February 4, 2009
Motorola posts $3.6b loss as devices sales fall by 26 percent
Engadget
Nilay Patel gives an update on Motorola’s fourth quarter results.
“Things just aren’t getting any better for Motorola — just weeks after the troubled phone manufacturer announced deep layoffs, it’s revealing that it lost $3.6 billion dollars in the fourth quarter. The loss is mainly attributed to falling device sales: handsets were down 26 per cent, and mobile devices total were down 51 per cent.”
Dell Starts Offering Exclusive Discounts Through Twitter
TechCrunch
Erick Schonfeld writes about Dell’s exclusive discount offer through Twitter.
“Dell’s Twitter experiment seems to be working. After making $1 million during the holidays by alerting Twitter followers to sale items, Dell is now offering discounts exclusively to the 11,844 people who follow @DellOutlet.”
Novell: Shrinking And Growing?
The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy gives the latest news on Novell.
“ SUSE Linux provider Novell has cut roughly 100 employees – or less than three per cent of its workforce – but CEO Ron Hovsepian appears to be scouring the market for potential acquisitions.”
