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iPhone Market Share Falls in Q1: Gartner

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 10:35 am

In the first quarter of 2013, worldwide mobile phone sales totaled nearly 426 million units, up about 0.7% compared with the first quarter of 2012. Smartphone sales comprised nearly half ...
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BlackBerry, Nokia Push New Mobile Phones

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 10:45 am

You can be forgiven if you forgot that BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) announced a new mobile phone dubbed the Q10 in its late January announcement that included the announcement of its ...
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Now What for RadioShack?

Posted: January 15, 2013 at 8:09 am

Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) this morning announced that it will end its relationship with Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) in mid-April. RadioShack operated Target Mobile kiosks in 1,500 Target ...
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Mobile Phone Sales Fall in Q1 — Gartner

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 8:07 am

High-tech industry research firm Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) reports this morning the worldwide sales of mobile phones unexpectedly fell -2% in the first quarter of 2012, to a total of ...
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Smartphones Now Total Half of US Mobile Phones (GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, NOK, MSFT)

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 12:53 pm

Research firm Nielsen reports that 49.7% of US mobile phone subscribers owned smartphones at the end of February. In February of 2011, that number was just 36%. The leading operating ...
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Deutsche Telekom CEO Thinks AT&T Deal is Safe (T, DTEGY, VZ, VOD, S, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: October 10, 2011 at 10:08 am

Even though AT&T's (NYSE: T) offer to pay $39 billion for the T-Mobile USA unit of Deutsche Telekom (OTC: DTEGY) is being contested in court by the US Department of ...
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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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Sprint Piles In (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: September 6, 2011 at 5:14 pm

Not even a week after the US Department of Justice filed a complaint to block the proposed $39 billion merger of AT&T  (NYSE: T) and the T-Mobile USA division of ...
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T-Mobile Merger Not Dead Yet (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 9:02 am

Yesterday's filing by the US Department of Justice in the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T (NYST: T) and T-Mobile may be, in the words of Winston Churchill, just "the ...
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Government To Kill AT&T Deal For T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Back?

Posted: August 31, 2011 at 11:14 am

It looks like Uncle Sam has taken a stand on the buyout by AT&T (NYSE: T) of T-Mobile, which is owned by Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY). The biggest winner ...
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Can Nokia Still Jump from its “Burning Platform”? (NOK, AAPL, GOOG, IT, RIMM)

Posted: February 9, 2011 at 10:05 am

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop is scheduled this Friday to announce a plan to turn the Finnish phone giant around. An internal memo from Elop has hit the ...
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