Taiwan’s HTC says first quarter profit down 70%

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Taiwan's top smartphone maker HTC said Friday net profit in the first three months of the year plummeted 70 percent, to the lowest since 2006, owing to falling demand.

Learning Experiment Sparks Student Imagination With Cute Robots

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Instagram Raising $50 Million at $500 Million Valuation [REPORT]

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Photo-sharing and filter app Instagram, which brought on more than 1 million new users after releasing an Android version this week, might be about to close a significant round of funding.

Top tech headlines: Nokia Lumia 900 reviews, April Fool’s Day tech jokes, Google’s Project Glass

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Hot topics in the tech blogs for the week ending April 6 include reviews of the Nokia Lumia 900 and HTC EVO 4G LTE, April Fool’s Day jokes on the web, Google’s experimental wearable augmented reality glasses project, the launch of Instagram for Android, and an update on Google’s vision for the future.

Smartphone maker HTC posts 70 percent profit drop

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Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. has reported a 70 percent drop in first quarter profit as it faces keener competition from Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.

Today’s Top Stories: Apple Looking Into Wireless Charging, HTC’s Profit Declines

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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories.

Samsung hits a high Note, posts record quarterly profit

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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics posted record quarterly profit of $5.15 billion, driven by booming sales of its smartphones and the Galaxy Note 'phablet', which it hopes will show it has a flair for innovation to match rival Apple Inc. The Note - part phone, part mini-tablet - with a throwback stylus and screen half the size of the iPad, has sold more than 5 million since launching in October, and is proving a surprise money earner for the South Korean electronics giant that has a reputation as a 'fast follower' rather than design leader. ...