Worldwide tablet shipments grew to 47.6 million units in the third quarter of 2013, according to preliminary data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. While slightly below the firm's forecast, the number still represents 7% ...
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The market share of Apple's iPad fell dramatically in China during the second quarter as a result of competition from Android tablets made by little-known "white box" vendors. The iPad has historically dominated China's tablet market, ...
Microsoft will start selling its struggling Surface devices to business customers abroad via channel partners on Thursday. The move builds on a similar effort Microsoft launched in July to tap distributors and resellers to push Surface ...
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Microsoft's Surface tablet has earned the company less in revenue than it paid to write down unsold stocks of the device. The company said in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the Surface had earned ...
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Microsoft is launching a channel partner program on Monday to help drive sales of its Surface tablet to companies, schools and other organizations. The program is operational now in the U.S. with a small set of partners and will be ...
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IDC said on Friday that Microsoft shipped an estimated 900,000 Surface RT tablets last quarter, barely missing the top five device makers, and illustrating that demand was “muted at best”. “There is no question that ...
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Sharp has drastically cut-back production of 9.7-inch touchscreens for Apple's iPad, shifting its focus to the 7.85-inch screens that it makes for the iPad Mini at its Kameyama plant in Japan. The news caps a slowdown that began in ...
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Apple sold 27 million iPhones and 14 million iPads in the last quarter of 2012, swelling its revenue by 27 percent, but its profits fell short of what analysts had been expecting. Apple's net profit for the quarter, ended Sept. 29, was ...
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IDG News Service-Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly doubled in the third quarter,after Apple settled in July a lengthy dispute over the iPad trademark name that once threatened to ban the device from store shelves in the country. ...
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