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AT&T Q2 results: 3.2 million iPhone activations, $30.8 billion in revenue

It looks like AT&T had a pretty solid second quarter in terms of revenue, iPhone activations, profit, etc. The giant wireless company activated over 3.2 million iPhones, which is a company record, and the iPhone 4 was only available four days into Q2. In terms of revenue, AT&T raked in $30.8 billion, but that’s actually more »

HTC enjoys 33% profit increase in Q2

HTC executives are surely celebrating after the totals for Q2 were tallied up. The Taiwanese based company enjoyed unprecedented success, largely because of a booming smartphone industry catalyzed by quality HTC smartphones. In terms of profit year-to-year, it grew by 33% making investors and stockholders of the company extremely happy. Last year, the total profit more »

Twitter to Turn A Profit in ’09

It turns out that the wars between Google and Bing over real-time search turned out to be a great revenue boost of $25 million for Twitter. Twitter has been notoriously known for being a company that has drawn in investor money but has never been able to return the favor in profit. Now, that little more »

Profits down, Dell is still optimistic

It should be of no surprise that yet another computer manufacturer is declaring a disappointing quarter in comparison to the same quarter of the previous year. Thankfully not every company is posting losses like Sony and Palm did. This time it’s Dell’s turn to admit that although it’s still making a profit, the profits aren’t more »

Sony profits up thanks to Cybershot, PS3 success

Sony has posted a small rise in quarterly profits recently, but are being cautious about painting too rosy a picture. Sony’s Cybershot series of cameras and Handycam camcorders had a strong fourth quarter which helped to bolster the Japanese giants overall numbers. Sony even managed to get better numbers out of it’s gaming division by lowering production costs on the PS3 as well as getting some improved sales figures for the PSP.

“The game division turning into the black is a positive,” said Takeshi Osawa, a senior fund manager at Norinchukin Zenkyoren Asset Management. “But the U.S. economic outlook is a cause of concern for its consumer electronics business.”