Intel's sales and profits have slumped as the world's biggest computer chip manufacturer feels the impact of a decline in PC sales. The company's fourth quarter report shows year-on-year net income fell 27 per cent to $2.5bn, ...
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How Dell will fare in private hands – if a buyout is indeed imminent – depends entirely on how the company’s management will react to the declining revenues from its PC business, and how it will develop other areas of its ...
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Not immune to sluggish sales, Apple sold about the same number of Macs in 2012's fourth quarter as it did during the year-earlier period, research firm IDC has estimated. IDC projected Mac sales in the U.S. last quarter at 2.03 million, ...
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The continuing decline in PC sales worldwide potends a "structural shift" in the market for personal computing devices, says Gartner. Gartner Monday reported that fourth quarter shipments of personal computers were nearly 5% less than in ...
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Dell, the world's third-biggest PC vendor, is in talks that could see it taken over by private equity, according to reports. However, discussions with TPG Capital and Silver Lake are currently at a preliminary stage and financing has ...
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PC shipments fell 4.9% in Q4 despite the launch of Windows 8, reports Gartner. Laptops fell 11% and desktops declined 6%. PC shipments totalled 90.3m in Q4. EMEA sales fell 9.6% to 28m units. Asia-Pac sales fell 1.8% to 30m units. US ...
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The market for personal computing devices is enduring a “structural shift”, which can be seen in the continuing decline of PC sales, Gartner reported on Monday. The research firm said that fourth quarter shipments of personal ...
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Growth trends of the (source: Industry Data, Steme Agee Estimates) According to foreign media reports, the investment firm Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu published an Investment Report on Monday, pointing out that the strong demand for ...
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The US market research firm NPD DisplaySearch (NPD) announced the tablet PC market forecast on January 7, local time. The report expected that in 2013 global supply of tablet PCs will reach 240 million units, while the notebook is 207 ...
Shortages of touch-enabled Windows notebooks led to a steeper-than-expected decline in PC sales last quarter, an analyst said. According to IDC, global PC shipments in 2012's fourth quarter fell 6.4% compared to the same period in 2011, a ...
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Despite a major push by rival Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard has held onto its position as the top seller of PCs worldwide, according to IDC. The researcher Thursday reported that HP maintained its worldwide PC lead in the fourth quarter despite ...
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Analyst firm says vendors missed the potential excitement of touch Analyst firm Gartner says that the launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system had little effect on PC shipments in the fourth quarter. The firm's analysts said that, ...
Defending Windows 8 against reports that sales have been sluggish, one of Microsoft's top executives said it will take time for customers to digest the new operating system and for device makers to ramp up production of the hardware users ...
Intel expects to see more innovation in PC design in the next year than there has been since the mid-1990s. That's the take of Navin Shenoy, Intel vice president and general manager, who is focused on thin and lightweight ultrabooks and ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system failed to provide a spark to PC sales during last year's fourth quarter, with worldwide unit shipments falling by 6.4% compared to the same quarter in 2011, according to research by ...
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