“I think Thursday’s earnings will be a disaster for Research in Motion ($RIMM). Leaking news about their “exciting” iPad competitor last week to the Journal was a tell.
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Click here to see this week’s charts as a slideshow → Or select individually: Hey Google, Better Figure Out Another Business (Other Than Search) Print Misses The Ad Recovery Mobile Search Is Exploding, But Ad Revenue Is Tiny Where Are All The Cable Cord Cutters? Pandora Totally Owns The Internet Radio Market Click here to see this week’s charts as a slideshow → See Also: CHART OF THE DAY: Where Are All The Cable Cord Cutters? CHART OF THE DAY: Pandora Totally Owns The Internet Radio Market CHART OF THE DAY: Mobile Search Is Exploding, But Ad Revenue Is Tiny Hey Google, Better Figure Out Another Business (Other Than Search) Google’s stock has taken a beating this year, falling more than 20% since January. There’s a bunch of small reasons for Google’s stock to be dinged, including the failure of the Nexus One , pulling out of China , and the weaker Euro posing some problems…
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Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Much has been said about Apple’s policy barring iPhone and iPad application donations. The company cannot guarantee donations will be received by said non-profit, and as a result, donations to charities cannot be mentioned in any Apple application description, support materials, or the application itself. Certainly, this impacts the ability of non-profits and cause applications to collect donations. But how much? Before considering that, it’s important to note that the use of mobile applications for social good has increased dramatically. Two good examples are CauseWorld and The Extraordinaries . According to CauseWorld, in the past five months their location-based iPhone and Android apps have been downloaded 550,000 times. Further, it has helped provide 272,000 meals to people in the U.S., plant 74,000 trees, and provide 27 million liters of clean water in developing countries via Children’s Safe Drinking Water . “The Extraordinaries are a … Read the rest here:
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Much has been said about Apple’s policy barring iPhone and iPad application donations. The company cannot guarantee donations will be received by said non-profit, and as a result, donations to charities cannot be mentioned in any Apple application description, support materials, or the application itself. Certainly, this impacts the ability of non-profits and cause applications to collect donations. But how much? Before considering that, it’s important to note that the use of mobile applications for social good has increased dramatically. Two good examples are CauseWorld and The Extraordinaries . According to CauseWorld, in the past five months their location-based iPhone and Android apps have been downloaded 550,000 times. Further, it has helped provide 272,000 meals to people in the U.S., plant 74,000 trees, and provide 27 million liters of clean water in developing countries via Children’s Safe Drinking Water . “The Extraordinaries are a great example of how to use this type of platform,” said Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global . “Their basic model… Read this article:
For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable’s 2010 World Cup Hub , which will be updated throughout the games. BlackBerry fans aren’t quite as spoiled for choice as iPhone or Android owners when it comes to apps or the World Cup, but there some football-themed widgets worth a look. Here we offer four great World Cup apps (and one bonus), available direct from the BlackBerry App World store. Check them out and stay up to date with the proceedings in South Africa. The very best part? — they are all free! 1. AP 2010 World Cup Coverage The Associated Press’s mobile offering is actually available across all major mobile platforms, with the BlackBerry version working like a Flash-based microsite. The app is supported by VISA (see the banner across the top?), while the homepage gives you one top news story and what it deems “recent matches.” The fact that this section includes yet-to-be-played matches (with appropriately nil-nil scores) might confuse… Follow this link:
Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Nadanu Quick Pitch: Nadanu transforms the electronic giving into a simple, fun and accessible experience. Genius Idea: Based on the ancient Sumero-Akkadian word for “giving”, Nadanu seeks to make the currently complex setup, management, deployment and usage of electronic giving and interaction with donors into a faster, better experience for users and charities alike. It helps organizations reach out to individuals who care in order to secure the funding they need. For donors, the process is as simple as dropping virtual “coins” into a custom receptacle; the service eliminates the long, prohibitively complicated donation forms we’re used to seeing. Donors can also create reminders to give and set recurring micro-giving schedules for themselves. Nadanu’s Push-K platform lets donors to give to their charity at anytime through a fun interface. With Nadanu, donors enjoy a simpler giving process, and non-profits or charitable organizations can deliver content such as video, audio and text messaging through a single … See more here: Research In Motion is working on a BlackBerry iPhone and BlackBerry iPad to deal with the growing competition from Apple and Google Android devices. But what else is RIM working on? Here’s a snapshot of RIM’s product roadmap, courtesy a recent research report from RBC analyst Mike Abramsky. Nothing that makes us go “wow!” but RIM’s most important updates will be to its software, not just its hardware. RIM needs to get with the program and make BlackBerry software and apps much better, or it’ll be confined to the low-end of the smartphone market , which is NOT where it wants to be. (For more on that, see ” RIM Is Screwed .”) Join the conversation about this story More lucky timing ! RIM’s Q1 earnings release and call are… next Thursday, iPhone 4 day . Analysts expect a big quarter from the BlackBerry maker. We’ll offer a full preview and live coverage. Join the conversation about this story Good morning! A LOT of news: Zynga raised a gigantic $147 million round from Softbank Capital to fund an Asian expansion. Twitter rolled out its “Places” feature allowing people to tweet their exact locations. Twitter integrated Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins with the feature. RIM is working on another touch screen smartphone and a tablet . These new units are expected before year end. iPhone 4 pre-orders start today . The store is down for now, so you can read our guide to buying an iPhone in the interim. Apple released an updated Mac mini model this morning also. It starts at $699 and sports an HDMI port. The hackers that exposed the AT&T iPad flaw, are now saying there’s a big hole in the Safari mobile browser . Tesla updated its IPO . peHUB says it hoping for a $1.46 billion valuation. Margit Wennmachers, the founder of OutCast communications, is j oining venture capital group Andreessen Horowitz as a partner . She’ll help with marketing portfolio companies. Google’s music store could be launching by fall . When Meg Whitman was CEO of eBay she shoved an employee named Young Mi Kim . Kim threatened to sue, but eBay paid a $200,000 settlement to Kim. Join the conversation about this story RIM’s once dominant position in the smartphone market is slipping away, and the company now seems to be perpetually in “us, too” mode. So it’s no surprise to hear that the company is testing its iPad-like tablet, along with another crack at an iPhone-like phone. Stuart Weinberg and Phred Dvorak, WSJ: RIM is testing a touch-screen smartphone with a slide-out keyboard, according to people familiar with the device. The phone runs on a new version of the BlackBerry operating system and works much like an iPhone, letting users swipe through screens and expand images with their fingers, these people say. It also has a universal search bar that lets users scour all the phone’s data and some data online as well, these people say. RIM is also experimenting with a tablet device to serve as a larger-screen companion to its BlackBerry phone , say people familiar with RIM’s plans. That device, which is in an early stage of development, will connect to cellular networks via a BlackBerry phone, these people say. It could come out as soon as the end of the year, these people say. So the RIMPad connects to the network by tethering to the RIMphone. |
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