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Ad revenues and what it tells us about paywalls

April 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments · opinion

There’s a well known fact about ad revenues for print vs internet: internet ad revenues are usually lower than print. This fact is one of the reasons given for why some websites are implementing paywalls. They’re trying to bring in more money to boost their website revenue to the same range as their print revenue. [...]

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E-Ink reported 2010 revenues almost twice that of 2009

January 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news

E-Ink filed their earning report for 2010 this past week. The total consolidated revenue for 2010 was NT$25.179 billion. I did some digging, and E-ink’s reported income for 2009 was NT$12.979 billion. Their income nearly doubled in a single year. Impressive, no? What’s even more impressive is that the unit price probably dropped during 2010, [...]

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Flat ad revenues could spell doom for magazine apps

October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion

The market research  firm Flurry posted an interesting article on their blog on Thursday last week. Flurry, if you don’t know, are a company that track the app market based on small bits of code embedded in apps from certain developers. They were one of the first to announce the iPad (they were getting data [...]

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E-ink announce August revenues

September 13th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Digitimes are reporting: Taiwan-based electrophoretic display (EPD) maker E Ink Holdings (EIH) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$1.6 billion (US$50.3 million) for August 2010, increasing 2.57% sequentially and about 16% on year. Consolidated revenues for January-August totaled NT$13.34 billion, increasing by about 39% on year. Sales increased slightly from July, but they are still down [...]

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E-ink Corp revenues down in June

July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Digitimes are reporting that E-ink saw a drop in income in May, but I’m confused by their numbers. They say revenues were down, but they quoted a higher number. Small- to medium-size TFT-LCD panel and electrophoretic display (EPD) maker E Ink Holding, previously known as Prime View International (PVI), has posted consolidated revenues of NT$1.7 [...]

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PVI January revenues down

February 12th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news

Digitimes is reporting that E-ink screen manufacturer PVI saw a drop in sales during January. Revenue was about 4% less than December, but about 154% more than January 2009. So basically the decrease might be a blip or it might indicate a shift in the market to Sipix screens. We don’t know.

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