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Study: PCs No Longer A Preferred Gift Item, As 2016 Shipments Decline For 5th Year In A Row
Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 9:33am | 361The downturn in PC market continued in 2016 as shipments declined for the fifth year in a row, according to estimates from research firm Gartner. Gartner said 2016 worldwide PC shipments fell 6.2 percent to 269.7 million units. PC shipments have declined annually since 2012. For the fourth quarter...
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PC Market Isn't Out Of The Woods; Apple's Sour Statistics
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 10:24am | 547PC shipments have been on the wane for the eighth consecutive quarter, marking the longest duration of decline in the history of the PC industry. A release on market research firm Gartner's quarterly PC tracker survey showed that third quarter PC shipments fell 5.7 percent year-over-year, a faster...
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Another Lackluster Quarter For PC Sales, Says Gartner
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 12:18pm | 363According 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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Why The PC Market Is Doing Poorly
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - 3:47pm | 585There 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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Analysts: Tablet Displacement Of PCs Slowing
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 1:47pm | 378The 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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PC Crash Halts; Shipments Stabilize In Q2 According To Gartner, IDC
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 10:23am | 234Demand for personal computers in the second quarter reached its healthiest level since 2012 when the market was disrupted by surging tablet sales and a decline in mini-notebooks, according to two research reports. International Data Corp said Thursday that worldwide PC shipments fell 1.7...
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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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Don't Write Off The PC Just Yet
Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 1:26pm | 622“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” American humorist Mark Twain supposedly said this (or something close to it) after reading newspaper articles about his pending demise. There are those who feel the same way about personal computers. Forbes recently reported that, despite...