Clint Boulton

Google on Jan. 20 married a management shakeup with a fine fourth-quarter earnings report, including $8.44 billion in revenues, earnings per share of $7.81, and net profit of $2.54 billion. Google’s revenue increased 26 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009, while net profit rose 29 percent from $1.97 billion. The search engine recorded $2.07 […]

Google is testing a number portability for its Google Voice application that will let users use their personal mobile phone numbers as the digits through which to route all calls for $20. Google Voice is a phone management application that lets any user route all of their landline, work and mobile calls through one special […]

People really, really like their iPhones. Apple’s iPhone received a user loyalty score of 73 percent, which was 84 percent higher than the 40 percent loyalty rating scored by Google’s Android platform. The latest research came Jan. 18 courtesy of Zokem, a mobile analytics specialist that focuses on smartphones. The company surveyed more than 6,000 […]

Google Jan. 20 said it is streamlining operations, with co-founder Larry Page taking the role of CEO and moving current Google CEO Eric Schmidt to the role of executive chairman. Google, which also reported revenues of $8.44 billion and a profit of $2.54 billion for the fourth quarter, said Page will take over day-to-day operations […]

The jig is up. Google Games is coming. Let us no longer be fooled or fool ourselves. Yesterday, Mary Jo Foley discovered that Johnny Chung Lee, a noted “core contributor” for the Microsoft Kinect gaming sensor used for the Xbox 360, had joined Google as a “rapid evaluator.” Lee wrote in a blog post: “Very […]

Basking in the glow of a record first quarter, Apple COO Tim Cook labeled Android tablets “bizarre” and characterized Windows 7-based tablets as “big, heavy and expensive.” Apple reported earnings of $6 billion, or $6.43 cents a share, up 78 percent from a year-ago. Revenue rose 71 percent to $26.7 billion. The company’s record earnings […]

Wall Street analysts expect Google to post net revenue of $6.06 billion on earnings-per-share of $7.14 when it reports fourth quarter earnings Jan. 20. Those figures are a nice bump from the year-ago quarter, when Google revealed revenues of $4.95 billion on an EPS of $6.79. Google also notched a Q4 2009 profit of $1.97 […]

Starbucks Jan. 18 said it is taking its pay-by-smartphone effort national in more than 7,800 locations around the country. Users of Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch or Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Tour, Curve or Storm smartphones can download the new Starbucks Card Mobile App to pay for their coffee, pastries and other goodies at Starbuck’s […]

The media spend an inordinate amount of time amping the pros of smartphones such as Apple’s can-do-no-wrong iPhone and Google’s latest high-end handsets. Some folks, perhaps sick of the accolades heaped on the iPhone 4 coming to Verizon Wireless and Google’s Samsung Nexus S, offered some contrarian views. Let’s start with Joe Nocera of The […]

Strong December sales for the iPad and iPhone could push Apple’s earnings above Wall Street’s current expectations of $5.40 earnings per share on sales of $24.43 billion, according to research firm Piper Jaffray. “iPhone and iPad remain somewhat of a wildcard, albeit positive, and we believe solid holiday demand could drive upside to Street numbers,” […]

It’s never been a stretch to connect that dot that people who are socially active on the Web may also be socially active in the non-virtual world. New research presents data that backs this theory up. Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project on Jan. 18 said that 80 percent of Internet users participate […]

Facebook led the market in social-network advertising in 2010, racking up $1.86 billion of the ad revenues in the U.S. and abroad, thanks to its massive network of 600 million-plus users. Facebook will bolster its market-leading position in 2011, growing ad sales nearly 28 percent to hit $4 billion worldwide, eMarketer said Jan. 18. The […]