MoPub, a mobile ad company, claims that Apple's policy of rejecting ads which utilize unique device identifiers (UDID) is resulting in an ad revenue loss of 24 percent for iOS developers. MoPub arrived at this finding after analyzing three months worth…
Posted April 18, 2012, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Intel has reported first quarter revenue of $12.9 billion with a net income of $2.7 billion. The company paid dividends of $1 billion and used another $1.5 billion to repurchase stock currently trading at a bit over $28 per share.
Posted February 14, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, Apple
Consumer electronics sales fell half a percent in 2011, generating $144 billion, NPD reports. Computers, televisions, tablets/e-readers, mobile phones and video game hardware commanded nearly 60% of those sales. Notebooks and desktops alone represented $28 billion (almost 20%), a decrease…
Posted January 20, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
Say what you will about us being in a post-PC era, but Intel's pocketbook sure doesn't seem to be feeling it. The Santa Clara-based chipmaker releases its financial breakdown for the full year of 2011 with record revenue of $54…
Posted December 9, 2011, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Hardware
New estimates from Asymco’s Horace Dediu indicate that each Apple store employee generates about $278 per hour in revenue for the company. These findings are based off of data that Cupertino publishes about its retail segment and are cataloged at…
Posted May 2, 2011, 7:21 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
We know that operating systems bring in quite a bit of money, and that Windows is a cash cow for Microsoft, but what are the numbers anyway? Well, it turns out that worldwide operating system revenue totaled $30.4 billion in…
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