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Online Purchases Helped Boost Strong Retail Sales in 2010

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 14, 2011 at 9:45 am PT

Don’t call it a boom yet, but retail sales in 2010 saw the biggest gains since 1999, with the help of online retailers like Amazon.

Apple’s Insanely Great Quarter: 3.05  Million Macs, 7.4 million iPhones Sold

John Paczkowski in News on October 19, 2009 at 1:37 pm PT

Apple’s September quarter saw, among other things, the release of Snow Leopard, the latest upgrade to its OS X operating system and the first public appearance of CEO Steve Jobs, who’d been on a medical leave of absence for a liver transplant. It was also the first full period since the company launched the iPhone 3GS in late June. No wonder it was a blowout quarter.