Tag archive: Strategy

During its second press conference today, Nokia elaborated on a number of points related to the Finnish mobile companies adoption of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform. Nokia executives, led by CEO Stephen Elop, clarified the roles between the hardware and software companies and several layers of restructuring that will help Nokia achieve this transition. Below are some highlights of the event, separated by topic. For an initial outline… Read More

A new report from Boston's Strategy Analytics finds that mobile phone sales reached record levels in the third quarter of 2006, totaling some 256 million units, an increase of 22 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago. And mobile users' love affair with Motorola's RAZR seems to be losing its spark, as demand for Walkman and Cyber-shot phones pushed the company's growth rate to 43 percent, letting… Read More

“Our strategy is to get huge in DVDs and then expand into downloads,” Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings told Reuters on Friday. “When we get to 5 million or 10 million subscribers, eventually what we spend on postage becomes a prize for the movie studios.” Money saved by sending movies directly to consumers' homes via the Web could be plowed back into buying more DVD titles to meet customer orders. Read… Read More

A Motorola spokeswoman said its partner in the deal, Hong Kong-listed Proview International Holdings Ltd.  , would make the products, which would be sold in China before being launched globally under the Motorola brand. “Our consumer research tells us that we have a brand that is very valuable, and that consumers would be keen to buy other products beyond the core products,” Shelagh Lester-Smith told Reuters on Tuesday.… Read More

The Osaka-based company behind Panasonic-brand products is taking a clearly different approach from longtime rival Sony Corp., which unveiled a new PlayStation 2 last week that combines features such as a DVD recorder and TV tuner with the game console. “We think the demands are subtly different so in our strategy we will develop them separately,” said Kazuo Toda, Matsushita senior managing director. Toda said the… Read More

The research released by Strategy Analytics concludes that Nintendo must abandon its current console hardware strategy, and instead “do a Sega” by focusing on third party development instead. The group predicts that the GameCube will face a serious decline in 2003, with sales falling by 4 per cent while sales of the rival Xbox rise by 12 per cent. DFC Intelligence, on the other hand, points out that Nintendo is the… Read More