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Lenovo Continues Acquisition Hunt As Smartphones And Tablets Top PC Sales
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 10:55am | 575Read More...Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) is making headlines this morning after reiterating its mission to acquire major businesses within the smartphone and PC sectors. In January, a Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming revealed that the company was looking at "all opportunities" -- including BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), which was...
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Two Tech Stories Making Headlines Thursday (AAPL, HPQ)
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 12:10pm | 471Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) are front-and-center in tech news Thursday after two Asia-Pacific media outlets report key product offering developments. Apple The days of Apple being able to hide its upcoming products until a media event are gone, despite the company’s...
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Will Barnes & Noble's $129 Nook Sell as Fast as Hewlett-Packard's $99 TouchPad? (BKS, HPQ)
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 3:58pm | 466Read More...Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) achieved a surprising degree of success with its $99 TouchPad. The tablet originally sold for $499. After succumbing to the power of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, which dominated the market at the time (and still does throughout most of the world), Hewlett-Packard...
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Hewlett-Packard's $169 Tablet is Just the Beginning
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 10:37am | 643Read More...Less than two years ago, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) attempted to challenge Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) empire with an expensive, high-end tablet and an exclusive OS. Investors had high hopes for the tablet -- known as the HP TouchPad -- but the underwhelming pre-order figures were very telling. When...
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Analyst: Microsoft Should Give Away Surface for Free
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 12:48pm | 584Read More...Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing, one analyst believes that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should give away its new tablet. "One hundred million to two hundred million dollars [worth of these] devices should be given away for free," Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of...
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Instead of Innovating, HP is "Masking the Incompetency"
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 9:14am | 1042Read More...Hewlett-Packard is planning to combine its PC and printer businesses. Is this a smart move or a cheap way to delay the company's demise? “Instead of innovating, HP (NYSE: HPQ) is masking the incompetency of the PC business by merging it with the stronger printer business,” Trip Chowdhry, the...
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Has Apple Kicked Dell Out of the Tablet Market?
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 12:09pm | 779Read More...If you can't beat ‘em, run! That's the message Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been sending to tech companies that thought they could compete with the iPad after successfully posing a threat to the iPhone. But unlike the iPhone, which was limited in reach by an exclusive agreement with AT&T (NYSE: T...
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Was the HP TouchPad Truly a Success at $99?
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 10:15am | 839Read More...Or were buyers simply excited to get a $500 device for 80% off? Consumers love a good sale. Between the weekly ads in the paper, the endless number of coupon options online or off, the onslaught of commercials, and the growth of daily deal sites, you would think that our desire to save would...
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In Goldman Sachs' Hardware Technology List, Apple Performs Well
Monday, July 11, 2011 - 7:29am | 102Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the “second best performing stock in our coverage this week, increasing 4.8%,” Goldman Sachs reports. “Lexmark International Inc. (NYSE: LXK) was the worst performing stock in our coverage, declining 1.9% on continued negative sentiment on printing related names,” Goldman...
