It’s now as big as Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC) in the telecom equipment market and is pushing hard to increase its market share in the enterprise and mobile device markets. Its annual revenues are still increasing each year but its profitability has taken a knock in recent times.
via Light Reading Asia – IP & Convergence – Huawei Mulls IPO – Telecom News Analysis.
Wall Street’s excitement over a game publisher once counted among the stars of the new social Internet has cooled since its December initial public offering. On Friday, analysts slashed their price targets on a stock that dived as much as 22 percent, to $2.21 – more than three-quarters off its $10 debut.
via Zynga’s weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious – chicagotribune.com.
That’s just an on-paper theory, but a compelling one. The acquisition of Nicira brings VMware uncomfortably close to being a networking competitor to Cisco. In fact, rumors persist that Cisco wanted Nicira as well, which helped drive the startup’s price beyond $1 billion.
via Light Reading – Ethernet – Cisco Gets Some SDN Help – Telecom News Analysis.
In his new book, The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use ‘Plain English’ to Rob You Blind, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston highlights these astounding facts:
- Americans pay four times as much as the French for an Internet triple-play package—phone, cable TV and Internet—at an average of $160 per month versus $38 per month.
- The French get global free calling and worldwide live television. Their Internet is also 10 times faster at downloading information and 20 times faster uploading it.
- America has gone from #1 in Internet speed (when we invented it) to 29th in the world and falling.
- Bulgaria is among the countries with faster Internet service.
- Americans pay 38 times as much as the Japanese for Internet data.
via Why Your Phone, Cable & Internet Bills Cost So Much | Daily Ticker – Yahoo! Finance.
Observers have said that, with this newest pricing shift, Microsoft is using a carrot-and-stick approach or trying to “nudge” customers toward a subscription service for Office. But I’d go a bit farther—for some buyers, it might feel like signing up with a gun to their head.
That’s because Microsoft is making it much more expensive to buy Office the old way, in order to make the new subscription model look like a better, simpler, more straightforward deal.
via Can Microsoft Convince People to Subscribe to Software? | Xconomy.
According to Lumish and his CTO, Pilot founder Frank Smyth, these products, available from October, are needed in the development of optical transport systems beyond 100Gbit/s. The lasers enable a lot more data to be sent down a fiber by cutting down the space between the wavelengths so that more can be packed into the space currently taken up by a single wavelength. Smyth points out that the spacing is fixed between the multiple wavelengths emitted by Pilot’s optical comb sources and this allows the channels effectively to be transmitted right up against each other.
TeachersPayTeachers is the world’s first open marketplace where teachers buy and sell original teaching materials.
via About Us – TeachersPayTeachers.com.
Join us as a buyer or seller or both to make your teaching career even more rewarding. We call it Free Market Merit Pay for Teachers.
The company provides know-how in core development, as well as bridging the gap between the corporate world and the decentralized open source community environment. Our wide expertise can provide the reliability and stability of payed support in a world that is based on a volunteering community.
For Pandora, as with local television stations, this year’s spike in political ads is a welcome source of cash for a media company reliant on advertising revenue. During the first three months of 2012, Pandora brought in $70 million in advertising revenue, nearly double its total over the same three months in 2011, a non-election year, according to SEC filings.
via The Politics of Your Pandora Station – US News and World Report.
Under the new company, The Patriot-News will change its print schedule to three days a week beginning in January 2013. The newspaper will continue to publish on Sundays. The other two days of publication will be determined after gathering input from readers and advertisers.
via It’ll be ‘a different role’ for The Patriot-News as digital demand grows | PennLive.com.