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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) expects to sell a large number of low-cost tablets this fall. According to DigiTimes, Amazon has asked Taiwan-based ODMs (original design manufacturers) to ship more than two million units of its slightly revised Kindle Fire HD. Retailing for $139 (for the 8GB model) and $...

Hewlett-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-...

Despite in-line earnings, shares of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) dove eight percent after the company released the results of its third quarter Wednesday. EPS came in at $0.86 with revenue at $27.2 billion. These are year-over-year declines of 14 and seven percent, despite a thirty percent boost...

Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) is making headlines this morning after reiterating its mission to acquire major businesses within the smartphone and PC sectors. In January, a Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming revealed that the company was looking at "all opportunities" -- including BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), which was...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was expected ship as many as eight million units of the second-generation Nexus 7 in 2013. A new report by DigiTimes indicated that may not be the case. According to the Taiwan-based supply chain publication, global shipments are estimated to come in at 3.5 million units --...

Less than two years ago, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) attempted to challenge Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) empire with an expensive, high-end tablet and an exclusive OS. Investors had high hopes for the tablet -- known as the HP TouchPad -- but the underwhelming pre-order figures were very telling. When...