Laptop Units Up But Dell Slips (DELL)
Barron’s was good enough to point to a new survey from DisplaySearch. It covers laptop sales for Q2. Notebook sales rose 40% in Q2 this year compared to the same quarter in 2007, up…
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Newest first · Page 123Price Cut Spikes Up Apple iPhone Sales?
Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, who makes a living walking through AT&T (T) stores counting Apple (AAPL) iPhone sales says that the recent $200 price cut has increased unit sales by 300% from 9,000 a…
Apple iPhone Knock-Offs Become Big Business
The Chinese seems to be quite good at copying Western products, and, as it turns out, the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is no exception. Bloomberg found that some of the counterfeit handsets had been made…
Apple Sells One Million iPhones
Apple (AAPL) announced this AM that it has sold one million iPhones in the first 74 days since the product hit the market. The company says it will sell 10 million by the end…
Motorola: An Empty Promise Of A Turnaround
Ed Zander, Motorola’s (MOT) CEO, promised that things would be better for the company’s shareholders. Soon. Handsets sales at the firm have fallen off a cliff. Once the clear No.2 behind Nokia (NOK), MOT…
Apple: Jobs Retreats
Even Steve Job makes mistakes. Dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 made so many current customers angry that AAPL is offering rebates to anyone who bought the handset before the cut. For…
HP Wants Part Of Cellphone Business
It is not enough that Apple (AAPL) is getting more aggressive with prices on its iPhone to take market share from the likes of Nokia (NOK) and Motorola (MOT). Now, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) want a…
Motorola Dreams On
Wall St. has to love Motorola (MOT) no matter how low its stock goes. The company’s CFO told an analyst gathering how much he liked the Apple (AAPL) iPhone touch-screen. That is the one…
Apple iPhone Price Drop: A Sign Of Weakness
Apple (AAPL) bulls like the folks at Piper Jaffray can say whatever they want. The AAPL plan to drop the price on the iPhone by $200 to $399 is a stunning sign of weakness.…
What We Expect From Apple Today (AAPL, MSFT, CREAF)
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is trading up marginally ahead of the technology analyst and press conference in San Francisco, but the stock is currently back within about $4.50 of its all-time highs. What is being…
Apple iPhone Sales Surge
Apple’s (AAPL) was the top selling smartphone in the US during July, according to iSuppli. The handset was also 1.8% of all cell phone unit sales for the month. According to Reuters: "The two…
The Next Big Question For Dell: Share Buybacks, How Big? (DELL)
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) had seen shares off roughly 1% after the earnings report yesterday on a day where the broader markets are up, although shares are barely lower at the end of the day. …
Why Wall St. Doesn’t Like Dell’s Numbers–Laptops
Dell (DELL) is not up this morning. Most investors thought it would be. The company reported preliminary results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2008, with revenue of $14.8 billion, operating income of…
Apple (AAPL) Getting Into Ringtone Business
According to The New York Post, Apple (AAPL) intends to enter the ringtone business, which has been highly lucrative for cell carriers in Europe and Asia. It is talking to several music publishers about…
NBC Joins Universal Leaving iTunes
NBC has told Apple (AAPL) that it will not renew its long-term deal with the iTunes store. The GE (GE) unit is "the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple’s online store, accounting…