Is Apple Finally Headed for the Chinese Market?
China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) has finally jumped on the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone bandwagon, signing a deal allowing it to sell the iPhone. Apple’s potential consumer pool has been enlarged a significant...
View ArticleRumor: Apple May Partner With Taiwan Semiconductor
The latest generation of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) chips may come from a new supplier and feature a radically different manufacturing process, Apple Insider reports. The publication says, per a rumor, that...
View ArticleApple Gains Holiday Smartphone Market Share Weight
Newly released data from online ad network firm Chitika showed that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) emerged as the biggest overall winner in the North American smartphone and tablet markets after the holiday...
View ArticleHere’s How China Mobile’s Competitors Are Responding to the Apple Deal
Source: Gonzalo Baeza H / Flickr At the end of 2013, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) finally announced a partnership that has been brewing for six years, giving Apple access to sell...
View ArticleApple: New Phone Gains Smaller Than iPhone 5 Surge
According to November data from the internet analytics company comScore (NASDAQ:SCOR), Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone is gaining share again in the U.S. after experiencing a lull in September and...
View ArticleWho Is Scaring Bank of America’s CEO?
Bank of America’s (NYSE:BAC) fourth-quarter results had a clear message: It still pays to be in banking. In the fourth quarter, not only did net income jump 369 percent to $3.4 billion, but the bank...
View ArticleThe Auto Industry’s 5 Largest U.S. Market Share Shifts In 2013
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlygauthier/ The strength of the U.S. auto market is often used as a barometer for the economy at large. When sales are bad, as they were in the wake of the...
View ArticleCaterpillar: Tackling the Competition and Beating Expectations
The theme of Caterpillar’s (NYSE:CAT) fourth-quarter is one of recovery and of growing strength. Chair Chief Executive Officer Doug Oberhelman told shareholders in the quarterly earnings press release...
View ArticleHere’s Another Way Amazon Refuses to Be Undersold
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aurelijus/ Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will not be undersold. That’s the beauty of this company and how it has taken market share from competitors from everything from...
View ArticleAnalyst: New Mini Sales May Start Slow, But Watch out iPad Air
Whenever Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) releases a product refresh, analysts scramble to determine how the new device will impact the company’s revenue mix and the degree to which the new device will cannibalize...
View ArticleIs Apple Finally Headed for the Chinese Market?
China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) has finally jumped on the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone bandwagon, signing a deal allowing it to sell the iPhone. Apple’s potential consumer pool has been enlarged a significant...
View ArticlePandora Investors Worry About Future After Earnings
“2013 marked notable growth from user metrics to financial achievements,” Pandora (NYSE:P) CEO Brian McAndrews said in the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year earnings press release. “We remain...
View ArticleAnalyst: Here’s Apple’s ‘Next Big Thing’
Smartphone growth is slowing, and that is a problem for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). In the company’s first fiscal quarter, iPhone sales hit a record: The 51 million phones sold during the period were the...
View ArticleA Fracturing Industry Is Forcing Merck to Make Touch Choices
Merck (NYSE:MRK), the second-largest drugmaker in the United States after Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), is looking to narrow its focus and gain scale in the increasingly fragmented consumer and healthcare...
View ArticleHere’s How China Mobile’s Competitors Are Responding to the Apple Deal
Source: Gonzalo Baeza H / Flickr At the end of 2013, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) finally announced a partnership that has been brewing for six years, giving Apple access to sell...
View ArticleApple: New Phone Gains Smaller Than iPhone 5 Surge
According to November data from the internet analytics company comScore (NASDAQ:SCOR), Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone is gaining share again in the U.S. after experiencing a lull in September and...
View ArticleWhich Drugmaker Will Snap Up Merck’s Consumer Health Unit?
Source: Thinkstock Merck (NYSE:MRK), the second largest drugmaker in the United States after Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), is looking to narrow its focus and gain scale in the increasingly fragmented consumer...
View ArticleFacebook Reigns as King of Social e-Commerce — for Now
Source: Shopify Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) drives the most purchases of any social network, according to a recent infographic from Shopify, which analyzed data related to social e-commerce from 10...
View ArticleSamsung Tablets Are Growing in Web Usage and Market Share
Source: Getty Images The world’s top smartphone manufacturer is also gaining serious traction in the Android (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) tablet market, especially in the United States and Canada,...
View ArticleApple vs. Google: More Android Users, But More iOS Use
Source: Thinkstock Do you use your iPhone more than your friend uses his Samsung (SSNLF.PK) Galaxy? If you’re talking about how much you browse the Web on your smartphone, it turns out that you...
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