarter and that’s considered good news, but for Comcast that’s exactly the case when it comes to cable TV. Compared to the 135,000 customers lost in the same period a year ago (whi…


Acer Financials: meager 2011 Q4 profit, massive annual loss

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Acer was hoping for the gloom to lift after two bad quarters, but it can hardly call its latest financials stellar. It scraped a slender $2.4 million profit in the quarter, which wasn’t enough to prevent the company posting an overall annual loss of $2…