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| Nov 17, 2018 | WhatsApp could wreck Snapchat again by copying ephemeral messaging | WhatsApp already ruined Snapchat’s growth once. WhatsApp Status, its clone of Snapchat Stories, now has 450 million daily active users compared to Snapchat’s 188 million. That’s despite its 24-hour disappearing slideshows missing tons of fe... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | AT&T promised lower prices after Time Warner merger—it’s raising them instead | Enlarge
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| Jun 28, 2018 | AT&T removed HBO from an unlimited data plan after buying Time Warner | Enlarge
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| May 9, 2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, May 9 | PROFITABILITY OVER PASSION
Land of Opportunity: Yesterday’s Term Sheet included a link to this story about SoftBank’s ambitions in India that deserves a little more attention. Like so many articles about tech in India, this one draws compar... |
| Feb 8, 2017 | Donald Trump might be the one to save Twitter | Trump's Twitter usage has led to more downloads and engagement, as people use it to stay informed
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser, Founder ... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | A Trump Presidency may mean we say goodbye to Net Neutrality | Trump has also come out against media consolidation, including the AT&T/Time Warner deal
When Donald Trump actually becomes President next year, there are, of course, a myriad number of ways he could change this country. Some for the be... |
| Sep 23, 2016 | Twitter soars 20% amid latest acquisition rumors | The most likely purchasers are Google or Saleforce, which recently lost out on buying LinkedIn
Rumors of a potential acquisition of Twitter are nothing new. It's the kind of news that seems to pop up a few times a year, but it never really ... |
| Aug 31, 2016 | Evan Williams isn't shutting the door on Twitter acquisition | The co-founder, and former CEO, said Twitter would "have to consider the right options"
Editor's note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark ... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | The biggest acquisitions of 2016, and who may be next | Some of the major deals include Yahoo, LinkedIn and Dollar Shave Club getting acquired
Yahoo's acquisition by Verizon for $4.8 billion, a deal that many had been waiting to happen for a pretty long time, marks yet another major deal in 2016... |
| Jan 20, 2016 | 56% Would Drop ESPN In A Heartbeat If It Meant Saving $8 A Month On Cable | Over the last year, ESPN’s decision to laugh off cord cutting has truly come home to roost. The company has had to engage in numerous “belt tightening measures” after losing around 7 million subscribers in just two years. Where are these su... |
| Jun 4, 2014 | Netflix publicly shames Verizon for poor streaming | Verizon shoots back that it's all Netflix's fault.
Less than a week after Google released its Video Quality Report to show users exactly how their Internet Service Provider is impacting the quality of streaming, Netflix is following suit.
O... |
| May 20, 2014 | U.S. Netflix subs now watching 103 minutes per day | One likely reason: the Polar Vortex
Netflix has been steadily growing its subscriber base, which is obviously vitally important to the company’s future as the destination for Internet TV. But equally important is whether those subs actually... |
| May 15, 2014 | What to expect when you're expecting a new Internet | The FCC is scheduled to vote on new regulations that could redefine the future of the Internet
Welcome to the dawn of a new era. Today, the FCC is scheduled to vote on the future of the Internet. What can you expect when you’re expecting a ... |
| May 15, 2014 | FCC votes in favor of fast lane | But the fight isn't over. Now we enter a four-month public comment period.
Welp, there you have it. In a three-to-two vote, the FCC has voted in favor of a fast lane, which will allow companies to pay for direct connections to Internet user... |
| Apr 25, 2014 | Amazon shares slide as investors fear weak Q2 | Revenue was up 23% to $19.74B, but weak Q2 guidance points to more spending
Amazon shares dropped 8.47% to $308.59, down from its closing price of $337 on Thursday evening. While Amazon touted surging profits and climbing revenue that beat ... |
| Apr 24, 2014 | Amazon surprises with strong Q1 and surging net income | Revenue beat estimates while net income climbed 32%
Good news, everybody! Amazon had an in-line quarter with higher-than-expected revenue! Whatever that means.
That’s right, it’s time for another quarterly earnings report from our favorite ... |
| Feb 24, 2014 | The Netflix/Comcast deal: higher fees for subscribers | And this is why Comcast sucks
Can we all expect to start paying more for Netflix? That’s the common refrain among analysts and experts in the wake of the deal struck between Netflix and Comcast, in which Netflix has agreed to pay Comcast fo... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | U.S. Netflix users now watching 96 minutes per day | Reed Hastings reveals viewers are now streaming 2B hours per month
Netflix has revealed by way of bad poetry that viewers are now streaming two billion hours of Netflix content per month. Reed Hastings made the revelation on his Facebook pa... |
| Jan 31, 2014 | Where does the Google/Lenovo deal leave Apple? | Apple's global market share slipped to 15% in 2013. Will Lenovo/Motorola drive it even further out?
At this point, everyone has heard about the Google/Lenovo deal. After buying Motorola’s hardware business for $12.5 billion in 2012, it’s se... |
| Jan 28, 2014 | Apple shares dip 7.5% on signs of slowing iPhone growth | J.P. Morgan cuts targets for Apple stock to $585 from $615
Apple shares were down 7.5% to $509 in pre-market trading Tuesday morning after confirming investors’ worst fears: iPhone growth is slowing. The company sold 51 million iPhones, but... |
| Jan 2, 2014 | Amazon Prime takes on Netflix in new TV ad | Is Amazon getting ready to fight dirty this year?
Until now, Amazon Prime and Netflix have coexisted rather peacefully, considering the fact that they’re two competing subscription video-on-demand services. But now it looks like Amazon may ... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | Is Twitter worth investing in at the IPO price? | Twitter raised its IPO price earlier this week, but is the company now overvalued?
Earlier this week, Twitter raised its IPO price by 30%, to $23 and $25 a share from between $17 and $20.
This didn't come as a surprise as the stock was alre... |
| Oct 29, 2013 | Apple investors buoyed by Q4, but worried about margins | Apple shares were in limbo as investors were buoyed by revenue, but concerned about margins
Despite a strong fourth quarter, Apple shares were in limbo Tuesday morning, opening at $535 before dropping 0.77% to $525. Investors seem neither e... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | Apple breaks record: sells 9M iPhones in first weekend | By comparison, Apple sold 5M iPhone 5 units in its first weekend
If you were waiting in the breadline at Apple to get an iPhone 5S, you’re probably immensely disappointed to learn that you’re going to have to starve wait another couple of w... |
| Sep 23, 2013 | Apple boosts guidance in rare earnings preannouncement | Higher than expected iPhone sales have prompted Apple to bump up its quarterly guidance. But why?
Well this is highly unorthodox, which is not Apple’s style at all—or at least it wasn’t. I don’t even know who/what Apple is anymore. You’ve c... |
| Sep 11, 2013 | iPhone 5C still too expensive for emerging markets | Apple is pushing into China, but its "low priced" 5C will be too expensive for most subscribers
Apple is pushing full-steam ahead into China as news broke Wednesday morning that Apple has secured a license to run on China Mobile, ... |
| Apr 27, 2013 | Is it too soon to call Facebook Home a dud? | The app is only two weeks old, but some are already counting it out
Earlier this week, Home passed the 500,000 installs number on Google Play. While that might seem like an impressive number, the fact is that it took over a week for the app... |
| Apr 17, 2013 | Duck and cover: Apple shares dip below $400 | Shares are skirting the $400 line and are now the lowest they've been since January 2012
Apple shares have officially dropped below the $400 mark, which means it’s time for everyone to get into the bomb shelter. Shares mysteriously plunged ... |
| Apr 3, 2013 | Let's get all the phones | Apple, Amazon, and Facebook: a phone rumor round-up
This week in phones: did you hear that Amazon might be building its own phone? And Facebook? And Apple? Because gadgets and doodads.
As high-end smartphones are reaching a saturation level... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Apple is having a really bad quarter, analysts warn | Several analysts are warning that Apple will come in below its own guidance this quarter
Apple hasn’t been feeling so hot the last few quarters. The company has consistently missed analyst expectations every quarter since Tim Cook took the ... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | Clearwire Nabs $80M From Sprint; Still Mulling Dish Bid | The plot has thickened in the bidding war between Sprint and Dish Networks for control of the wireless broadband provider Clearwire. |
| Feb 4, 2013 | Key to Zynga's Q4 - news on real-money gaming | Zynga is set to report fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday
Shares of Zynga fell modestly Monday, as investors stayed mainly on the sidelines ahead of the social gaming company's fourth-quarter report, which is set to go out after the close Tues... |
| Jan 25, 2013 | Facebook Graph Search was too premature to launch | Poorly-received Search product begs the question: Why did Facebook finally launch?
There's one thing to release a product in the (au courant words), "minimal viable" form, and iterate. It's another thing to release something prett... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | AMC Giveth, While Viacom Taketh Away: Breaking Bad Season Premiere To Be Streamed Live Online | So yesterday Viacom showed us one way of dealing with a carriage dispute, by taking down online versions of its programming when DirecTV pointed disgruntled viewers to the web as a way to get their Daily Show fix. But AMC Networks, which is... |
| Jul 11, 2012 | DirecTV Spat Results In Takedown Of Full-Length Viacom Shows For Everyone Online | The latest spat between a pay TV provider and a content company has gotten ugly, with both DirecTV and Viacom taking to the web, pointing fingers and calling each other names. That’s to be expected, in this day and age, as cable and satelli... |
| Jul 4, 2012 | Over 1 Billion (Hours) Served: Netflix, Big Cable, And The Innovator’s Dilemma | Netflix yesterday announced that its viewers watched over 1 billion hours of video over the course of June, which comes down to about an hour of video per subscriber per day. At the time I wrote about it, I pointed out that chances are, eac... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Verizon could save $1 billion with new $30 upgrade fee | Verizon has been the last holdout on charging upgrade fees for some time now, but this morning it caved and announced existing customers would have to pay a $30 fee when moving to a new phone subsidized by a two-year contract.
It’s not a hu... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Verizon could save $1 billion with new $30 upgrade fee | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Verizon has been the last holdout on charging upgrade fees for some time now, but this morning it caved and announced existing customer... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | AT&T confirms LTE 4G headed to NYC this month, expects record sales this quarter | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
New York City will officially get access to AT&T LTE 4G network this month, as will several other new markets, the company announce... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | AT&T confirms LTE 4G headed to NYC this month, expects record sales this quarter | New York City will officially get access to AT&T LTE 4G network this month, as will several other new markets, the company announced today.
AT&T also said it expects record sales for its fourth quarter. The company sold 6 million ph... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | Netflix adamant it will not reduce "hybrid" prices | The company loses more subscribers than expected but maintains it will not reduce prices
Netflix announced its third quarter earnings results Monday evening. As expected, the company lost nearly one million subscribers in one quarter, dropp... |
| Jun 10, 2011 | Is mobile actually hurting Pandora? | Poor mobile CPMs could be undermining Pandora's IPO
Is Pandora worth $10 to $12 a share? Based on Pandora’s financial outlook, BTIG Research is saying no.
BTIG Research released a report Friday on Pandora’s IPO and came to the conclusion th... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | 1,000 tests prove Sprint’s 4G network is a joke compared to Verizon’s (updated) | Sprint may have been the first US carrier to deploy a 4G network, but it may be paying the price for being an early adopter of WiMax 4G technology.
According to a series of 1,000 speed tests conducted by BTIG Research in New York City over ... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Verizon’s 4G ThunderBolt outselling iPhone 4 at some stores | Verizon’s first LTE 4G phone, the Android-powered HTC Thunderbolt, has managed to hold its own against Apple’s iPhone 4 at Verizon Wireless stores — even going so far as to outsell the iPhone in some locations — according to the research fi... |