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Market Cap:$74.4B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$11.1B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
Qualcomm leads the information revolution. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in San Diego, CA, Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services. The company builds on its CDMA platform, with circuits, software, multimedia, GPS, and other technology. It provides two-way data messaging and position reporting services for transportation companies, private fleets, construction equipment fleets, and other enterprise companies. It markets in North America, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The company has 2005 revenue of about $5.7 billion and employs about 9,300 people. In JAnuary 2006,the company was named one of FORTUNE magazine's '100 Best Companies to Work for in America,' for the eighth consecutive year.
Number of Employees 15,400
Contact Information
5775 Morehouse Dr
San Diego, California 92121-1714
(858) 587-1121
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing: 334220
Recent Events
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Insider Pushes Ma Bell Beyond Phones
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Re: FLO TV expansion starting in big markets, expanding outward
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Reclaim Your File Cabinets With Document Management
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Sulpizio Named Qualcomm Unit President
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Upgrades & Downgrades: Airlines Take Flight
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Investigation into Qualcomm Ceases
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Qualcomm's New Gobi2000 Technology to Deliver 3G Connectivity in Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops
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Qualcomm's New Gobi2000 Technology to Deliver 3G Connectivity in Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops
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UPDATE: MediaTek, Qualcomm Reach Agreement On Chip Patents
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Apple uses Infineon 3G chips to dodge Qualcomm royalties
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FLO TV Reviewed
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Panasonic Introduces Incentive Programs for Its Toughbook H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant
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UPDATE: Qualcomm To Launch TD-SCDMA Wireless Chip Next Year
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Cell-laptop hybrid looks good for Lenovo [The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.]
News & Analysis
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IP services firm Arteris raises USD9.7m
Strategy Eye
- 2009-12-06
Arteris has raised USD9.7m from investors Qualcomm, ARM, Synopsys, DoCoMo Capital, Crescendo Ventures, TVM Capital and Ventech. The company says it will use the new capital in part to drive sales on a global scale. Arteris manufactures tools and provides IP services that enable chip design, focusing on network-on-chip...
Amkor Technology Q2 2009 Earnings Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-07-29
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Operator Instructions. And our first question comes from the line of Peter Kim of Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead. Peter Kim - Deutsche Bank Equity Research Hi. Thanks for taking my question. First,...
Qualcomm Smartbooks More Like Smartphones: CEO
BNET
- 2009-07-29
Qualcomm has identified at least one significant difference between its proposed smartbook and the netbooks offered or announced by the likes of HP, Acer, Gateway and others. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs told Kara Swisher during the Fortune Brainstorm conference that the company's smartbooks will resemble smartphones more than PCs, especially...
QUALCOMM Inc. F3Q09 (Qtr End 06/28/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-07-22
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. One moment please for the first question. Maynard Um from UBS. Please go ahead with your question. Maynard Um - UBS Thanks. Just a question on your guidance, your handset guidance assumes a ramp in the back half of the year. Now, would have assumed...
Google gains tech allies for Chrome OS
Strategy Eye
- 2009-07-08
A number of high-profile technology firms are working with Google to develop its recently announced Chrome operating system, which the search giant says will be free. In an official blog post, Google reveals that a number of large companies are...
Qualcomm Gets Smart About Netbooks
BNET
- 2009-06-01
Qualcomm's answer to Intel's Atom processor is called Snapdragon, but there's a lot more to this rivalry than catchy names. As Google's introduction of Wave, and Apple's iPod Touch and iPhone have made clear, the time is ripe for an explosion of low-cost, light-weight devices running cloud-based rather than locally-installed...
Qualcomm Busting Mobile Apps Free
BNET
- 2009-05-19
Qualcomm's new Plaza Retail, a supermarket for mobile applications, gets the handset technology vendor into the mobile application space, and is potentially a boon for consumers and the application developers themselves. Currently, mobile applications have to be tailored for each individual app store, which means an app...
Qualcomm and Broadcom Settle Patent Dispute
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-04-27
Joel West submits: On Sunday, Qualcomm QCOM and Broadcom BRCM announced settlement of their patent disputes in identical press releases from San Diego and Irvine. So far this morning, Qualcomm stock is up 6% and Broadcom stock is up 0.8%. As with Qualcomm’s settlement last summer with Nokia,...
Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia On Collision Course
BNET
- 2009-03-04
Competition is far from over in the chip sector, as illustrated by the recent flurry of moves by semiconductor manufacturers. Intel's decision to outsource some chip manufacturing to Chinese foundry TSMC may seem curious given the current economic downturn, but TSMC fabs are set up to produce...
Nokia and Qualcomm team-up to crack US
Strategy Eye
- 2009-02-18
Nokia is planning to use chips made by its former rival Qualcomm in its new 3G handsets in an attempt to increase its presence in the US. The handsets will run the Finnish company’s Symbian operating system. The partnership will...
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