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Google’s Web Search Market Share Rises in April

Google Inc. slightly increased its leading market share among U.S. Internet-search engines last month, while Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine also gained market share, according to market researcher comScore Inc.

RIM’s Share of the U.S. Smartphone Market Slips Again

Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android continue to bleed the BlackBerry of market share in the States.
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Apple Headed for 60 Percent of Handset Industry Operating Profits

In its third quarter, Apple captured more than half of the handset industry’s overall operating profits. Soon it will claim even more.
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The Leading Flash Sales Sites May Surprise You

Flash sales sites that specialize in liquidating unsold inventory at greatly reduced prices are on the rise.
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Victimized Google Has 40 Percent Smartphone Share in U.S.

The Android onslaught continues.
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Nielsen: Apple Leading U.S. Smartphone Manufacturer, Android Leading OS

Google’s Android may be the top mobile OS in the United States, but Apple is the top smartphone manufacturer.
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Surprise! Cisco’s Blade Servers Are Number Three in the Market.

Only two years into selling its UCS servers, networking giant Cisco Systems has elbowed its way into the top ranks of the fast-growing market for blade servers.
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With Backing From Asia, New $100 Million A-Fund Targets the Android Ecosystem

In an interview, venture capitalist David Chao called the opportunity with Android one not unlike that that cropped up when Microsoft launched Windows in response to the Mac. The new A-Fund has backing from China’s Tencent along with Japanese social network GREE and mobile carrier KDDI, with more partners to come.

IDC Sees Windows Phone Passing Apple’s iOS in Smartphone Share by 2015

Over the next five years, both Android and Windows Phone will continue to gain, according to the market researcher, while Apple is seen as maintaining its roughly 15 percent share of the smartphone market.

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Hitwise: Bing's Incremental Gains Continue

Fresh February figures on search market share from Experian Hitwise show Bing-powered searches (those on Microsoft’s Bing itself plus Yahoo Search) continuing to silently creep up on search sovereign Google. Of course, “creep” is the operative word (the Bing-Yahoo share rose from 27.44 percent in January to 28.48 in February) and the creeping is silent because Google remains so far in front (with a 66.9 percent share) that it can’t hear much of anything.