HTC will get a financial boost from Google soon, but until then, monthly revenues are down

Before it can return to quarterly profitability with Google's help, HTC's monthly income scores are still shrinking, and new Vive headsets will probably not help that much.

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LG Electronics boasts record full-year 2017 revenues, ‘narrowed’ Q4 smartphone losses

LG lost another $192 million on smartphones during Q4 2017, nonetheless reporting all-time high overall annual revenues of $55.4 billion.

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Samsung Electronics appoints three new co-CEOs, announces full record-setting Q3 2017 results

Samsung Electronics is keen to avoid a leadership "vacuum" with a younger new generation of managers while making even more money during Q3 than Q2 2017.

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Moderately successful HTC U11 wasn’t enough to return company to profitability during Q2

Despite relatively strong HTC U11 sales, the company's overall Q2 2017 financial report doesn't look so hot, with a quarterly loss of USD 72 million.

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Sony Mobile had another weak quarter, selling just 5 million Xperias over the holidays

Not only are Sony smartphones unprofitable or barely profitable these days, also selling in negligible numbers worldwide quarter after quarter.

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‘Expanded’ Galaxy S7 sales help Samsung post record two-year profit

Apple somehow managed to defy market trends for the large part of last year, seeing both iPhone shipment numbers and overall earnings surge quarter after quarter, and now, it’s Samsung’s turn to beat analyst estimates and the industry’s general stagnation with strong performance from high and low-end Android devices.Obviously, the flagship Galaxy S7 duo was the main driver of profit during Q2 2016 as well as ...

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Tim Cook claims Apple just had an ‘incredible quarter’, teases ‘great’ iPhone innovation

You don’t need to be a financial analyst or pundit to tell, based on common sense and elementary math, that a company posting quarterly revenue of over $50 billion and $10.5 billion net profits in today’s economic climate is doing pretty darn well by any standards.That’s the main, straightforward point Apple CEO Tim Cook tried to get across in an extensive interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer for the finance TV talk show “Mad Money” on Monday following a “huge overreaction” by Wall Street in the wake of

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Apple’s earnings, Nokia smartwatches, Android apps on Chromebooks | Pocketnow Weekly 198

Apple’s quarterly earnings have fallen for the first time since 2003. As iPhone sales slow, what are the ramifications for Cupertino? Is Nokia getting into the smartwatch game by buying up Withings? Google is bringing Android app support to Chromebooks, but will we ever see Android and Chrome OS merge?We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and producing the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into camera performance and

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Smartphone sales slump can’t stop Sony from crushing company profit records

Much like LG, Sony keeps bleeding money in the mobile tech segment while earning in many other departments more than enough to survive. Of course, LG washing machines and TVs have nothing on PlayStation hardware and software, though at the same time, there’s no Xperia on the horizon capable of the shipment numbers predicted for the modular G5 this year.All comparisons with ...

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LG loses on smartphones, wins big on home appliances and TVs in Q1 2016

Samsung and LG managed to sync up their latest quarterly financial reports, probably unintentionally, and both Korean tech giants have reason to be proud of how much money they earned overall between January and March.Strictly from a mobile point of view however, Q1 2016 wasn’t a rosy period for the nation’s eternal number two, which saw its division sales and operating income take big hits on lack of innovation, noteworthy new releases and high G5 marketing expenses.

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Facebook enjoys another remarkable quarter, with growth across the board

Facebook might only be ranked as the world’s tenth most valuable brand at the moment by Forbes, but with Apple, Microsoft and Samsung facing global smartphone demand slowdown and various other ...

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