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In the last six months, shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) have jumped up around 25 percent, making many market participants nervous. The anxiety is not because they are negative on the company; due to the sheer size of the company, they expect the "law of large numbers" to eventually...

Google Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Android operating system dominance of the worldwide smartphone market slipped slightly in the fourth quarter, with the iPhone nipping at its heals. Android systems garnered a 76.6 percent market share in the recent period, down from 78.2 percent a year earlier,...

Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE: SNE) came out with its best quarterly numbers in seven years on Wednesday, which sent it shares soaring up more than 11 percent over the previous close. IDC Chief Research Officer Crawford Del Prete was on Bloomberg after the results to weigh in on the numbers. Related...

The U.S. market for personal computers in 2015 will be flat to slightly positive, according to a couple of recent market research reports. The worldwide displacement of PCs by tablets peaked in 2013 and the first half of 2014, according to Gartner. Now that tablets have mostly penetrated key...

Maynard Um of Wells Fargo commented in a note on Monday that Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) has seen the largest share gain within the PC market. Um notes that on a year-over-year basis, IDC and Gartner reported a 2.4 percent decline and a 1.0 percent year-over-year increase on a...

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide smartphone shipments will reach nearly 1.3 billion units in 2014, marking a 26.3 percent surge over 2013's growth figures. Looking forward to 2015, IDC expects 1.4 billion smartphones to be shipped worldwide, marking a 12.2 percent...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to see its first full-year decline in shipments for its iPad line of tablets since their 2010 launch, a market research company said Tuesday. But Apple won't be unique in 2014. Tablet sales growth is hitting a wall, slowing to just 7.2 percent in the...

According to IDC, worldwide PC shipments are expected to fall by 2.7 percent for the entire 2014, marking an improvement from the 3.7 percent decline seen in 2013. IDC's forecast comes at a time when IDC notes that PC shipments were only 0.5 percent lower than a year ago in the third...

SunTrust issued an update on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) Monday and noted that China's "Singles Day" should be bigger than the U.S. "Cyber Week." According to analyst Robert S. Peck, China will celebrate "Singles Day" this Tuesday, November 11, which...

Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) share of the worldwide market for tablet computers slipped to 22.8 percent in the third quarter, from 29.2 percent a year earlier, a market research company said Thursday. Apple's slip came amid worldwide tablet market growth of 11.5 percent in the recent...