In total, Dell brought in $14.07 billion in revenue, but were only able to keep $372 million of it for themselves. This is down 51% from the same time last year, where they were able to profit $761 million. Operating profit also took a slide, down to $590 million from $1.01 billion from last year.

It’s certainly not a good end to what is possibly Dell’s last quarterly earnings report as the company is currently planning to go private again later this year, thanks to a generous loan from Microsoft, but it’s possible we could hear from them again in three months if the buyout doesn’t happen sooner.

Of course, Dell has mostly been spending its time making computers, but as the company admitted themselves, the PC industry is on the decline, and sooner or later the company is going to have to rethink their strategy if they want to remain in the black. Then again, a positive attitude is the biggest factor in success, right? Hopefully Dell can keep a smiling face on during these trying time.

According to HP, Dell has “a tough road ahead of them,” which could just be HP’s way of saying, “we’re coming after you,” but it seems that statement could go both ways. Dell’s own buyout could spell trouble for the company, but it’s ultimately a move that we’ll simply just have to wait and see how it turns out.

As for the figures, Sony raked in $458 million in net profit for the year on $72.35 billion of revenue during the 12-month period. Sony originally predicted a net profit of $404 million, so the company certainly did better than they expected at first. It certainly beats a $5.7 billion loss the previous year.

Sony reported lower sales of several different product categories, including compact cameras, LCD televisions, and PlayStation gaming consoles. The PlayStation department brought in only $18 million of operating profit for the company, while compact cameras brought in $15 million. TVs also saw a loss at $897 million.

However, Sony raked in $509 million of profit in their movie division, which was one of their most profitable categories for the year. Overall, Sony’s year-over-year revenue was boosted up 4.7%, and the company expects to turn a profit of over $500 million for this current fiscal year, as well as selling 42 million phones during the next 12 months.

The company sold 4,900 vehicles during the three month period, raking in $562 million in revenue, which is up a whopping 83% from last quarter’s $306 million. After it was all said and done, Tesla profited $11 million, which is barely pocket change, but it marks the first time in the company’s ten-year history that they’ve finished in the black.

Throughout the first quarter, Tesla claims that they built “400 or more” Model S vehicles per week on average, and they beat their original guidance of 4,500 cars for the quarter, shipping almost 5,000 Model S cars during the past three months. The company also reduced the amount of time it takes to building a Model S, lowering that time by around 40%, which allowed them to build more units.

Currently, Tesla says that they’re receiving orders for new cars at a rate of around 20,000 per year globally. However, Tesla doesn’t sell cars outside of North America, but the company hinted that there is an interest in selling Model S cars to regions in Europe and Asia. The company made a lot of announcements this quarter, including a new financing plan and a new warranty program that aims for guaranteed customer satisfaction.

Since the game’s launch in March, SimCity has sold over 1.6 million copies so far, even despite the fiasco that erupted during launch. EA says that half of these sales were from digital downloads, meaning that 800,000 copies of the game were sold through EA’s Origin gaming service alone, which is quite impressive.

As for other games that EA highlights, FIFA 13 has sold over 14.5 million copies in EA’s fiscal year 2013 so far, and EA says that Battlefield 3 Premium has over 3.5 million subscribers to date. As for the company’s latest iOS game, Real Racing 3 has seen more than 30 million downloads, and has been averaging over 2.5 million daily active users since its launch.

Despite all the hate that EA has been getting lately, including its “Worst Company in America” award for the second straight year, EA claims that they were the number one publisher in “Western retail markets” during the past quarter, as well as the number one publisher in the world when it comes to iOS games. Sales speak for themselves, we suppose.

As for the social network’s user base, the latest figures show that mobile usage on Facebook is continuing to rise. The company boasts that 751 million users are accessing the social networking site via mobile devices, while only 665 daily users are visiting through the desktop. This is the second quarter in a row where mobile users have trumped desktop users.

As for advertising, Facebook says that $375 million of its advertising revenue came from mobile alone, while 30% of the company’s revenue this quarter came from advertising, proving that putting ads on their service is one of the most lucrative things that they’re doing, which means that users won’t see a slow down in the number of ads they see anytime soon.

As for the number of monthly active users on Facebook, the company has updated that number to 1.11 billion users, which is a 23% increase from the same time last year. As for Facebook’s 665 million daily active users, that’s up from 26% from the same quarter last year. It’s been interesting to see Facebook’s usage grow and grow, but we have to be approaching a point when they’ll hit a plateau. When will that be, exactly?

Hulu has seen its paid subscriber base exponentially grow since Q4 2010, when at the time it had around only 250,000 Hulu Plus subscribers. As for mobile viewing, Hulu says it’s “growing at a significant rate,” and they predict that it will account for around 15% of Hulu’s consumed videos this next year.

Another big step for Hulu is the announcement of two new original series, which the company hopes will allow them to compete more with Netflix and Amazon. Hulu announced Quick Draw and East Los High. Quick Draw is a comedy set in the western style in 1875, and the story revolves around a sheriff who wants to introduce the science of forensics to an unruly Kansas town.

As for East Los High, Hulu that it’s “not your typical high school,” but we have a slight feeling that it may be just that. The show follows around a group of teens as they explore romance and mystery. Sounds familiar, right? Release dates for the these two shows have not been announced yet, but we’ll see them premiere at some point this summer.

The company met its revenue expectations, however, with a guidance of between $15 billion and $16.6 billion that they set back in January. As for a breakdown of where the retail giant’s money came from, the US remains to be Amazon’s largest market, with $9.4 billion of sales revenue being from the US, with the rest of world ringing in at $6.7 billion.

As for expectations for the next quarter, Amazon is predicting revenues somewhere in the $14.5 billion and $16.2 billion range, or to rise between 13% and 26% compared with the same quarter last year. As for their operating income, they’re expecting another loss in the range of -$340 million and $10 million, compared to $107 million a year ago.

Amazon recently debuted 14 pilots from original series that they’re planning on running. However, only a few will make it through. According to the company, the shows that make it through will be entirely picked by the viewers based of feedback. All of them are available now to stream for free.

The company’s operating income came in at $1.88 billion, which is up 24% from a year ago, but it’s down from $2.1 billion during the previous quarter. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said that the company “delivered another strong quarter as the worldwide adoption of smartphones continues.”

The company launched its new Snapdragon 600 and 800 chipsets during the quarter, which are being put to use most-notably in the US version of the Samsung GALAXY S 4 and the HTC First “Facebook phone.” Jacobs says that the company is “seeing strong traction” with the processors, and they “expect healthy growth in 3G and 3G/4G multimode devices around the world.”

As for shipments of Qualcomm chipsets, MSM-model chip shipments were at 173 million units for the quarter, which is up 14% from the same quarter last year, and down 5% from the previous quarter. As for Q3 2013, Qualcomm expects to bring in between $5.8 billion and $6.3 billion, and expects to ship between 163 million and 173 million MSM chips.

The company’s $43.6 billion in revenue trumps its revenue from the same quarter last year, which was $39.2 billion. However, net profits were down from $11.6 billion in Q2 2012. These numbers represent a slow growth for Apple, and this marks one of the few times that Apple hasn’t seen huge gains, but nonetheless, the money is definitely there.

As for sales of products, Apple sold 37.4 million iPhones and 19.5 million iPads during the three months, which is up 6.55% and 65.25% year-over-year, respectively. A 65% gain is certainly respectable, but we have to give most of the credit to the recently-released iPad mini for bumping those numbers up quite a bit.

As expected, Mac sales went down to 3.95 million units sold during the quarter from last year’s 4 million, and iPod sales also continued on with their slow decline, down to 5.6 million iPods sold from last year’s 7.7 million. We can’t say we’re too surprised here, but the iPhone and iPad have been the dominating products for the company as of recently.

Compared to the quarter that immediately preceded the quarter just reported, Apple sold a total of 22.9 million iPads and 47.8 million iPhones – that’s to be expected at least a bit as the first quarter Apple reports includes the 2012 holiday season. Apple’s results for the quarter including the three months reported here exactly one year ago has Apple bringing in cash from sales of 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPad units shipped.

This ramp-up is also beginning to fall into the category that includes consumers anticipating a new iPhone as rumors for the still unofficial iPhone 5S have been in full swing. Apple has been rumored to be creating a low-cost plastic-backed iPhone in the near future as well – both of these devices are, again, not yet made official or confirmed by Apple in any way at all.

Have a peek at more Apple action in our SlashGear Apple hub right this minute, and stay tuned as we continue to report on the Apple earnings today as they come in! With a massive “war chest” of $145 billion USD, Apple is certainly feeling confident here in the first half of 2013.

[via Apple]

Breaking down its customer base, AT&T says that 72% (or approximately 48.3 million of its customers) of the carrier’s on-contract subscribers are wielding smartphones. Overall, AT&T says that this has been the best first quarter that the company has ever seen as far as smartphone sales are concerned.

As for how AT&T earnings compared to the same time last year, the company experienced drops all across the board, but nothing significant. However, the company did see a rise in net income with a 3.2% gain compared to last year. As for total operating revenue, that was down 1.5% from $31.8 billion from a year ago.

AT&T’s wireless business saw big leaps, however, with a 21% rise in revenue compared to the same time last year. Total revenue for the carrier’s wireless business was $16.7 billion for the quarter, and net income was $4.66 billion, which is a 4% gain compared to last year. Overall, it seems AT&T made it through a rather successful quarter, especially for being a first quarter.

During the quarter, US streaming brought in $639 million in revenue, with international streaming raking in $142 million. The company’s DVD business, while slowly falling off, is still seeing action, with $243 million in revenue. However, that’s down from $254 million during the previous quarter, as well as $320 million during the same time last year.

As for profit, Netflix experienced losses in both operating and net income categories, with a loss of $32 million and $3 million, respectively. The company noted in a letter to shareholders that the loss was due to an “extinguishment of debt” that was connected to a bond refinancing back in February. Without that, the company would’ve netted $19 million.

Netflix brought up the company’s own original series House of Cards, saying that the show gave the streaming company “confidence” in picking up shows that their users would enjoy. However, not as many people took advantage of Netflix’s free trial offer as they were expecting. It turns out only 8,000 people used the free trial offer to watch House of Cards.

The letter to shareholders also mentions a new monthly plan that Netflix is planning to launch soon. To accommodate larger families with multiple devices in the house, Netflix is going to launch a new $11.99-per-month plan that will allow users to stream content on four devices at once, which is up from two on the regular streaming plan. No date has been set, but Netflix says that less than 1% of its user base will take advantage of the new plan.

The situation is that Google is at a rather interesting place with Motorola, having made it clear that the company is still at a point where they’re running through products planned well before the big G began their ownership and promising big things in the near future. The quarter one year ago (shown above) was the last in which Motorola reported earnings as a stand-alone company. Now that Google owns them, they’ve entered a bit of a new age.

With Google continuing to bring the heat with their Nexus line of Android smartphones and tablet and the Motorola line of smartphones continuing to look more and more like Google-made products each new generation, we can expect big things from both companies in the near future. Once the Motorola lineup begins to be wholly Google-run, it’s quite likely that their combined forces will bring some new and exciting products to the market.

The biggest rumor to be floating about the Motorola mobile universe as of late is the fabled “X Phone”. This device is said to be much more of a Google-influenced device and will, if ever revealed, place Motorola in a prime position for Nexus-height success. Have a peek at our Motorola tag portal for more information on what’s come recently and what’ll be appearing soon!

[via Google]

CEO Larry Page coined this quarter’s earnings as a “very strong start to 2013,” even though the company’s revenue and income have remained slightly stagnant over the past few quarters. Operating income for the company was $3.48 billion for the quarter, compared to last year’s $3.39 billion operating income during the same quarter.

As far as Google’s net income of $3.35 billion, this is a slight increase over the previous quarter’s $2.89 billion, and the company’s $14 billion revenue is slightly down from $14.42 billion during Q4 2012. As for the company’s cash on hand at the moment, we’re looking at just over $50 billion in the bank.

Page says that Google is “working hard and investing in [its] products that aim to improve billions of people’s lives all around the world.” As for Motorola, they experienced a bit of a drop off in revenue, posting just over $1 billion this quarter, compared to $1.51 billion during the previous quarter. The company also experienced an operating loss of $271 million. Ouch!

Analysts had predicted Microsoft’s revenue to be $20.5 billion, and they were right on the money. The company’s revenue last quarter was $21.46 billion, so they didn’t do as well this quarter, but a positive income in the black is always a good thing. Microsoft’s Windows division did fairly well this quarter, bringing in $5.7 billion, compared to last year’s $4.3 billion.

The company’s Business division raked in $6.32 billion, while they’re Entertainment division brought in $2.53 billion. All three of these divisions saw a revenue increase compared to this time last year. CEO Steve Ballmer says that the company’s big bets were on “cloud services,” and he says those bets are paying off big time.

Overall, year-over-year changes were all in the positives, with Microsoft’s Entertainment division seeing the biggest increase of 56%. Along with today’s quarterly earnings, Microsoft announced that Peter Klein, who served as the company’s CFO for four years, is stepping down from the role. He spent 11 years at Microsoft.

However, despite the losses, Nokia Lumia sales have hit a record high of 5.6 million in Q1 2013. This is up from 4.4 million during the previous quarter. In the same quarter last year, Nokia only sold two million Lumia smartphones, so that’s less than double of what they’re selling now. Since shipping their first Windows Phone device in November 2011, Nokia has just under 20 million Lumias.

While Nokia’s financial state certainly wasn’t ideal this quarter, it’s definitely better than what it was last year during this time, where the company experienced an operating loss of €1.34 billion ($1.75 billion), so the company is certainly succeeding at digging themselves out of a deep hole, even with less revenue coming in this quarter.

However, Nokia isn’t doing so well in North America. The company only shipped 400,000 devices during Q1 2013, which down 33% from the same time last year where they shipped 700,000 handsets. All in all, Nokia says that Lumia sales increased in all regions of the world in Q1 2013 except North America.

Verizon is now up to 98.9 million subscribers total, which means it shouldn’t be too long before they reach the 100 million mark. Furthermore, the carrier activated 5.9 million LTE devices out of the 7.2 million total activations. Verizon also claims that 28% of all activations during the quarter were customers who came from other carriers.

As for Verizon’s other services, FiOS internet saw a bump of 188,000 new customers and 169,000 new FiOS Video customers, which rose the revenue of that particular sector of the company up $2.6 billion. And for those who thought that Verizon quit expanding FiOS will be pleased to know that they added fiber optics to 83,000 homes during the past quarter alone, with 217,000 more homes planned for 2013.

Total revenue for the company rang in at $29.4 billion, which is 4.2% increase year-over-year. Operating income grew 19.8% to $6.2 billion in Q1 2013, compared to $5.2 billion during the same time last year. $19.5 billion of that $29.4 billion revenue came from Verizon’s wireless business alone, which is up 6.8% from last year.

Both net income and earnings per share were down 17% this quarter as well. Intel earned a net income of $2 billion, compared to $3.2 billion from the previous quarter. As for earnings per share, it’s at $0.40 for Q1 2013, compared to $0.48 during Q4 2012. Intel blames the slight losses on poor PC demand for the quarter.

The future for Intel is in question, with this being CEO Paul Otellini’s last earnings call, the company could change drastically by the time the next earnings report rolls around. Otellini will officially step down from Intel and retire next month. However, the change in CEO may not play much of a roll in the company’s revenue and profits, but we’ll ultimately have to wait and see.

As for the company’s predictions for next quarter’s earnings results, they’re expecting to bring in a revenue of $12.9 billion, give or take $500 million. They’re also predicting to have a gross margin percentage of 58%. Hopefully the company can meet that goal the next time around, and with the new 14nm technology they’re working on, we can’t see why they wouldn’t bring back an increased profit.

As for a breakdown of some of GM’s subsidiaries, Cadillac sales were up 38% from last year, while Buick was up 28%. GMC saw a 14% increase, and Chevrolet saw the smallest gain, with a 5% jump. Overall, GM saw an increase in sales across the board, which is no doubt a good sign for a company that recently found itself in a deep hole.

As for what types of cars have most popular during the past year, GM reports that crossover vehicles saw the biggest increase from last year, with a 25% jump, while trucks were up 10%. As for the folks who want more fuel-efficient vehicles, those numbers saw an increase, but not as much as you’d think — combined mini, small, and compact cars were up 14% from last year.

Unfortunately, GM didn’t report any of their financial earnings — just sales numbers this time around, but with such an impressive increase in sales, we have to guess that GM is slowly starting to make progress digging themselves out of that wretched hole. With the launch of the 2014 Corvette later this year, we should hopefully see GM further into the black as we go along in 2013.

BlackBerry’s profit this quarter is quite surprising, but the company ended up losing three million subscribers over a three month period, which is now down to 76 million subscribers globally, compared to 79 million subscribers during the previous quarter and 80 million users the quarter before that.

BlackBerry ended up selling six million devices during its Q4 2013 quarter, with one million of those being BlackBerry 10 devices (a.k.a. the BlackBerry Z10). BlackBerry’s Q4 2013 ended on March 2 of this year, so the BlackBerry Z10 sales don’t account for the US and Canada launches of the new phone, so we should be seeing a healthy dose of Z10 sales during the company’s next earnings report in three months.

During the company’s earnings call, CEO Thorsten Heins says that BlackBerry’s newest QWERTY device, the Q10, will be releasing sometime next month. As for Lazaridis, he will be stepping down from his current position of Vice Chair of the Board on May 1, and will be leaving the company entirely to focus on his new Quantum Valley Investments venture.

According to Hong Kong-based research company Counterpoint Research, Samsung has sold around 25 million smartphones each month so far this year, and that’s expected to drive the company’s quarterly sales to over 70 million units for Q1 2013. Samsung’s last earnings report showed a profit of $8 billion over those three months.

Samsung’s market share during January and February reached 35%, making them the largest smartphone manufacturer on the planet. Compared to Q4 2012, that’s a 3% increase in market share. With the upcoming release of Samsung’s GALAXY S 4, it’s possible that the company may even see a record Q2 2013 as well.

Back in January, it was estimated that Samsung would sell around 10 million GALAXY S 4 devices per month, and the company says that they want to sell at least 350 million smartphones in 2013, which is quite an ambitious goal. They eventually want to reach 500 million devices total for the year. The GALAXY S 4 is expected to early May at some point, with T-Mobile the only major carrier to offer a timeline.

Compared to last year, the company’s revenue dropped slightly this quarter compared to Q1 2012, which showed a $1.045 billion revenue during the three months. However, the company’s paid subscriptions to Creative Cloud could boost the company’s financial results in the long term, but it may take a few quarters for that boost to occur.

The company’s user base for Creative Cloud is quickly gaining steam, since the service passed the 1 million user mark back in December, and already that number is over double. It was quite the year for Adobe, with the launch of Creative Cloud and a new version of Creative Suite, dubbed CS6, which includes a ton of software for designers and developers.

As for Adobe’s income for the quarter, operating income chimed in at $98.2 million, and net income was $65.1 million on a GAAP basis. On a non-GAAP basis, operating income was $240.7 million while net income was $177.9 million. Not a bad quarter for the company, even considering its revenue is down just slightly from last year.

As for plans to buyout the company and take it private, founder Dick Schulze looks to be reneging on that proposal. Alongside the company’s quarterly earnings announcement, it announced that the deadline for Schulze to make an offer expired yesterday, which means that the company will “continue to focus on its transformation for the benefit of all of its stakeholders.”

We heard back in October that Schulze was working with different equity firms in order to make plans for a private buyout of the electronics retail chain. Buying out the company was said to cost around $11 billion. Schulze has previously stated that he could buy the company for $24-$26 per share, which would value the company between $8.16 billion and $8.84 billion. However, with debt added on, the total bill would round up to about $11 billion.

No reason was given as to why Schulze decided to back out, but there could have been numerous reasons to choose from, including cold feet or the failure in coming to an agreement with equity firms. Either way, it looks like Best Buy will remain a public company after all, and shareholders will still get to have their say in the company.

As for revenue, Barnes & Noble made $2.2 billion during the quarter, which is down 8.8% year-over-year. As for NOOK sales, that division probably got hit the hardest, where revenue was down 26% compared to the same time last year, but as for digital content sales, the company saw a slight jump by 6.8%.

Of course, Barnes & Noble was expecting to take a big hit, so they’re about as surprised as we were (read: not surprised at all). NOOK made $316 million this past quarter, while the same time last year, it made $426.6 million. Overall, the company saw losses across the board, including their retail business, which saw a 10.3% decrease from last year.

However, it seems that the company may actually be changing things up a bit. Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio is pondering the idea of buying the company back from shareholders, and shaking things up with the NOOK business — mostly throwing out the entire playbook and starting from scratch, but we’ll have to see what direction the company takes this year. It could be an interesting ride for B&N execs.

The company has reported that they delivered around 2,400 Model S sedans during the fourth quarter and made a $12.7 million principal payment on their loan from the Department of Energy. However, they have total liabilities of $989.5 million, including $452.3 million in debt (ouch!). Nonetheless, they seem to be producing Model S units at a steady rate.

The company is producing around 400 vehicles per week. Over the quarter, they produced 2,750 vehicles and over 3,100 vehicles during the full year of 2012. The company says they’re at a point now where they can “reliably” produce 20,000 cars per year, which means that 2013 should be a big year for Tesla. During the first quarter alone, they want to ship 4,500 Model S cars.

The company has not released any solid sales numbers yet, but rather just delivery figures. They delivered 2,400 Model S cars during the quarter, which is a majority of the total number of vehicles they shipped for the whole year, which is around 2,650. The company is wanting to ship a total of around 20,000 vehicles in 2013, and expects to make its first profit this quarter.

[via Jalopnik]

The company also expects their NOOK revenue this year to be less than $3 billion, which means that the company didn’t have a very successful holiday season as well. The growing popularity of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets and Apple’s iPad was at the expense of Barnes & Noble’s NOOK business, which ended up suffering during the busiest shopping time of the year.

Plus, if the company’s Q2 2013 earnings were bad, than Q3′s numbers must be plain miserable. Last quarter, Barnes & Noble sold fewer NOOK slates in its stores than previous quarters, and the company saw dips in revenue all across the board. NOOK revenue only account for just over 8% of the company’s total revenue that quarter.

Just before the turn of the new year, Barnes & Noble announced that British publishing company Pearson was going to invest $89.5 million in the NOOK business. We haven’t heard much about that deal since its announcement, but it’s possible that the company may bring it up at next week’s earnings call.

Of course, revenue from subscribers is down 10% from the same time last year, in which AOL was raking in almost $200 million from dial-up customers, but their revenue saw a 4% growth from last year as well, proving that the company is slowly starting to see its dial-up business cut back a bit, and is earning more revenue elsewhere.

Then again, we shouldn’t be too surprised. While broadband internet is now the norm, there are sadly still some people who don’t have access to it, namely those who live rural areas. Of course, they could get satellite internet, but it’s really expensive for the speeds you get, and most people just end up going with dial-up for the time being.

AOL ended the year with a total revenue of $2.2 billion, and an operating income of $1.2 billion ($68.2 million for the quarter). As far as net income, the company scored $35.7 million for the quarter, and $1.05 billion for the fiscal year. It’s a little scary to hear that AOL’s revenue depended on subscriptions for 29% of it, but advertising made up a whopping 68% of their revenue, so they probably don’t have anything to worry about.

This is the eighth straight quarter that Sony has reported a loss. Sales were down 15.1% from last year, which resulted in an 86.4% decrease in profits. However, currency conversions and the strength of different currency values lessened the blow, since the dollar, euro, and pound strengthened against the yen.

However, the company cut sales targets for most of its divisions, including gaming, televisions, tablets, and phones. As expected the PlayStation 3, Vita, and PSP took a big hit. Sony’s two portable handheld consoles combined for a fiscal-year estimate of 7 million, which is down 30% from the number projected back in November. Sony sold 2.7 million of the PSP and Vita during the third quarter.

Projected sales for TVs and cameras both fell by 1 million each. However, Sony’s PlayStation event is right around the corner, in which we might see the PlayStation 4 come to fruition. If that’s the case, this may the time to shine for Sony, but we’ll ultimately have to wait and see how they do as the year progresses.

It was none other than HTC’s Chief Financial Officer Chang Chia-Lin that spoke up on the conference call this week after the quarterly earnings report. He spoke about China’s potential and the fact that HTC would be focusing on more than the mid- to high-end models they’d been delivering throughout the country up until this point in history. The price point for the new less expensive devices, he said, would under-cut the least expensive device they’ve got on the market today.

With the lowest-tier device on the Chinese mobile market from HTC today being set at 1,999 yuan ($320), Chang made it clear that they are “going to go down, but not below 1,000.” He also let it be known that “we see there’s still room to play” with devices priced around 1,000 and 2,000 yuan. This opens HTC up to delivering more devices like the HTC One SV with a solid product delivery at a price that wont break the bank.

HTC has a flagship smartphone on the way as well, mind you, with a code-name delivery right this minute set as HTC M7. This device has also been tipped to be bringing on a brand new brand name for HTC’s upcoming camera technology with Ultrapixel replacing Megapixel. It’s going to be fun beyond all other things!

[via Rueters]

Compared to figures a year ago, which were $1.13 billion in revenue and a profit of $302 million in Q4 2011, the company has seen some slight setbacks. After going public for the first time in 2012, the company’s stock hasn’t done too well. It’s never reached its initial $38 per share, but it has jumped by 30% within the last six months after it tanked.

As far as the company’s user base goes, they saw an average of 1.06 billion monthly active users, with 618 million of them being daily active users. What’s perhaps even more incredible is that their monthly active user count for those accessing the service on mobile devices was 680 million, surpassing the number of users using the web interface.

This marks the first time for Facebook where this has happened, and it’s proof that mobile devices are becoming more and more prevalent in people’s lives, continuing the speculation of whether or not we’re all in a post-PC era. We’re not sure when or if the mobile MAU will peak, but we’re guessing that this won’t be the last time that mobile usage has surpassed desktop usage.

Qualcomm’s fiscal Q1 for 2013 included the months leading up to December 30, 2012, and included a fabulous $6.02 billion in revenue for the group, this representing a 29% boost compared to the same quarter one year ago. This is also a 24% upward trend compared to the company’s Q4 of 2012, that being the quarter that went directly before the one being reported today. Operating income for Q1 2013 went up 35% year-over-year to $2.09 billion USD while Net income came to $1.91 billion, that being 36% more than it was last year at this same time.

The operating cash flow reported by Qualcomm for this quarter was a mighty $1.98 billion USD, this equaling out to be 33 percent of revenues and a boost of 11% year-over-year. As far as Qualcomm’s “key business metrics” for the quarter go, MSM chip shipments were reported to have reached 182 million units, this representing a 17 percent growth in shipments compared to this same quarter one year ago. Total device sales for this quarter ended up being an amazing $53.3 billion USD total, that being 29% higher than it was one year ago.

This quarter also showed an estimated 233 to 237 million 3G/4G device shipments, each of these between the prices of $224 and $230 on average – that’s massive. Qualcomm has reported their cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities to have totaled $28.4 billion USD at the end of the quarter being reported here, this compared to $22 billion on year ago. Have a peek at the timeline below to see other recent Qualcomm accomplishments and big announcements to see where the company is headed in 2013 – up and up!

[via Qualcomm]

Compared to a year ago, revenue was up a respectable 22% from $17.43 billion in Q4 2011. Operating income increased a whopping 56% to $405 million during the past quarter, compared to $260 million last year. However, net income took a huge hit this time around, dropping 45% from the same time last year with $97 million, compared to $177 million in Q4 2011.

However, it seems CEO Jeff Bezos was expecting these kinds of numbers. He says that “after 5 years, eBooks is a multi-billion dollar category” for the company, and it’s “growing fast.” Physical book sales have dropped, and Q4 2012 saw the “lowest December growth rate” in the company’s 17 years, up just 5%.

For the entire year, Amazon hit revenues of $61.09 billion, which is up 27% from $48.08 billion in 2011. Operating income decreased by 22% to $676 million, compared with $862 million in 2011. Overall, as far as 2012 profits go, Amazon actually lost $39 million altogether, compared with the net income of $631 million in 2011.

Splitting the revenues up between the company’s different divisions, Windows accounted for almost $6 billion of the company’s revenues, which is up 24% from last year, and that’s mostly thanks to the release of Windows 8 back in late October. However, Microsoft’s business division saw a drop, with revenues down 10% to $5.7 billion year-over-year. The Server & Tools department’s revenue increased by 9% to $5.19 billion.

Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices division, which is responsible for the Xbox and Surface, saw an 11% decline from last year, with only $3.77 billion of revenue. This comes after Microsoft announced that the Xbox 360 was the top-selling gaming console for two years straight. It looks like holiday sales weren’t as great as the company expected.

Microsoft’s Online Services division saw more growth, however, with $869 million in revenue, which is an 11% increase year-over-year. Thanks to the upcoming Office 365 suite and SkyDrive, Microsoft’s online services don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon, especially with the deal that Microsoft made with the city of Chicago to bring Office 365 services to city employees.

This meeting will, on the other hand, be broadcast live throughout the Apple Cupertino campus as well as other Apple employee locations. This way as many Apple employees as possible can see the session and enjoy the large group hug that they’ve earned upon creating this record-breaking quarter. The full email, according to unnamed employees sending the mail into 9to5Mac, came through last night after the earnings call.

Team, We’ve just reported another record setting quarter, thanks to everyone’s incredible hard work and focus. We sold over 75 million iOS devices in the holiday quarter alone, which is a testament to the strength of Apple’s innovation. Please join me for an employee communications meeting tomorrow at 10 a.m. Pacific time in the auditorium of De Anza 3.

We’ve created a space on AppleWeb where you can submit your questions in advance, and we’ll do our best to answer as many of them as we can during the meeting. The meeting will be broadcast live throughout Cupertino and at many other Apple locations.

Please check AppleWeb for details.

Tim

Employees are able to send in questions before the event and answers will likely be made available based on their importance to the event – though live, we must expect, one way or the other. Apple’s earnings call included a Q and A session that revealed several interesting points including those surrounding the supply constraints in the iMac as well as the iPad mini, this accounting for less sales than Apple feels it would have been capable of otherwise.

Have a peek at the timeline below to see every bit of detail from the financial report released yesterday as well as the Q and A that followed. Let us know if you’re expecting anything fantastical from the Town Hall meeting that’s occurring today, and be sure to stay tuned to our sizable Apple hub as well through the future!

As far as smartphone sales go, Nokia said it sold 15.9 million smartphones, including 4.4 million Lumia phones, during Q4 2012, which is down from 19.6 million a year ago. However, they sold a total of 86.4 million mobile phones altogether. In comparison with Apple, who announced their earnings yesterday, the Cupertino-based company sold almost 48 million iPhones during the last quarter, compared to Nokia’s 15.9 million in smartphone sales.

Perhaps the biggest hit that Nokia took this quarter was that the company sold only 4.6 million handsets in China, a 69% drop from a year ago, with sales revenue in the country down 79% to $284.4 million from the previous quarter. While Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said he was excited about the company reaching a profit, he cautioned that more cutbacks may be imminent.

Nokia had led the mobile phone market share for 14 years, with its global market share peaking at 40% in 2008, but Samsung recently overtook the once-dominant company as the world’s top mobile phone maker. However, Nokia’s “better than expected” sales of their new Lumia phones proved to be a huge help in getting the company into the black.

As he mentioned in the TV interview with Brian Williams a while back, television is “an area of intense interest” for Apple, and what was once a small niche for Apple, is now an area that the company wants to capitalize on. Cook says that “there is a lot we can contribute to the space,” but he resisted sharing any more information on the subject.

We’ve already heard plenty of rumors about an Apple television set, including hearsay that Sharp is working on some display panels for the rumored television, while Foxconn is said to be testing various models of the Apple television, including sizes that range from 46 inches to 55 inches. Obviously, we’re keeping the salt by our sides until we hear something from Apple, but it leaves us with many questions.

So, while we didn’t really get anymore information out of the Apple execs as far as their plans for a possible Apple television set, we were told that the television sector is something that Apple is at least interested in, so we wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up diving deep into the industry to supplement its Apple TV STB.

These numbers definitely hint at a post-PC world that we’re creeping up on. However, Apple notes that the lower Mac sales this past quarter were due to the constraints of the new iMacs that the company released in November and December. Had they been available sooner (and in more abundant supply), the company claims that Mac sales for Q1 2013 would have been much higher.

Either way, the post-PC world is still prevalent. 4.1 million Macs versus 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPads is quite a difference. On a per week basis, Mac sales were around 300,000 and 400,000 per week during the quarter, while the iPad was 1.7 million per week. Obviously, iPads are much cheaper than Macs, but we aren’t surprised that more and more people are using iPads for their daily needs.

Overall, Apple CEO Tim Cook says that “iMacs were down by 700,000 units year-over-year.” And not only do they blame that on the newer iMacs availability dates, but the company also “left the quarter with significant constraints on supplies.” If it had not been for the constraints, the company “would have had materially higher sales.”

This quarter also represents a lovely jump for the iPad with 22.9 million units sold compared to just 15.4 million one year ago this same quarter. This is largely due to the iPad mini we must expect, while the iPhone’s jump is certainly due to the launch of the iPhone 5 and its fully-active status in this quarter’s reading.

The full financial results of this quarter include a massive 61 percent of all revenue for international sales, while average weekly revenue for the company jumped nearly a full billion dollars compared to one year ago with $4.2 billion per week. This report includes 12.7 million iPods sold compared to a slightly larger number a year ago at 15.4 million, letting us know that Apple’s sales aren’t all going up – some are merely adjusting, so to speak.

You’ll be able to see the full results of this quarter’s announcements through our own massive Apple hub right this minute if you check the must-read and daily news sections, with Apple letting the world know once again that they remain dominant. Let us know if you feel this quarter’s iPhone sales numbers represent what you expected them to sell now that the iPhone 5 is on the market and iOS 5 is running strong!

Netflix had previously expected around 26 to 27 million US streaming subscribers, so the company’s goal was easily met, and as or international users overall, this time last year saw a rise of 1.9 million users during Q4 2011, so the service is certainly gaining steam, and from what Netflix has planned for this year, we think that steam will keep up for a while.

2012 was a big year for Netflix, and 2013 looks to be even bigger. The company plans to roll out two TV shows exclusive to Netflix: House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey, and an Arrested Development reboot, starring most of the original cast, including Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, and Will Arnett.

The company has also been continuously working on getting studios signed on to stream their movies and TV shows on Netflix. Just recently, they signed on Turner, Warner Bros., and even Disney. And along with the extra content that Netflix will provide starting this year, you can guarantee that their catalog will only continue to grow.

Things get somewhat better when looking at the non-GAAP figures for the quarter, but in that case, AMD still finds itself with an operating loss of $55 million, a net loss of of $114 million, and a loss-per-share amount that settles at $0.14. GAAP gross margin came in at 15% for the quarter, while non-GAAP gross margin was 39%. Computing Solutions was down 37% year-over, posting an operating loss of $323 million, while the company’s Graphics segment had an operating income of $22 million – seemingly one of the only bright spots in AMD’s report, but still down 15% year-over-year nonetheless. The declines for both were blamed on decreases in product shipments.

Unfortunately, this poor Q4 was indicative of a rough year in general for AMD. The company had a revenue of $5.42 billion for 2012 as a whole, which sounds excellent but is actually down 17% year-over-year. Similarly, the company suffered an operating loss of $1.06 billion for the year, with net loss hitting $1.18 billion and loss-per-share treading somewhat close to $2.00 at $1.60. It’s worth remembering that AMD began implementing the restructuring it announced after posting Q3′s poor results, so that took something of a toll on the company’s pocketbook at the end of the year.

Those restructuring efforts forced a lot of workers out of their jobs, but the hope is that AMD will post better financials for 2013 as a result. In the immediate future, however, AMD isn’t expecting things to improve at all. In Q1 2013, it expects revenues to fall another 9% sequentially (with a possible 3% swing either way), which would be even worse news for the already struggling company. Stay tuned.