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BlackBerry Struggles Continue

Posted: April 1, 2013 at 11:40 am

The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel does not tell us a lot that we didn’t already know. The most popular smartphone platform in the United States for the three months ...
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BlackBerry CEO Derides Apple — Australian Financial Review

Posted: March 18, 2013 at 10:55 am

In an exclusive interview with The Australian Financial Review, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) CEO Thorsten Heins took a swipe at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and the venerable iOS operating system. Heins ...
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Windows Phone Now Number 3 Smartphone Platform

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 12:41 pm

In a battle that has really just been joined for the third best-selling smartphone platform, Windows Phone from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has wrestled away third place from the precursor ...
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Mobile Device Activations Skyrocket on Christmas Day

Posted: December 27, 2012 at 1:19 pm

Worldwide, some 17.4 million mobile devices were activated on Christmas Day this year according to research firm Flurry. That’s more than four times the 4 million average number of ...
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Google Apps Catching Up with Apple (GOOG, AAPL, WMT, XOM, MSFT)

Posted: September 26, 2012 at 9:12 am

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) recently claimed to be activating 1.3 million Android-based smartphones every day. All those phones need apps from Google’s Play (apps) store, and the company announced on ...
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Google Nearly Doubles Android Activations Since December

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 2:49 pm

Speaking at an event to tout Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Motorola division, the company’s chairman -- Eric Schmidt -- said that Google is now activating 1.3 million Android-based devices every ...
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More Than All Smartphone Profits Go to Apple, Samsung (AAPL, RIMM, NOK, GOOG, MSFT)

Posted: August 7, 2012 at 10:51 am

In yet another sign that the smartphone market is a two-horse race, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Samsung Electronics together grabbed 108% of the industry’s profits in the second quarter ...
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Microsoft to Capture 4% of US Smartphone Sales in 2012

Posted: July 18, 2012 at 1:29 pm

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Windows Phone operating systems from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) will capture 4% of the US smartphone market in 2012. While still trailing ...
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Android to Top Mobile Operating Systems, But Windows Will Outpace iOS by 2016 (GOOG, AAPL, MSFT, NOK, RIMM)

Posted: June 6, 2012 at 2:48 pm

Growth in mobile phone shipments this year is expected to be about 4%, the lowest growth rate since 2009. That’s according to the latest global mobile phone tracking data from ...
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Android Dominates Chinese Mobile Platform Market (GOOG, AAPL, NOK, MSFT, RIMM)

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 9:06 am

The Android smartphone operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) grabbed nearly 70% of sales in China during the fourth quarter of 2011 according to a new report from Chinese ...
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Apple Captures 80% of Mobile Phone Company Profits (AAPL, SSNLF, RIMM, NOK, MMI, GOOG, MSFT)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 11:50 am

Investment firm Canaccord Genuity said today in its daily newsletter that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) garners about 80% of the operating profit among all handset makers. Of $14.4 billion in ...
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Research in (Slow) Motion (RIMM, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: September 15, 2011 at 4:58 pm

Mobile phone maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) reported second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings after the market closed today. The company posted revenue of $4.2 billion and adjusted EPS ...
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iPhone — Cool, But Outta School? (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, HP, MSFT, T)

Posted: September 14, 2011 at 9:09 am

Smartphone adoption in the US market has reached 35% of US adult mobile phone users, and 42% of all mobile phone owners. In Europe's five leading markets (France, Germany, Italy, ...
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Google, Apple Gain Shares of SmartPhone Market (GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, MSFT, NOK, SCOR, MMI, SSNLF)

Posted: August 4, 2011 at 4:01 pm

The Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is the leading platform smartphone platform in among 78.5 million US smartphone owners. The iOS operating system that powers the iPhone ...
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Apple Working on Cheaper iPhone (AAPL, NOK, MSFT, GOOG)

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Leave it to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to grab a headline on the same day that Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) reveals a tie-up with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). Bloomberg cites ...
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