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Another Lackluster Quarter For PC Sales, Says Gartner
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 12:18pm | 363Read More...According to a report by Gartner, worldwide PC shipments fell 9.6 percent during the first quarter of 2016. Gartner elaborated that total worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter came in at 64.8 million units, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of PC shipment declines. PC shipments dropped...
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Advanced Micro Devices' EPS Preview: What Will Drive Profitability?
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 2:14pm | 440Read More...Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) Q4 2015 results will be released after the market closes on Tuesday. The semiconductor company is expecting its Q4 revenue to decline 10 percent, with a non-GAAP gross margin to be nearly 30 percent. Northland Capital Markets continues coverage on the...
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Gartner: PC Shipments Fell By 8.3% In Q4, Fifth Consecutive Quarterly Decline
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 9:54am | 284Read More...Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, reported on Tuesday that worldwide PC shipments declined 8.3 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2015. According to Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 75.7 million units in the quarter,...
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5 Tech Trends To Watch In 2016
Friday, December 4, 2015 - 4:45pm | 1700Read More...Tech is an ever-changing landscape that has provided investors and venture capitalists with an unending supply of "next big things." Over the past decade, Internet use has completely upended the way most companies do business and built an entirely new industry based on connecting people with each...
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Why The PC Market Is Doing Poorly
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - 3:47pm | 585Read More...There is no denying the fact that PC sales have been on the decline for quite some time due to the rising popularity of tablets and smartphones. According to Gartner’s latest estimates, worldwide PC shipments fell 9.5 percent in the second quarter of 2015. In fact, this was the steepest...
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Deutsche Bank's Takeaways From Gartner Security Event
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 12:06pm | 486Read More...In a report issued Tuesday, Deutsche Bank analysts Karl Keirstead and Imtiaz Koujalgi provided some takeaways from the Gartner Security Event. Bullish Feedback Not one of the sources to which the experts spoke (customers, vendors and Gartner analysts) flagged plans of a slowdown in enterprise...
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Gartner: Apple Now No. 1 In China, Samsung Losing Global Share
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 10:41am | 487Read More...Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is now China's largest smartphone vendor, according to Gartner. Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, stated earlier this week that iPhone sales surged 72.5 percent during the first quarter of 2015 in China. As such, Apple is the...
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Amazon 'Overwhelming Leader' In Cloud Infrastructure
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 12:39pm | 388Read More...Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s cloud infrastructure services is doing more than 10 times the capacity volume of 14 other providers covered in an annual survey. Infrastructure, along with software as a service and platform as a service, is generally placed among the three broad...
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Poll: 6% Of U.S. Adults Plan To Purchase Apple Watch
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 3:07pm | 359Read More...A poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos around mid-March, soon after Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) launched its Apple Watch, showed that 69 percent of Americans were not interested in buying the gadget. A new survey revealed that roughly 6 percent of U.S. adults plan to purchase the smartwatch. Results...
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Apple Knocks Samsung From Top Spot In Phone Sales
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 12:14pm | 310Read More...Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) gained the No. 1 world market share slot for smartphones for the first time during the fourth quarter, a research group said Tuesday. IPhones claimed a 20.4 percent market share in the recent period, up from 17.8 percent a year earlier and edging out Samsung...
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Analysts: Tablet Displacement Of PCs Slowing
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 1:47pm | 378Read More...The U.S. market for personal computers in 2015 will be flat to slightly positive, according to a couple of recent market research reports. The worldwide displacement of PCs by tablets peaked in 2013 and the first half of 2014, according to Gartner. Now that tablets have mostly penetrated key...
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Wells Fargo: Hewlett-Packard Largest PC Market Share Gainer
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 11:38am | 188Read More...Maynard Um of Wells Fargo commented in a note on Monday that Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) has seen the largest share gain within the PC market. Um notes that on a year-over-year basis, IDC and Gartner reported a 2.4 percent decline and a 1.0 percent year-over-year increase on a...
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JP Morgan Discusses Gartner's PC Numbers, Impact On Apple
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 10:18am | 218Read More...JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall commented Tuesday on how Gartner’s preliminary PC numbers impact Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). “We believe that PC unit data is generally looking up for the first half of the year though ASP trends remain downward. Our main concern for the existing PC market...
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Gartner: No Return For Tablet Sales Boom In 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 5:13pm | 248Read More...Halcyon days for tablet sales won't return any time soon, according to a report Monday from Gartner Inc., which forecast unit sales growth of 8 percent in the current year. "The collapse of the tablet market in 2014 was alarming," said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner,...
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Gartner: 3D Printer Shipments To Reach 217,000 By 2015
Monday, October 27, 2014 - 9:39am | 193Read More...According to report issued Monday by Gartner, "Worldwide shipments of 3D printers (3DPs) will reach 217,350 units in 2015, up from 108,151 in 2014." The report forecasted that "3D printer shipments will more than double every year between 2015 and 2018, by which time worldwide...
