Despite higher prices, sales to end users worldwide more than doubled
Data: Gartner. Charts: Apple 2.0
Gartner issued its "mobile devices" report for the first quarter of 2011, two weeks after rival IDC's.
Here's what Gartner had to say about Apple (AAPL):
Apple sold 16.9 million units to end users worldwide, more than doubling its sales of iPhones year-on-year. This market-beating growth came from all regions: the iPhone is now available in 90 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 19, 2011 11:21 AM ET
Plus, video of Steve Jobs giving a tour the first store, which opened 10 years ago today
Apple's Shanghai store. Photo: freshnessmag.com
"I give them two years before they're turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake," Channel Marketing Corp. president David Goldstein told Businessweek as Apple (AAPL) was launching its first foray into computer retailing. Ten years later, let's look at the numbers:
325 stores in 11 countries, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 19, 2011 9:01 AM ET
Google and Amazon suffer a setback as the music industry, once again, puts its trust in Steve Jobs
CNET's Greg Sandoval, who reported last month that Warner Music (WMG) had signed a deal with Apple (AAPL) to make its content library available on a new music streaming service, broke the news late Thursday that EMI had also come on board and that deals with Sony (SNE) and Universal could be wrapped MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 19, 2011 7:56 AM ET
The new facility in Santa Clara will grow to 3/4 the size of Apple's North Carolina data center
Source: Dupont Fabros Technology
In what could be a new sign that Apple (AAPL) is stepping up its efforts in so-called cloud computing, Data Center Knowledge reported Wednesday that the company has signed a long-term lease for several megawatts of critical computing power from a data center under construction in Santa Clara, Calif., MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 18, 2011 3:56 PM ET
While Intel chips power the servers that power the tablet and smartphone revolution, CEO Paul Otellini recognizes that's not enough.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini (r) with Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Image via Wikipedia
Despite all the hullabaloo over a post-PC era, Intel chief executive officer Paul Otellini remains bullish on the traditional personal computing market.
At the chipmaker's annual investor meeting held earlier this week in Santa Clara, Calif., Otellini said Intel MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - May 18, 2011 3:40 PM ET
Big firms like HP supposedly inhabit the safe, stable sector of tech. But everything from the Japanese earthquake to an uncertain mobile future has led CEO Leo Apotheker to a moment of reckoning.
HP CEO Leo Apotheker. Image by mkrigsman via Flickr
FORTUNE -- Last week, Cisco's troubles were made painfully apparent when the company announced there would be layoffs, likely in the thousands.
Then on Monday Bloomberg News got hold of MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - May 18, 2011 1:04 PM ET
New evidence suggests that since last summer the tail has been wagging the dog
Souce: optionpain.com
If you're any kind of Apple (AAPL) investor, you should be aware of the chart at right, even if you don't know a put from a call and don't really care to.
It shows the value in millions of dollars as of Wednesday morning of the outstanding Apple options that expire this Friday, with the magenta MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 18, 2011 7:36 AM ET
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
After its IPO this Thursday, LinkedIn will prove the adage that non-paying users of its social network aren't the customers, they're the product.
FORTUNE -- Here's a dirty little secret about social networks: No matter how much they talk about designing their sites for users, it's not true. Social networks are about making money off their users. Facebook makes money when it gets users to interact with big MORE
May 18, 2011 5:00 AM ET
By Edward Humes, contributor
In this excerpt from Force of Nature, Edward Humes describes how Wal-Mart changed the way environmentalists looked at the company. Editor's Note: America's biggest company is trying to grow in size but shrink its environmental footprint. Since 2004, Wal-Mart has been tackling the paradoxical task of becoming the prototype for sustainable capitalism. In the new book Force of Nature, Edward Humes chronicles the company's recent green-shift in values. Here, he MORE May 17, 2011 12:22 PM ET
Sharing a bike with a friend requires trust and a U-lock. Sharing 600 bicycles with the city of Boston requires technology and a big investment. Alison Cohen's Alta Bicycle Share is up for the task.
Alison Cohen with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino
Alison Cohen used to ride her bike 17 miles to work every day, a "ridiculous commute," she now admits, but one which gives her solid cred in her current MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.82% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.60% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.24 | -0.23 | -5.26% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.57 | -0.80 | -3.58% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
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| Dow | 12,666.89 | -67.74 | -0.53% |
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| S&P 500 | 1,315.93 | -2.50 | -0.19% |
| Treasuries | 1.92 | -0.01 | -0.73% |
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