BlackBerry shares fell 28% on weak report

 

The Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones on Friday after the close of the U.S. trading session, posted quarterly results were significantly worse than market expectations, triggering a massive sell securities of the company and the BlackBerry shares drop of 27.76%. Along with the disappointing results of the quarter, the company said on the complete cessation of production of its Internet Tablet Playbook, which has not found a buyer in the market. According to the company, the new devices based on BlackBerry OS 10 is not sold as good as might be desired for investors and shareholders .




In the reporting quarter, has sold 6.8 million BlackBerry smartphones, versus 7.8 million a year earlier. This number includes vehicles running on the basis of the old versions of operating systems. As for the new smart phones based on BB10, their number does not exceed 2.7 million units. Analysts say the BlackBerry 10 system is critical to the company, the new devices based on this platform began to be sold at the beginning of this year. Two smartphone BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 received good reviews from critics, but the widespread popularity, they still have not received it. In addition, in some markets the company began selling new items with a delay, which also benefited from its revenues. The latest quarterly figures show that even after normalization of supply devices do not enjoy the support of a substantial market.




Mike Walkey, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity, said that the new operating system in the short term is unlikely to revive BlackBerry. "The transition will take more time than we thought. Company itself with the release of the first BB10-smartphones believed that the transition is complete, but it is not" - said Walkey. During the reporting quarter, the company reported a net loss of $ 84 million, or 16 cents a share, on revenue of $ 3.1 billion. In just one year the company has accumulated a net loss of 518 million dollars, or 99 cents per share. Analysts expect that in the reporting quarter, the company will show a profit of 5 cents per share and revenue of 3.27 billion dollars. declined in the quarter and the number of users of BlackBerry - from 76 to 72 million people. The forecast of the company said that in the current quarter also expected loss, as in today's mobile market supercompetitive company can not develop a model with which to reach the level of sales that displays on the bottom line.

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Google expands the influence of the mobile advertising market

According to the forecast of the marketing eMarketer, Google this year will receive proceeds from the placement of mobile advertising in the amount of $ 8.8 billion - more than all other competitors combined Google and 92% more than revenue in 2012. 


In eMarketer say that it is a net revenue advertising platform, that is, after the payment sites and partner agencies. total, according to forecasts eMarketer, this year the turnover of the mobile advertising market will reach nearly $ 16 billion, that is, Google gets 56% here - stake.In 2012, the turnover of mobile advertising on Google sites totaled $ 4.6 billion, giving the company a 52% share of the market. In second place with 13% was listed social network Facebook, which over the years has increased its stake here three times. In third place with only 2.5% of the market in the U.S. is a popular Internet radio service Pandora. At Twitter - 1,95%. Besides, eMarkter notes that Google will receive about $ 39 billion in digital advertising, which is 12% more than in 2012. Facebook will receive a 5% market share, Yahoo - 2%.

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Google search will provide dietary Statistics

Internet giant Google has introduced a new technology to its search service. Responding to the demand of modern society in a more healthy and balanced meals, the company implemented the statistical data on more than 1,000 products. For example, if a user enters a search query string "apple" or "double cheeseburger", the search engine will give him not only the relevant links to the relevant pages, but also give background information about the number of calories contained in a given product, what is the ratio of protein , fats and carbohydrates, what the content of other elements such as calcium, iron etc..

As Google says that the new statistics system offers detailed nutritional statistics on the most popular types of classic dishes, different types of meat, dairy products, cereals, nuts and other common foods. However, while the statistics is only in the English version of the search engine. It is not known when it will work on the Russian.

 On the other hand, users can specify retrieval system quite specific questions relating to food, such as "how much protein is contained in bananas?" or "how many calories in an avocado?" the user and the search engine will provide the answer.

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