The World Is Overflowing With Memory Chips

The economy, the euro and Thailand have combined into a perfect storm that has caused memory chip inventories to pile up to extreme levels.
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Exclusive: Groupon Prices at $20 a Share; More Than 10x Oversubscribed, So It Adds 5M More Shares

Despite all the controversy and criticism, the daily deals site is not going out into the public markets at a discount.
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Apple Blows Through ‘Mother of All iPad Backlogs’

Apple finally catches up with demand for the iPad 2.
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LinkedIn Hikes IPO Price Range by 30 Percent

Professional networking site LinkedIn Corp. raised its price range for its initial public offering this week by 30 percent, a strong indication that demand is running high for the new stock.

IPad 2 Sellout Sequel: This Time It's Global

Here’s some news sure to furrow the brows of tablet market hopefuls. Once exclusive to the States, iPad 2 stock-outs are now a worldwide phenomenon. Just two days after going on sale overseas, the successor to Apple’s original iPad is in tight supply in many of the countries where it’s just arrived at market and nowhere to be found in some of them.

Use a Tablet, Save a Tree

Ironic, isn’t it, that Hewlett-Packard touts wireless printing as one of the TouchPad’s big selling points, when the tablet form-factor to some extent obviates the need to print.

Apple and Samsung Hammering Out $7.8 Billion Display Deal

With demand for its iOS devices growing, Apple is once again moving to secure vast storehouses of parts with which to build them. Cupertino is said to be finalizing a massive component contract with Samsung, one that would make it the company’s single largest customer.

2011 Forecast Calls for 76 Million iPhones With Chance of 32 Million iPads

With the hard launch of the CDMA iPhone at Verizon now just three days away, analysts are tweaking their sales forecasts to reflect its impact. The latest to issue an upward revision: Susquehanna’s Jeff Fidacaro, who raised his price target on Apple this morning to reflect strong presale demand for the Verizon iPhone and a significant increase in its production.

Verizon’s iPhone Sales So Amazing They Can’t Even Put a Number On It

The company says it sold more phones in the first two hours than it had sold in any first-day launch in its history, though it declines to quantify the sales. Rest assured, it puts Kin sales to shame.

Verizon iPhone Demand Could Hit Nearly 25 Million, Theoretically

It’s indisputable that Verizon is going to sell a lot of iPhones when the device finally arrives on its network. The question is how many? And the answer is as varied as the research houses trying to pinpoint it. On the low end, analysts have been calling for nine million, and at the highest end, 12 million. Until today, when R.W. Baird & Co. analyst William Power reset those parameters with a bullish new potentiality.

Xbox 360 Sold Out Last Month

RIM, India Trade Texts, Still Not BFFs