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Sony’s 2012 earnings show a net profit of $458 million, its first since 2008

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We’ve already heard from Sony about the positive effects some of its recent moves like the sales of several of its buildings are having on its finances, and now the company is revealing its detailed results for the last year. Sony has managed a ne…


RIM announces Q4 2012 earnings, Jim Balsillie resigns from board, company plans to refocus on enterprise

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We’ve already seen a bit of big news slip out ahead of RIM’s earnings announcement, and the company’s now dropped another bombshell itself. Former co-CEO Jim Balsillie has resigned from his position on the company’s board of directors. In a statement…


RIM announces Q4 2012 earnings, Jim Balsillie resigns from board, company plans to refocus on enterprise

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We’ve already seen a bit of big news slip out ahead of RIM’s earnings announcement, and the company’s now dropped another bombshell itself. Former co-CEO Jim Balsillie has resigned from his position on the company’s board of directors. In a statement…


TiVo releases Q4 results, announces transcoder and IP set-top box on the way

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Today TiVo announced its earnings for Q4 2011 and the full year, however the most interesting note was word of a few new boxes on the way. From the sound of things, the company will deliver a four stream transcoder similar to the one we saw demonstrat…


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…


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…


E Ink revenues nose dive 60% in January

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E Ink, the popular company that provides paper-look gray-scale displays for eReaders, reported consolidated revenues of $48.02 million in January, down 63.6% from the same month last year and 11% sequentially. The growing popularity of media tablets with full-color displays likely played a big role in the decline — sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet are thought to be eating into the companies’ respective dedicated eReader businesses to an extent. Even though E Ink’s revenue took a nose dive in January, the company said that it expects to post revenues of $1.35 billion this year, up 5% from 2011. Read