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The speed with which the public adopts a new operating system measures many things, including confidence in the company backing the OS. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) clearly sees the unprecedented rate at which iOS 7 was adopted by users in its first week as extremely good news. According to app...

Things are not going well at BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). Everybody knows that. The company is getting ready to cut its workforce by as much as 40 percent by the end of the year, according to The Wall Street Journal. As of March, BlackBerry had 12,700 employees. Under the worst-case scenario, by...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) certainly isn’t a company that goes looking for the nearest camera or blogger. It has a culture of keeping to itself. Its comments are often short and vague and even in the midst of harsh criticism, it remains silent as a rule. But like that quiet friend, when Apple...

There’s money to be made in the world of mobile apps. Lots of money, according to information technology research and advisory company, Gartner, Inc.(NYSE: IT). In a press release, Thursday, the company said annual downloads from mobile apps stores will reach 102 billion this year. Although 91...

Bump, a popular app for iPhone and Android that allows users to transfer files, photos and videos between their smartphones and computers by “bumping” the computer space bar, announced in a blog post Monday that it had been acquired by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Long on happy talk, short on details...

When it comes to monetization, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) might have a trick up its sleeve. And that trick just might be apps. Seeking Alpha’s Adrian McCarroll suggested it and others have seconded the notion. Microsoft has a habit of showing up late to the party. Such was the case with...

Several customers are about to dump their one-year-old iPhone. Mark Bowles, the founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Outerwall's (NASDAQ: OUTR) ecoATM, said that his kiosks typically enjoy an increase in old iPhone trade-ins whenever a new one is released. This includes everything from the...

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may greatly reduce the number of notebooks it ships next year. According to DigiTimes, the company is internally forecasting that it will ship 21 million notebooks in 2014. This is significantly lower than the 32 million notebooks it shipped in 2012. In 2015, Hewlett-...

Despite reports like the one from Jessica Lessin on Friday indicating Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) planned to offer a free smartphone this year, Amazon said the rumors were not true according to Gizmodo. The company said it has no plans to launch a phone. Furthermore, if it ever does offer a phone...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) successfully beat analyst expectations and sold 31.2 million iPhones during the last quarter. This has been the trend for Apple for the past several years. Even when Mac and iPad sales decline, the iPhone continues to rise to new heights. At the same time, Google's (NASDAQ:...

Rumors abound that the release of LG’s next offering, the Nexus 5, is coming soon. To add to the fire, according to The Verge, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have inadvertently released a sneak peak of the device in a promotional video for Android 4.4 (KitKat) Wednesday. Google removed the video...

With just about every aspect of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Glass covered in anticipation of a public launch next year, one important area – apps - has received only modest coverage. That’s about to change. The New York Times mentioned over the weekend and Marketing Land confirmed Tuesday, the 2014...

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) sold its handset business to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). What it did not sell to Microsoft, or anyone else, is its patents. And Nokia has a bunch of them. The reason? Income, according to Reuters. In technology, patents are like gold. And if there is one thing Nokia knows, it’...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may fight for additional market share by acquiring another former stalwart in the mobile phone space. According to Bloomberg, the Windows maker is still "keeping an eye" on BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) -- even after spending $7.2 billion to acquire Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) handset...

Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) and BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) might be on the verge of the biggest merger the smartphone industry has ever seen. Lenovo has been toying with a possible union for several months. Company executives have hinted at a potential buyout on multiple occasions. Little has come from...