Earlier this month, Verizon Wireless Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo noted that the carrier had activated 4.2 million iPhones during the fourth quarter of 2011, more than doubling the previous quarter’s sales on the momentum of the iPhone 4S launch and potentially signaling a blockbuster quarter for Apple in the iPhone market. Verizon today officially [...]

Japan’s video game industry is the world’s second biggest (after the US), but it’s on a downward streak for the fifth consecutive year. Based on sales, the country’s video game industry has contracted by as much as 8% year-on-year, Japan’s biggest gaming magazine Famitsu is reporting [JP]. Between December 27, 2010 and December 25, 2011, [...]

At today’s CES keynote Qualcomm’s CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs just said that consumers bought approximately $ 1.3 trillion dollars work of mobile devices last year. Trillion. With a T. That’s about 8.5% of the U.S. National Debt. Dang. More » Gizmodo

Motorola recently made public its preliminary results for the fourth-quarter 2011, ahead of the upcoming earnings report. The estimate sales are around $ 3.4 billion and the company shipped approximately 10.5 million mobile devices. Out of these, roughly 5.3 million were smartphones (compared to the 4.8 million shipped in the third quarter of last … [...]

Most third party web measurement firms have provided a steady drumbeat of positive growth news for Facebook over the years, as the company has gained tens of millions of users in the US and around the world. But now the social network appears to be reaching market saturation among internet users in some of its [...]