The first quarter 2013 financial results for Google show consolidated revenue of $13.97 billion (£9.1 billion; up 31% year-on-year) and net income of $3.35 billion (up 16% year-on-year).
Google’s UK revenue was $1.39 billion.
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Rick Pantaleo of voanews.com writes:
Forty years ago today the cell phone era began on the streets of New York City. The historic first cell phone call was made by Martin Cooper, director of systems operations for the communications division of the Motorola company, to his main rival at Bell Labs.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Today is the 40th anniversary of what’s often called the first ever mobile phone call.
It was 3rd April 1973 when Marty Cooper of Motorola stood in front of a crowd of reporters in New York and used a handheld mobile phone to call the fixed-line phone of Dr Joel Engel, one of his commercial rivals.
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Podcast - 13th March 2013
Today's podcast talks about job cuts at Motorola, a tariff promise from Tesco Mobile and a departing CEO at ST-Ericsson.
There's also news about acquisitions, application stores, European network standards and a chilly way of breaking into an encrypted smartphone.
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Thrills for Tesco customers, chills for Android users
Mark Bridge writes:
As Mobile World Congress 2013 disappears behind us, so the frenzy of news releases about new products and services returns to relatively normal levels.
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