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Intuitive Surgical Has Announced an Acceleration of Its $1 Billion Share Buyback Program
May 5, 2014Robotic-assisted surgery device maker Intuitive Surgical has announced an acceleration of its $1 billion share buyback program from Goldman, Sachs & Co. in an effort to prop up its dwindling stock price. The embattled Sunnyvale, ...
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Apple CEO Spent More Than an Hour Answering Questions at The Allthingsd Conference
Jun 3, 2013Apple CEO Tim Cook spent more than an hour answering questions at the AllThingsD conference yesterday, but said little that was newsworthy. Which everyone should have expected, argued Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner who covers ...
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Dell Has Once Again Thrown Windows 8 Under The Bus
Jun 3, 2013Dell has once again thrown Windows 8 under the bus, saying the unpopular operating system contributed to a decline in its PC-related revenue during the quarter that ended May 3. "Windows 8 has been... not necessarily the catalyst to drive ...
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Dell Last Week Again Blamed Windows 8 for Contributing to a Decline in PC Sales Revenue
May 22, 2013Dell last week again blamed Windows 8 for contributing to a decline in PC sales revenue during the quarter that ended May 3. "Windows 8 has been, from our standpoint, not necessarily the catalyst to drive accelerated growth that we had ...
Tags: PC, Computer Products, Dell
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Apple Sold Approximately 38 Million iPhones in The First Quarter
Apr 22, 2013Apple sold approximately 38 million iPhones in the first quarter, an 8% increase over what it sold in the same quarter a year ago, an analyst said today. Brian Marshall of the ISI Group said today he was sticking with his estimate of 38 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, apple
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Samsung's New Galaxy S4 Would Be The "Ultimate Smartphone"
Mar 20, 2013Samsung's new Galaxy S4 would be the "ultimate smartphone" if it ran Apple's iOS and accessed the Cupertino, Calif. company's app ecosystem, a clearly-impressed analyst said today. Others were less likely to think that Samsung's ...
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Microsoft's $2 Billion Loan to DELL
Feb 18, 2013Microsoft's $2 billion loan to Dell, the world's third-largest seller of personal computers, was a signal that the personal computer, Microsoft's Windows, or both, are at growing risk of irrelevance, analysts said Tuesday. The loan was ...
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Apple Sold 3 Million iPad Tablets During The Opening Three-Day Weekend
Jan 4, 2013Computerworld-Apple today said it sold 3 million iPad tablets during the opening three-day weekend of sales of the Mini,the same number it boasted it had dealt out in March for the then-new full-sized iPad. "We set a new launch weekend ...
Tags: iPad Mini, iPad Sales
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Apple Had Sold More Than 5 Million iPhone 5 Smartphones
Jan 4, 2013Computerworld - Apple today said it had sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 smartphones during the opening three-day weekend of sales, a 25% increase over last year's launch of the iPhone 4S. "Demand for iPhone 5 has been incredible and ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone 5, smartphones, Marshall
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Apple Kick-Started Pre-Orders of The iPad Mini
Dec 26, 2012Apple kick-started pre-orders of the iPad Mini early today, and within hours, sold out the white model in all three Wi-Fi configurations. Pre-sales for the iPad Mini -- at 7.9-in., Apple's first downsized tablet -- started just after ...
Tags: Apple, iPad Mini, white model, WiFi configurations
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Apple Today Revised The Backorder Status of The iPhone 5
Nov 12, 2012Apple today revised the backorder status of the iPhone 5,saying that new orders would ship in"2-3 weeks,"a week less than the earlier"3-4 weeks"that had plagued the smartphone for almost two months. Apple started taking pre-orders for the ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone 5, smartphone
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The Forecast for The Holidays Also Looks Less Profitable
Oct 26, 2012Computerworld-Apple on Thursday announced record revenue on the back of booming iPhone sales,but iPad sales came up short of Wall Street's expectations. The forecast for the holidays also looks less profitable,the company ...
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Those Layoffs Happening at Juniper Might Be to Dress The Company up for a Sale
Oct 17, 2012Those layoffs happening at Juniper might be to dress the company up for a sale. That's some of the speculation swirling inside the company,fueled by reports that Juniper's hired an investment banker to manage bids from potential ...
Tags: layoff, EMC, ISI Group, Juniper, joint venture, Kevin Johnson
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Apple Will Apparently Call Its New Smartphone The"iPhone 5"
Sep 12, 2012Apple will apparently call its new smartphone the"iPhone 5,"validating pundits'expectations,according to the company's website. A search on apple.com using the string"iPhone-5"revealed several documents that named the new handset.One of ...
Tags: Apple, iphone 5, new smartphone
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Amazon's New Tablet Lineup Pose Little Threat to Apple's Tablet Dominance
Sep 7, 2012Amazon's new tablet lineup, ranging from a $159 repriced Kindle Fire to the all-new $499 Kindle Fire 8.9-in. HD 4G, pose little threat to Apple's tablet dominance, several analysts said. On Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled several ...