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- iSuppli Agrees With IDC, Gartner: Windows Phone To Surpass iOS By 2015
- Larry Page: Display Advertising Is A $5 Billion Business
- It's Still Funny, But It Might Not Be A Joke: Jotly Arrives On Android
- 250 Million Android Devices Activated, 11 Billion Apps Downloaded
- Live-Blogging The Google Q4 2011 Earnings Call
- Google Comes Up Short In Q4 Earnings
- IBM's Q4 Revenue Up 2 Percent To $29.5B; Net Income Up 4 Percent To $5.5B
- Microsoft Reports Record Revenue: Up 5% To $20.9B, Earnings At $0.78 Per Share
- Larry Page Is Super Excited To Announce That Google+ Has 90 Million Users
- Kno CEO Osman Rashid To Apple: "Now We Will Fight On Who Has The Better Product"
- Megaupload Taken Down On Piracy Allegations
- Will Interactive iBooks Be The Next Big Booty For Pirates?
- Bitly Rolls Out New Enterprise Dashboard, Providing Better Access To The Real-Time Social Web
- SOPA Scorecard: Internet 1, Lobbyists 0
- ZOOM's B3 Bass Effects Pedal Launches At NAMM
- Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Social News Startup Summify
- Appstores.com Launches An 'AdSense For Mobile Apps'
- LinkedIn Shutters Twitter Widget 'Tweets' Because Of 'Extremely Low Usage'
- Keen On…Inside Apple: How Apple Is Organized Like A Terrorist Cell (TCTV)
- Vibrant Media Boosts In-Image Ads With Acquisition
| iSuppli Agrees With IDC, Gartner: Windows Phone To Surpass iOS By 2015 | Top |
 Nobody wants to give Windows Phone a chance except for Robin and a whole bunch of analysts. Back in September, IDC and Gartner predicted that Windows would overtake iOS for the number two spot in the market by 2015, and Windows Phone head of marketing Achim Berg called that prediction conservative. Now iSuppli has joined in, predicting that Windows Phone will grab a 16.7 percent market share by 2015, while Apple's market share is expected to decline from 18 percent to 16.6 percent in 2015. | |
| Larry Page: Display Advertising Is A $5 Billion Business | Top |
 The engine of Google's business is search advertising, but its display advertising business is becoming a very large business. During today's earnings call, CEO Larry Page that Google's display advertising business is at an "annualized run rate of $5 billion." That doesn't mean that $5 billion of Google's $38 billion in revenues in 2011 came from display advertising. It means that if you annualize the display advertising revenues in the fourth quarter, you would get $5 billion. | |
| It's Still Funny, But It Might Not Be A Joke: Jotly Arrives On Android | Top |
 I'm beginning to think the team at Firespotter Labs are marketing geniuses. Prior to launching their new iPhone app Jotly (you know, as a joke), they released a hilarious video featuring a "fake" app by the same name. In the video, a guy goes around rating things like parking meters, hiding spots, ice cubes, and a beer in the alley that was left in the sun (F-, if you're curious). The video was meant to be a parody of our mobile/social app obsession, and perhaps our culture's tendency towards over-sharing. It also was strikingly similar to Kevin Rose's Oink, which launched soon after. But here's the thing: Jotly is no longer a joke. The company (also the maker of Nosh), has just released the Android version of Jotly. And an API, too. | |
| 250 Million Android Devices Activated, 11 Billion Apps Downloaded | Top |
 We're tuned in live to Google's Q4 2011 earnings call, where they've just disclosed a few details they left out of this morning's big ol' data dump. Amongst them: a progress update on Android's growth. | |
| Live-Blogging The Google Q4 2011 Earnings Call | Top |
| We're live and listening.... A bunch of the execs are on. You can also follow along here.... Chief executive Larry Page (paraphrased): Good afternoon everyone. Google had a very strong quarter with revenue up 25% year over year... | |
| Google Comes Up Short In Q4 Earnings | Top |
 Google has just released its Q4 2011 results, and they didn't live up to Wall Street's expectations. Wall Street's consensus for the quarter was $10.49 in non-GAAP earnings per share and $8.40 billion in revenue. Google missed on both counts, with EPS of $9.50 and net revenue of $8.13 billion. Google shares are down around 10% in after-hours trading. | |
| IBM's Q4 Revenue Up 2 Percent To $29.5B; Net Income Up 4 Percent To $5.5B | Top |
 IBM just released fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 earnings today. Non-GAAP earnings came in at $4.71, up 11 percent; GAAP earnings per share were $4.62 per share (up 11 percent) for the quarter. Net income for the quarter was $5.5 billion, up 4 percent for the quarter, with revenue coming in at $29.5 billion, up 2 percent from the previous year. Analysts expected earnings of $4.62 a share on revenue of $29.7 billion. So basically, sales missed but profits beat expectations. Revenues from the Software segment were $7.6 billion, an increase of 9 percent. But revenues from IBM's hardware systems and technology segment totaled $5.8 billion for the quarter, down 8 percent from the fourth quarter of 2010. | |
| Microsoft Reports Record Revenue: Up 5% To $20.9B, Earnings At $0.78 Per Share | Top |
 Microsoft just reported its second quarter 2012 earnings with record revenues of $20.9 billion, an 5% increase from the same period of the prior year. The previous record, as far as I can | |
| Larry Page Is Super Excited To Announce That Google+ Has 90 Million Users | Top |
 The official numbers are in for Google's new social network, Google+. Beating out most previous third-party estimates that we've seen, the company said today that it now has 90 million users worldwide. Presumably this means monthly uniques visitors given that the earnings release says "now," but we'll try to get more clarification around engagement numbers when we get on the quarterly call in a few minutes. | |
| Kno CEO Osman Rashid To Apple: "Now We Will Fight On Who Has The Better Product" | Top |
 Apple's latest foray into digital textbooks today raises a lot of questions about the future of the textbook publishing industry and digital textbook startups who now find themselves going up against Apple. One of the highest profile digital textbook startups is Kno, which started out with its own oversized tablet but now focusses on delivering textbooks through its iPad app. On the surface, things don't look so great for Kno, but CEO Osman Rashid is nonplussed: "We love the fact that so much light has been put on digital textbooks. Now we will fight on who has the better product, more interactive features, and a bigger catalog." | |
| Megaupload Taken Down On Piracy Allegations | Top |
 Popular file-hosting site Megaupload, probably known to our readers for a variety of reasons, has been taken down after the FBI charged some of its staff with copyright infringement and "conspiracy to commit racketeering." Seven people have been charged, and four arrested (in New Zealand), and the site itself appears to be down as authorities around the world closed in on the site's resources. Bizarrely, it was also just revealed that the CEO of the company is none other than Swizz Beats, the husband of Alicia Keys. Clearly the rabbit hole goes much deeper than the FBI expected. | |
| Will Interactive iBooks Be The Next Big Booty For Pirates? | Top |
 With the shift from print books to digital books come a few nasty side effects. Sure, it's much easier much easier to acquire and read books when you don't even have to get out of your chair, but those digital copies can be cracked and disseminated for free with only a little more effort. As ebook sales expand, so does ebook piracy, so I have to wonder if Apple's concerted efforts in creating a new kind of iBook experience will open them up to unwanted attention from digital pirates. | |
| Bitly Rolls Out New Enterprise Dashboard, Providing Better Access To The Real-Time Social Web | Top |
 Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly is today announcing the launch of Bitly Enterprise 2.0, a new version of its enterprise-friendly dashboard. The Bitly Enterprise platform, which helps businesses with multiple social media accounts monitor the impacts of their content's distribution, will now include the first production release of the company's brand-new search technology, allowing customers to track content around any subject or phrase across the entire social web - not just Twitter and Facebook. This technology is providing access to a new view of the web. The web is no longer just a list of linked pages, but a web of fresh, social and viral content that's weighted and ranked in real-time, and, in many cases, before Google applies its own PageRank to it. | |
| SOPA Scorecard: Internet 1, Lobbyists 0 | Top |
 You've got to feel sorry for the SOPA guys. They did all the right things. They got legislation introduced that would protect their industry from inconvenient threats -- like that pesky Internet. They spent millions on lobbying from their $63m budget. And they even hired a high-profile, well-connected, just-out-of-Congress Senator for the bargain price of a $1.5 million base salary to run their organization. And yet it appears that their support is collapsing and are resorting to a rather pathetic tactic of name-calling in response. You can't blame them for being a little shell-shocked. In fact, four years ago, a bill like SOPA would have sailed through Congress, particularly because it's a media-related issue, the mainstream media would have likely avoided shining a spotlight on the issue. | |
| ZOOM's B3 Bass Effects Pedal Launches At NAMM | Top |
 In a lot of the Paneldome demos I have done, I (flailingly) play guitar, but I am actually a bass player. That's why I am excited to hear about the Zoom B3 Effect Pedal/Amp Simulator released today at NAMM. The promise of "a stompbox pedalboard with the power of a multi-effects pedal and USB audio interface" for bass guitar is tempting. This all-in-one design would definitely be convenient to throw into your gear bag on the way to a gig, without requiring a bunch of extra cables and dongles — you know, kind of like a regular old pedal effect. Sounds interesting. | |
| Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Social News Startup Summify | Top |
 Summify, a startup that uses social data to create a personalized news digest, just announced that it has been acquired by Twitter. This sounds like a talent acquisition on Twitter's part — in other words, the main purpose of the acquisition was probably hiring the Summify team. Some of Summify's feature have been immediately disabled, it's no longer accepting new users, and in a few weeks, Summify says it will shut down the current product entirely. Meanwhile, the startup will be moving from Vancouver to San Francisco to work out of the Twitter office. | |
| Appstores.com Launches An 'AdSense For Mobile Apps' | Top |
 If you're a developer of applications for iOS or Android — or a publisher looking to better monetize your mobile web content — you're probably going to be interested in this post. Today Appstores.com is launching what it's calling an 'AdSense for apps' — in other words, an ad unit that publishers can embed in their mobile websites that will automatically display ads for native applications that are relevant to whatever text appears on the page. For example, if a participating publisher were to write a story about basketball, users viewing the story from their phones might see an ad for a basketball game or ESPN app in the App Store or Android Market. | |
| LinkedIn Shutters Twitter Widget 'Tweets' Because Of 'Extremely Low Usage' | Top |
 LinkedIn is planning to shut down its Tweets application as of January 31, 2012. As you may remember, the Tweets application allowed users find and keep track of their LinkedIn connections on Twitter, view Twitter feeds of connections, recommend Twitter users to follow, and more. In an announcement, LinkedIn says that the application will be removed from all profiles and the homepage. From the announcement: At LinkedIn, we want to provide a simple and efficient experience for members like you. So from time to time, we take a look at our set of features to evaluate how they're being used by our members. Part of this process sometimes means we decide to eliminate a feature, so we can better invest those resources in building more great LinkedIn products. | |
| Keen On…Inside Apple: How Apple Is Organized Like A Terrorist Cell (TCTV) | Top |
 The more we know about Apple, it seems, the less we really know. According to the journalist and writer Adam Lashinsky, America's most admired company is also America's least understandable company. And that's why he wrote Inside Apple - to reveal to the world how, as the subtitle of his book says, the Company Really Works. | |
| Vibrant Media Boosts In-Image Ads With Acquisition | Top |
 You may not have heard of Vibrant Media, but you've almost certainly seem its product — specifically, the "in-text advertising" that pops up when you click on double-underlined words on certain websites. Well, Vibrant is expanding beyond text, and to that end, it has announced its first acquisition, of an image-based ad network called Image Space Media. The financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. | |
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