Saturday round up from the mobile phone & insurance world
Ericsson, the Swedish telecoms equipment manufacturer, said it is keeping the faith with its mobile phone making venture with Sony. The company have said they expect it to be profitable by the end of the year.
TomTom have reported 4th quarter results with profits of 73 million euros compared with a loss of 989 euros a year ago.
Daisy, the B2B telecoms group, have made another aquisition, this this time it’s BNS Telecoms for £13.75 million. The deal will strengthen the company’s VoIP capability.
Acer, the computer giant, who this week have launched 5 mobile phones at the Mobile World congress, are targeting 5 -7% of the world mobile market by 2012. An ambitious target given they effectively begin from nowhere in a hugely competitive makretplace. As always insurance2go.co.uk will be there to offer mobile phone insurance at great value to all new Acer users.
Facebook, the world’s biggest social network has revealed details of a stripped-down, text-only version of its mobile site called Facebook Zero. The low-bandwidth site is aimed at people viewing Facebook on their mobile and will launch “in the coming weeks”. The social network recently said that more than 100 million people now access Facebook from their phone.