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Analyst: iPad Competition Will 'Gradually Eat Into Apple's Product Supremacy'
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 8:19am | 473ABG Sundal Collier analyst Per Lindberg is not convinced that the iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina Display will sustain their success. "I think there will be initial excitement, as always with Apple products," Lindberg told Benzinga. "But I think the competition will gradually eat into Apple's...
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Slideshow: Apple's 2014 Rumored Lineup
Sunday, December 8, 2013 - 9:07pm | 171The year may be over, but Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) biggest products could be around the corner. In 2014, Apple is rumored to release a wide variety of new devices, ranging from a larger iPad and larger iPhone to a revised version of Apple TV and a new kind of MacBook Air. Surely there will be...
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Apple Still Tops Smartphone Market While Samsung Makes Gains
Friday, December 6, 2013 - 11:51am | 547In 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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Market Wrap For December 3: Markets Finish In The Red For Third Straight Day
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 5:49pm | 1989Investors appeared to be nervous going in to yesterday's close, a sentiment which continued at today's open. With little encouraging data coming out of the holiday shopping figures, investors and traders nervously await Friday's Labor Department November jobgs report which could help determine...
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iPhone Pre-Orders May Finally, Quietly Begin Taking Hold with China Mobile
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 2:38pm | 288The catalyst that many Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bulls have been waiting for may have already begun. Fortune revealed a screenshot taken from a website of a China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) subsidiary. The image revealed an advertisement for pre-orders of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Apple has been working on...
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Wal-Mart's Best 2013 Black Friday Tech Deals
Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 12:50pm | 668Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is continuing the trend of timed Black Friday sales, with the first beginning on Thursday, November 28 at 6:00 p.m. The second "event" begins at 8:00 p.m., followed by another event at 8:00 a.m. the next morning (Friday, November 29). With three big sales, when should...
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Target's Best 2013 Black Friday Tech Deals
Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 12:50pm | 423Black Friday is right around the corner. Are you ready? This year, Target (NYSE: TGT) will be offering a plethora of notable electronics when it opens at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 28. Target's Black Friday Preview ad is highlighted by a $229 50-inch TV by Element, as well as the Beats...
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Amazon And Google's Best 2013 Black Friday Tech Deals
Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 12:50pm | 572No one dives deeper into Black Friday than Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). The online retail giant is currently hosting a massive Black Friday Deals Week, a period when the company promises to add new deals as frequently as every 10 minutes. There are so many ways to save that one consumer is unlikely to...
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Increased Production For iPhone 5S to Lead to Shortened Wait Time
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 2:46pm | 243Consumers will no longer have to wait two or three weeks for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to ship them a brand new iPhone 5S. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Apple has drastically improved its supply chain management system. It is now shipping the iPhone 5S within three to five business...
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Slideshow: iPhone 6 Price Hike, Huge PS4 Sales And More From The Third Week Of November
Saturday, November 23, 2013 - 2:00pm | 270Sony (NYSE: SNE) attempted to rule the headlines this weak, thanks entirely to its brand-new console: PlayStation 4. The Japanese tech giant revealed that it had sold one million PlayStation 4 units in just one day in North America -- a new record for the game industry. Sony also earned some...
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China Mobile's iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C Set For December 18?
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 12:21pm | 554China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) could receive Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) latest smartphones in less than a month. According to The Wall Street Journal, China Mobile will launch a new brand for its mobile services on December 18. The carrier did not say which brand would be offered, nor did it say anything...
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Apple Reduces iPhone 5C Orders By 50% From One Supplier
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 11:36am | 592Yet another sign that Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) plastic iPhone is not performing well at retail. According to DigiTimes, Pegatron (the chief manufacturer of the iPhone 5C) has had its orders reduced by more than 50 percent. This is especially significant because Pegatron has reportedly received 70...
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Is Apple's iPhone 5C The Biggest Flop Of The Year?
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 3:01pm | 486Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is unlikely to release specific sales figures for the iPhone 5C, but a new manufacturing report is very revealing. According to DigiTimes, Hon Hai Precision Industries (OTC: HNHPF) will stop producing the iPhone 5C at its Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, northern China. The...
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Report: Apple Finalizing Acquisition of PrimeSense
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 10:09am | 666A number of sources, according to AllThingsD, confirmed over the weekend that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is in the final stages of negotiations to buy Israeli startup, PrimeSense. PrimeSense is best known as the original supplier for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)’s gesture-based Kinect gaming device....
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iPhone 5S Sales To Rise, iPhone 5C Sales To Plummet
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 12:02pm | 496Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will continue to enjoy healthy iPhone 5S sales in the fourth quarter, but the iPhone 5C is expected to decline. According to market intelligence firm TrendForce, Apple will ship around 46 million smartphones in the December quarter. The iPhone 5S is projected to account for...