Sprint Not Losing Nearly As Many Subscribers As It Used To

“I never said Sprint’s turnaround would be quick or easy.”

That’s what CEO Dan Hesse had to say about the company’s latest financials, which met expectations despite an unpleasant loss. Reporting first quarter earnings this morning, Sprint (S) said it lost 17 cents a share, in line with analysts’ forecasts. Revenue fell two percent to $8.09 billion from $8.21 billion, but was ahead of Wall Street expectations of $8.05 billion.

A decent showing, particularly since the company managed to temper the rather dramatic subscriber losses it’s been suffering lately. Sprint lost 578,000 postpaid subscribers, better than the 623,500 analysts had been expecting and a dramatic improvement over the 1.25 million it lost a year earlier. And the company added 348,000 prepaid subscribers and 155,000 wholesale subscribers. So Sprint’s net customer loss was 75,000, quite a bit less than the 182,000 it lost during the same period a year ago. Could have been better, though. As Hesse said during a call with analysts this morning, “AT&T and Verizon Wireless have many wireless numbers I wish I could report. They are still outperforming us.”

At $4.26, Sprint shares are trading up 4.16 percent this morning.

1980s Nostalgia + YouTube = Pixar’s Awesome “Toy Story 3″ Viral Ad

Good going, Pixar! I don’t really need extra prodding to pay attention to Toy Story 3 this summer. But now you’ve gone ahead and made sure I’m all in, with this excellent new ad campaign.

Yahoo News has the details, but the short version is that Disney’s (DIS) animation unit is introducing a new character for the franchise . And it’s doing so via a fake retro commercial it has seeded on Google’s YouTube (GOOG).

Another Tough Quarter for Nokia

Well, this certainly adds a bit of perspective to Nokia’s rebound story.

Reporting first-quarter earnings this morning, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones fell short of expectations for both sales and profit. Though sales rose for the first time since the second quarter of 2008, they did not meet consensus estimates. Where analysts were looking for 9.69 billion euros, Nokia (NOK) delivered just 9.52 billion. And at 14 cents a share, adjusted earnings missed a consensus forecast for earnings of 15 cents.

There was some good news amid the bad, though. Nokia sold 21.5 million smartphones during the quarter, up 57 percent. That’s quite an improvement over last quarter, though as growth rates go, it pales compared with the 131 percent jump in iPhone shipments Apple (AAPL) reported earlier this week.

In any event, Nokia’s struggle to return to its former glory in the highly competitive mobile market is far from over. Said CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo: “We continue to face tough competition with respect to the high end of our mobile device portfolio, as well as challenging market conditions on the infrastructure side.”

That’s not going to change any time soon, particularly in the smartphone market, where Nokia lags far behind its rivals. As Gartner (IT) analyst Carolina Milanesi notes, “Everyone else has caught up and Nokia has been left behind.”

And while the company is doing its damnedest to catch up, things just don’t seem to be working out. Indeed, this morning, Nokia said it is delaying the launch of its first Symbian 3 devices from the second till the third quarter.

“We will not ship these products before the quality meets the end user’s needs and demands,” Kallasvuo said during the company’s earnings call. “It’s a painful thing to delay something a bit. I am aware of that. But at the same time meeting the quality requirements is the right thing to do.”

Disappointing news given that these are the handsets intended as rivals to Apple’s iPhone and to some of HTC’s Android devices. Pushing their launch date out is going to put the company under enormous pressure toward the end of the year as we head into the winter holidays.

Said Milanesi: “Nokia catching up becomes less hopeful because of these delays. Competition will only get tougher in the second half with the run up to Christmas. We have to see what kind of rabbit they can pull out of the hat.”

Wall Street’s reaction to today’s news? A nasty beating. As of this writing, Nokia shares are trading down nearly 13 percent at $12.86.

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Google Buys Video Platform Episodic to Give YouTube a Boost

Yet another Google acquisition: The search giant has purchased Episodic, an online video platform that it will integrate with YouTube. No terms have been announced, but both companies have confirmed the deal.

Here’s Episodic’s self-description (you can go ahead and imagine how YouTube might use some or all of these capabilities): “The platform lets publishers and marketers host, stream, measure and monetize video content. Content creators, marketers and enterprise customers use Episodic to deliver video to the Web and mobile devices.”

It’s the second M&A deal Google (GOOG) has closed this year to beef up YouTube. In February, the company finally finished its acquisition of video compression outfit On2. Note: A clever reader points out that Google’s plans for On2 go beyond YouTube.