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<title><![CDATA[Motorola Mobility sees profit in post-split debut]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In its first earnings release since Motorola Inc. split, Motorola Mobility has posted a profit.The new consumer-focused company reported today that it generated $3.4 billion during the fourth quarter of 2010, representing a sizable 21 percent gain over its fourth-quarter 2009 revenue. It took in a profit of $80 million, another big gain over the year-ago period, when it lost $204 million.Motorola Mobility's performance was about in line with analyst expectations of $3.4 billion in revenue.However, Motorola Mobility's full-year performance ended up in the red. The company was able to generate $11.5 billion on the year, up 4 percent from 2009, but it lost about $86 million in 2010. However, considering the company lost $1.34 billion last year, its past-year performance was a sizable improvement.Motorola's decision to split in two was first announced in 2008, and the breakup became official at the start of this month. Motorola Mobility is more geared toward consumers, featuring the company's mobile devices and home-focused products, like DVRs. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker &quot;MMI.&quot; The other post-breakup company, Motorola Solutions, which trades as &quot;MSI,&quot; focuses mainly on enterprise and network products.According to Motorola Mobility, its Mobile Devices division generated $2.4 billion of the company's revenue during the fourth quarter and posted a $72 million operating profit. During the fourth quarter of 2009, the division had an operating loss of $166 million. Overall, Mobile Devices tallied $7.8 billion in revenue during 2010, up 9 percent from 2009. The division saw an operating loss of $76 million in 2010, which is a significant improvement over the $1.2 billion it lost the year prior.Motorola Mobility said that it shipped 4.9 million smartphones in the fourth quarter and 13.7 million smartphones in 2010. In the fourth quarter of 2009, it shipped 2 million smartphones. All told, Motorola shipped 11.3 million handsets in the fourth quarter and 37.3 million handsets in 2010.Motorola's Home segment generated $1 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter, jumping just 1 percent year over year. Its operating earnings were $54 million on the quarter, besting the $30 million operating loss it tallied in the fourth quarter of 2009. Revenue for the company's Home business was down to $3.6 billion in 2010 from the $3.9 billion it generated in 2009. However, the division saw its operating earnings increase to $152 million in 2010 from the $11 million operating profit it enjoyed in the prior year.Looking ahead, Motorola Mobility isn't expecting results to be as strong, at least to start.The company said in today's earnings release that it expects to post a net loss of $26 million to $62 million in the first quarter of 2011.Even so, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha says he believes Motorola Mobility could have a better 2011 than 2010.&quot;With the global opportunities ahead, along with our diversified portfolio, our brand, and our people,&quot; Jha said in a statement accompanying his company's earnings, &quot;we are well positioned to grow, and further improve our financial results in 2011.&quot;As of this writing, Motorola Mobility shares are down nearly 5 percent in after-hours trading.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[preGame 37: Dead Space 2]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lcachohhhc</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Y Combinator founder: There is no tech bubble]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There isn&amp;'t a budding tech bubble like the one that caused a recession in the early 2000s because companies today are better than they were a decade ago, according to Y Combinator founder Paul Graham.Graham posted an article on news aggregator Hacker News, a site frequented by entrepreneurs and investors and run by Y Combinator, in an apparent effort to quell fears of a looming bubble.He responded to a poll on the site that suggested most of the site&amp;'s readers thought that Silicon Valley was in a bubble.&amp;''Back in the &amp;'90s I was sure there was a bubble happening, and was notorious for telling everyone to sell,&amp;'' Graham wrote on the site under his alias, &amp;''pg&amp;''. &amp;''And yet I remember that even I thought it was dangerous to have money sitting in bonds. I don&amp;'t think that now, and I don&amp;'t think anyone else does either.&amp;''There are some concerns about a new tech bubble as some startups have reached titanic valuations a4&quot; Twitter, for example, was recently reported to be worth around $10 billion a4&quot; without having a business model nailed down. But those cases are few and far between, and there are fewer investors in those types of companies than there were in the late &amp;'90s, Graham said. The amount of money companies are raising today a4&quot; relatively speaking and adjusted for inflation, naturally a4&quot; is less than what companies were raising during the last tech bubble, he said.&amp;''In the &amp;'90s, it was the dumb leading the dumb: smooth-talking MBAs were raising money from hapless LPs and investing it in startups run by other smooth-talking MBAs,&amp;'' he said. &amp;''Now it&amp;'s Yuri Milner investing in a company run by Mark Zuckerberg.&amp;''Most readers taking the poll said they believed that a tech bubble was forming, but didn&amp;'t believe that Silicon Valley was actually in a bubble yet. The most popular choice after that said that the valley was definitely in a tech bubble. Around a quarter of the readers on the site thought the technology elite were overreacting, but there was still the possibility of a bubble.Next Story: Can Redbox and Amazon take on Netflixa4a4s streaming video service Previous Story: Cloud storage provider Box.net&amp;'s iPad app gets a makeoverPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        Matthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SolarCity makes another buy, outlines expansion plans]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lcachohhhc</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[SolarCity has expanded again.For the second time this year, the residential solar company has made an acquisition to expand its business on the East Coast. The company said today it purchased the residential solar installation division of GroSolar to move into Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania &amp;8212' raising its nationwide footprint to 10 states and 21 operations centers.Interestingly, the acquisition isn&amp;'t just about reaching more markets &amp;8212' it&amp;'s about staying competitive in a few years, when a key federal tax credit expires.The move should give the company enough scale to make solar power as affordable as grid power without incentives by 2016, which is when the 30% solar investment tax credit expires, said spokeswoman Chelsea Guidice. The solar investment tax credit currently enables many solar financing businesses to charge attractive rates for energy generated by solar panels.It may well be a smart move. Federal support for clean energy wavers all the time and is often unpredictable. A different Treasury grant for renewable energy projects was in danger of dying last year, until a last-minute rally renewed it &amp;8212' for only one more year.SolarCity is one of the top players in what has become a popular form of selling renewable energy: leasing. Using a combination of federal and state incentives, startups can offer home owners solar panels on their roofs for little to no money down. They make money by selling the electricity generated back to residents (who have to sign a power purchase agreement locking in the rates for up to 25 years) on top of a leasing fee, and they typically only operate in markets where the combination will come out to less than what traditional utilities charge.SolarCity is expanding aggressively, more so than any of the other players in the market. Just last month, SolarCity said it hadacquired a solar installer that would enable it to expand to the Washington, D.C. and Maryland markets. But there are others entering the fray with leasing and financing-type options of their own &amp;8212' and investors willing to back them.Lvestus said yesterday it had raised $750 million for no-money-down installation of geothermal heating and cooling systems. Sungevity just raised $15 million and is expanding to the East Coast. Buzzy fuel cell startup Bloom Energy launched a similar program for its fuel cell electricity generators. Solar Universe, a financing and installation startup, raised $7 million last month. And as of last year, another top solar leasing company, SunRun, still claimed to be two times larger than its nearest competitor and commanded 55 percent of the market share in California.With the market getting crowded, SolarCity has looked to differentiate itself in a few key ways. For one, it now says it specializes in energy efficiency for homes. In (yet another) acquisition last year, the company added home energy audits to its business. It also has operation centers from which its own installers operate' by contrast, SunRun partners with local installers in markets it chooses to enter.a4ASolarCity will be able to offer solar to many homeowners and businesses in the Northeast at or below the cost they currently pay for electricity,a4 said Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity. a4AWe expect thousands of additional homeowners in the Northeastern states to go solar this year, while local incentives are strong.a4Next Story: IBMa4a4s Watson moves to health care after conquering Jeopardy Previous Story: Applea4a4s largest store yet coming to Grand Central TerminalPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: rooftop solar, Solar, solar leasingCompanies: Bloom Energy, GroSolar, LVestus, Solar Universe, SolarCity, Sungevity, SunrunPeople: Chelsea Guidice          Tags: rooftop solar, Solar, solar leasingCompanies: Bloom Energy, GroSolar, LVestus, Solar Universe, SolarCity, Sungevity, SunrunPeople: Chelsea GuidiceIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name). Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forrester: iPad 2&'s biggest challenger is an Amazon tablet]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Market research firm Forrester isn&amp;'t putting too much stock in the hype surrounding upcoming Android 3.0 tablets. Instead, the company believes that Amazon is best suited to take on the iPad when it decides to enter the tablet arena.What&amp;'s the problem with Android slates like Motorola&amp;'s recently released Xoom Forrester considers them all too expensive, and they also can&amp;'t match the Apple Store&amp;'s retail experience. Forrester has found that consumers also find Apple&amp;'s products more valuable because of the company&amp;'s slick retail stores. Forrester predicted last week that the iPad 2 will continue to dominate in 2011 with 80 percent of the tablet market.An Amazon tablet (which would likely run Android), on the other hand, could better compete with the iPad 2 in terms of pricing, and it could also take on Apple&amp;'s content offerings and retail advantage. Unlike other tablet manufacturers, Amazon could deliver a tablet at or below cost, with the hopes that it would recoup some of that expense from ebook sales. That&amp;'s not too different from how Amazon first approached its megapopular Kindle e-reader.While Amazon doesn&amp;'t have a plethora of retail stores, consumers have become comfortable with the site as a go-to spot for online shopping. Forrester found 28 percent of consumers would prefer to buy a tablet from Amazon, while only 11 percent would rather buy one from a mobile carrier &amp;8212' the main retail source for current Android tablets.Forrester also believes that Amazon has plenty of motivation to develop a tablet of its own, since Apple is looking to implement new App Store rules that could eat away at Kindle ebook profits. And of course, rival bookseller Barnes &amp;amp' Noble managed to deliver it&amp;'s Nook Color tablet/ebook reader last year, which offers an impressive amount of features for just $250. Amazon is surely planning a way to strike back against both companies.Given how well the Nook Color has been received, I&amp;'m confident we&amp;'ll see some sort of tablet announcement from Amazon this year. I also wouldn&amp;'t be surprised if Amazon makes it a more straightforward Android tablet experience, especially since the company is planning an Android app store of its own.Next Story: The Go Game launches do-it-yourself iPhone scavenger hunts Previous Story: Skype founder, others catapult $42M to Angry BirdsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, iPad 2, kindle, Nook Color, tabletsCompanies: Amazon, Apple, Barnes And Noble          Tags: Android, iPad 2, kindle, Nook Color, tabletsCompanies: Amazon, Apple, Barnes And NobleDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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