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Microsoft Sells Eight Million Kinects–Well, Not Really, but Close Enough

in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 10:37 pm PT

Microsoft is saying it has sold eight million Kinect sensors to surpass expectations. But it’s not that straightforward.

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EBay Rang Up $2 Billion in Mobile Sales in 2010

in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 12:43 pm PT

EBay said today that global mobile sales more than tripled in 2010, generating nearly $2 billion in gross merchandise volume. (GMV is the total value of all successfully sold items on eBay, regardless of whether the buyer and seller finalized the deal.) While that’s good news for the retailer, which has seen overall revenue growth slow down, it is still a small sliver of the overall pie. In comparison, eBay reported total GMV of $44.9 billion in the first three months of 2010. In the U.S., eBay said mobile sales grew nearly 175 percent year-over-year, generating nearly $850 million in GMV in 2010.

China Delays Filtering Initiative

in News on June 30, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

Palm Sold 300,000 Pres in June

in News on June 30, 2009 at 5:10 am PT

During its post-earnings conference call last Thursday, Palm refused to say how many Pre handsets have been sold to date. Or how many it believes it will sell in the first quarter of production. The company would say only, in the words of CEO Jon Rubinstein, that “sales have been strong and growing.” So until Palm provides specific Pre sales figures, we have only the estimates of analysts with which to gauge the device’s impact on Palm’s moribund smartphone franchise. And the latest estimates, from Edward Snyder at Charter Equity Research, suggest that the impact is great.
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iPhone 3GS–The S Is for "Shortage"

in News on June 29, 2009 at 7:27 am PT

The iPhone 3GS has been on the market just 10 days now, and already a growing number of Apple stores around the country are running short of the device. It seems that demand for the 3GS, which topped one million units sold its first weekend at market, has exceeded even the company’s presumably aggressive targets.
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iPhone 3GS–The S Is for “Shortage”

in News on June 29, 2009 at 7:27 am PT

The iPhone 3GS has been on the market just 10 days now, and already a growing number of Apple stores around the country are running short of the device. It seems that demand for the 3GS, which topped one million units sold its first weekend at market, has exceeded even the company’s presumably aggressive targets.
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