All the stories tagged with: market share
Apple now the world’s 3rd largest mobile phone manufacturer
02/02/2012, According to results from IDC’s latest report – Apple has now surged forward to claim the spot of the world’s 3rd largest mobile phone manufacturer. The Cupertino company increased its market share by 128.4% when compared to its Q4 results [...]
One in every two smartphones sold in the world run Android
11/15/2011, It took awhile, but Google’s domination of the mobile platform has finally occurred. According to the latest findings by Gartner, Android now has 52.5% market share worldwide – up from 43.4% last quarter and double the 25.3% from one year [...]
Internet Explorer global browser share dips below 50% mark
11/02/2011, Microsoft executives would definitely sit up and take notice that their Internet Explorer global browser share has just dropped below the 50% mark sometime during the month of October – something that had never happened before in over a decade. [...]
Android top smartphone purchases in Asia
10/21/2011, The Apple iPhone 4S might be doing gangbusters in terms of sales, but that does not mean North America is the center of the universe. There is this thing known as the rest of the world, and in Asia, Android-powered [...]
Yahoo benefits from Google losses in July US search market share
08/10/2011, Google, currently the 800lbs Internet search gorilla, did not have a good July, having lost part of its market share among other US online searches, whereas rival Yahoo! Inc. made gains – according to researcher ComScore Inc. Fret not if [...]
Android owns over 40% of US smartphone share
08/04/2011, Despite all the ongoing patent infringement litigations and lawsuits that are being served to Android OEMs recently, it looks like nothing can halt the sales of devices running the operating system. comScore has reported that Android is now on 40.1% [...]
Android has 39% smartphone market share in US, Apple comes in second
07/28/2011, Android has already captured 39% of the US market share where smartphones are concerned as of June 2011, but bear in mind this is a collective effort on the part of numerous smartphone manufacturers such as HTC, Motorola, and Samsung [...]
RIM cutting 2,000 jobs to cope with losses
07/25/2011, Things aren’t looking too good for Research In Motion (better known as RIM) as the company has announced that it plans to cut 2,000 jobs – almost a tenth of its workforce in order to cope with its current losses [...]
More Windows tablets sold than PlayBooks in Q2 2011
07/21/2011, It has been reported by Strategy Analytics that in Q2 2011, Microsoft has seen more tablets shipped with its operating systems than RIM did with its own tablet. Now this wouldn’t have been surprising if it was comparing Apple’s iPad [...]
WebKit browsers catching up to Firefox (updated)
06/03/2011, While Firefox is having trouble surpassing Internet Explorer’s market share in the browser wars, it looks like it has another competitor right at its heels – browsers that run the WebKit web page renderer, in the form of Google [...]
Nokia’s market share: at its lowest point since 1997
05/20/2011, Things don’t look too good for the Finnish giant. After spending countless years as the company to beat, Nokia seems to have rolled back in time 14 years – with its global market share reduced to 25%, almost the same [...]
Apple closing in on Nokia’s as top smartphone maker
05/06/2011, Despite all the hate (and love) for the iPhone, you gotta admit one thing – it sells. And it sells very well. According to a recent report released by the IDC, it looks like Apple is closing the gap between [...]
Windows 7 finally overtakes Windows XP’s desktop OS market share
04/08/2011, According to the latest results of the desktop OS market share in the US for April 2011 collected by StatCounter, it looks like people are finally leaving Windows XP behind and getting an upgrade to Windows 7. For the first [...]
