Acer, has lost nearly 250 million dollars Last quarter alone, remains stoic

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Acer, recently the world's second largest shipper, rough year. But in March a deliberate decision was taken by senior management to abandon its goal of dethroning the HP and instead focus on how to get better, more differentiated products. The result: sales and earnings in freely. At least they knew it came — but losing millions of customers and a huge percentage of your is not something any company likes to do.

The company is taking heavy losses — twice as hard, in fact, as Reuters analysts estimated. Taiwan 6.79 billion dollars (about $ 250 million) went down the drain in Q2. It is their biggest loss ever and the first time they have done worse than forecast. The results indicate that Acer Chairman Jt Wang concedes "tries to break even this year becomes impossible. But I doubt that they plan on turning around the entire company in less than a year.

Despite losses and job cuts Acer remained stoic. They feel relaxation tablet "fever" and people will return to laptops (I'm not sure I agree). And although it is unlikely that they have any interest in (or to) buy HP business PC, Acer's President, Jim van comment that spinning is a natural thing for HP to do. He cryptically added that Acer will strive to meet the needs of its clients, including HP'S existing customers. What is the thing to say! Again however, with billions of losses every quarter, the last thing you want to Acer is $ 10 billion millstone around its neck from HP.

What he likely means that Acer could step-by-step HP shoes for the confusion. If they can stabilize quickly enough, personal systems group, HP mode move Acer could sweep in and take off a few million customers. But before that happens, expect more bad news.

(Updated to reflect the fact that figure 6.79 billion was in Taiwan dollars. really dumb I don't catch when the loss of $ 7bn would be likely to bury company)

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AliveCor transforms mobile devices in low cost heart raises $ 3 million.

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AliveCor, developer of the low-budget electrocardiograms (ECG) recorder that works in conjunction with a variety of mobile platforms (including iPhone, iPad and Android devices), delivered $ 3 million in series A financing, the company announced this morning.

Funding round was led by Barril & company along with Qualcomm, through its venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures, and the Oklahoma Foundation for life sciences.

AliveCor the size of a credit card wireless device can make iOS and Android smartphones and tablets in low cost heart monitors, which can be used by patients and doctors and other medical professionals in clinical conditions. Watch the video below for a demo version of the iPhone.

Notice that the device is not for sale, but-AliveCor products have not yet been cleared as a medical device in the United States. It is also unclear exactly how much it will cost but earlier coverage of Wall Street Journal mentioned a price of $ 100.

The company said that it now will use the capital to complete the clinical studies are currently in the center of Oklahoma University of medical sciences, to carry out the necessary regulatory approvals and equipment for the commercial launch of its recording an ECG.

AliveCor has developed a device that will transform any Smartphone in Recorder quality clinical electrocardiogram (ECG).

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MakerBot is 10 million dollars in funding from Foundry group, Angels

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MakerBot industries, maker of home 3D printers, today announced the $ 10 million in financing a number of investors, mostly from the Foundry group. Also during the tour included Bezos expeditions, true ventures and RRE, along with a dozen or so Angel investors.

The company started in 2009, with about 75,000 $ starting capital, and then put together and sold approximately 5200 their compact construction machines. We've seen them in action at the very first disrupt NYC TechCrunch, and since they were commonplace in this blog. MakerBot Brad Feld just added them to the Council and now hiring.

Hardware facilities is difficult to load, but the founder of the Bre, thinks that we will see many hardware startups in the next few years. Although services and software, typically offer faster scaling and therefore more immediate benefits, there is a place for devices and accessories in the world, especially if they are unique. MakerBot to impress, but competition from the manufacture of postal services like Shapeways barrier for entry into their self-powered 3D printing world is still quite high. Home business is changing and competitors (don't tell imitators) will see the possibility of a brute-force attack on the MakerBot in design and offer more speed, materials, etc.

Nevertheless, the possibility to get the size of a microwave rapid prototyping machine to thousands of dollars is one of these characters once, when we, as a rule, unfair play. It's absolutely amazing that this is possible, in the first place, but the realities of business may not allow it to grow rapidly, tech industry, as a rule, find interesting.

More information on financing, as well as links to various Angels involved can be found for the MakerBot's blog.

Financial organizations:
FOUNDRY GROUP

Foundry group is a venture company focused on investing in early stage information technology, Internet and software startups. Their passion is working with entrepreneurs to give birth.

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MakerBot industries company of Brooklyn based creates the 3D printers available, open source software.

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Korean lawsuit seeks $ 25 million from Apple for location tracking

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Kim Hyon Suk has been busy these past few months. Lawyer, based out of Seoul, it got a bit of notoriety for being the first person to receive cash from Apple for iPhone location tracking trends. He also announced that he and his law firm, Mirae law will be studying the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Apple. According to a report from Bloomberg, with 27 000 Korean claimants on Board that the suit was filed today.

Credit where credit is due, Kim Hyon Suk, definitely has a sense of humor. Web site created his company in July for a helping hand to potential plaintiffs greets visitors with ironic spin on Apple's language: "finally. Real action against Apple. Now available here. "

Mr. Hyon Suk initial payment was 1 million won (approximately $ 930), and the company is looking for the same award for each of the 27 000 affected clients. This news comes hot on the heels of News that Apple was to be fined 3 million ($ 2.808) won the Korea Communications Commission for the collection of data on the location, even when users are disconnected all the relevant characteristics. If this keeps up, Apple may soon look at payment of some serious money as compensation.

Apple solved this costume, rough total compensation is the Korean equivalent of more than 25 million dollars. Considering that Kim Hyun-Suk successfully got its piece of the pie, Apple may be looking at some serious legal manoeuvres to try and get the suit dismissed. In fairness, with more than $ 76 billion in their domestic Treasury settlement costs will be the proverbial drop in the bucket. Nevertheless, expect to see, Apple put up a concerted defense against the claim in the coming weeks.

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Report: Apple to build 5 million iPhone 26 (or whatever it's called) in the second half of 2011

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Apple is preparing a big second half of 2011. Computer company reportedly ramping up iPhone production lines on 12-13 per cent, which includes orders for next-generation iPhone, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.

The source of the supply chain industry watchdog some staggering figures DigiTimes production. Apparently Apple 2 H 2011 iPhone order is now more than 56 million units, from 50 million units and 26 just iPhone 5s. Interestingly enough time for the iPhone 5 orders slightly shifted to the Q3 is reduced from 7 million to 5.5 million units, while the order Q4 increased from 14 million to 20 million units. This 20 million iPhone 5s. If those are sold at retail, which would Eclipse sales 2Q2011 Blockbuster Apple when it sold a total of 18.65 million iPhone units.

Massive uptick puts Apple on track to come in just below 100 million for 2011. The company sold 34 million iPhones in the first half of the year, and it was technically the older model, even though the Verizon iPhone is a little boost. Cloud iPhone or not, Apple looks forward to the next iPhone selling like hotcakes Betty white.

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Netflix hits million subscribers in Canada

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Rejoice! It only took 10 months to build the Netflix million users in Canada. They started in September 2010 and July lucky Canuck named Amanda, in the province of Manitoba, they call their 1 millionth subscriber. She WINS life streaming Netflix subscription service and the lives of people asking if they can somehow get on this ".

It's really all news.

Something to consider though: Netflix still has a lot of growth, the road ahead in Canada. They have 25 million subscribers in the United States and Canada, however, that, if my math is right, is there 24 million in the United States. It is about 8% of the population! While in Canada, being served, the number is less than 3%.

With a solid broadband penetration and long winter streaming Netflix seems perfect for our friends in the North. Maybe they are afraid that they will go over their bandwidth caps?

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