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IPOD   |  Comment

Time For Apple To Kill The iPod

Yes, the game-changing device still accounts for about 7 percent of quarterly revenues. But Apple's money could be better spent elsewhere. Here's why and where. READ»

FAST FEED   |  Comment

Airbnb's New Sublets, Foxconn's Large Profit, Arrington Launching Venture Fund, Apple Promotes Cloud Exec Eddie Cue

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

FAST FEED   |  Comment

Flickr Hits 6 Billion Photos, Mobile Ad Firms Grow, Time Warner Profits, iTunes' Streaming Powers, Microsoft's Arduino Rival

This and more news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»

IFIVE   |  Comment

iFive: The Wii Successor, Google's Profits, Apple Snags MS Data Center Exec, Color And Fox Pictures, Adobe And Wired

"The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I'm vertical." And one of those plans could be to catch up on the early news with iFive, to jump-start your morning.READ»

IFIVE   |  Comment

iFive: Kodak's $1B IP Row, Google Keeps DUI Apps, Google Music Streaming Due Soon, Color App's Big Update, Oracle's Big Profits

It's the last day of the working week, so start it off at a quick pace by reading iFive, our digest of the early tech news:READ»

iFive: Nokia's "Burning Platform," SpaceX's Moon Rover, EFF Vs. WikiLeaks Secrecy, E-Ink's Booming, Ebay's Smartpay Plans

Here's today's early innovation news, presented to you in our eyeball-friendly iFive style:READ»

BP   |  Comment

Oil Spill? What Oil Spill? BP Posts Profitable Fourth Quarter

Despite reporting an annual loss for 2010, BP's fourth quarter actually returned the energy giant to profitability. So much so that it's paying a dividend to its shareholders. How did this happen?READ»

Fair Trade Shopping Site Worldstock.com Profits Without Trying

The sister site of Overstock.com is growing fast--and so is its social impact. READ»

3-D TV   |  Comment

Retailers Push 3-D TVs on Uninterested Consumers

Sales data from Best Buy has revealed the company's not making as much money from TVs as it had hoped--and by quite a big margin. Part of the problem is that no one is buying Net or 3-D-enabled televisions.READ»

AT&T's iPhone Boom, Nokia's Layoffs: A Tale of Two Mobile Titans

What could Nokia learn from AT&T's latest figures?READ»

FOXCONN   |  Comment

All the iPhones in the World Can't Save China's Foxconn From Fiscal Losses

Foxconn, aka Hon Hai, is most famous for being Apple's big manufacturing partner. But despite Apple's soaring successes, Foxconn isn't doing so well.READ»

APPLE   |  Comment

iPad and Record Mac Sales Boost Apple's Quarterly Revenue to Highest Ever

Thanks to the sales of both the iPad and, interestingly, record sales of the Mac line, Apple's third quarter earnings rose 78% from last year. READ»

INTEL   |  Comment

Intel's Sales Jump 34%, Its Best Quarter Ever, Buoyed by Sales From the High- and Low-End

Intel posted a whopping 34% jump in sales in the second quarter of this year, which makes it the chip giant's most profitable quarter ever. Isn't this supposed to be a recession?READ»

Apple's App Store Has Netted $429 Million, a Loss-Leader

Apple touts its app store as being one huge advantage for its iPhone and iPad systems over competitor's offerings. And you'd think a store with 200,000-plus articles on sale would be a screaming financial success, yes? Nope. Apple ...READ»

NOKIA   |  Comment

Nokia Profit Warning: It's Been Outmaneuvered by Apple

Nokia may be the biggest cell phone maker in the world, but this doesn't insulate its business from market failures. The firm is now officially warning the markets that its grip is slipping, and its market share may be sliding. In an ...READ»

GOOGLE   |  Comment

Has Google Hit the Ceiling?

Google has just released its first-quarter results and, unsurprisingly, they show that the search engine giant is still making healthy profits, despite the slight cock-up of the Nexus One launch and the China debacle. Profits were up ...READ»

Five Ways for Twitter's Advertising to Not Suck

Twitter is apparently due to bring an end to years of speculation about its money-earning plans by announcing an advertising platform today. Here's our guess, before the news presumably hits this afternoon, on how Twitter Ads should ...READ»

INTEL   |  Comment

Intel Profits From PC Sales Boost, Sails Serenely Through the Recession

Intel's just reported its fourth quarter earnings for 2009, and they are impressive--with a headline $10.6 billion in revenue. It seems Intel's profited from fab investments, and the netbook boom. Oh, and suppressing the ...READ»

TWITTER   |  Comment

Is Twitter Suddenly Profitable?

This may not be a sign of a potential economic upswing, but it's surprisingly positive financial info nonetheless: Twitter is profitable all of a sudden. And it's all thanks to Google. For months the way Twitter works financially ...READ»

NOKIA   |  Comment

$834 Million Quarterly Loss Puts the 'Noooo' in Nokia

Nokia's just posted its third quarter financial report, and it's absolutely abysmal: An $834 million loss. But that's not all--there's still more bad news.READ»