Techmeme: HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi (Jay Yarow/SAI)

4:50 PM ET, May 27, 2011

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HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi — Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning. — Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a patent settlement with HTC over intellectual property infringement.

Horace Dediu / asymco:

Microsoft has received five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone … HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi. — A rough estimate of the number of HTC Android devices shipped is 30 million. If HTC paid $5 per unit to Microsoft, that adds up to $150 million Android revenues for Microsoft.

Discussion: MobileSyrup.com, AllThingsD, Ed Bott's Microsoft …, mocoNews, DailyTech, VentureBeat, gigaom.com, 9 to 5 Mac, Android Community, 901am, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, IntoMobile, Technologizer and MobileBurn.com

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Why it's harder to make money on Android than on Apple's iOS — Out of 72,000 paid apps in Google's Android Market, only two have sold more than 500,000 copies — 80% of Android paid apps have sold fewer than 100 copies. Source: Distimo — The Utrecht-based analytics company Distimo generated …

Discussion: The Register, AppleInsider, Distimo, Android Community, Macworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, dailywireless.org, ReadWriteWeb, Inquirer, Geeky-Gadgets, gigaom.com, Electronista, IntoMobile, FierceMobileContent, The Loop and VentureBeat

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Android Users Like Apps, But Don't Like Paying For Them

Discussion: Pulse2 and MobileBurn.com

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

A Bit More On WWDC, The Mythical iPhone “4S”, and iOS 5 — With WWDC quickly approaching, the rumor mills are heating up with what we should expect at Apple's annual conference known for big announcements. We've learned a little bit more that speaks to what to expect — including a couple of big, widely-requested things.

Discussion: AppleInsider, MacRumors, App Advice, Electronista, Network World, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, MacStories, TUAW, Gizmodo, iTech Report, Neowin.net, RazorianFly, DialToSave and I4U News

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Google Responds To PayPal Lawsuit: People Have The Right To Seek Better Jobs — Yesterday, PayPal filed a lawsuit against Google and two of its executives for stealing trade secrets. The lawsuit came on the same day that Google announced its mobile wallet plans involving Android phones with NFC chips.

Discussion: AllThingsD, Pulse2, TechnoBuffalo and Tech Trader Daily

Bloomberg:
PayPal Sues Google, Saying It Misappropriated Trade Mobile-Payment Secrets

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Apple to announce back to school special at WWDC? $200 off an iPad or free iPod touch? — One of our Apple sources has informed us that they've been hearing Apple's yearly back-to-school special will be announced at WWDC next month. We have been told Apple will continue to offer educational discounts …

Discussion: Pulse2, I4U News, iLounge, App Advice, MacHackPC, MacStories, Gizmodo, iPodNN and MacRumors

Henry Blodget / SAI:

Facebook Admits It Doesn't Know Whether The Emails From The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of The Company Are Fake — Facebook has filed its response to the lawsuit from an upstate New York wood-pellet salesman named Paul Ceglia who says he owns half the company.

Discussion: Digital Trends, Between the Lines Blog and Pulse2

Business Week:

Apple's Deals May Transform Digital Music — The company's plan for “digital lockers” is winning over the major music labels — Compared with buying e-books, building a digital music collection is a hassle. E-books zip directly to reading devices like the Kindle and Nook and are backed up …

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's iCloud music service will automatically mirror your iTunes library using ‘high-quality’ tracks?

Discussion: BGR and PhoneDog.com

Reuters:

Microsoft not too late for tablet party: Citigroup — (Reuters) - Microsoft is still not too late for the tablet party. And with its Next operating system closer than most expect, the software maker could corner meaningful market share in 2013 and beyond, Citigroup said.

Discussion: Technologizer, GeekWire, Inquirer, ITworld.com, ReadWriteMobile, VentureBeat, TG Daily, Tech Trader Daily and MacDailyNews

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Google, Facebook lose social network patent ruling — (Reuters) - Google Inc and Facebook Inc failed to win dismissal of a lawsuit by a New York company related to software designed to let people take part on social networks through their mobile phones. — Wireless Ink Corp …

John Leyden / The Register:

Google Chrome OS: Too secure to need security? — Confident anti-virus-less chocolateers may be repeating Apple's mistakes — A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple's mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS. — Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based …

Discussion: CrunchGear and CounterMeasures

Marvin Ma / DigiTimes:
Google confident of Chrome OS business prospects, says executive chairman

Discussion: TechSpot

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
No More Offline Gmail in Google Chrome

Discussion: PC World

New York Times:

Facebook Is Developing Ways to Share Media — Facebook is developing features that will make the sharing of users' favorite music, television shows and other media as much a part of its site as playing games or posting vacation photos. — The company is in discussions with several online music services …

Discussion: The Wire, Music Ally, Softpedia News, Disruptors and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »

Michael Wolf / GigaOM:
Meet Facebook, the Web's Social Entertainment Operating System

Discussion: gigaom.com

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Google Starts Adding Flight Schedules And Airline Routes In Search — We know that Google has big ambitions for flight search, as the search giant dropped $700 million on travel search software developer ITA Software. Today, the company just announced a few new flight search features …

Discussion: VatorNews, PC Magazine, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land, Inside Search, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, NBC Bay Area, 9to5 Google, Marketing Pilgrim, Tnooz and Lifehacker

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Teen Who Sold White iPhone Kits Reveals How Apple Hunted Him Down — One of the last followers of tech news to hear the reports Thursday that Apple had sued Fei Lam, the 17-year-old Queens high school student who infamously sold White iPhone conversion kits to eager buyers tired of waiting on Apple's release, was Fei Lam.

Discussion: Betabeat, MacRumors, IntoMobile and TUAW

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:

Rumor: Apple testing new MacBook Air powered by same A5 processor as iPad 2 — A new report claims that Apple has built a test MacBook Air powered by the same low-power A5 processor found in the iPad, and the company was impressed by the results. — The claims came on Friday from Japanese site Macotakara.

Discussion: Shiny Objects, MacRumors, The Register, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, AllNewsMac, I4U News, Geeky-Gadgets, O'Grady's PowerPage, iClarified, Electricpig.co.uk, SocialSteak, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, RazorianFly, SAI, Apple Bitch, MacStories, thinq_, Fast Company and TG Daily

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Tech Boom Hits New York Start-Ups — Two years ago, the founders of eyewear company Warby Parker entered their idea in a business-plan contest—and lost. — This spring, the 15-month-old New York venture had to fight off would-be investors jockeying to write it a check.

Discussion: BaltTech, Venture Capital Dispatch and NYConvergence.com, Thanks:beet_tv

Bloomberg:

Sony Chief Stringer Blindsided by Hackers — Sony Corp. (6758), besieged by hackers since April, considered its PlayStation Network an unlikely target even after threats by the online collective Anonymous and three separate security incidents in 2008. — The hacker group declared in April …

Discussion: New York Times, VG247, TechEye, Kotaku and Eurogamer

Mariko Yasu / Bloomberg:
Sony to Partially Restart PlayStation Network Operations in Asia Tomorrow

Discussion: The Register, CNET News, PC Magazine, BBC, Business Wire, Neowin.net, Between the Lines Blog and Engadget

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