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Tag: market share
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Did Windows 10 Fail After All?
Yes, this is indeed the question I just won’t let go. When Windows 8 was unveiled in 2011, Microsoft promised it would converge every screen that could possibly support it under a single, cohesive usage model, moving the disparate device platforms closer together toward one way of working.
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Latest Mobile Sales Figures See Microsoft Overtake BlackBerry For No. 3
While at the top both Apple and Samsung continue to see flattening, but dominant, sales and market share, the battle for No. 3 is heating up with Microsoft accelerating and the sad sight of BlackBerry perhaps heading into a terminal tailspin.
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Samsung Dominates In Smartphones but Market Share is Falling
Samsung's market share is pretty much out of reach now, with its huge device range, but Apple's profits remain untouchable, even as the little guys start to crank up the sales.
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BlackBerry Sours as Rising Shipments Fail to Turn A Profit
In its third-place battle with Microsoft for smartphones, the comeback BlackBerry kid continues to make gentle headway, having shipped nearly seven million smartphones, but can't maintain a profit as it gives a gloomy outlook to investors.
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Forrester Wave Highlights Marketing Mix Modeling Vendors
Marketing mix modeling, which uses data analysis to measure and optimize the right mix of marketing tactics, is being propelled by the growth in channels, devices and analytics. A new report from Forrester Research evaluates some of the leading vendors. The report, The Forrester Wave: Marketing Mix Modeling, Q2 2013, is the latest in a series
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Google I/O To Kick Off With Massive Android Smartphone Dominance
With the unveiling of the next Android OS 'Key Lime Pie' a possibility at its Google I/O event, starting tomorrow, it seems the existing flavors are doing pretty well. Analyst figures from Gartner show almost 75% of smartphones now run the OS, powered by growth in Asia.
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Samsung Stretches Smartphone Market Lead, Celebrates With Record Quarter
The latest IDC figures show the South Korean company moving further ahead of Apple, at the same time as Samsung reports another record quarter. The Samsung Way In their own ruthless ways, Samsung and Apple continue to carve up the smartphone and tablet markets between them.
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Android and Apple Do Battle In the Latest Smartphone Market Share Reports
Most open-minded smartphone users will give it a few quarters before deciding on their own choice of next device, as Microsoft and RIM feed back in to the competition and Lenovo looks to expand.
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4G and Apps Leading the Mobile Data Charge, as Voice Calls Drop Off
Data is going mobile and web services are increasingly being used on phones, if you're not responding to the rise in mobile, then expect your business to plummet. They are some of the findings of Chetan Sharma's State of the Global Mobile Report.
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Apple's Big Numbers as Everyone Expects a Monster Q1
Apple is expected to break all records in its latest quarter with massive sales of iPhones and iPads, and the promise of more hot releases in the year ahead. The numbers are in and, with hopes of a $40 billion quarter, Apple demolished expectations with $46 billion in revenue.
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Apple Closed the Android Gap With iPhone 4S
The numbers are in and the fall 2011 launch of Apple's 4S iPhone mid-life upgrade proved to be enough to propel the iOS platform to near parity with Android's dominant marketshare.
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Google Renews Firefox Partnership 3 More Years
Word came from Mozilla of a new revenue agreement between Google and Mozilla, makers of the Firefox Search engine. The announcement on the official Mozilla Blog called the deal a "new agreement for default search in Firefox," extending the search relationship with Google for three more years.
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Android Army Marches Past iPhone in European Sales
No big surprise given the disparity in models and pricing, but there are now more Android devices in Europe than Apple smartphones.
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Report in Depth: Most Popular Open Source CMS 2009
On Friday we announced the release of the second annual 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. The project was a collaboration with water & stone, an APAC-based interactive agency. The initial announcement addressed what the report covers, its purpose and some key highlights. For the sake of disclosure, while I did look over the preliminary survey and advise on some tweaks, I otherwise wasn't involved in this report and am looking at this data with fresh eyes and no particular bias from the side of CMSWire. Now let's take a
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