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Samsung Captures Virtually All the Profit in Android Market

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 11:35 am

To say that Samsung Electronics dominates the market for smartphones using the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an understatement. The Korean electronics giant reaps 95% of ...
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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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Corning Earnings a Pleasant Surprise

Posted: April 24, 2013 at 9:05 am

Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The specialty glass and technology products maker posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.30 on ...
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China Mobile Earnings: Good News or Bad for Apple?

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 11:40 am

The world’s largest mobile carrier, China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL), reported first-quarter earnings today, posting revenue growth of 5.7% and profit growth of just 0.3%. In its press release, the ...
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Who Wants a BlackBerry? Not Many of You

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 9:00 am

The penalty for being late -- really late -- to market is almost always more severe than a company wants to admit. Especially a company that had a firm grip ...
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The Most Popular Mobile Apps in the World

Posted: April 9, 2013 at 9:00 am

With more than a billion smartphones in use around the world, it is entertaining, if not instructive, to look at what those phones are used for. Would you be surprised ...
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Apple Crushing Samsung in U.S. Mobile Market

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 12:51 pm

For the three months ending in February 2013, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) widened its lead over Samsung Electronics as the top smartphone OEM in the U.S. by nearly 4%. Apple ...
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BlackBerry’s Surprise Profit Hides a Couple of Problems

Posted: March 28, 2013 at 8:35 am

Although earnings surprised on the plus side this morning, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) reported lower unit shipments than analysts were looking for, and its subscriber number also fell from last quarter. ...
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BlackBerry’s Big Day — Fireworks or Fizzle?

Posted: March 22, 2013 at 12:51 pm

Today marks the U.S. launch of the new BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen phone from the eponymous BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). The new phone goes on sale at AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) stores ...
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China’s Mobile Phone Market Bypasses Apple and Samsung

Posted: March 7, 2013 at 12:31 pm

By one analyst’s count, the Chinese will buy about 30% of all mobile phones shipped in 2013, or 240 million units of a total approaching 840 million worldwide shipments. While ...
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Oppenheimer’s List of Semiconductor Stocks to Buy (BRCM, SMTC, SWKS, MXIM, LLTC, AAPL, MSCC)

Posted: March 7, 2013 at 9:05 am

We have reported at great length how the world of semiconductors has changed drastically in the past five years. A business that was once dominated by personal computers, laptops and ...
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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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Smartphones to Top Mobile Device Sales in 2013; App Downloads to Top 7 Billion

Posted: March 4, 2013 at 2:22 pm

In 2013, for the first time, shipments of smartphones are forecast to top sales of feature phones. With shipments expected at 50.1% of all mobile phones shipped worldwide, smartphones are ...
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Chip and Infrastructure Winners Steal Thunder at 2013 Mobile World Congress (SNE, INTC, BRCM, AMD, MRVL, FBRC)

Posted: March 4, 2013 at 10:50 am

Typically the Mobile World Congress exposition focuses on the smartphone and handset part of the industry, and at this years recently completed show in Barcelona that was once again the ...
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iPhone 5 Is World’s Best-Selling Smartphone — for Now

Posted: February 20, 2013 at 11:40 am

During the fourth quarter of 2012, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shipped an estimated 27.4 million units of its iPhone 5 to world markets. The company also shipped 17.4 million units ...
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