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Top Trending Tickers On StockTwits For January 30
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 10:40am | 867Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com Facebook: Shares hit new all time high in pre-market Last night, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) released its fourth quarter results which include a four cent EPS beat and revenue coming in $250 million above the consensus estimate. Going in...
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Why Did The Motorola Mobility News From Google Cause Lenovo Shares To Drop?
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 9:07am | 704Shares of Lenovo Group (OTC: LNVGY) fell more than eight percent after Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it was selling its Motorola Mobility unit to the company for $2.91 billion. According to Google’s press release, the deal includes a payment to Google of $1.41 million in cash and...
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Lenovo Buys IBM x86 Server Business For $2.3 Billion
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 12:35pm | 459In a much-anticipated announcement, Lenovo Group, the world’s largest PC maker, will purchase IBM's (NYSE: IBM) low-end x86 server business for $2.3 billion in cash and stock—the largest tech acquisition by a Chinese company. The deal is mostly cash--$2.07 billion with the remaining balance in...
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The PC Is Nowhere To Be Found At CES This Year
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 11:46am | 593Each year, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas attracts all of the techiest of the techies as well as media covering the newest product innovations both from a technology and a business angle. As reports emerge from the show, there seems to be something missing this year: The PC—...
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Dell Rumored To Lay Off Up To 9,000 Employees Worldwide
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 11:35am | 600If you work in sales and marketing for Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, look at the employee to your left and to your right. One of you is about to be laid off. At least that’s what sources told the U.K.’s The Register. According to the sources, Dell planned to cut 30...
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Lenovo's Next Goal: Conquer The Mobile Space
Friday, December 27, 2013 - 12:55pm | 474Chinese based Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) is sending a clear message to Apple and Samsung: Move over, we want to be the world's number one smartphone maker! “I'll be very clear: Our aspiration is someday to be No. 1 in the mobile space,” said J.D. Howard, a Lenovo vice president in charge of global...
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Apple Still Has China Mobile Problems To Solve
Tuesday, December 24, 2013 - 9:49am | 571Don’t look for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) six percent share of the Chinese smartphone market to ramp up anytime soon. Despite the landmark deal with China Mobile (NYSE: CHL), Apple still has a distinct disadvantage in the world’s largest smartphone market. And that disadvantage, according to...
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Global Tablet Shipments to Near 300 Million in 2014
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 3:31pm | 346According to DigiTimes Research, global tablet shipments are expected to rise 23.6 percent in 2014 to total 289 million units. The large growth rate pales in comparison to smartphone growth, however, as the tablet market has already entered the maturity stage (when sales peak as the product reaches...
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iPad Consumer Market Share Drops To Historical New Low
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 10:23am | 488Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) share of the tablet market continues to plummet despite a slight increase in iPad sales. During the fiscal 2013 fourth quarter (ended September 28, 2013), Apple sold 14.1 million iPads -- a slight increase over the 14 million units it sold during the year-ago period. This...
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Rumors Circulate as Lenovo Signs NDA to See Blackberry's Financials
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 9:32am | 237Rumors continue to circulate around the Canadian smartphone company Blackberry (NASDAQ: BBRY). Today, Lenovo Group Limited is rumored to be actively considering a bid for the Blackberry entity. Although Lenovo has not made a formal announcement regarding a nondisclosure agreement and spokesmen...
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Conflicting PC Numbers Still Show a Market in Decline
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 7:58am | 512The latest PC numbers are out but they’re about as clear as mud. Two separate reports show different results but the one fact they do agree on is that the market is still in decline. First, IDC reported worldwide PC shipments of 81.6 million units—better than expected, according to the report....
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Hewlett-Packard Estimates Fewer Notebook Shipments In 2014 (HPQ)
Monday, September 9, 2013 - 1:42pm | 553Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may greatly reduce the number of notebooks it ships next year. According to DigiTimes, the company is internally forecasting that it will ship 21 million notebooks in 2014. This is significantly lower than the 32 million notebooks it shipped in 2012. In 2015, Hewlett-...
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Barron's Recap: Watch Out Apple, Here Comes Lenovo
Saturday, September 7, 2013 - 3:21pm | 895This weekend in Barron's online: how Lenovo is putting the moves on Apple and Samsung, as well as the prospects for Microsoft, Bob Evans Farms and Chinese and Korean stocks. Cover Story "Lenovo on the Attack" by Leslie P. Norton. Lenovo has come out of nowhere to become the global leader in...
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BlackBerry Wants A Buyer In Time For Thanksgiving (BBRY)
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 9:44am | 516Turkey, stuffing and new game consoles are not the only things that are expected to be sold during the holiday shopping season. If BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) has its way, the Canadian smartphone maker will find a buyer -- and wrap up its auction process -- by November. According to The Wall Street...
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SLIDESHOW: Lenovo Rumored To Buy BlackBerry, Apple Files Revolutionary Patent And More From The Last Week Of August
Saturday, August 31, 2013 - 3:33pm | 216Another week, another batch of headlines that are nearly dominated by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). From patent filings and trade-in deals to Apple TV and Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) sales troubles that were caused by the iPad Mini, Apple stole the spotlight nearly every day this week. The exception is...