“Right on the heels of the latest Moto X device leaks, a new roadmap from Verizon may have just revealed the launch dates for both it and the HTC One on Big Red.”
Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coins
“This morning more than 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple’s headquarters in California.”
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The SoftBank deal is done: Sprint, Clearwire officially turn Japanese
“It took nearly eight months, but SoftBank’s $21.6 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Sprint and Sprint’s own takeover of Clearwire are now complete. The companies announced the official closing Wednesday evening. Sprint will remain an independent publicly traded company in the U.S.”
Five consecutive quarters of sliding PC sales mark a new industry record
“In case you weren’t totally sure that the PC manufacturing industry was on the decline, consider this: there have now been five quarters in a row of declining shipments of PCs, the “longest duration of decline in the PC market’s history,” according to new analysis from Gartner Research.”
AT&T and Verizon lose bid to maintain secrecy of French interconnection deals — Tech News and Analysis
“AT&T and Verizon have failed in their attempt to block the French telecoms regulator from examining their secret interconnection agreements – deals that may be key to the erosion of net neutrality.”
Foxconn’s Q2 revenues hit $30 billion, up 0.6% year over year
“Hon Hai, better known in the west as the iPhone maker Foxconn, seems to be doing just fine after allegedly losing some orders from Apple to competitor Pegatron in September 2012. According to Bloomberg, the company’s second quarter revenues hit $30 billion, up 0.”
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StatCounter: Samsung overtakes Apple for first place in mobile Web traffic, Chrome passes IE usage in the US
“For the first time, Samsung has overtaken Apple globally to take number one spot in terms of Internet usage. Furthermore, Google’s Chrome browser overtook Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the first time in the US.”
US judge rules that Apple conspired with publishers to raise the price of e-books
“Last year, we reported that the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) was going ahead with lawsuits against Apple and five major publishers – Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Penguin – over alleged e-book price fixing.”
