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Microsoft Announces Sale Of Feature Phone Business To A Foxconn Subsidiary
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 8:22am | 164Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced on Wednesday it has reached an agreement to sell its entry-level feature phone assets to FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group and HMD Global, Oy for $350 million. Microsoft also noted that the deal includes the sale of its Microsoft...
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FBR Increasingly Positive On Microsoft Following Windows 10 Adoption Data
Monday, January 4, 2016 - 3:43pm | 346Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced on Monday morning, ahead of tech event CES 2016, that 200 million devices have adopted and are now running on Windows 10 – its latest OS, launched last July. After the upbeat announcement, FBR & Co. analyst Daniel H. Ives decided to...
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A Big Apple Opening: Microsoft Store Opens On Fifth Avenue
Monday, October 26, 2015 - 9:32am | 389Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)'s new flagship retail store in New York City will open for the first time this week. Microsoft's five-story store on Fifth Avenue will rival Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) flagship store that is just a few blocks away. Microsoft's store will...
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Piper Jaffray Names Microsoft As Top Pick For 2015
Tuesday, December 30, 2014 - 11:45am | 92Katherine Egbert named Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) as a top pick for 2015, despite a strong run-up in shares throughout 2014. According to Egbert, Microsoft's business and consumer PC shipments declines will stabilize to a low-single digit in the coming year. Microsoft will also...
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Top Trending Tickers On StockTwits For January 23
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 12:15pm | 787Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com Netflix: Earnings season champion After Wednesday's closing bell, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) reported its fourth quarter earnings in which both EPS and revenue topped consensus estimates. Investors were jittery going in to the company'...
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Sony Rumored To Raise Smartphone Shipments By 55% In 2014
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 4:31pm | 400Sony Mobile (NYSE: SNE) may never compete on the level of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) or Samsung, but the company is expected to grow significantly in 2014. According to DigiTimes, Sony will ship 65 million smartphones during the fiscal 2014 (April 2014 through March 2015) period. Sony is projected to...
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SLIDESHOW: Microsoft Buys Nokia Handsets, Apple's Two iPhone Events And More From The First Week Of September
Sunday, September 8, 2013 - 7:22pm | 204It was a week filled with anticipation, surprises -- and most of all a massive acquisition. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) purchased Nokia's (NYSE: NOK), while rumors insisted that BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) wished it had been acquired as well. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) confirmed the existence of not one but...
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Google's Massive Android Growth Reduced Apple's iOS Market Share In Q2 2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 11:01am | 482At this time last year, investors were still riding high on the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) money train. As the company that could do no wrong, Apple enjoyed privileges that few others could ever hope to achieve. That changed last fall when iPhone and iPad sales hype became so great that not even Apple...
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Hewlett-Packard To Launch iPhone Competitor In 2013 (HPQ)
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 10:28am | 481Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is getting ready to launch its first iPhone competitor since 2011. According to DigiTimes, the company is working with Taiwan-based supply chain makers to create a new smartphone. Hewlett-Packard hopes to release the device before the end of 2013. If the company...
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Apple, BlackBerry and Nokia Reluctant to Release Larger Phones (AAPL, BBRY, NOK)
Monday, July 29, 2013 - 12:57pm | 498Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been rumored to release a five-inch iPhone for most of the year, but the company has yet to confirm any such details. While Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gradually increasing the size of its displays, its newest phone is limited to 4.5 inches. Its largest phone, the Lumia 625, has...
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Nokia Lumia Sales Rise 27% as Company Preps New Phablet
Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 12:35pm | 438Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has announced that it sold 5.6 million Lumia devices in the first quarter, representing a 27 percent increase over the previous quarter. While these sales are still significantly lower than Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Samsung's various Galaxy handsets, Nokia has shown...
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Nokia Cuts 300 Jobs, Sends Hundreds More to India
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 1:20pm | 405Most companies celebrate success by launching new products and/or hiring additional employees. They pay down debt, pay out dividends or reinvest their funds to produce even better products in the future. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has decided to take a different approach to success. The company expects to...
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Nokia Sales Fall 19% but Promises Big Things for 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 12:29pm | 401Handset manufacturer Nokia (NYSE: NOK) revealed Thursday that sales fell 19 percent in the second quarter. According to Fox Business, Nokia reported a loss of 38 cents per share against a loss of 12 cents per share in the year-ago period. CEO Stephen Elop said this week that Nokia has shipped...
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Siri and Nokia File for Divorce
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 12:51pm | 239Last week, the two lovebirds were saying "I do." Today, they're in court, divvying up assets while crying their eyes out. Some would say it was a Hollywood romance. But despite an unprecedented amount of affection for Nokia's (NYSE: NOK) Lumia 900, it turns out that Siri -- the iPhone 4S exclusive...