Because of the profit Apple stands to make by maintaining the exclusivity of the deal with AT&T Amount AT&T pays per iPhone connection in one month                            $18 Amount AT&T pays per iPhone connection in the two year period            $ 432 Money Apple possibly shall lose due to unlocked iPhones so far (250,000X432) : $108 million [...]

Internet penetration in Russia is now getting to a level that has got the Kremlin wary of the cyberspace. Internet penetration among adults in 2002             8% Internet penetration among adults in 2007            25% The target: Russia to be a Global Information Leader by 2015

Possibly. So, what is Flixter? It is a social network revolving around movies. Why is it up for sale? Possibly because of declining traffic. Flixter’s unique visitors in May 2007 12 Million Flixter’s unique visitors in September 2007 8.4 Million (30 percent drop) Who’s buying Flixter? IAC, who also own Garagegames, iLike and College Humor. [...]

Third quarter resulted in a 58 percent growth for Acer. Acer shall gain 11-12 percent market share by 2008. The percent growth in sales shall be 25% in this time period. Current standings in the market: 1. Hewlett Packard 2. Dell 3. Acer 4. Lenovo

For the first quarter, Microsoft made revenue of $13.6 billion. Net income of Microsoft was $4.29 billion (@ $0.45 per share). Microsoft Business Division $4.11 billion revenue Server and Tools Division $2.50 billion revenue Entertainment devices $1.93 billion revenue Microsoft has shipped 88 million copies of Vista till date This fiscal, Microsoft’s sales in BRIC [...]

Yes. Apple has recently announced this. Here on, you may only purchase iPhones on credit card (No cash). Also, you may purchase not more than two units. So, Why is Apple restricting the sales? Because, of the 1.4 million units of iPhones sold in the fourth quarter, 250000 were either resold or went to the [...]

How much did Earthlink post in revenues? The third quarter that ended September 30, 2007  resulted in revenues of $298.8 million. The operational loss was about $35.9 million. The net loss in this quarter was at $79.4 million (at $0.65 per share). Earthlink hold a joint venture with SK Telecom in Helio which posted a [...]

Recently I ran a small budget campaign at Clicksor, a PPC network. There were two objectives of the campaign: 1) To increase the subscriber base for Techcrunchies and 2) To test the effectiveness of PPC advertising. You may view this analysis in different perspectives: How good a PPC campaign is, How good is Clicksor as [...]

This is only the second time eBay is posting a loss. But the loss has been huge this quarter: $936 million. The loss is seen as a hangover of eBay’s purchase of Skype way back in 2005. Back then, eBay had purchased Skype for $2.6 billion and promised to pay over $1.7 billion in incentive [...]

Suppose this: You have just invested a few thousand dollars and built your own niche social network website. And you frantically write to the influential bloggers telling them about your product, hoping that atleast one of them finds your website worthy enough to write about. You are happy to see traffic pouring in one fine [...]