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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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Computing Going Mobile; Microsoft Going Nowhere

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 8:30 am

The worldwide market for combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones is expected to total 2.4 billion units in 2013, rising to nearly 3 billion units by 2017. It ...
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Tablets Now Comprise One-Third of All PC Shipments

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 1:14 pm

The cannibalization of the PC market caused by the overwhelming popularity of tablet devices might be even greater than you think. According to the latest data from analyst firm Canalys, ...
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Which Company Consumes the Most Computer Chips?

Posted: January 23, 2013 at 12:23 pm

Even though demand for semiconductors fell in $297.6 billion in 2012, that still represents a lot of chips. The drop in demand is almost entirely due to higher consumer demand ...
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Gartner: Big Data to Be Big Job Creator

Posted: October 22, 2012 at 1:41 pm

At a conference today in Florida, Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) forecast that information technology (IT) spending in 2012 would rise 3.8% in 2013, from $3.6 trillion to $3.7 trillion. But ...
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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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Apple Kills Quarter of iPad 2 Orders (IT, AAPL, JPM, AMZN, RIM, HPQ, DELL, GOOG, HNHPF, SSNLF)

Posted: September 26, 2011 at 9:05 am

Just last week we noted a new study from the Gartner Group Inc. (NYSE: IT) that the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) looked set to dominate the tablet market ...
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Apple Will Continue to Rule Tablet Market (AAPL, IT, RIMM, HPQ, DELL, NOK, SSNLF, MSFT, GOOG, AMZN)

Posted: September 22, 2011 at 10:40 am

Just in case anyone believed that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was being seriously threatened by competitors to its iPad tablet, that belief can probably be put to rest for a ...
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Media Digest (9/8/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, Bloomberg

Posted: September 8, 2011 at 6:21 am

Facebook’s first half revenue doubles from a year ago. (Reuters) Fitch warns about downgrades of China and Japan. (Reuters) Department of Defense officials warn of cuts in the sum the ...
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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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More Fears Confirmed, Tablets Bite Into PC Sales (IT, AAPL, GOOG, HPQ, DELL)

Posted: November 29, 2010 at 11:35 am

Following on its observations that tablet devices and smartphones would hurt PC sales, Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) has lowered its forecast for worldwide PC sales for this year. The IT ...
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Endless Dollars For Share Buyback Plans (GPS, HPQ, MRVL, INTU, JWN, RSH, RL, DTV, DISCA, AMTD, IT)

Posted: September 1, 2010 at 9:05 am

Buybacks may not be considered the best return of capital by many investors and market pundits, but they are M&A-alternatives for management of companies.  The amount of share buybacks announced ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (CIEN, AINV, IT, AKNS, NLST)

Posted: December 10, 2009 at 8:48 am

This morning's top day day trader alerts are out and we have links on each story over to VSInvestor.com with more detailed analysis and data on each: Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ARIA, ADSK, BJ, CX, ENOC, GLNG, IT, N, PSA, WMT)

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 8:00 am

These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street firms we have seen early this Monday morning: Ariad Pharma (NASDAQ: ARIA) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. Autodesk ...
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