Podcast - 9th October 2013
In today's podcast: Samsung's profit, UK mobile ad spending and Vertu's smartphone range are all increasing.
Meanwhile HTC's profit and the proportion of children with mobile phones are both going down. Discover the background to these news stories - and plenty more - in our regular weekly broadcast.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Talk about a difference. In preliminary results last week, HTC announced its first-ever quarterly loss while Samsung revealed record quarterly profits.
Curiously, many of the week’s other news stories also had a companion headline to provide a contrast.
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Micro-blogging service Twitter has revealed more details about its planned IPO (Initial Public Offering) in the United States.
It’s aiming to raise $1 billion, with the possibility of Twitter shares trading by the end of November.
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Podcast - 2nd October 2013
Today's podcast starts with a gentle warning to app developers from the Office of Fair Trading.
We then move on to Amazon's new tablets, HTC's sale of its Beats Electronics stake, Twitter's emergency alerts, UK government plans to improve mobile broadband on trains, customer complaints and the growth in adult content for mobile devices.
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While the UK government is trialling the use of SMS text messages and GSM cell broadcast to inform members of the public during a local or national emergency, Twitter is introducing its own scheme.
Twitter Alerts enable the sender to highlight urgent tweets, which will cause them to be delivered by text message and highlighted with an orange bell icon when they’re received by the Twitter iOS or Android app.
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