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IDC Says PC Shipments Are Slowing Down Again

Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 6, 2011 at 7:05 am PT

The market research firm says a saturated market, stiff competition from the iPad and wider economic concerns are eating into the outlook for PC shipments in 2011. Update: Not so fast, Intel says.

Analysts After Intel's Home Run Quarter: Never Mind!

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 20, 2011 at 5:30 pm PT

How did so many Wall Street analysts misjudge Intel’s results so badly ahead of yesterday’s earnings? Today some of them tried to explain themselves.

Sharethrough CEO on Why You Should Care About Social Video Ads (Video)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 17, 2011 at 10:34 am PT

Sharethrough is a new kind of ad platform: One focused exclusively on video and social sharing. Basically, it guarantees it can get your funny ad a lot of views.

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

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 7, 2011 at 8:18 am PT

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.

Chatter.com's Super Bowl TV Ads Touch Off an Ad Skirmish on Google (Video)

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 6, 2011 at 9:30 pm PT

Salesforce.com debuted its Chatter.com social enterprise app to a TV audience of more than 100 million today.

Intel Says Sandy Bridge Support Chip Has "Design Errors"

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 31, 2011 at 11:02 am PT

Intel finds an error in a chip alongside its Sandy Bridge processor. Its shares are taking a beating while those of rival AMD are up.

With iPad Sales, Steve Schools the Street Again

John Paczkowski in News on January 20, 2011 at 11:17 am PT

In need of a chuckle? Take a look at Wall Street’s first-year iPad sales forecasts. They ranged from 1.1 million at their most conservative to 7 million at their most bullish, and averaged out at 3.3 million. Which is laughably short of the 14.8 million iPads Apple ended up selling in 2010.

Intel Posts Best Quarter Ever

John Paczkowski in News on July 13, 2010 at 1:43 pm PT

Intel kicked off the tech earnings season Tuesday with another strong performance. Posting second-quarter financials after the closing bell, the company reported earnings per share of 51 cents on sales of $10.8 billion.

RIM Stumbles

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 31, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

Research in Motion’s struggle to remain relevant in the market it helped create is going better than expected, though there’s certainly room for improvement. Reporting fourth-quarter earnings today, the company said it beat estimates for new subscribers, but missed earnings per share estimates by a penny.

Apple: Billions of Songs, Billions of Apps, Not Much Profit

Peter Kafka in Media on February 25, 2010 at 4:53 am PT

Apple is patting itself on the back for delivering 10 billion songs from its iTunes Store. And it frequently boasts about the number of apps customers download from iTunes, as well–the tally is now past three billion. But you won’t hear Apple boast about how much money it’s making from iTunes. Because there’s not much to boast about.