'Royalty'

Microsoft’s Q2 revenue from Android estimated at three times its Windows Phone revenue

By: |Aug 4th, 2011 at 12:45PM
Filed Under: Mobile
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Thanks to royalty payments from awards related to patent complaints against HTC, Microsoft is estimated to have made three times more revenue from sales of HTC’s Android phones than it did from sales of Windows Phone licenses last quarter. Asymco analyst Horace Dediu estimated this past May that Microsoft had made five times more money from HTC’s Android phones than its own Windows Phone platform through the first quarter of this year. In the second quarter, Dediu says Microsoft made approximatel...

Pandora resolves royalty dispute; policy changes coming

By: |Jul 8th, 2009 at 02:53PM
Filed Under: News, Services
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First and foremost, Internet radio lovers have some serious cause for celebration as Pandora announces a somewhat workable resolution to the ongoing royalty dispute that nearly drove the company into the ground. By somewhat workable, we mean it’ll keep them in business but it’s still paying the highest royalty rate in radio. What does this mean for Pandora users? Well it means they can keep using Pandora of course, and 90 percent of users will experience no changes whatsoever. For the other 10 per...