BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins' prediction this week that tablets would decline in popularity flies in the face of widespread industry forecasting for an explosion of tablet shipments through 2017. But his comments also provoked debate on ...
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Samsung Electronics said its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 helped it to defy a shrinking smartphone market in the first quarter, boosting its overall profits by 42% from a year ago. The company said Friday its net profit was a record $6.4 billion ...
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Japan’s exports of hot rolled (HR) steel flat products totaled 1.4 million tons in March, rising by 13.7% from a month ago and increasing by 11.8% year on year, according to data released by the Ministry of Finance. In the first ...
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Europe's gas demand in the first quarter of 2013 rose 2.2% from the previous year, according to Societe Generale estimates. An unusually cold March saw gas demand soar by 26.3% from 2012, pushing up the first quarter as a whole, the SG ...
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Turkey imported 14,258 tons of seamless steel pipes in February, falling by 4.9% from a month ago but jumping by 20.6% year on year, according to data of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). In February, the country's imports of ...
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Sales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys are continuing to soar. It's been named the number one new toy property in the UK in NPD's March retail sales data, in terms of value sales. Flair's action figures are also the third-placed ...
Coiledspring has grown its headcount after sales of its Schmidt puzzle range doubled. The firm started supplying the line to UK retail in 2011. The Ligretto and adult jigsaws got off to a strong start, as did the John Deere products, and ...
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The highest cellular chip growth rate last year was the multimode stand-alone (3G/LTE) baseband chip market at 892% for a total of $852 million, reports Forward Concepts. That represented 50 million modems and another 20 million 3G/LTE ...
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Specialty sleep sets soar when it comes to consumers' sleep satisfaction. Innerspring beds, not quite as much. In a nutshell, those are some of the key findings from a consumer survey that Furniture/Today undertook with its research ...
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Two leading City analysts are recommending investors sell shares in Booker – the UK's largest cash-and-carry wholesaler – as the firm posted another rise in sales. Booker is 'the highest rated UK food retailer by a country ...
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Microsoft has registered its first strong gains in share in the smartphone operating system market following the launch of Windows Phone 8, with the UK and Italy registering some of the biggest increases in market share. According to ...
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IBM's decision to base its cloud services on OpenStack may prove to be a key to establishing the fledgling open-source platform as the enterprise standard. The announcement earlier this month follows similar moves by rival enterprise IT ...
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China should take advantage of relatively low coal prices and import more to satisfy electricity demand in its most populous provinces, instead of relying on domestic coal, which is expensive to transport, according to a Chinese government ...
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Small tablet computers are marketplace hits, with economically-priced devices powered by Google's Android software taking share from Apple iPads, according to International Data Corporation. "One in every two tablets shipped this quarter ...
IBM's announcement this week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as the standard in enterprises. IBM along with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco, Red Hat and Rackspace, which helped ...
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