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Slideshow: Apple's Giant iPad, iOS Beat Android And More From The Final Week Of December
Saturday, December 28, 2013 - 3:56pm | 174Read More...It may be the end of the year, but that didn't stop Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) from ruling headlines with rumors, iOS success stories and a major China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) announcement. In addition to Apple, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) made headlines after announcing record sales during the holiday shopping...
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iOS Outpaces Android This Holiday Season
Friday, December 27, 2013 - 9:36am | 466Read More...Thank IBM for compiling a wealth of quality data over the holiday season. The company published a series of reports detailing consumer shopping habits over this year’s holiday season that started on Thanksgiving. The latest numbers prove what companies already know: You have to go where your...
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Google Play Japanese Revenue Now On Par With Apple's App Store
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 10:06am | 471Read More...Japanese revenue for Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) software store have caught up to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) online outlet. According to App Annie (via VentureBeat), Japanese consumers now spend more on apps than their American counterparts. Google Leads Japan But iOS App Revenue Dominates Globally The...
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Gene Munster: Siri and Google Now Each Get a C+
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 12:35pm | 589Read More...After asking Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Siri and Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google Now a series of 800 questions on a variety of topics, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster concluded both are ever so slightly above average, with each achieving an overall grade of C+. Asking questions both indoors and...
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Apple Still Tops Smartphone Market While Samsung Makes Gains
Friday, December 6, 2013 - 11:51am | 547Read More...In the latest quarterly comScore MobiLens survey, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), once again continued to dominate the smartphone market with 40.6 percent of all subscribers. This, however, represents just a 0.2 percent gain since July. Samsung (OTC: SSNLF), a distant number two, with 25.4 percent...
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Latest IBM Data Good For Apple, Bad for Social Media
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 10:04am | 529Read More...IBM (NYSE: IBM) released some Black Friday data that looks positive for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), but other data from the report are less than encouraging for social media advertisers. First the good news. According to IBM, the amount of ordering that took place on mobile devices on Black Friday...
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Slideshow: Apple Shunned Black Thursday, Microsoft Sells 1M Xboxes And More From The Last Week Of November
Sunday, December 1, 2013 - 1:55pm | 207Read More...In what could be the year's slowest week in technology news, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) made waves after it announced that it sold more than one million Xbox One units. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) scored a few headlines after it was revealed that the company's CEO fought against any plans to open its...
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HBO Go Finally Comes To Chromecast
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 1:51pm | 533Read More...The world's most popular pay-TV service has finally brought its streaming video app to Chromecast. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the app's inclusion on its official Chrome blog, reminding Game of Thrones fans everywhere that "Winter is Coming!" Similar to Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), HBO Go offers a...
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Five Star Stock Watch: Apple, Inc.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 10:17am | 673Read More...The company: Apple, Inc. Ticker Symbol: (NASDAQ: AAPL) Sector: Consumer Goods Industry: Electronic Equipment Apple Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries design, manufacture, and market mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players...
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Fetchnotes' Overhaul Is About "Helping People Take Action"
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 3:35pm | 979Read More...In developing and evolving Fetchnotes, a note-taking app for Android and iOS, the team began to realize that it was time for a change. "We attracted over 80,000 people, but we noticed two things," Alex Schiff, Fetchnotes' co-founder and CEO, told Benzinga. "One was that it was really hard to get...
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Google Is Now Tracking and Reporting Your Buying Habits
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 11:52am | 589Read More...Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to know where you are and what you are doing – specifically, what you are buying – at all times. According to Digiday, the company is beta testing a program that registers your visits to bricks-and-mortar stores via your smartphone, provided certain conditions are...
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Why Apple Rules The Business Mobile Market
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 8:45am | 630Read More...When you own business adoption in tablets, apps, and mobile devices, you must be doing something right. According to Good Technology, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the clear winner in Q2 and Q3 over Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows, when it comes to enterprise...
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Nokia to Offer Free Year of Netflix with Smartphone Purchase in the UK
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 10:59am | 569Read More...Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has put together one whopper of a holiday season deal designed to move as many of its new Lumia 1020 Windows phones as possible. It’s offering a full year of Netflix free through some vendors in the UK according to the Financial Times. Nokia, which is in the process of...
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Blackberry Asks Customers To Not Give Up (BBRY)
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 7:15am | 490Read More...If your stock is down 87 percent since 2009, you announce that you’re cutting expenses by 50 percent, laying off 4,500 employees, and are committed to being bought out, how do you retain (or regain) customer confidence? You write a letter to them asking them not to give up. In response to all...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Says Android Security Beats iOS (GOOG)
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 12:45pm | 529Read More...At the Gartner (NYSE: IT) ITxpo Symposium Monday, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt said Android was a more secure OS than that of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. The resulting laughter was palpable. Schmidt apparently was serious. This despite the fact that 79 percent of...
















