Day: 8 February 2012

Daniel Eran Dilger:

In a distinct departure from the agreement voiced between Apple, Cisco and Microsoft regarding the need for fair, transparent, understandable and consistent licensing policy for open standards, Google has promised to continue to wage Motorola’s increasingly hostile patent wars.

I’m confused: I was told that Apple was the uncompromising, overly-litigious asshat.

Fourth quarter 2011 net loss attributable to common stockholders decreased by 89% to $42.7 million, or a loss of $0.08 per share, from a net loss attributable to stockholders of $378.6 million, or a loss of $1.08 per share, in fourth quarter 2010.

GRPN is down 15% in after-hours trading. Something still seems fishy with this company. Also, they’re still losing massive amounts of money, despite the “improvements” they cite:

Full year 2011 loss from operations was $203.4 million, compared with the loss from operations of $420.3 million in 2010.

Path CEO Dave Morin has clarified their privacy situation by updating the app, making the sharing of private data and optional feature, and deleting any saved data on Path’s servers. Good move.

Josh Topolsky puts his fingers all over Chrome for Android, and it looks pretty flaky based on the video. It is a beta, and it scores well on performance tests, but the UI responsiveness leaves a lot to be desired.