Ingrid Lunden
Feb 2, 2012 6:30 AM
It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position in mobile sales. After all, Apple was only making smartphones and Nokia was still leading in that still-niche category, as well as mobiles overall.…
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Laura Hazard Owen
Dec 15, 2011 8:57 AM
Let’s find out! Research firm IDC released its Q3 2011 report on media tablet shipments today. You’ll recall that the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet were not released until Q4 2011, making the firm’s report today somewhat less juicy but containing some interesting tidbits nonetheless. The company estimates that Android…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 27, 2011 7:43 AM
Here’s one of those instances that makes you wonder about where investment analysts get their information, and what their agendas might be behind it all. A report yesterday by the investment bank JPMorgan Chase claimed iPad shipments were being cut by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) by 25 percent, which caused the…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 8, 2011 8:44 AM
Looks like another tipping point in mobile progress was reached in Q2 this year: IDC says that shipments of smartphones outstripped those of feature phones for the first time in Western Europe. But that’s not the whole story…
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Ingrid Lunden
May 6, 2011 5:21 AM
Another milestone passed in the mobile industry: Nokia (NYSE: NOK), the reigning leader in mobile handsets, has now lost the number-one position in its most important market, Western Europe. According to figures from IDC, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is now the region’s top smartphone maker; and Samsung is the region’s biggest…
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Robert Andrews
May 4, 2010 3:38 AM
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said back in January it wanted to sell Interactive Data Corporation, its financial market data analytics provider. And now it is - for a pretty sum. Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus funds are teaming for a $33.86-a-share acquisition totalling $3.4 billion. If that’s an eyebrow-raiser, well Pearson…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 25, 2009 11:18 AM
Yesterday the news came out that Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), as part of its continued string of divestitures, had sold off its Online Financial Solutions business to Interactive Data Corp. The OFS assets were formerly part of MarketWatch Licensing Services, before DJ bought MarketWatch in 2005. Most of the parts…
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David Kaplan
Feb 11, 2008 4:09 PM
Online ad spending in Q4 grew nearly 28 percent over the same period the year before, coming in $7.3 billion, said analyst firm IDC. For the full year 2007, online ad revenue gained 27 percent with $25.5 billion compared to 2006. While the research offers more proof that the days…
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