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Here's What Alibaba's Recent Acquisitions Suggest About The Future Of The Economy
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 3:17pm | 812Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) has been in the news recently, thanks to its stellar December quarter results. The third-quarter results revealed that it has a cash hoard, with $4.9 billion in non-GAAP free cash flow and $5.4 billion in operating cash flow. The rich cash flow position...
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ZTE To Preview 6-inch Android and New Firefox OS Smartphone at Mobile World Congress
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 3:33pm | 562Chinese smartphone maker, ZTE Corp. (OTC: ZTCOY), as expected, will unveil a plethora of new and updated devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb 24, according to a company press release. First, there will be the Grand Memo 2 LTE, a follow-up to a device launched at last year’s...
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Will Samsung Top Apple in China During Q2?
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 3:02pm | 536Samsung is on its way to becoming the top smartphone vendor in China this quarter. According to DigiTimes, the South Korean tech giant led the Chinese market in April, outselling China-based vendors with 18.8 percent of the market. Coolpad came in second place with 11.5 percent, followed by...
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Did China Birth the Next Steve Jobs?
Friday, December 7, 2012 - 1:57pm | 475Somewhere in China, an unspecified number of people recently skipped work to purchase a new smartphone. The device was sleek, stylish and promised to deliver the next evolution in mobile communication. In a very short time, this product has turned its manufacturer into a multi-billion-dollar empire...
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Should Research in Motion Sell BlackBerry and Call it Quits?
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 12:44pm | 835The company was on top of the world. Now it's on the cusp of bankruptcy, an asset shakeup, or some other development that will undoubtedly change the face of the BlackBerry maker. It all started with the simple announcement that Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) had hired a couple of banks to "...
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Verizon Hates the iPhone
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 12:03pm | 1037What does Apple get for working with Verizon, the nation's number-two cellular carrier? Complaints, betrayal, and a lifetime of headaches. At this time last year, you couldn't escape the hype for the iPhone 4's long-awaited debut on Verizon (NYSE: VZ). After all, the iPhone was the world's single-...
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Apple Finally Beats Samsung as the Largest…
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 1:33pm | 988The Mac maker is celebrating another victory in the battle for world domination. World domination of the smartphone market, that is. According to a new report by Strategy Analytics (via TechCrunch), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) surpassed Samsung as the world's largest smartphone vendor in the fourth...
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Apple's Worst Nightmare Comes From an Unlikely Source
Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 2:51pm | 1537Forget about the so-called superphone that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is rumored to be developing. Forget about Samsung and HTC, whose iPhone knock-offs have propelled Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) mobile OS into the realm of mainstream success. Forget about everything you know regarding iPhone...