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HTC Corp. closed another fantastic quarter with profits up $102.9% year over year and device shipments up 24.8% from the previous quarter and up 123.7% from the year-ago period. The Taiwanese manufacturer shipped 12.1 million devices total, generating $608.3 million in net income on $4.32 billion in revenue.

The company noted its fifth consecutive quarter of growth, no doubt spurred by its widening smartphone portfolio. HTC expects to ship 13.5 million devices in the current third quarter.

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Almost everything is up at Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. except for profits. The company swung to a $56 million loss in the last quarter, after recording $80 million in profits a year ago. Motorola shipped 11.1 million devices total, including 4.4 million smartphones and 440,000 Xoom tablets.

Device shipments are up 25% and smartphone shipments are up 39%. Mobile device revenues grew more than 40% year over year and overall revenues are up 28% from the year-ago period to $3.3 billion. Read more

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Owners of the Motorola Xoom tablet on Verizon Wireless (VZ) will now have to wait until September to upgrade their devices to LTE. When or if the long-delayed upgrade comes, it will be nearly seven months after the device first launched with the carrier. And customers will still have to take the archaic step of mailing their device to Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) to receive the upgrade. Then wait around six business days to get it back. I wonder what could go wrong.

Since the Android-powered Xoom launched five months ago, it’s been hard to find any logic in Motorola’s LTE strategy for this device. Motorola originally said the upgrade would be available in the second quarter and since then CEO Sanjay Jha has blamed ongoing delays on software performance issues. Read more

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Not only does Apple Inc. have the most succesful tablet on the market with the iPad, it’s also made significant headway in dominating the enterprise market, a sector that hasn’t been strong historically for the company. Apple is no doubt a heavyweight in the consumer space — the company relishes the success its achieved by designing products for the masses — but the iPad has effectively narrowed the increasingly invisible gap between consumer and enterprise. Read more

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Verizon Communications Inc. added 2.2 million net subscribers on Verizon Wireless’ network during the recently closed quarter, bringing its total to 106.3 million connections, including 89.7 million retail customers.

The company’s wireless business saw a 10.2% year-over-year increase in revenues to $17.3 billion and data revenues were up 22.2% to $1.1 billion. The company close the quarter with $1.61 billion in profit. Average revenue per user (ARPU) for retail postpaid customers grew 1.9% from the year-ago period to $54.12 and data ARPU jumped 15.2% to $21.26. Read more

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AT&T Inc. added 1.1 million subscribers during the last quarter, bringing its total to 98.6 million customers. The carrier reported $3.6 billion in net income on revenues of $31.5 billion. Profits are down 10% from the year-ago period, but revenues are up 2.2%.

The carrier, which is pressing ahead with plans to acquire T-Mobile USA Inc. to become the largest carrier in the country, reported 9.5% growth in wireless revenues. Data revenues jumped 23.4% from the previous year. Read more

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The pain continues for Nokia Corp. (NOK). Device sales are down across the board and profits have fallen off a cliff, well into the red. Indeed, Nokia is bleeding red all over its balance sheet for the quarter.

The Finnish company shipped 88.5 million devices during the quarter, shedding 20% in volume from the year-ago period and 18% from the previous quarter. Over the past year, smartphone sales have slipped 34% to 16.7 million devices and feature phones have dropped 16% to 71.8 million units. Device volume is down to 2006 levels. Read more

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Mobile has become the absolute fabric of Apple Inc. (AAPL). The business has changed so dramatically thanks to the iPhone (and increasingly the iPad) that it barely resembles itself from even four years ago.

During the just closed quarter, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones and 9.25 million iPads. It has sold a cumulative 222 million iOS devices to date. The company now sells twice as many iPads as Macs. It’s an astonishing shift, considering the first Mac was introduced 27 years ago and the iPad’s been out for 15 months. Even the K-12 education market is buying more iPads than Macs. Read more

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Mobile commerce gained some considerable momentum today when it was announced that the four largest national payments networks would be joining Isis. The national mobile commerce joint venture between Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA Inc. will get a significant boost with the help and support of Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc., American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services.

The new partners come on board two and a half months after Isis abandoned plans to build a proprietary payment network with Discover and Barclays Plc and repositioned the venture to become more of an open mobile wallet initiative. Read more

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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Seven months after spinning off as a separate company, Motorola Solutions Inc. is doubling down on its services portfolio and making other moves to reach deeper into the public safety and enterprise sectors.

“Out of the gate we’re performing pretty well,” CEO Greg Brown told a group of journalists and analysts invited here for an update on the company’s road map and overall strategy. Read more