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This week the team at Gameloft has released their Q4 earnings report for the end of 2012, showing here that they’ve come up with their most successful quarter ever! This report shows that Gameloft has recorded a 23% boost in sales compared to the same quarter last year as well as earnings throughout 2012 that are 27% higher than they were throughout 2011. Looks like everything is turning up Gameloft!

Gameloft is noting that the successful launch of a brand new pack of games over the past few weeks and months have contributed greatly to the overall excellence of the quarter leading into 2013. Games like Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour, PLAYMOBIL Pirates (currently featured in Google Play as a game you’ve gotta check out), World at Arms, and even My Little Pony are being touted as leaders of the new school. Legacy lines of games continuing with Ice Age Village, The Amazing Spider-Man, Order & Chaos Online, and Asphalt 7: Heat are also keeping the company strong in the mobile realm.

Earnings this quarter are the highest they’ve been in any one quarter in the whole history of Gameloft as a brand. They also mark the sixth consecutive quarter in which Gameloft has topped earnings from the quarter before – that’s extremely rare in a company in this market as quarters generally go up or down based on how close they are to the holiday seasons. The 12-month total earnings have hit 208.3 million Euro while 2011′s total was up to 164.4 – Gameloft on the rise, that’s what that is.

Just comparing the Q4 sales year-on-year on smartphones and tablets, growth went up 66%. These sales represented 56% of the total Group sales in the end while one year ago they represented 41% – the times they are a changing!

Above you’ll see the Samsung Galaxy Note II running Asphalt 7: Heat – notice how fabulous the game is and keep in mind that we use this game as a go-to app showing the graphics and processing abilities of high-powered Android devices basically every time we need to do such a thing. It’s also a go-to game for comparing iOS and Android devices as Gameloft is right on top of keeping the app up to date and hot for both platforms. This bodes well for their company and business as a whole as their games are both high functioning and constantly updated to stay ahead of the curve.

Gameloft Q4 2012 sales reach record high is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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AT&T is joining the slew of other companies posting quarterly results this week, with the company releasing its Q4 2012 financials today. The company experienced another loss in Q4 2012, but the good news is that AT&T’s loss is growing smaller year-over-year. For Q4 2012, the company posted a net loss of $3.9 billion, which is compared to AT&T’s net loss of $6.7 billion in the same quarter a year ago.

That puts diluted earnings-per-share at -$0.68 for the quarter – certainly better than the earnings-per-share of -$1.12 the company posted the year before. When things like the impact from Hurricane Sandy and the sale of Advertising Solutions are taken into account, AT&T’s adjusted earnings-per-share were $0.44. Consolidated revenue was $32.6 billion, remaining mostly flat year-over-year, increasing only 0.2% over the year-ago quarter.

AT&T managed to add 780,000 new subscribers during the quarter, with company calling it the largest increase in three years. AT&T sold 10.2 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2012, setting a record for the company. The company activated 8.6 million iPhones, but AT&T also said that it had its best quarter ever for Android sales. In all, AT&T says that smartphones now account for 89% of all postpaid phone sales, which isn’t bad at all.

For the year as a whole, the company’s consolidated revenue hit $127.4 billion, which is up ever so slightly over 2011′s revenue of $126.7 billion. Net profit settled at $7.3 billion for the year, jumping significantly over 2011′s $3.9 billion, and earnings-per-share came in at $1.25, very nearly doubling 2011′s take of $0.66. Looking forward, AT&T expects consolidated revenue growth for 2013 to exceed two percent while it’s also projecting that wireless service and wireless consumer revenues will remain strong.

[via AT&T]

AT&T posts $3.9 billion net loss for Q4 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Yesterday Apple announced new record results for their financial Q1 2013 including sales of iOS devices as well as overall revenue, and with those announcements came an invite from Tim Cook to employees for a town hall meeting being held this morning. This town hall meeting will likely be extremely similar to the meeting held last year at this time after the company released its 2012 Q1 financial results, question and answer session included. At the moment we’re not entirely sure if we’ll be seeing the results of this session or if it will be closed-door employees-only in the end.

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!

Apple employee town hall meeting letter sets the tone is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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During Apple’s Q1 2013 earnings call today, Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the company sold over 2 million Apple TV units during the three-month quarter. This is a 60% increase year-over-year — in other words, Apple has sold a record amount of Apple TVs this last quarter than any other quarter before.

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.

Apple TV sells over 2 million units in Q1 2013 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Today, Apple announced its Q1 2013 earnings (calendar year Q4 2012) today, and the company made a boat-load of cash — $54.5 billion in revenue and $13.1 billion in cold, hard profit. The company also sold 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPads during the three-month period. However, Apple only sold 4.1 million Macs, down from 5.2 million a year ago.

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.”

Apple says Mac sales were down 20% year-over-year is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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