Revenues at Yandex, the Russian search engine which dwarfs Google in that territory, have rise by 41 percent year-on-year in its Q3 2012 financial results. Last quarter Yandex reported a 50 percent increase in revenue, and an increase in profit of 76 percent compared with Q2 2011.

Today the company reported revenues of RUR 7.3 billion ($235.2 million), which were up some 41 percent quarter on quarter with last year. Operating income was up to $82.3 million, or 43 percent year-on-year. Profit for the third quarter was RUR 2.3 billion ($74.2 million).

Yandex is on something of a roll. It’s launched its own ‘social’ browser, opened its own Android store and boosted its Yandex.Disk cloud storage service.

In addition it is experimenting with expanding beyond the Russian ‘RuNet’ with a service in Turkey, but with mixed results so far. Word on the street has it that they plan to get turkey ‘right’ first before thinking about expanding into other markets. At which point, I wonder if we’ll start to see headlines like ‘The Russians are coming’. I do hope so…

Article courtesy of TechCrunch

Apple’s Q4 results mean we also now have the total hardware sales the company managed for the 2012 financial year. The company sold an amazing 125.04 million iPhones, 58.23 million iPads, 18.1 million Macs and 35.2 million iPods. To put that in perspective, it sold only 72 million iPhones across all of FY 2011.

Apple also sold around 32 million iPads in 2011, 17 million Macs and 42.6 million iPods. The FY 2012 numbers make for a 74 percent increase in iPhone sales year over year, an 81 percent bump in iPad sales, a 6.5 percent jump in Mac sales and a 17 percent drop in iPod sales. Clearly, the growth is in Apple’s iOS devices, with smartphones and tablets making up a growing piece of its overall hardware picture, which isn’t surprising given device performance over the past few years.

The iPod touch accounted for more than half of all iPods sold, too, so even among the dwindling iPod sales, iOS is still leading the way in terms of growth.

Article courtesy of TechCrunch

TechCrunch is currently missing <%=Fucks%> to give to Forbes. We expect to add more into our posts in <%=deadline%>.

Responds our more serious than me co-editor Eric Eldon, ”Our disappointing F-Bomb second quarter 2012 financial results and outlook for the third quarter 2012 illustrates that our F-Bomb business continues to be in the midst of transition. Within our F-Bomb business unit, we have established early momentum with F-Bomb+, and we are increasing our investments in F-Bomb+ to achieve market success.”

I have no idea what the fuck that means because there are numbers in there. Even if I did understand what that meant, I probably wouldn’t give a fuck anyways.

Also, TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Also also, TechCrunch CrunchUp/August Capital Party. 

TechCrunch, fuck yeah.

Article courtesy of TechCrunch

AT&T has just released its Q2 2012 financial results — the telecom giant reported quarterly revenues of $31.6 billion (that’s up 0.3% year-over-year) and earnings of $0.66 per share (up a full 10% year-over-year). AT&T also reported operating income of $6.8 billion, a healthy jump from to the $6.1 billion it reported in the previous quarter.

As solid as the numbers seem, AT&T couldn’t completely beat analyst expectations. The company couldn’t quite match forecasted revenues of $31.7 billion, but easily beat expected earnings of $0.63.

Even better for AT&T is the fact that its wireless margins were “the highest ever.” That particular boost can be attributed partially to strong smartphone sales over the past three months. According to AT&T, its wireless business sold 5.1 million smartphones, meaning that a full 61.9% of AT&T postpaid subscribers are now own smartphones (and pay for smartphone data plans). Not too shabby considering that works out to a total of 69.6 million postpaid customers, each of whom accounts for roughly $64.93 of AT&T’s revenues.

Sadly for AT&T, Verizon had a much stronger quarter when it came to adding new postpaid wireless subscribers — the nation’s largest carrier reported a whopping 888,000 new contract customers earlier this month, compared to the 320,000 that AT&T managed to add to the fold. AT&T’s wireless data revenues also saw a considerable jump ($6.4 billion, up 6.8% from last year), but once again Verizon was able to slip ahead with $6.9 billion.

Turning to AT&T’s wireless business, things seem to be slowing down a bit — total wireline revenues were down 0.8% year-over-year to $14.9 billion, but operating income surged slightly to $2.1 billion. That said, there were still a few bright spots to be found. Total revenues from AT&T’s U-Verse services were up 38% over the year-ago quarter for one, and the company’s business data revenue ticked up 13.5% year-over-year.

Article courtesy of TechCrunch

Apple launched its iCloud service a little over three months ago. Well, since then, over 85 million users are syncing their devices through their personal cloud. This comes from Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Office, on today’s Q1 2012 financial earning calls.

That’s an impressive growth rate and eclipses the total number of iOS devices sold during the same time frame. It’s also more users Dropbox reported in late in 2011.

iCloud allows iOS and Mac users to sync select file types across devices. It replaced the company’s previous subscription service called MobileMe with a more rich feature set. Also, unlike MobileMe, iCloud is a free service — which should mostly explain the explosive growth.

Article courtesy of TechCrunch