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Why India Isn't Excited About the iPad Launch

Amit Agarwal, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 28, 2011 at 11:58 am PT

When Apple announces a new product, it is not uncommon to find scores of people queuing outside their retail stores on the launch day hoping to grab a unit before the store runs out of stock.

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Tough Times for Independent IT Dealers

Emily Maltby, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 23, 2010 at 9:15 am PT

Sales at XS International Inc., a 10-employee company that sells refurbished electronics like computers, disk drives and servers, have shrunk 50 percent in the past two years. The problem, the company says, is that it no longer qualifies for roughly half the government contracts it once did.

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IPhone 4 Reaches the Gray Market

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 30, 2010 at 10:39 am PT

Just how much would you pay to get an iPhone 4? Last week, more than 1 million people snapped up the device in the U.S., Japan and other countries where it went on sale. But some Apple fans in Hong Kong, including visitors from China, couldn’t wait, and in some cases paid more than $3,000 for a gray-market iPhone 4.

China Unicom: “iPhone Will Become China’s Best-Selling Smartphone.” We’re Just Not Sure When.

John Paczkowski in News on December 10, 2009 at 5:16 am PT

A month after the iPhone’s sluggish launch in China, sales seem to be picking up. Though it sold just 5,000 handsets during its first weekend at market, China Unicom, Apple’s carrier partner in the country, says it has now sold more than 100,000 units of the super-smartphone since it went on sale on Oct. 30.

China Unicom iPhone Sales Hit Record One Two-Hundredth of a Million

John Paczkowski in News on November 3, 2009 at 7:37 am PT

What do you know: China Unicom just coughed up some first weekend sales numbers for the iPhone and…well, they’re not much to look at, despite what I said earlier. The carrier sold just 5,000.

Was the iPhone’s Launch in China Really a Bust?

John Paczkowski in News on November 3, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

Apple’s internationally coveted iPhone finally arrived at market in China last week and by most accounts its debut was uncharacteristically muted. There is “no sign of the sort of sellout reception that greeted the smart phone at its introduction in other countries,” The Wall Street Journal reported. Clearly, the device’s Chinese launch wasn’t the rousing success to which we’ve become accustomed. That said, it probably wasn’t quite the bust it’s been made out to be, either.

Year of the iPhone Officially Added to Chinese Lunar Calendar

John Paczkowski in News on October 30, 2009 at 1:21 pm PT

Apple’s iPhone finally arrived at market in China today and is evidently selling fairly well, despite wallet-emptying prices. ChinaNews.com found about 300 people queued up to buy the device at China Unicom’s flagship store in Beijing.

Apple's Latest Fortune: You Will Be Unusually Successful in Business

John Paczkowski in News on July 20, 2009 at 2:20 am PT

“We will enter Asia with the iPhone in 2008,” Apple COO Tim Cook declared in March 2008. “And we will one day enter China, we’re not saying when.” How’s September of 2009 sound? Because China Business Network claims that China Unicom and Apple have finally inked a deal that will bring the iPhone to the country around that time.

Apple’s Latest Fortune: You Will Be Unusually Successful in Business

John Paczkowski in News on July 20, 2009 at 2:20 am PT

“We will enter Asia with the iPhone in 2008,” Apple COO Tim Cook declared in March 2008. “And we will one day enter China, we’re not saying when.” How’s September of 2009 sound? Because China Business Network claims that China Unicom and Apple have finally inked a deal that will bring the iPhone to the country around that time.