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Blackberry (BB) announced that it would work with Amazon AWS (AMZN). So, the companies will work together over a software platform for connected vehicles.

Facebook now shares Huawei’s ambition to challenge the dominance of Google’s Android, creating a huge risk for Google’s advertising business.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Google’s (GOOGL) petition in its long-running copyright dispute with Oracle Corporation (ORCL).

Tesla (TSLA) stock has been polarizing like no other. Analysts and investors have very strong views about the stock on either side.

Has Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car unit, been hyped by the media? We’ll take a closer look and see what’s new in the world of autonomous vehicles.

Ford plans to produce autonomous cars for ridesharing by 2021. GM acquired Cruise, a self-driving startup, to kickstart its autonomous driving plans.

MacRumors recently reported that Quanta Computer supplied autonomous driving solutions to Apple. Apple has tested its self-driving car in Cupertino.

Google (GOOGL) enlisted Nokia’s HMD to testify in its favor during a lawsuit with the EU’s (European Union) General Court over a huge antitrust fine.

Microsoft joins BlackBerry in setting aside its own operating system in favor of Android. That could soften the blow to Google if Huawei exits.

The competition in the self-driving technology market just heated up again. Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) has formed a joint venture with Aptiv.

It’s been a bad day for small- and mid-cap tech stocks. BlackBerry, Roku, GoPro, and Shopify have lost significant market value today. Here’s why.

BlackBerry (BB) shares fell 17% in early market trading today. The company released its results for the second quarter of 2020 ending in February.

Self-driving cars are inevitable, and billions of dollars are going into this technology. We take a look at five of the best stocks in the industry right now.

Jaguar Land Rover has partnered with BlackBerry to develop autonomous vehicles. BlackBerry will assist Jaguar in various areas via AI and machine learning.

Shares of BlackBerry (BB) have been volatile over the last 12 months. BlackBerry stock fell 40.5% from $12.0 in September 2018 to $6.57 in December.

BlackBerry’s (BB) QNX technology is a part of the BlackBerry Technology Solutions (or BTS) vertical.

BlackBerry (BB) acquired Cylance in the last fiscal year for $1.4 billion.

BlackBerry’s (BB) sales rose 23.0% year-over-year in the first quarter.

BlackBerry (BB) stock has burnt significant investor wealth over the years.

BlackBerry’s Software and Solutions revenue now accounts for over 90.0% of sales.

According to BlackBerry, the total available market across its business segments stands at $22 billion.

BlackBerry (BB) is a leader in secure communications solutions.

BlackBerry was once the market leader in the smartphone market.

BlackBerry beat analysts’ earnings estimates in each of the last four quarters.

Blackberry’s (BB) hardware business faced a massive downturn with the advent of smartphones like Apple’s iPhone.

Alibaba (BABA) has acquired workplace team collaboration platform Teambition, according to a report from TechNode.

BlackBerry (BB) sued Twitter (TWTR) last month in a patent infringement dispute.

Last week, Apple (AAPL) launched a new iPhone television commercial that focuses on privacy.

Last month, Amazon (AMZN) launched a new anti-counterfeit program called Project Zero.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google is under pressure to prove it didn’t violate Oracle’s (ORCL) software copyright in the development of Android.

Apple (AAPL) agreed to an estimated $570 million to settle with French authorities over unpaid taxes.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google has taken its long-running software copyright dispute with Oracle (ORCL) to the United States Supreme Court.

Investors are optimistic about the latest round of the US-China trade talks (SPY). The optimism helped Apple recover this week.

BlackBerry (BB) stock fell 28% in 2016 and rose 52% in 2017.

In fiscal 2019, BlackBerry (BB) expects its total Enterprise Software & Services segment billings to grow by double digits in fiscal 2019.

Nokia and BlackBerry have quietly terminated a 2017 patent infringement lawsuit that pitted them against each other, according to a Bloomberg report.

Analysts expect BlackBerry’s (BB) revenues to fall 7.8% year-over-year to $891.82 million in fiscal 2019.

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs chose BlackBerry for a multiyear FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) cloud license.

Revenues from BlackBerry’s (BB) Enterprise Software and Services business fell from $91.0 million in fiscal Q2 2018 to $88.0 million in fiscal Q2 2019.

The revenues from BlackBerry Technology Solutions rose 29.0% year-over-year to $49.0 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2019.

Apple (AAPL) appears to anticipate strong demand for its least expensive new iPhone model, the iPhone XR.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (or PTAB) noted in August that Nokia wouldn’t challenge several of BlackBerry’s patent claims against it.

QNX software is now embedded in ~120 million vehicles, up from 60 million in June 2015.

On September 5, BlackBerry (BB) stock fell 6.3% to close at $9.97.

In August, IDC named BlackBerry (BB) a leader in the Worldwide Enterprise Mobility Management Software 2018 Vendor Assessment.

Vendors such as Nokia are expecting to make money from the arrival of 5G network technology by licensing patents for 5G mobile phones.

It appears Samsung (SSNLF) has come to a point where feels it has had enough of its Chinese competitors in India.

Groupon disagreed with a jury verdict that it willfully infringed on several patents owned by IBM. Groupon’s options include an appeal.

Apple (AAPL) said it would challenge a recent jury verdict that said it infringed on WiLAN’s patents and must pay $145.1 million in damages.

BlackBerry (BB) has focused on software and services as its core business since it lost ground to Apple and Samsung (SSNFL) in the smartphone market.

Samsung is expanding its capacity in India. Just a few weeks ago, it opened a new factory in India that it said is the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturing plant.

In this series, we’ll look at yesterday’s sell-off in the technology sector, which was driven by escalating US trade disputes.

BlackBerry’s (BB) licensing revenue almost doubled, from $32 million in fiscal Q1 2018 to $63 million in fiscal Q1 2019.

The European Union’s antitrust agency is preparing to fine Google—we’ll look into why, as well as other news, in this series on the Internet industry.

BlackBerry (BB) stock has returned 5.5% in the last 12 months, 5.6% in the last month, and 1.8% in the last five days.

Last week, TCL launched the BlackBerry KEY2 for a price starting at $649.

BlackBerry (BB) recently announced that its QNX software has been embedded in more than 120 million vehicles.

According to BlackBerry (BB), EoT (Enterprise-of-Things) is the fifth wave of enterprise productivity.

Due to BlackBerry’s business transition, its revenue fell from $2.2 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.4 billion in fiscal 2017 and $967 million in fiscal 2018.

Analysts expect BlackBerry’s revenue to fall 13% YoY in the fiscal second quarter of 2019 and 8.3% YoY in fiscal 2019.

Facebook (FB) faces fresh privacy questions following reports that it may have struck illicit data-sharing deals with dozens of device makers.

Nokia (NOK) has a device licensing agreement with China’s (FXI) HMD Global. Nokia and BlackBerry (BB) have outsourced their smartphone manufacturing businesses to third-party producers in China and Southeast Asia.

Apple (AAPL) has reportedly replaced Qualcomm (QCOM) and partnered with Intel (INTC) for its modem chip supplier for upcoming iPhone models.

Semiconductor giant Broadcom (AVGO) is on track to shift its offices to Delaware from Singapore in April.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google and Microsoft’s (MSFT) LinkedIn are teaming up to train future Android developers.

Samsung (SSNLF) has set its sights on becoming the world’s top supplier for image sensors, Korean publication Etnews reported.

Including Nokia, Solidium owns minority stakes in 13 listed Finnish companies for an estimated value of over $11 billion.

BlackBerry (BB) has returned 79% in the trailing 12 months, 11.1% in the last month, and 2.4% in the trailing five days.

On March 6, BlackBerry (BB) sued Facebook (FB) on allegations that Facebook has infringed on seven technology patents.

As we observed in the previous part of this series, Wall Street analysts expect a revenue decline of 27% YoY (year-over-year) for BlackBerry (BB) in fiscal 4Q18 with revenue of $216.8 million.

Facebook disagrees with BlackBerry’s claims in the latter’s recent patent infringement lawsuit that many features of FB’s social media services were copied.

The rapid rise of local Chinese smartphone makers in recent years has reduced foreign brands such as Apple and Samsung into challengers rather than leaders in China’s smartphone arena.

When Apple moved to cut the price of replacement iPhone batteries to $29 from $79 in December 2017, the intention was not to run the battery discount forever.

Apple Watch price up 7.9% Apple (AAPL) recently raised prices on almost all of its devices in India, by 3.0%–8.0%. With that move, the price of a 256 GB (gigabyte) iPhone X jumped to almost $1,700 from $1,650. The same model costs about $1,150 in the United States. Apple’s price increases in India affected models from the […]

iPhone shipments slip 1.0% Apple (AAPL) shipped fewer iPhones in the 2017 holiday quarter than in the 2016 holiday quarter, missing Wall Street expectations. The company reported that it sold 77.3 million iPhone handsets in fiscal 1Q18 (its December quarter), and iPhone unit sales fell 1.0% year-over-year. On average, analysts expected Apple to sell 80 million iPhones. Apple had […]

Google could use Redux’s technology to develop better smartphones to bolster its competition in the global smartphone market where it trails Apple and Samsung.

BlackBerry generated revenues of ~$50.0 million from its patent licensing business in fiscal 3Q18, up from its fiscal 3Q17 revenues of $30.0 million.

Apple (AAPL) admitted and apologized to its customers for making software changes that ended up slowing their iPhones, especially the older devices.

VMware’s (VMW) EUC license bookings grew 40% on a YoY (year-over-year) basis in fiscal 3Q18.

BlackBerry has tapped Teletry to be its patent licensing partner. The company highlighted this development in its latest quarterly earnings update for fiscal 3Q18.

A quietly fought patent licensing dispute has yielded $137 million for Nokia (NOK) and has cost BlackBerry (BB) a similar loss.

Selling IoT (Internet of Things) end points appear to a natural market for Samsung, as it is already a leading global consumer electronics company.