Wireless Industry Snapshot!
Lunsford Group!
Overview: Fast Facts!
Top Fifteen Wireless Carriers Worldwide 2010
1. China Mobile, 522.3 million
2. Vodafone Group, 333 million
3. Telefonica, 202 million
4. America Movil, 201 million
5. Telenor Group, 174 million
6. Deutsche Telekom, 151.7 million
7. TeliaSonera, 147.6 million
8. China Unicom 147.6 million
9. France Telecom 132.6 million
10. Bharti Airtel, 125 million
11. MTN Group, 123.6 million
12. Axiata, 120 million
13. Mobile Telesystems 101.3 million
14. Etisalat, 100 million
15. Reliance, 100 million
Source: RCRWireless (# subscribers)
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Market Share 2009
• Nokia 36.4%
• Samsung 19.5%
• LG 10.1%
• Motorola 4.8%
• Sony Ericsson 4.5%
• Others 24.7%
Source: Gartner
Worldwide Smartphone OS Market Share 2009
• Symbian 46.9%
• RIM 19.9%
• iPhone OS 14.4%
• Windows Mobile 8.7%
• Linux 4.7%
• Android 3.9%
• WebOS .7%
• Other OSs .6%
Source: Gartner
Overview: Fast Facts!
Top Ten U.S. Wireless Carriers 2010
1. Verizon, 92.8 million
2. AT&T, 86.9 million
3. Sprint Nextel, 47.8 million
4. T-Mobile, 33.7 million
5. MetroPCS, 7.33 million
6. U.S. Cellular, 6.14 million
7. Leap Wireless, 5.40 million
8. Clearwire, .97 million
9. Cincinnati Bell, .52 million
10. Ntelos, .46 million
Source: FierceWireless (# subscribers)
Top Ten 3G Markets Worldwide 2009 Subscribers Penetration Rate
1. USA 112 million 41%
2. Japan 97.5 million 90%
3. Korea 35.6 million 75%
4. Italy 27.8 million 34%
5. UK 23.7 million 31%
6. Germany 22.3 million 22%
7. Spain 22.0 million 41%
8. France 15.7 million 27%
9. Australia 13.7 million 56%
10. Indonesia 13.6 million 10%
Source: Morgan Stanley
• 1.3 billion mobile phones will be shipped in 2010. 250 million will be smartphones.
"Mobile will be bigger than the desktop in 5 years… It's ramping faster than the desktop Internet and will be bigger than most think.” !
- Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley!
Overview: Trends!
Android’s Rapid Challenge to Apple’s iOS • First quarter 2010, Android jumped from 6th to 4th in terms of mobile OS market
share, and from 1.6% Q1 2009 to 3.9% Q4 2009 to 9.6% Q1 2010. (Gartner)
• 8.2 million Android phones expected to ship in 2010 (Frost & Sullivan)
• First quarter 2010, 60% of mobile developers building on Android vs. 51% on iOS. (VisionMobile)
• Flexibility of Android creates immense opportunities for old and new entrants. New form factors and applications for business, military and consumer mobile devices.
Overview: Trends!
Growth of Mobile Advertising • In 2010, mobile advertising is forecast to grow 45% to $3.8 billion: $3.2 billion SMS
advertising, $253 million mobile display and $321 million mobile search. (J.P. Morgan)
• 1 trillion SMS (text messages) in 2009. Over 84 billion text messages a month.
• SMS the new spam domain? Or will it be social networks? Either way, less value and ROI in SMS advertising for the future.
Growth of Mobile eCommerce • In 2010, mobile ecommerce is estimated to hit $2.4 billion from $1.2 billion in the
prior year. (Coda Research)
• In 2009, Japan had a $10 billion mobile ecommerce market.
• 23% of Internet users in Asia-Pacific made an Internet purchase through a mobile phone vs. 3.5% of users in North America (eMarketer, 2009).
• 19% of Rakuten’s revenues, Japan’s largest ecommerce player, came from mobile.
• Japan and Korea provide many crystal balls for new technology adoption and growth in the U.S. and Europe (i.e. online gaming, camera phones, micropayments, etc.)
Overview: Trends!
Others to Watch For • Location-based advertising
• Augmented reality
• Mobile gaming devices
• Mobile video
• Visual search
Primary Sectors!
• Wireless Carriers
• Mobile Operating Systems
• Mobile Phone Manufacturer
• Wireless Applications
• Location-Based Services
• Other Companies of Interest
Global Wireless Universe!
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FourSquare
Tom Tom
Gowalla
Garmin
Wireless Carrier
Mobile OS
Mobile Phone Maker
Wireless Application
Location-Based
Other
INVESTMENT / M&A
ALLIANCE
AT&T
AdMob
Meraki
4INFO
EA
Soonr
Deutsche Telekom
NTT DoCoMo
Linux
SpiderCloud
LG
China Mobile
Orange KT
Sprint Nextel Telefonica
RIM
China Unicom
Softbank Mobile
HTC Verizon
Android
Apple
Sony Ericsson
GetJar
Skyhook
Booyah
RIM Microsoft
Loopt
Apple
Adobe
Samsung
Nokia
HP
ARM
Motorola
Symbian
Qualcomm
Clearwire
Vodafone
SK Telecom
Select Global Companies:!Detailed Profiles!
Wireless Universe Snapshot!
Wireless Carriers!
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• HTC • Nokia • Palm/HP • Pantech • Sony Ericsson
AT&T Mobility Updated: June 2010
Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
URL address: www.wireless.att.com/
Company Background • AT&T Mobility is a subsidiary of AT&T. It’s the 2nd largest wireless carrier
in the U.S. with 87 million subscribers. • The exclusive provider of Apple’s iPhone. Due to poor wireless
coverage in major metro areas, such as NYC and San Francisco, AT&T brand and service has been battered. Recent problems with Apple’s iPhone4 brings into question whether it was solely AT&T’s poor network or design issues with the iPhone.
• Their top selling phones (as of June 2010) are the Samsung A777, Nokia 6350, LG Neon, and Sony-Ericsson W518a.
• They are the largest Wi-Fi provider with more than 125,000 hot spots around the world (including company-owned and third-party roaming locations) — with the addition of approximately 7,000 Starbucks locations.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Microsoft • Apple • Blackberry • Motorola • Samsung • LG
Financial Information • Market Cap: $146.7 billion (AT&T) • Enterprise Value: $214.3 billion • 2009 Revenues: $123 billion • 2009 Net Income: $12.5 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 9.65% • P/E Ratio: 12.37 • Ticker Symbol: T
Countries of Operation • USA
Major Shareholders • Capital Research Global Investors (4.03%) • Vanguard Group (3.46%) • BlackRock (2.96%) • Capital World Investors (1.78%) • Wellington Management Company (1.69%) • Bank of New York Mellon (1.35%) • Northern Trust Corp (1.23%)
No. of employees: 276,280 (AT&T)
Key Management • Ralph de la Vega, CEO of
AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets and Pres of Mobility & Consumer Markets
• Randall L. Stephenson , Chairman, CEO, Pres and Chairman of Exec Committee
Wireless Carriers!
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China Mobile Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Hong Kong
URL address: www.chinamobileltd.com
Company Background • China Mobile is the world’s largest wireless provider with more than
548.9 million subscribers. They provide mobile communications and related services primarily to Mainland China.
• Their three primary services are: Easyown (prepaid service), GoTone (flagship service) and M-zone (premium prepaid service).
• China Mobile is launching their own Android phone called the “OPhone”. • The company also offers agricultural information services;
telecommunications network planning and consulting services; technology platform development and maintenance services; and mobile data solutions, and system integration and development services,
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Android
Financial Information • Market Cap: $204.3 billion • Enterprise Value: $171.9 billion • 2009 Revenues: $66.2 billion • 2009 Net Income: $16.9 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 25.47% • P/E Ratio: 12.17 • Ticker Symbol: CHL
Countries of Operation • China • Hong Kong • Pakistan
Major Shareholders • Fisher Investments (.14%) • Matthews International Capital (.09%) • UBS AG (.07%) • Wellington Management Company (.06%) • Bank of New York Mellon (.06%) • Citigroup (.06%)
No. of employees: 145,954
Key Management • Jianzhou Wang, Chairman,
CEO & President • Xu Long, Exec. Director,
Chairman & President of Guangdong Mobile
• Mr. Taohai Xue, CFO, VP of China Mobile
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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China Unicom Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Hong Kong
URL address: www.chinaunicom.com.hk
Company Background • China Unicom is the 2nd largest wireless provider in China with over
147.6 million subscribers. Their GSM service covers 31 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, and they have 38.6 million fixed-line broadband subscribers in 335 cities in China.
• China Unicom is launching a mobile phone built on Google’s Android OS and will be called “uPhone”, and will build their own app store called “Unistore” that will be compatible with Android’s market.
• The company also offers broadband and other Internet-related services, information communications technology services, business and data communications services, and domestic and international long distance services.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Android • SK Telecom • Telefonica • PCCW
Financial Information • Market Cap: $31.6 billion • Enterprise Value: $40.4 billion • 2009 Revenues: $22.5 billion • 2009 Net Income: $1.4 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 4.55% • P/E Ratio: 30.48 • Ticker Symbol: CHU
Countries of Operation • China
Major Shareholders • Telefonica (8%) • FMR LLC (.28%) • Dimensional Fund Advisors (.28%) • FIL LTD (.22%)
No. of employees: 216,830
Key Management • Xiaobing Chang, Chairman,
CEO, Chairman of the Unicom Group and President of the China Telecom Corp
• Yimin Lu, President & Executive Director
• Jilu Tong, CFO & Executive Director
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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• Blackberry • Garmin • Dell • HTC • Nokia
Deutsche Telekom Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Bonn, Germany
URL address: www.t-mobile.net
Company Background • T-Mobile is the wireless provider and subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. It
is the 6th largest wireless provider in the world and the leading company in Germany with over 151 million subscribers worldwide.
• T-Mobile UK created a joint venture with France Telecom's Orange UK to form the UK's largest mobile operator called Everything Everywhere.
• T-Mobile USA is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and the 4th largest wireless provider in the U.S. with 33.7 million subscribers and generates over $17 billion in revenues.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Everything Everywhere • T-Mobile USA • Android • Motorola • Samsung • Sony Ericsson
Financial Information • Market Cap: $57.2 billion (Deutsche Telekom) • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $83.2 billion • 2009 Net Income: $456.8 million • 2009 Profit Margin: 1.32% • P/E Ratio: 20.04 • Ticker Symbol: XETRA: DTEL.DE
Countries of Operation • Germany • UK • USA • Austria • Croatia • Czech Republic • Hungary • Netherlands
Major Shareholders • Federal Republic of Germany (14.8%) • KfW Bankengruppe (16.9%)
No. of employees: 36,000
Key Management • Rene Obermann, CEO • Timotheus Hottges, CFO • Olivier Baujard, CTO • Anastassia Lauterbach, Acting
Chief Product & Innovation Officer
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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• East Telecom (Uzbekistan) • Apple
KT Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Sungnam, South Korea
URL address: www.kt.com
Company Background • KT, originally Korea Telecom, was the state-owned telecommunications
provider in South Korea. After spinning out its wireless division, KTF, it acquired it back in 2009, so both landline and wireless services are housed under KT.
• KT is the exclusive distributor of Apple’s iPhone in Korea, which has experienced tremendous sales and has made it more competitive with the leading carrier in Korea, SK Telecom.
• KT provides integrated telecommunications services. It offers telephone services, including local, domestic, and international long-distance fixed-line telephone services. The company also provides broadband Internet access and other Internet-related services, including IP-TV services; and PCS mobile telecommunications service, and third-generation HSDPA-based IMT-2000 wireless Internet and video multimedia communications services. (Yahoo! Finance)
Alliances/Subsidiaries • MT (Mongolia) • KT China • NTC (Russia) • KT JC (Japan) • KTAI (USA)
Financial Information • Market Cap: $9.3 billion • Enterprise Value: $15.4 billion • 2009 Revenues: $16.9 billion • 2009 Net Income: $524 million • 2009 Profit Margin: 2.52% • P/E Ratio: 20.78 • Ticker Symbol: KT
Countries of Operation • S. Korea • Mongolia • China • Russia • Japan • USA • Uzbekistan
Major Shareholders • Silchester Int'l Investors (3.63%) • BlackRock Fund Advisors (2.83%) • Franklin Resources (2.15%)
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Suk-Chae Lee, CEO,
Chairman of Exec. Committee • Sang-Hoon Lee, President,
Director and President of Enterprise Customer Group
• Soo-Ho Maeng, CFO & Sr. Exec. VP of Global Business Unit
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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• Samsung • Blackberry • Sony Ericsson • Umobile (Malaysia carrier) • Tata Teleservices (6th in India)
NTT DoCoMo Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
URL address: www.nttdocomo.co.jp
Company Background • NTT DoCoMo is the leading wireless provider in Japan with over 56
million subscribers and 50% market share. Its cutting-edge i-mode service was the leader and model for many in the world to follow in 1999 and the early 2000s. NTT DoCoMo also launched FOMA™, the world's first 3G commercial mobile service, in 2001 which was based on W-CDMA.
• NTT DoCoMo is a subsidiary of NTT, which is the primary telecommunications company in Japan and 33.7% owned by the Japanese government.
• The company and its subsidiaries provide wireless telecommunications services, packet communications services, and satellite mobile communications services in Japan.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Sharp (handset maker) • Panasonic (handset maker) • NEC Casio (handset maker) • Fujitsu (handset maker) • LG Electronics (handset maker)
Financial Information • Market Cap: $66.2 billion • Enterprise Value: $64.5 billion • 2010 Revenues: $45.9 billion (March 2010) • 2010 Net Income: $5.3 billion (March 2010) • 2010 Profit Margin: 11.55% • P/E Ratio: 11.87 • Ticker Symbol: DCM
Countries of Operation • Japan • USA • UK • France • Netherlands • Germany • China • India
Major Shareholders • NTT • Renaissance Technologies (.05%) • Scout Investment Advisors (.05%)
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Ryuji Yamada, President and
CEODr. Kiyoyuki • TsujimuraSenior EVP
(Multimedia Services & Technology)
• Masatoshi SuzukiSenior EVP (Global Business and Corporate)
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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• Blackberry • Sony Ericsson • Orange ISP (formerly
Wanadoo) • Orange Armenia • Orange Austria
Orange Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Arcueil, France
URL address: www.orange.com
Company Background • Orange is the wireless and Internet subsidiaries of France Telecom.
Recently, France Telecom also adopted the “Orange” name across most of its services to be consistent with its branding. The company is the leading telecom and wireless provider in France and the 9th largest wireless providers in the world with over 132.6 million subscribers.
• In 2009, France Telecom fixed line business was 18.5% of their revenues, mobile was 75.4%, and Internet was 6.1%.
• In 2008, Orange gained the rights to sell Apple’s iPhone in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange's African markets.
• Orange is the largest ISP in Europe and provides services in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Apple • Nokia • Samsung • Alcatel • LG • HTC
Financial Information • Market Cap: $50.8 billion (France Telecom) • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $64.8 billion • 2009 Net Income: $6.2 billion • 2009 Profit Margin 6.52% • P/E Ratio: 13.47 • Ticker Symbol: FTE
Countries of Operation • France • Austria • Cameroon • Israel • Kenya • Spain • Uganda
Major Shareholders • France Telecom (Orange) • Brandes Investment Partners (.36%) • Allianz Global Investors of America (.17%)
No. of employees: 176,669 (France Telecom)
Key Management • Stephane Richard, CEO and
Head of Operations in France • Gervais Pellissier, CFO,
Deputy CEO, Chairman of Claims Committee
• Marc Rennard , Exec. VP, Head of Operations - Africa Middle-East & Asia
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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• Motorola • Samsung • LG
SK Telecom Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea
URL address: www.sktelecom.com
Company Background • SK Telecom is the leading wireless provider in South Korea with 47.9
million subscribers and over 50% market share. SK Telecom was the first in the world to commercialize 3G and then HSDPA (2006), or 3.5G.
• Their primary services are: NATE, a wired and wireless portal service; JUNE, a premium multimedia streaming service (i.e. video, real-time TV); MELON, mobile music portal; GXG, game portal service.
• In 2006, SKT created a $440 million JV with Earthlink to enter the U.S. market. The new entity was called Helio. By 2007, SKT had to invest $270 million more and took operational control. By 2008, Helio was acquired by Virgin Mobile for $39 million. This was probably a case of poor management and strategy by the two JV partners. Helio oddly targeted Korean Americans in LA as one of its markets, which is a very niche population of 1 million people.
• In 2008, SKT launched a JV with Citibank called Mobile Money Ventures, which provides mobile financial service solutions globally.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Android • China Unicom • Citibank • Helio (acquired) • SK Communications (CyWorld)
Financial Information • Market Cap: $10.2 billion • Enterprise Value: $14.7 billion • 2009 Revenues: $12.5 billion • 2009 Net Income: $907 million • 2009 Profit Margin 8.57% • P/E Ratio: 9.93 • Ticker Symbol: SKM
Countries of Operation • South Korea • USA • China • Hong Kong • Singapore • Philippines • Malaysia
Major Shareholders • Citibank ADR (29.72%) • SK Corp (23.22%) • [Korea] National Pension Corp (3.4%) • POSCO (2.9%) • Tradewinds Global Investors (4.52%) • Brandes Investment Partners (2.75%) • BlackRock Fund Advisors (2.16%) • Morgan Stanley (1.98%)
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Man-Won Jung, CEO &
President • Jae Won Chey, Vice
Chairman, CEO of SK Holdings, CEO of SK Gas
• Dong-Hyun Jang, CFO
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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• IBM • Northrop Grumman • HTC • LG • Sanyo • Samsung
Sprint Nextel Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Overland Park, KS
URL address: www.sprint.com
Company Background • Sprint Nextel is the 3rd largest wireless provider in the U.S. with 47.8
million subscribers. Sprint launched the first 4G service in the U.S. using Clearwire’s WiMAX technology.
• Sprint owns 56% in Clearwire, who built out the 4G network for Sprint. • Boost Mobile is a brand of Sprint Nextel under its Prepaid Group, and
has over 5 million subscribers. They additional have the Virgin Mobile and Assurance Wireless brands under this group.
• Sprint Nextel provides wireless services on networks that utilize CDMA, iDEN (from Nextel acquisition), and 4G (WiMAX) technologies. The other major U.S. wireless carrier that uses CDMA technology is Verizon Wireless.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • RadioShack • Boost Mobile • Alcatel Lucent • Cisco • HP • Palm
Financial Information • Market Cap: $13.7 billion • Enterprise Value: $30.3 billion • 2009 Revenues: $32.3 billion • 2009 Net Income: ($2.4) billion • 2009 Profit Margin (8.42%) • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: S
Countries of Operation • USA
Major Shareholders • AXA (7.98%) • Dodge & Cox (7.84%) • Bank of New York Mellon (7.10%) • Goldman Sachs Group (4.00%) • Vanguard Group (3.47%) • State Street Corp (3.40%) • BlackRock Institutional Trust (2.99%)
No. of employees: 40,000
Key Management • Dan Hesse, Chairman, CEO &
President • Robert H. Brust, CFO • Keith O. Cowan, President of
Strategic Planning & Corp Initiatives
• Daniel H. Schulman, President of Prepaid Group
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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• Panasonic (handset maker) • Nokia • HTC • Samsung • ZTE
Softbank Mobile Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan
URL address: mb.softbank.jp
Company Background • Softbank Mobile is a subsidiary of Softbank Corp, which is the holding
company of Masayoshi Son. It is the 3rd largest wireless provider in Japan with 22.5 million subscribers.
• In 2006, Vodafone sold Vodafone Japan (Vodafone KK) to SoftBank for 1.75 trillion yen (approx US$15.1 billion).
• Softbank Mobile was the exclusive distributor of Apple’s iPhone in Japan, which allowed it to capture 72% of the smartphone market (BusinessWeek, April 22, 2010). However, the smartphone market isn’t large relative to Japan’s overall wireless market. Japan’s advanced feature phones dominate the current consumer interests.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Apple • Android • Casio (handset maker) • Toshiba (handset maker) • Sharp (handset maker) • NEC (handset maker)
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: (latest available is 2005) • 2009 Net Income: (latest available is 2005) • 2009 Profit Margin: (latest available is 2005) • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol:
Countries of Operation • Japan
Major Shareholders • Softbank Corp
No. of employees: 6,300
Key Management • Masayoshi Son, Chairman &
CEO • Ken Miyauchi, Senior EVP &
COO • Tetsuzo Matsumoto, Senior
EVP
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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Telefonica Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Madrid, Spain
URL address: www.telefonica.com
Company Background • Telefonica is the leading wireless provider in Spain and the 3rd largest in
the world with 202 million subscribers worldwide. • The company operates in 25 countries with its strongest presence in
Europe and Latin America. More than 60% of its business is outside of Spain. In Latin America, it services more than 172 million customers.
• Additionally, they have 40 million fixed telephony, 15 million Internet, and 2.5 million pay TV subscribers. Movistar is their flagship brand for landline and wireless services in Spain and Latin America. O2 is their brand for similar services in the UK, Germany, Ireland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Terra is their brand for interactive services and online content for Spain and Latin America.
• In 2005, O2 was acquired by Telefonica for GBP17.7 billion (approx. US$27.1 billion). Currently O2 UK has 18.4 million subscribers.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • O2 • Terra • China Unicom
Financial Information • Market Cap: $95.5 billion • Enterprise Value: $155.6 billion • 2009 Revenues: $81.4 billion • 2009 Net Income: $11.2 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 13.40% • P/E Ratio: 9.73 • Ticker Symbol: TEF
• Spain • Colombia • Ecudaor • El Salvador • Guatemala • Mexico • Nicaragua • Panama
Major Shareholders • Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (6.96%) • Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona ("La Caixa") (5.44%) • Morgan Stanley (.68%) • Dodge & Cox (.53%) • Franklin Resources (.36%)
No. of employees: 259,209
Key Management • César Alierta Izuel, Executive
Chairman & CEO • Julio Linares Lopez, COO • Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete
Lopez, Executive Director and GM of Telefónica Latinoamérica
Updated: June 2010
• Argentina • Brazil • Chile • UK • Ireland • Germany • Czech Republic
Countries of Operation
Wireless Carriers!
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• Samsung • Blackberry • LG • Claro (Puerto Rico)
Verizon Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Basking Ridge, NJ
URL address: www.verizon.com
Company Background • Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Verizon Communications
(55%) and Vodafone Group (45%). This is the leading wireless provider in the U.S. with 92.8 million subscribers.
• Verizon Communications operates in two segments, Wireline and Domestic Wireless. The Wireline segment provides voice, Internet access, broadband video and data, next generation Internet protocol (IP) network services, network access, and long distance services to consumers, carriers, businesses, and government customers. (Yahoo! Finance)
• In 2009, Verizon Wireless acquired Alltel Wireless for $28.1 billion. This allowed Verizon Wireless to become the largest wireless provider in the U.S. in terms of subscribers.
• The company is one of two major wireless carriers utilizing CDMA technology. The other is Sprint Nextel.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Verizon Wireless • Vodafone • Android • Motorola • HTC • HP/Palm
Financial Information • Market Cap: $75.5 billion • Enterprise Value: $134 billion • 2009 Revenues: $107.8 billion • 2009 Net Income: $3.65 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 2.23% • P/E Ratio: 31.40 • Ticker Symbol: VZ
Countries of Operation • USA • Puerto Rico
Major Shareholders • Capital World Investors (4.87%) • Vanguard Group (3.47%) • BlackRock Institutional Trust (2.69%)
No. of employees: 217,100
Key Management • Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman
& CEO • John F. Killian, CFO &
Executive VP • Lowell C. McAdam, Executive
VP & CEO of Verizon Wireless • John W. Diercksen, Executive
VP of Strategy & Planning
Updated: June 2010
Wireless Carriers!
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• Safaricom (Kenya, 35%) • Softbank Mobile (Japan) • Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan) • Android
Vodafone Category: Wireless Carrier
Headquarters: Newbury, UK
URL address: www.vodafone.com
Company Background • Vodafone is the 2nd largest wireless provider in the world with over 341
million subscribers. In its home market, the UK, Vodafone is the 3rd largest carrier.
• The company has operations in 31 countries and partner networks in another 40 countries. Vodafone’s strongest presence is in Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and the U.S.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Verizon Wireless (45%) • SFR (France, 43.9%) • Plus (Poland, 24.4%) • China Mobile (China, 3.4%) • Airtel (India, 4.4%)
Financial Information • Market Cap: $135.9 billion • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $68.7 billion • 2009 Net Income: $13.4 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 19.4% • P/E Ratio: 9.15 • Ticker Symbol: VOD
Countries of Operation • UK • USA • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Italy • Netherlands • Spain
Major Shareholders • Dodge & Cox (1.75%) • FMR LLC (.74%) • Morgan Stanley (.39%)
No. of employees: 85,000
Key Management • Sir John Bond, Chairman • Vittorio Colao, CEO • John Buchanan, Deputy
Chairman • Andy Halford, CFO
Updated: June 2010
• Czech Republic • Romania • Turkey • Australia • India • New Zealand • China • Egypt
Mobile Operating Systems!
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• NEC • Kyocera • ZTE • Nuance • ARM • Qualcomm
Android Category: Mobile OS
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
URL address: www.android.com
Company Background • Android is Google’s Linux-based mobile operating system, which
includes middleware and key applications. Original Android, Inc, it was acquired by Google in July, 2005. The co-founders were Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communcations), Nick Sears and Chris White.
• Android’s vision and plans were revealed in late 2007 with the announcement of the Open Handset Alliance, which was a consortium of 71 hardware, software and telecom companies seeking to accelerate mobile innovation. Android was its foundation as the first complete, open and free mobile platform. Google released the Android code under the Apache License, which is an open source license.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Open Handset Alliance • HTC • Motorola • Samsung • Dell Garmin • Haier
Financial Information • Market Cap: $157.3 billion (Google) • Enterprise Value: $129.29 billion • 2009 Revenues: $23.7 billion • 2009 Net Income: $6.52 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 28.30% • P/E Ratio: 22.49 • Ticker Symbol: GOOG
Countries of Operation • USA • Japan • South Korea • China • UK • Spain • Germany • France
Major Shareholders • FMR LLC (6.37%) • Capital Research Global Investors (3.85%) • Vanguard Group (3.52%) • Price (T.Rowe) Associates (3.47%) • State Street Corporation (3.26%) • BlackRock Institutional Trust (2.98%)
No. of employees: approximately 250 / 20,621 (Google)
Key Management • Eric E. Schmidt, Chairman,
CEO • Dr. Larry Page, Co-Founder,
President of Products • Sergey Brin, Co-Founder,
President of Technology • Andy Rubin, VP of
Engineering, Head of Android
Updated: June 2010
Mobile Operating Systems!
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Apple Category: Mobile OS
Headquarters: Cupertino, CA
URL address: www.apple.com
Company Background • Apple is a leading consumer electronics, PC and mobile smartphone
manufacturer. The company's best-known products include the Macintosh computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. They also operate 284 retail stores in 10 countries.
• Apple's strength is in its design and creating cool, cutting products. Steve Jobs, their CEO, has famously stated they don't use focus groups for their products because they know what consumers want.
• iOS is Apple's mobile operating system that was developed for iPhone and now used in iPad. This operating system and related user-interface (UI) is elegantly designed. The iOS/iPhone's App Store is a revolution in mobile services since the iPhone SDK has allowed numerous companies and individuals to create new mobile applications that were not possible or ideal in previous mobile environments.
• iPhone 4 was released on June 24, 2010 and sold 1.7 million during the first three days.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • FileMaker • AT&T • Foxconn Technology Group
Financial Information • Market Cap: $228.8 billion • Enterprise Value: $205.9 billion • 2009 Revenues: $42.9 billion • 2009 Net Income: $8.23 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 21.15% • P/E Ratio: 21.32 • Ticker Symbol: AAPL
Countries of Operation • USA • China • UK • Australia • New Zealand • Japan • Germany • France
Major Shareholders • FMR LLC (4.99%) • Vanguard Group (3.53%) • BlackRock Institutional Trust (2.90%) • Price (T.Rowe) Associates (2.67%) • Janus Capital Management (2.07%)
No. of employees: 34,300
Key Management • Steve P. Jobs, Co-Founder,
CEO • Peter Oppenheimer, CFO &
SVP • Timothy Cook, COO • Scott Forstall, SVP of iPhone
Software Engineering & Platform
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• AMD • Cisco • Google • HP • Motorola • Nokia
Linux Category: Mobile OS
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
URL address: www.linux.com
Company Background • In 1991, Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux kernel that spawned the
development of the Linux operating system. Linux was an excellent example of the power of collaboration within open source software.
• In 2007, the Linux Foundation was created to sponsor the work of Linus Torvalds and add need infrastructure into the Linux community.
• Linux became an alternative to Symbian, Windows CE and others for mobile devices since it was inexpensive and flexible enough to allow customization. In 2006, 16.7% of smartphones in the world were using Linux.
• In 2009, Linux had 5% of the overall mobile operating system market (Gartner).
Members • Fujitsu • Hitachi • IBM • Intel • NEC • Oracle
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: N/A • 2009 Net Income: N/A • 2009 Profit Margin: N/A • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA • UK • China • Japan • France • Germany • Brazil • Finland
Major Shareholders • N/A
No. of employees: n/a
Key Management • John Zeglis, Chairman and
CEO • Michael Keith, EVP • Mohan Gyani, President &
CEO, Wireless Services
Updated: June 2010
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Microsoft Category: Mobile OS
Headquarters: Redmond, WA
URL address: www.microsoft.com
Company Background • Microsoft Corporation provides software and hardware products and
solutions worldwide. The Client segment offers Windows 7/Vista comprising Home Basic, Home Premium, Enterprise, and Starter editions; and Windows XP, including Professional, Home, Media Center, and Tablet PC editions. The Server and Tools segment develops software server products and solutions consisting of Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Biz Talk Server, and others. The Online Services Business segment provides online advertising platform; online information offerings; and email and instant messaging services.
• Microsoft’s mobile OS is Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile market share has fallen over the past several years due to its clunkiness and bugginess. It currently has a 9% share of the mobile OS market.
• The latest version is “Windows Phone 7” which is launching this October 2010. It’s been emphasized that Windows Phone 7 will be an advertising platform.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • HTC • Samsung • LG
Financial Information • Market Cap: $223.6 billion • Enterprise Value: $189.1 billion • 2009 Revenues: $58.4 billion • 2009 Net Income: $14.6 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 29.03% • P/E Ratio: 13.22 • Ticker Symbol: MSFT
Countries of Operation • USA • UK • China • Japan • Germany • Brazil • Spain • Russia
Major Shareholders • Capital Research Global Investors (4.20%) • Vanguard Group (3.20%) • State Street (3.02%) • Capital World Investors (2.78%) • BlackRock Institutional Trust (2.56%)
No. of employees: 93,000
Key Management • Steven A. Ballmer, CEO • B. Kevin Turner, COO • Robert Bach, President of
Entertainment & Devices • Stephen A. Elop, President of
Microsoft Business Division
Updated: June 2010
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• Vodafone • Airtel • T-Mobile • China Mobile • Telefonica • SK Telecom
RIM Category: Mobile OS
Headquarters: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
URL address: www.rim.com
Company Background • Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is a Canadian wireless device and
telecommunications company that created the BlackBerry smartphone. Initially starting out as a pager company, RIM's BlackBerry product started its stranglehold on the enterprise market in the early 2000s with its ability to quickly send and receive emails. This earned the nickname "CrackBerry” from corporate users across North America and than the globe.
• Over 50 million BlackBerry phones have been sold, which makes it the second best selling smartphone.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • eBay • Tata Indicom • China Telecom • Alcatel-Lucent • Orange • IBM
Financial Information • Market Cap: $30.6 billion • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $14.9 billion • 2009 Net Income: $2.46 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 16.8% • P/E Ratio: 11.34 • Ticker Symbol: RIMM
Countries of Operation • Canada • USA • UK • France • Germany • Japan • South Korea • China
Major Shareholders • FMR LLC (4.16%) • Janus Capital Management (4.07%) • Royal Bank of Canada (2.73%) • Toronto Dominion Bank (2.55%) • Invesco (2.17%) • Blackrock Inc (1.93%)
No. of employees: 12,000
Key Management • Mike Lazaridis, Founder,
President & co-CEO • Jim Balsillie, co-CEO • Don Morrison, COO • Robin Bienfait, CIO • Brian Bidulka, CFO
Updated: June 2010
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• Sony Ericsson • AT&T • Vodafone • NTT DoCoMo • Orange • Softbank
Symbian Category: Mobile OS
Headquarters: London, UK
URL address: www.symbian.org
Company Background • They Symbian Platform started out as Symbian Software Limited. In
2008, Nokia acquired it and created an independent non-profit called the Symbian Foundation. The foundation doesn’t directly develop the platform, but seeks to ensure compatibility and coordination within the Symbian community. Such as organizing, distributing and building the Symbian source code among its members.
• The "Symbian platform" is the successor to the "Symbian OS", and was made available as open source code in February 2010. The platform was created by integrating the software contributions from Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony Ericsson, and Symbian Ltd. This was obviously a move to counter the growing threat of Google's Android.
• While Symbian still retains 47% of the mobile OS market and is the leader in the smartphone market, its grip is quickly becoming undone.
• The founding members where: Nokia, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Motorola, TI, Vodafone, LG, Samsung, and others.
Members • Fujitsu • Huawei • LG • Nokia • Samsung • Sharp
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: N/A • 2009 Net Income: N/A • 2009 Profit Margin: N/A • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • UK • USA • South Korea • China • Japan • Finland • India • Brazil
Major Shareholders • N/A
No. of employees: 10+
Key Management • Lee Williams, Executive
Director • John Forsyth, Technology &
Delivery Management • Tim Holbrow, Finance & Ops • Dietmar Tallroght, General
Counsel
Updated: June 2010
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Apple
Company Background Alliances/Subsidiaries
Financial Information
Countries of Operation Major Shareholders Key Management
Updated: June 2010
Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Headquarters: Cupertino, CA
URL address: www.apple.com
• Apple is a leading consumer electronics, PC and mobile smartphone manufacturer. The company's best-known products include the Macintosh computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. They also operate 284 retail stores in 10 countries.
• Apple's strength is in its design and creating cool, cutting products. Steve Jobs, their CEO, has famously stated they don't use focus groups for their products because they know what consumers want.
• Apple's revolutionary iPhone was introduced in January 2007. At the time, the iPhone had a unique multi-touch screen with a virtual keyboard and its App Store, which allowed third-party developers to create various applications for the platform.
• iPhone 4 was release on June 24, 2010 and sold 1.7 million during the first three days.
• FileMaker • AT&T • Foxconn Technology Group
• Market Cap: $228.8 billion • Enterprise Value: $205.9 billion • 2009 Revenues: $42.9 billion • 2009 Net Income: $8.23 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 21.15% • P/E Ratio: 21.32 • Ticker Symbol: AAPL
• USA • China • UK • Australia • New Zealand • Japan • Germany • France
• FMR LLC (4.99%) • Vanguard Group (3.53%) • BlackRock Institutional Trust (2.90%) • Price (T.Rowe) Associates (2.67%) • Janus Capital Management (2.07%)
No. of employees: 34,300
• Steve P. Jobs, Co-Founder, CEO
• Peter Oppenheimer, CFO & SVP
• Timothy Cook, COO • Scott Forstall, SVP of iPhone
Software Engineering & Platform
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HP Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
URL address: www.hp.com
Company Background • Hewlett-Packard Company is the storied original startup of Silicon Valley.
Founded in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard.
• HP sells various products, technologies, solutions, and services worldwide. Its Personal Systems Group division makes PCs for consumer and enterprise, handheld computing devices, calculators, and other related products.
• HP recently acquired Palm for $1.2 billion. Palm’s CEO, Jon Rubinstein, now runs Palm under Todd Bradley's Personal Systems Group. Bradley is also a former Palm CEO.
• Palm was once the leader in PDAs with their Palm Pilot, Palm V, Zire and Tungsten series. They also had successful entry into the smartphone market with the Treo and Centro models, but competition from Apple, BlackBerry and Android made their next series, Pre, an unsuccessful launch.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Palm • O2 • AT&T • Sprint Nextel • Vodafone
Financial Information • Market Cap: $108.6 billion (HP) • Enterprise Value: $111.4 billion • 2009 Revenues: $114.6 billion • 2009 Net Income: $7.66 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 7.09% • P/E Ratio: 13.19 • Ticker Symbol: HPQ
Countries of Operation • USA • UK • Singapore • New Zealand • Malaysia • Mexico • Brazil
Major Shareholders • Vanguard Group (3.57%) • FMR LLC (3.51%) • Dodge & Cox (2.97%) • BlackRock Institutional Trust (2.77%) • Capital Research Global Investors (2.44%) • Capital World Investors (2.11%)
No. of employees: 304,000
Key Management • Mark Hurd, Chairman, CEO &
President • Catherine A. Lesjak, CFO &
EVP • Ann M. LIvermore, EVP of
Enterprise Business • Todd Bradley, EVP of Personal
Systems Group
Updated: June 2010
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• Sprint Nextel • AT&T • Softbank Mobile • NTT DoCoMo • Qwest • Android
HTC Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Headquarters: Taoyuan City, Taiwan
URL address: www.htc.com
Company Background • In 1997, Cher Wang and Peter Chou founded HTC as a notebook
computer manufacturer. They shifted towards hand-held PCs and smartphones within a few years. In 2009, they shipped out 11.71 million units with 3G wireless handsets accounting for 95% of total units shipped.
• HTC was the first mobile manufacturer for Microsoft's Pocket PC, a Microsoft powered smartphone, Microsoft 3G phone, and the first Android-based mobile phone. In June 2009, they launched the HTC Evo 4G, the first 4G mobile phone in the U.S.
• In March 2010, Apple claimed that HTC infringed upon 20 its patents covering aspects of the iPhone user interface and hardware. HTC countered by claiming Apple infringed on 5 of its patents. Also in a probable defensive measure against Apple, HTC signed a broad patent agreement with Microsoft for various patents related to mobile technology. They will be paying royalty fees to Microsoft.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Microsoft • T-Mobile • Orange • Telefonica • Vodafone • Verizon
Financial Information • Market Cap: unknown • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $4.5 billion • 2009 Net Income: $703 million • 2009 Profit Margin: 15.6% • P/E Ratio: unknown • Ticker Symbol: 2498.TW
Countries of Operation • USA • Canada • Taiwan • China • Japan • Singapore • UK • Germany
Major Shareholders • Way-Chih Investment Co. (5.14%) • Way-Lien Technology (4.78%) • Euro Pacific Growth Fund (3.08%) • Hon-Mou Investment Co. (2.86%)
No. of employees: 8,948
Key Management • Cher Wang, Chairman • Peter Chou, CEO & President • Fred Liu, Senior EVP &
President of Engineering • Hui-Ming Cheng, CFO
Updated: June 2010
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• MaxDome • SkyLife • Hitachi • Microsoft • Intel • Android
LG Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Headquarters: Seoul, Korea
URL address: www.lg.com
Company Background • LG Electronics is global leader in consumer electronics, mobile
communications and home appliances. It is the 2nd largest manufacturer of TVs and the 3rd largest of mobile phones.
• In 2009, LGE sold over 117 million handsets worldwide. • LG's five primary business units are: Home Entertainment, Mobile
Communications, Home Appliance, Air Conditioning and Business Solutions.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Qualcomm • Schneider • GE • Viking • Skype • Microsoft
Financial Information • Market Cap: $11.9 billion • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $43.4 billion • 2009 Net Income: unknown (not clear) • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: unknown • Ticker Symbol: LSE: LGLD
Countries of Operation • South Korea • USA • Japan • China • UK • France • India • Germany
Major Shareholders • LG Corp. (31%) • Foreign investors (27%) • Domestic investors (42%)
No. of employees: 82,772
Key Management • Yong Nam, Vice Chairman &
CEO • Simon Kang, President & CEO
of Home Entertainment • Skott Ahn, President & CEO of
Mobile Communications • Young-Ha Lee, President &
CEO of Home Appliance
Updated: June 2010
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Motorola Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Headquarters: Schaumburg, IL
URL address: www.att.com
Company Background • Motorola has had a bumpy ride in the recent decade, but has been in the
forefront of mobile communications since developing the world's first cellphone. Recently bringing on board Sanja Jha as Co-CEO, the company simplified its structure into two business units: Mobile Devices & Home and Enterprise Mobility Solutions & Networks.
• Once the number two player, it has declined to become the 4th largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world with 4.8% market share.
• The company's handset efforts have been leading in the development of new smartphones using Google's Android OS. Their DROID and DROID X models have been well received by consumers.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Android • Verizon
Financial Information • Market Cap: $18.4 billion • Enterprise Value: $12.9 billion • 2009 Revenues: $22 billion • 2009 Net Income: ($51 million) • 2009 Profit Margin: 1.15% • P/E Ratio: 64.92 • Ticker Symbol: MOT
Countries of Operation • USA • Canada • South Korea • China • India • UK • France • Germany
Major Shareholders • Dodge & Cox (9.89%) • AXA (7.49%) • Icahn Capital (6.72%) • NWQ Investment Management (4.60%) • Highfields Capital Management (4.09%)
No. of employees: 53,000
Key Management • Gregory Q. Brown, Co-
Chairman, Co-CEO, & CEO of Motorola Solutions
• Sanjay K Jha, Co-Chairman, Co-CEO & CEO of Mobile Devices & Home
• Edward J. Fitzpatrick, CFO & SVP
Updated: June 2010
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Nokia Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Headquarters: Espoo, Finland
URL address: www.nokia.com
Company Background • Nokia is the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world with over
one billion mobile phones sold. It is also the largest Finnish company and accounts for a significant portion of their economy.
• Nokia was one of the primary developers of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), which was a second-generation mobile technology that could carry voice and data traffic.
• Nokia also provides Internet, digital mapping, and navigation services worldwide. Its NAVTEQ group provides various digital map information and location-based content services. Its Nokia Siemens Networks group provides mobile and fixed network solutions: systems integration, network and service management, charging and billing software, and subscriber database management.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Siemens (partnership) • Navteq (subsidiary) • Vertu (subsidiary) • Qt Software (subsidiary) • Symbian Foundation
Financial Information • Market Cap: $32.7 billion • Enterprise Value: $25.9 billion • 2009 Revenues: $58.8 billion • 2009 Net Income: $373 million • 2009 Profit Margin: 2.71% • P/E Ratio: 22.67 • Ticker Symbol: NOK
Countries of Operation • Finland • UK • Spain • Germany • France • China • Hong Kong • USA
Major Shareholders • FMR LLC (2.19%) • Barrow, Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss (1.85%) • AXA (1.00%)
No. of employees: 125,859
Key Management • Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo,
Chairman, CEO & President • Timo Ihamuotila, CFO & EVP • Anssi Vanjoki, EVP of Markets • Dr. Tero Ojanpera, EVP of
Services
Updated: June 2010
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RIM Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Company Background Alliances/Subsidiaries
Financial Information
Countries of Operation Major Shareholders Key Management
Updated: June 2010
• Vodafone • Airtel • T-Mobile • China Mobile • Telefonica • SK Telecom
Headquarters: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
URL address: www.rim.com
• Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is a Canadian wireless device and telecommunications company that created the BlackBerry smartphone. Initially starting out as a pager company, RIM's BlackBerry product started its stranglehold on the enterprise market in the early 2000s with its ability to quickly send and receive emails. This earned the nickname "CrackBerry” from corporate users across North America and than the globe.
• Over 50 million BlackBerry phones have been sold, which makes it the second best selling smartphone.
• eBay • Tata Indicom • China Telecom • Alcatel-Lucent • Orange • IBM
• Market Cap: $30.6 billion • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $14.9 billion • 2009 Net Income: $2.46 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 16.8% • P/E Ratio: 11.34 • Ticker Symbol: RIMM
• Canada • USA • UK • France • Germany • Japan • South Korea • China
• FMR LLC (4.16%) • Janus Capital Management (4.07%) • Royal Bank of Canada (2.73%) • Toronto Dominion Bank (2.55%) • Invesco (2.17%) • Blackrock Inc (1.93%)
No. of employees: 12,000
• Mike Lazaridis, Founder, President & co-CEO
• Jim Balsillie, co-CEO • Don Morrison, COO • Robin Bienfait, CIO • Brian Bidulka, CFO
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• O2 • Telefonica • China Mobile • China Unicom • Vodafone • Orange
Samsung Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Headquarters: Seoul, Korea
URL address: www.samsung.com
Company Background • Samsung Electronics is a leading consumer electronics and
semiconductor company. It is the largest memory chip maker and second largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world. It is the 2nd largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world after Nokia with 19.5% market share. It is the flagship subsidiary of the Samsung Group.
• In 2009, Samsung Electronics surpassed Siemens and HP as the world’s largest technology company in terms of revenues.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Samsung Group • AT&T • Verizon • Sprint Nextel • T-Mobile • SK Telecom
Financial Information • Market Cap: $97.4 billion • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $117.1 billion • 2009 Net Income: $8.33 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: unknown • Ticker Symbol: 005930.KS
Countries of Operation • South Korea • USA • China • India • UK • France • Germany • Spain
Major Shareholders • Kun-Hee Lee & affiliates (17.57%) • [Korea] National Pension Service (5.90%)
No. of employees: 164,600
Key Management • Yoonwoo Lee, Vice Chairman
& Chairman of the BOD • Gee-Sung Choi, President &
CEO • Ju-Hwa Yoon, CFO
Updated: June 2010
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Sony Ericsson Category: Mobile Phone Maker
Headquarters: London, UK
URL address: www.sonyericsson.com
Company Background • Sony Ericsson is a joint venture between Sony Corp and Ericsson to
manufacture mobile phones. Ericsson was third largest mobile handset maker, but due to various reasons struggled which led to this JV in 2001. Sony was the leading consumer electronics company, but a marginal player in the mobile handset business so it jumped at this opportunity to partner with Ericsson. It is currently the 5th largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world.
• The company’s more successful models have utilized Sony’s existing consumer brands: Walkman-branded phone and Cyber-shot-branded phone.
• In 2009, they sold over 57 million handsets worldwide and had 4.5% market share.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • T-Mobile • Telefonica • Orange • Vodafone
Financial Information • Market Cap: $26.9 billion (Sony) • Enterprise Value: $29.5 billion (Sony) • 2009 Revenues: $10.4 billion (Sony Ericsson) • 2009 Net Income: ($1.3) billion (Sony Ericsson) • 2009 Profit Margin: (0.57%) (Sony) • P/E Ratio: N/A (Sony) • Ticker Symbol: SNE (Sony)
Countries of Operation • UK • Sweden • Japan • China • India • France • Germany
Major Shareholders • Sony • Ericsson
No. of employees: 8,450
Key Management • Bert Nordberg, President • Kristian Tear, EVP • William A. Glaser, CFO • Rikko Sakaguchi, EVP & Chief
Creation Officer
Updated: June 2010
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4INFO Category: Location-Based
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
URL address: www.4info.com
Company Background • 4INFO is the largest provider of free text message alerts in the U.S. It's
a free service with some wireless carriers charging for text messages. They currently send over 400 million SMS alerts and answers per month.
• The 4INFO SMS Ad Network offers businesses targeted advertising programs through SMS ad serving technology. Companies also partner with 4INFO to publish free ad-supported SMS content. (CrunchBase)
• The company generates revenues through advertising placed in the text messages. Their top ten requested content is: MLB scores, horoscopes, pickup lines, celeb gossip, weather, jokes, trivia, flirt tips, living well tips, and insults.
• In June 2010, the company acquired Butter, a mobile advertising company that builds custom applications for iPhone and Android phones.
Alliances/Subsidiaries
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA
Investors • Draper Fisher Jurvetson, USVP, Sand Hill Capital, Gannett,
Tim Connors, and Dan Ehrman, $8 million Series A • DFJ, USVP, Sand Hill Capital, Gannett, Tim Connors, and Dan
Ehrman, $10 million Series B • Peacock Equity, DFJ, USVP, Sand Hill Capital, Gannett, and
Selby Venture, $20 million Series C/D (unclear information)
No. of employees: 30
Key Management • Zaw Thet, Co-Founder & CEO • Rob DeMillo, CTO • Julie Shumaker, SVP of Sales
& Marketing • Richard Qiu, SVP of Biz
Development
Updated: June 2010
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GetJar Category: Wireless Application
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
URL address: www.getjar.com
Company Background • GetJar is the largest independent app store and second largest after
Apple's App Store. They have had over 1 billion downloads with 75, 000 mobile applications in over 200 countries. Their open market approach allows them to deliver applications on all phones and major platforms, such as Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile.
• GetJar was founded in Vilnius, Lithuania by Ilja Laurs. Now they are headquartered in San Mateo, CA with offices in the UK and Lithuania.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Apple • Android • BlackBerry • Symbian • Sprint Nextel
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA • UK • Lithuania
Investors • Accel, $6 million Series A • Accel, $11 million Series B
No. of employees: 20
Key Management • Ilja Laurs, CEO & Founder • Chris Dury, VP of Products • Patrick Mork, CMO • Bill Scott, VP of Sales & Biz
Dev • VJ Anand, VP of Engineering • Tom Burke, CFO
Updated: June 2010
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Meraki Category: Wireless Application
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
URL address: www.meraki.com
Company Background • Meraki's technology was developed from MIT's Roofnet project. The
core is a wireless mesh hardware and software that allows people to extend the range of their Wifi networks.
• Meraki’s networking systems bring enterprise-class networking to organizations of all sizes. Meraki's unique cloud-hosted controller architecture provides centralized management and security though an intuitive web interface, eliminating the high costs and complexity associated with traditional networking systems. Over 15,000 organizations in 140+ countries around the world rely on Meraki for their networks. (company website)
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Google • City of San Francisco
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA
Investors • Google, Seed Round • Sequoia Capital, $5 million Series A • Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, and Northgate Capital, $20
million Series B
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Sanjit Biswas, CEO & Co-
Founder • John Bicket, CTO & Co-
Founder • Hans Robertson, VP of
Product Management & Co-Founder
Updated: June 2010
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• Qualcomm • Texas Instruments • Apple
Skyhook Category: Wireless Application
Headquarters: Boston, MA
URL address: www.skyhookwireless.com
Company Background • Skyhook is the leader in location positioning with its technology that
utilizes Wi-Fi access points to determine geographic location instead of GPS hardware.
• Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) uses hundreds of millions of Wi-Fi access points worldwide, and provides accurate location information indoors and in urban areas. Its database contains over 230 million access points and has already mapped most of the U.S and Europe.
• XPS is their the hybrid positioning system which is the first of its kind. This utilizes several location technologies, WPS, GPS, and cellular tower triangulation to provide the fastest, most accurate, and flexible location system.
• With Apple’s selection of Skyhook over Google’s location data, the company has increasingly competed with Google. It also faces competition from RIM and Nokia, who have their own technologies.
• , who
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Samsung • Motorola • Gowalla • Foursquare • Aloqa • Opera
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA
Investors • Nokia and Commons Angels, $1.8 million Series A • Nokia, Intel, Bain Capital Ventures, Commons Angels, $6.5
million Series B • Intel, Bain Capital Ventures, Common Angels, RRE Ventures,
$8.5 million Series C
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Ted Morgan, CEO & Co-
Founder • Michael Shean, SVP of Biz
Dev & Co-Founder • Nick Brachet, CTO • Dr. Farshid Alizadeh-Shabdiz,
Chief Scientist
Updated: June 2010
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Soonr Category: Wireless Application
Headquarters: Campbell, CA
URL address: www.soonr.com
Company Background • SoonR is a service that enables standard mobile phones to use the
applications on computers in an optimized way. SoonR allows users to use any data enabled device (mobile phone, PDA, or computer) to access the information on PCs, such as Desktop Search, Outlook, Mac Mail, Skype, and the files on desktop computers, using the built-in communications facilities of the device. There is no software to install on the phone; users simply need to install a secure client on their computers. (CrunchBase)
Alliances/Subsidiaries • CSL (Hong Kong)
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA
Investors • Clearstone Venture Partners, Intel Capital, $6 million Series A • Clearstone Venture Partners, Intel Capital, and Cisco, $9.5
million Series B • Clearstone Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Cisco, and Sand Hill
Capital, $3 million Series C • Clearstone Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Cisco, HighBar
Ventures, Presido Ventures, $4.5 million Series D
No. of employees: 25
Key Management • Martin Frid-Nielsen, Co-
Founder, Chairman, & CEO • Song Huang, Co-Founder &
Chief Evangelist • Steven Boye, Co-Founder &
CTO • Lars Gunnersen, Co-Founder
& VP of Engineering
Updated: June 2010
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SpiderCloud Category: Wireless Application
Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA
URL address: www.spidercloud.com
Company Background • SpiderCloud is startup that developed the industry’s first enterprise radio
access network (E-RAN) that enables direct integration between enterprise IT networks and mobile devices through small cell technologies. This wireless platform has solved indoor coverage and capacity issues for mobile operators and their business customers.
• The SmartCloud E-RAN solution provides a flexible and native architecture for enabling enterprise wireless applications such as mobile unified communications and IP-PBX integration. Such seamless integration allows enterprise users to transparently access corporate assets with their existing unmodified mobile devices for not just voice, but also video and data applications. (company website)
Alliances/Subsidiaries
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA • UK
Investors • Charles River, Matrix Partners, $15 million Series A • Charles River, Matrix Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Opus
Capital, $25 million Series B
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Mike Gallager, CEO • Behrooz Parsay, SVP of
Engineering & Operations • Theresa McCarthy, General
Counsel & VP • Ron Pelley, VP & MD for
Europe
Updated: June 2010
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Twitter Category: Wireless Application
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
URL address: www.twitter.com
Company Background • Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in
March 2006. It's a micro-blogging services that allows people to post updates and links within 140 characters.
• Users can send and receive tweets through the main website, external applications (i.e. Seesmic, TweetDeck, Echofon), or through SMS in certain countries. SMS usage may incur fees from certain mobile operators.
• The company experienced rapid growth with an excellent strategy of opening its APIs and allowing for third-party developers to built applications to proliferate Twitter's usage. Today Twitter has over 190 million users and a profound effect on media and real-time communications throughout the world. Over 65 million tweets are posted each day.
• In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage. Twitter can be used in multiple languages worldwide.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Twitter Japan • Digital Garage
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA • Japan
Investors • Charles River, Union Square, Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo,
Ron Conway, and Greg Yaitanes, $5 million Series A • Union Square, Bezos Expeditions, Spark Capital, Digital
Garage, Kevin Rose, $15 million Series B • Union Square, Charles River, Digital Garage, Benchmark, IVP,
and Spark Capital, $35 million Series C • Benchmark Capital, IVP, Spark Capital, Insight Venture, T.
Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, $100 million Series D
No. of employees: 140
Key Management • Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder &
Chairman • Evan Williams, Co-Founder &
CEO • Biz Stone, Co-Founder &
Creative Director • Dick Costolo, COO • Greg Pass, CTO
Updated: June 2010
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Booyah Category: Location-Based
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
URL address: www.booyah.com
Company Background • Booyah is a leading location-based service that competes with
FourSquare and Gowalla. The company is trying to define the new market of “Real-World Gaming.”
• Booyah’s MyTown app has more gaming elements than its competitors mentioned above. It is the most popular location-based social game for the iPhone, and it reached 2 million users a couple months faster than FourSquare, who gets more media attention.
• The development team came from gaming industry leaders: Blizzard Entertainment, Activision, EA, and Insomniac Games.
• In May, Booyah signed a partnership agreement with Google to be the first company working on Google's Places Web Service feature. This API will give Booyah's MyTown access to Google's data set of over 50 million locations worldwide. (TechCrunch)
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Google
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA
Investors • Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (iFund), $4.5 million Series A • Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers?, $5 million Series B • KPCB, Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, $20 million Series C
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Keith Lee, CEO & Co-Founder • Sam Christiansen, CTO & Co-
Founder • Brian Morrisroe, Chief
Creative Officer & Co-Founder
Updated: June 2010
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• Gossip Girl • Huffington Post
FourSquare Category: Location-Based
Headquarters: New York, NY
URL address: www.foursquare.com
Company Background • Foursquare is a location-based social network with gaming elements,
such as badges and mayorships, that incentivize users to check-in and share information with their contacts.
• Points are awarded for check-ins along with various badges, such as swarm (50+ checking in at the same place), super user (30 check-ins in a month) and crunked (4+ stops in one night). Users are given the "Mayor" title when they are the person who has checked in the most times at a certain location.
• Foursquare surpassed 2 million users in July 2010 along with 100 million check-ins.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Skyhook • Zagat • Bravo • Conde Nast • The New York Times • MTV
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA
Investors • Union Square, O'Reilly AlphaTech, SV Angel, Jack Dorsey,
Kevin Rose, $1.35 million Angel round • Union Square, O'Reilly AlphaTech, and Andreessen Horowitz,
$20 million Series B
No. of employees: 24
Key Management • Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder • Naveen Selvadurai, Co-
Founder • Alex Rainert, Chieft Product
Officer • Holger Luedorf, VP of Mobile
& Partnerships
Updated: June 2010
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Garmin Category: Location-Based
Headquarters: Olathe, KS
URL address: www.garmin.com
Company Background • Garmin Ltd. (Garmin) is a provider of navigation, communication and
information devices and applications, which are enabled by global positioning system (GPS) technology. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of hand-held, portable and fixed-mount GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communications and information products for the automotive/mobile, outdoor/fitness, marine and general aviation markets. The Company operates in four segments: Marine, Automotive/Mobile, Outdoor/Fitness and Aviation. (Reuters)
• Garmin partnered with ASUSTeK Computer to build their own mobile phones. For the U.S., T-Mobile is the exclusive distributor for the Garminfone, which is an Android-powered smartphone.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Android • KPN (Netherlands) • ASUSTeK Computer • T-Mobile • Microsoft
Financial Information • Market Cap: $5.84 billion • Enterprise Value: $4.69 billion • 2009 Revenues: $2.95 billion • 2009 Net Income: $703 million • 2009 Profit Margin: 23.56% • P/E Ratio: 8.52 • Ticker Symbol: GRMN
Countries of Operation • USA • UK • Taiwan
Major Shareholders • Sterneck Capital Management (14.31%) • First Citizens Bank & Trust (.08%)
No. of employees: 8,437
Key Management • Dr. Min H. Kao, Chairman &
CEO • Clifton A. Pemble, President &
COO • Kevin S. Rauckman, CFO &
Treasurer • Andrew Etkind, VP, General
Counsel & Secretary
Updated: June 2010
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Gowalla Category: Location-Based
Headquarters: Austin, TX
URL address: www.gowalla.com
Company Background • Gowalla is a location-based social networking game and service created
by Alamofire. They have more than 300,000 users, but they trail Booyah and Foursquare, who are their primary competitors, who both have more than 2 million users.
• One minor difference that Gowalla has is that they allow for "trips" to be created and check-in at, and not just "spots" or "places" (like in Foursquare).
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Skyhook
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA
Investors • The Founders Fund, Alsop-Louie Partners, $2 million Series A • Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventures, Maples Investments,
Kevin Rose, Chris Sacca, Jason Calacanis, and SV Angel, $8.29 million Series B
No. of employees: 18
Key Management • Josh Williams, Co-Founder &
CEO • Scott Raymond, Co-Founder
& CTO • Keegan Jones, Visual
Designer • John Critz, Senior Developer
Updated: June 2010
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• Zagat • CitySearch • Bing • Metromix
Loopt Category: Location-Based
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
URL address: www.loopt.com
Company Background • Loopt is a location-based social mapping services and utilizes a mobile
phone-based GPS sharing system that allows people to visualize one another using their cell phones and share information. Loopt also enables users to explore nearby locations by connecting them with content from Zagat, Bing, CitySearch, Metromix and others.
• The company has over 4 million users and partnerships with every major U.S. wireless carrier. Loopt's service is available on over 100 phones, including iPhone, BlackBerry and Android handsets.
• In response to FourSquare, Booyah and others, Loopt launched their competing service called Loopt Star, which might be too late in the game for them. Loopt was the perceived leader in location-based social networking, but the space did not take off until Foursquare and others were launched (or that Loopt was too early since they started in 2005).
Alliances/Subsidiaries • AT&T • Verizon • T-Mobile • Android • Apple • CBS
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA
Investors • Y Combinator, $6,000 Seed round • New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia, $5 million Series A • New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia, $12 million Series B
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Sam Altman, Co-Founder &
CEO • Nick Sivo, Co-Founder & CTO • Alok Deshpande (Co-Founder
& Chief Software Architect • Brian Knapp, COO
Updated: June 2010
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Tom Tom Category: Location-Based
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
URL address: www.tomtom.com
Company Background • Tom Tom is a digital mapping and device manufacturer that focuses on
automotive navigation systems. • 70.6% of the company's sales are in Europe, 25.9% in North America
and 3.5% in the rest of the world. • In 2008, Tom Tom acquired Tele Atlas, a digital map maker, for 2.9 billion
euros ($3.74 billion) after a bidding war with Garmin. Garmin dropped out after signing a long-term agreement with Navteq, which was acquired by Nokia.
• As a minor product differentiation versus Garmin, Tom Tom has licensed various voices for their navigation units. Celebrities and characters such as Snoop Dogg, Yoda, Darth Vader, Chip'n'Dale, Austin Powers, Tony Blair, and George Bush.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Tele Altas
Financial Information • Market Cap: $1.4 billion • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $1.94 billion • 2009 Net Income: $112 million • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: unknown • Ticker Symbol: Euronext: TOM2
Countries of Operation • Netherlands • USA • France • Germany • Spain • Brazil • Australia • New Zealand
Major Shareholders • Harold Goddijn, Co-Founder (12%) • Corinne Vigreux, Co-Founder (12%) • Pieter Geelen, Co-Founder (12%) • Peter-Frans Pauwels, Co-Founder (12%) • Janivo/Cyrte (8%)
No. of employees: 3,090
Key Management • Harold Goddijn, Co-Founder &
CEO • Marina Wyatt, CFO
Updated: June 2010
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AdMob Category: Other
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
URL address: www.admob.com
Company Background • AdMob is one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks. They
offer publishers a Mobile Advertising Network, AdMob Mobile Analytics, and a Mobile Metrics Report. They supposedly serve more than 7.1 billion mobile banner and text ads per month.
• The company empowers advertisers to create ads and target people in specific locations, wireless carriers, mobile platforms and phone models.
• The company was acquired by Google in November 2009 for $750 million. Prior to their acquisition, AdMob acquired AdWhirl, an ad developer for iPhone applications.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Google
Financial Information • Market Cap: N/A • Enterprise Value: N/A • 2009 Revenues: unknown • 2009 Net Income: unknown • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: N/A
Countries of Operation • USA • UK • Japan • Singapore
India • South Africa
Investors • Michael Dearing, $4 million Series A • Accel, Sequoia Capital, $15 million Series B • Accel, Sequoia Capital, $15.7 million Series C • DFJ, Northgate Capital, $12.5 million Series C
No. of employees: unknown
Key Management • Omar Hamoui, Founder &
CEO • Russell Buckley, VP of Global
Alliances • Cheryl Dalrymple, CFO • Ali Diab, VP of Product
Management
Updated: June 2010
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• NVIDIA • McAfee
Adobe Category: Other
Headquarters: San Jose, CA
URL address: www.adobe.com
Company Background • Adobe is the company that helped launch the desktop publishing
industry along with Apple and other companies. Their software from Adobe PostScript to Illustrator to Photoshop have had a profound impact on design and publishing throughout the world.
• Additionally, their Portable Document Format (PDF) and Flash changed document delivery and web interactivity for millions of online users.
• Recently Adobe and Apple have had public arguments regarding the reliability and security of Flash. Steve Jobs has stated that Apple decided not to support Adobe Flash on their iPhone and other products due to the issues above. Adobe responded that the real reason was that Apple wished to maintain control over their iOS platform.
• In October 2009, Adobe acquired Omniture for $1.8 billion. Omniture is a leader in web analytics and optimization.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Omniture • Conviva • RIM • Qualcomm • Salesforce.com • Nokia
Financial Information • Market Cap: $15 billion • Enterprise Value: $13.49 billion • 2009 Revenues: $2.95 billion • 2009 Net Income: $386 million • 2009 Profit Margin: 11.66% • P/E Ratio: 40.14 • Ticker Symbol: ADBE
Countries of Operation • USA • Canada • Germany • India • Romania • China
Major Shareholders • Primecap Management (6.53%) • Jennison Associates (5.59%) • Vanguard/Primecap Fund (4.58%) • FMR LLC (3.52%) • Vanguard Group (3.50%) • BlackRock Institutional Trust (3.30%)
No. of employees: 8,660
Key Management • Dr. John Warnock, Co-
Founder & Co-Chairman • Dr. Charles Geschke, Co-
Founder & Co-Chairman • Shantanu Narayen, CEO &
President • Mark Garrett, CFO & EVP • Kevin Lynch, CTO
Updated: June 2010
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• IBM • Matsushita • Qualcomm • Motorola • Samsung • Sony Ericsson
ARM Category: Other
Headquarters: Cambridge, UK
URL address: www.arm.com
Company Background • ARM Holdings is the leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP)
supplier. Their IP is the dominant design in mobile phone chips. • The company was a JV between Apple, Acorn Computers and VLSI
Technology and founded in 1990. • Their business model is the designing and licensing of IP, and they do
not manufacturer or sell any semiconductor chips. Companies pay ARM to license their IP and a royalty on every chip or wafer produced.
• Over 15 billion ARM based chips have been shipped to date, and 600 processor licenses sold to more than 200 companies.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Sharp • TI • Cirrus Logic • Alcatel • Microsoft • HP
Financial Information • Market Cap: $6.45 billion • Enterprise Value: unknown • 2009 Revenues: $466 million • 2009 Net Income: $61.8 million • 2009 Profit Margin: unknown • P/E Ratio: 47.97 • Ticker Symbol: ARMH
Countries of Operation • UK • Germany • France • Sweden • USA • China • South Korea • Japan
Major Shareholders • Janus Capital (13%) • Threadneedle Asset Management (4.9%) • Thornberg Investment (4.9%) • INVESCO Asset Management (4.8%) • Wellington Management (4.8%)
No. of employees: 1,700
Key Management • Warren East, CEO • Tudor Brown, Co-Founder &
President • Graham Budd, COO • John Cornish, EVP & GM of
System Design Division
Updated: June 2010
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Clearwire Category: Other
Headquarters: Kirkland, Washington
URL address: www.clearwire.com
Company Background • Clearwire Corporation builds and operates mobile broadband networks,
and offers a robust suite of high-speed Internet services to consumers and businesses.
• Utilizing WiMAX technology, Clearwire provides 4G service in two markets and provides pre-WiMAX services (2.5-2.6 GHz in the U.S. / 3.5 GHz in Europe) in 50 markets across the U.S. and Europe. Their 4G service is called CLEAR.
• Their 4G mobile broadband service is available today in 32 markets and covers 41 million people. By the end of 2010, it is expected to be available for 120 million in the U.S.
• The company was founded by cellular phone pioneer Craig McCaw in 2003.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Sprint • Google • Intel • Comcast • Time Warner Cable
Financial Information • Market Cap: $1.32 billion • Enterprise Value: $1.04 billion • 2009 Revenues: $274 million • 2009 Net Income: ($326 million) • 2009 Profit Margin: (109.29%) • P/E Ratio: N/A • Ticker Symbol: CLWR
Countries of Operation • USA • Ireland • Belgium • Spain • Denmark • Mexico
Major Shareholders • Sprint (56%) • Intel Capital, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright
House Networks (27%) • Intel (18.15%) • FMR LLC (13.74%) • Goldman Sachs (4.63%) • Fidelity Growth Company (3.84%) • Goldman Sachs Mid-Cap Value Fund (2.90%)
No. of employees: 2,865
Key Management • Bill Morrow, CEO • Laurent J. Bentitou, Chief
People Officer • Hope F. Cochran, SVP of
Finance & Treasurer • Teresa Elder, President of
Strategic Partnerships & Wholesale
Updated: June 2010
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Electronic Arts Category: Other
Headquarters: Redwood City, CA
URL address: www.ea.com
Company Background • Electronic Arts Inc. develops, markets, publishes, and distributes video
game software and content. The company’s games include a range of categories, including action-adventure, casual, sports, family, fantasy, racing, music, massively-multiplayer online role-playing, simulation, and strategy. (Yahoo! Finance)
• Its portfolio of properties includes various brands, such as Need for Speed, The Sims, Spore, Dead Space, Mass Effect, and Battlefield; and EA SPORTS Active, Dragon Age, Origins, and Dante’s Inferno. The company’s portfolio of games based on licensed intellectual property includes sports-based titles, such as Madden NFL Football, FIFA Soccer, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour. (Yahoo! Finance)
• In November 2009, EA acquired social game developer, Playfish, for $400 million.
Alliances/Subsidiaries • Bioware • Criterion Games • Bright Light Studios
Financial Information • Market Cap: $5.14 billion • Enterprise Value: $3.14 billion • 2010 Revenues: $3.65 billion • 2010 Net Income: ($677 million) • 2010 Profit Margin: (18.53%) • P/E Ratio: 35.43 • Ticker Symbol: ERTS
Countries of Operation • USA • UK • Canada • India • China • South Korea • Spain • Brazil
Major Shareholders • Price (T.Rowe) Associates (8.52%) • Dodge & Cox (7.80%) • Primecap Management (7.53%) • Fisher Investments (4.20%) • Manning & Napier Advisors (3.56%)
No. of employees: 7,800
Key Management • John Riccitiello, CEO • Eric F. Brown, CFO & EVP • John Schappert, COO • Frank D. Gibeau, President of
EA Games Label • Peter R. Moore, President of
EA Sports Label
Updated: June 2010
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Qualcomm Category: Other
Headquarters: San Diego, CA
URL address: www.qualcomm.com
Company Background • QUALCOMM engages in the development, design, manufacture, and
marketing of digital wireless telecommunications products and services. The company operates in four segments: Qualcomm Code Division Multiple Access Technologies (QCT), Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), Qualcomm Wireless and Internet (QWI), and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI). (Yahoo! Finance)
• The QCT segment develops and supplies code division multiple access (CDMA)-based integrated circuits and system software. The QTL segment grants licenses to use portions of its intellectual property portfolio, which includes cdmaOne, CDMA2000, WCDMA, CDMA TDD and others. The QWI segment comprises Qualcomm Internet Services that provides content enablement services for the wireless industry. The QSI segment makes strategic investments to promote the worldwide adoption of CDMA-based products and services. (Yahoo! Finance)
Alliances/Subsidiaries • ZTE • Oracle • Audiovox • Symbian • AT&T • Verizon
Financial Information • Market Cap: $64.2 billion • Enterprise Value: $53.2 billion • 2009 Revenues: $10.4 billion • 2009 Net Income: $1.59 billion • 2009 Profit Margin: 29.28% • P/E Ratio: 20.86 • Ticker Symbol: QCOM
Countries of Operation • USA • South Korea • China • Japan
Major Shareholders • Vanguard Group (3.60%) • State Street Corp (3.37%) • Price (T.Rowe) Associates (3.25%) • FMR LLC (3.05%)
No. of employees: 16,100
Key Management • Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, Chairman
& CEO • Steven R. Altman, President • Derek Aberle, EVP &
President of Qualcomm Tech Licensing
• Andrew Gilbert, EVP & President of QIS / Europe
Updated: June 2010