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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 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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Apple, Google Still Top Smartphone Market

Posted: March 6, 2013 at 2:08 pm

In a refrain we’ve all heard more than once already, research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) reported today that the U.S. market share leader among smartphone manufacturers is Apple Inc. ...
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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Cooled in 2012

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 7:00 am

The growth of mobile phone sales, so hot for so long, has cooled. Research firm Gartner reports that sales of these devices fell 1.7% to 1.75 billion in 2012. Maybe ...
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Apple, Google Claim 92% of Global Smartphone Shipments in 2012

Posted: January 28, 2013 at 7:29 am

The two leaders in smartphone shipments, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), widened their lead over competitors in 2012, according to data released today by research firm ...
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Apple Reclaims Top Spot in Smartphone Sales — Kantar

Posted: November 27, 2012 at 9:41 am

The iOS operating system from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has reclaimed the lead in the U.S. smartphone sales race, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel. In the 12 ...
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Nokia Market Share Death in Smartphones

Posted: October 26, 2012 at 9:29 am

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) better have a hit with its upcoming Windows-based Lumia phones if it wants to remain relevant. If Lumia flops, then Nokia is going to live up to the charge ...
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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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Sony Ericsson, The Forgotten Smartphone Firm, Makes A Profit

Posted: April 19, 2011 at 6:04 am

Almost no one mentions also- ran handset company Sony Ericsson anymore. The firm lost money and market share over the last two years. That trend may be in reverse now. ...
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Nokia’s Future And Microsoft’s Money

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 4:49 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) won a huge victory today. Struggling handset company Nokia (NYSE: NOK), which is still the global leader in its industry, will use Redmond's mobile OS in its ...
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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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Ten Companies Running Out Of American Customers

Posted: February 1, 2011 at 5:58 am

Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a ...
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Apple Loses Market Share in Tablets, Nokia in Smartphones (AAPL, GOOG, NOK, SSNLF, MMI, RIMM)

Posted: January 31, 2011 at 11:41 am

The iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) lost nearly 20% of its 96% share of the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2010 to tablets using the Android operating ...
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