Samsung has been on a steady rise for years as their mobile business explodes. With their crazy sales of the Galaxy S series, it’s obvious they’re really successful. Well their profit numbers for the first quarter of 2013 are in, and they ended up making 7.15 trillion won, or $6.4 billion, in net profits. At the same time last year, they made 5.50… Read more
Google’s earning reports for the first quarter of 2013 are in, and they look pretty good. We say pretty good from the companies point of view, as $13.97 billion in revenue is a lot better than pretty good to us. That revenue is a 31% increase from the first quarter of 2012. Their net income was $3.48 billion, which is 25% of revenues. This compares to… Read more
Samsung has been seeing record breaking profits five quarters in a row, and their success is undeniable. But their prediction for the first quarter of the year is 8.7 trillion won in profits, which is about $7.7 billion. This is up a whole 53% from last year, which was 5.7 trillion won. Their shipments of smartphones has also risen. Analysts predict… Read more
Google’s fourth quarter earnings are out, and they’re very impressive. In the last three months of 2012, they made a total of $14.42 billion. This is a 36% increase over last year’s fourth quarter and an 8% increase since last quarter. If Motorola is included in the profits, it comes out as $15.24 billion. Read through the entire report if you’re… Read more
Verizon is on a roll lately, as they have caught (and trapped for two years) 2.1 million subscribers and set a record for fourth quarter smartphone activations. In fact, they activated 9.8 million smartphones in the course of only three months (6.2 million were iPhones, surprisingly). That’s very impressive, but it does come with some bad news. Despite… Read more
It almost came as a shock when Apple released the iPad Mini, featuring a 7.9-inch display. Why was it so odd? Because just a few short years ago, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated that Apple had no interest in making a 7-inch tablet. As is turns out, 7.9-inches makes quite the difference, and current CEO Tim Cook is sticking to Jobs’ belief. “We… Read more
LG, the company behind the rumored upcoming Nexus 4, has released their 3rd Quarter earnings earlier today. Unlike Google, however, these were not released early nor does it show an unexpected decline in profits. The company that everybody seems to either love or hate at the moment reported what it referred to as a “solid third-quarter… Read more
Google’s Q3 earnings have been released early, causing stock to drop a massive 9%. According to the Google Investor Relations Google+ account, their financial printer, RR Donnelley, filed a draft of their earnings statement without authorization, very early. Considering how much their stock plummeted, they have ceased trading on NASDAQ until they can… Read more
Samsung’s Galaxy S III was easily the most anticipated phone this year, and now Samsung has some numbers to back it up. Total operating profit came in at a large $5.86 billion, with one major factor pushing the number: smartphone sales. Leading phones included the aforementioned Galaxy S III, along with the mystical phablet Galaxy Note. With the Galaxy… Read more
AT&T just released their second quarter financial results, with revenue totaling $31.6 billion, a ten percent increase in earnings year-over-year. AT&T is calling this their “best-ever” earnings sheet, with the lowest postpaid, prepaid and total wireless churn and highest-ever wireless margins of 30.3 percent. In total, AT&T said it sold… Read more
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