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Fitbit Is The Top Wearables Vendor And Is Outpacing Competitors
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 4:12pm | 469Earlier this week, market research firm IDC published a report on the worldwide wearable device market, which saw fourth-quarter shipments rise to 27.4 million units, up 126.9 percent year-over-year, and full year shipment surge to 78.1 million units, up 171.6 percent in relation to 2014. While it...
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Apple Has Almost 15% Of The Wearables Market, Behind Fitbit
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 10:50am | 295According to IDC, the worldwide wearable market surged 126.9 percent in the fourth quarter and 171.6 percent throughout the full year 2015 as manufactures sold a total of 27.4 million units in the fourth quarter and 78.1 million units in the full year. Sitting in first place with a 29.5 percent...
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Xiaomi Could Consider A Consumer Drone, Report Says
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 12:46pm | 243China-based Xiaomi is expected to release a consumer drone with a 350 mm rotor-to-rotor distance, according to Marbridge Consulting. The report noted that Xiaomi could announced its drone at the same time the company reveals its Mi 5 smartphone. The drone is expected to be an entry-level aerial...
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Do Apple And Xiaomi's Numbers Bode Poorly For China's Smartphone Market?
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 4:10pm | 699Several important players in the Chinese smartphone space showed concerning numbers this week, an indication to some investors that demand in the Chinese smartphone market might be lagging. One of the largest Chinese smartphone manufacturers, Xiaomi, missed a $1 billion target for internet...
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Qualcomm Is Surging Following Xiaomi Partnership
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 11:12am | 371Shares of QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) surged higher by more than 7 percent Wednesday morning. Qualcomm announced an agreement to license its patents to Xiaomi. As part of the agreement, Qualcomm will allow Xiaomi to use its patents in new 3G and 4G devices. Shares of Qualcomm spiked...
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5 Semiconductor Stocks To Love (And 6 To Worry About)
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 11:08am | 702Michael McConnell, Pacific Crest's semiconductor analyst, visited Asia to observe first-hand the state of the semiconductor market. McConnell noted he left "incrementally more positive" on fundamentals at five companies, and "incrementally more cautious" at an...
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China's Weakness Isn't All Bad
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 7:41am | 398Ever since the People's Bank of China devalued the yuan and the nation's markets subsequently tumbled, investors have been looking at weakness in one of the worlds largest economies as a negative. While slow growth in China is likely to drag on the global economy as a whole and hurt...
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GoPro Crushed After Barron's Warns That 'Danger Lurks'
Monday, September 21, 2015 - 3:38pm | 373Shares of GoPro Inc (NASDAQ: GPRO) were down more than 8.5 percent on Monday. The decline appears to have been triggered by a Barron's article over the weekend. The article compares GoPro to BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY), and said the stock could fall almost 30 percent from...
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Global Smartphone Units Up 13.5% During Q2, But Android And China Saw Declines
Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 3:38pm | 608In a press release issued Thursday, Gartner Inc (NYSE: IT) analysts Janessa Rivera and Rob van der Meulen assured that, in the second quarter of 2015, worldwide smartphone sales grew at the slowest rate since 2013. Global sales to end-users reached almost 330 million units, up 13.5 percent year-...
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Top Smartphone Vendors In Q2; Samsung Falls, Apple Rises In A Record Quarter
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - 1:52pm | 721A few weeks ago, IDC released the preliminary results of its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker®, which provides valuable data on “the total mobile phone and smartphone markets for handset vendors, software developers, service providers, component suppliers, and investors....
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The World's Most Valuable Startups
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 3:07pm | 372As most investors know, startups are relatively new businesses, usually on the search for a scalable model. Most commonly, these companies have less than 50 employees, and are valued at less than $1 billion. However, a few of them are worth considerably more. The Wall Street Journal lists...
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iPhone Momentum, China On Apple Analysts' Minds Heading Into Tuesday's Report
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 2:20pm | 931Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is scheduled to report its third quarter results after Tuesday's market close. Estimize, the crowd-sourced earnings and economic rating platform is expecting the company to earn $1.86 per share in the quarter on revenue of $49.346 billion. This compares to the Wall Street...
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Weekly Tech Highlights: Tesla's Big Results, Apple's Next Service And More
Saturday, July 4, 2015 - 9:50am | 778June came to a close with better-than-expected results from Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), as well as a new streaming music service and additional financing for a rising security startup. Tesla Delivered More Cars Than Expected Tesla closed up 4.04% on Thursday after the company announced that it...
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Cantor's Brian White Says China Is 'Still Where The Money Is' For Apple
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 11:45am | 250Selling smartphones in China is "still where the money is" for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), an analyst said Tuesday. Cantor Fitzgerald's Brian J. White sees a revenue opportunity for Apple over the next five years in China of between $133 billion and $178 billion as mobile...
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Report Claims Snapdeal Could Get Backing From Alibaba, Foxconn
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 5:29pm | 440Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) and FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY (OTC: FXCOF) are mulling a big investment in the India-based startup e-commerce platform Snapdeal.com, according to a report Tuesday. The Report's Claims Citing a source familiar with the deal, the Wall Street Journal said the potential...