Its cars are selling so well, the once dodgy brand is having more and more trouble meeting demand — and that's a very good thing.
By Doron Levin, contributor
FORTUNE -- New-car shoppers who fly to another city often do so in search of a hard-to-find Mercedes, Lexus or other high-price vehicle. Lately they're looking for Hyundai models. In short order, the once-dodgy brand is suddenly being associated with one of the MORE
Sep 22, 2011 11:53 AM ET
Expected to account for 73.4% of a market that has grown more than 260% since 2010
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Gartner Inc. is a lot better at telling you what's already happened than predicting what's about to.
Witness Thursday's report on worldwide tablet sales in which it describes Apple (AAPL) as having a "free run" in the tablet market this coming holiday season, accounting for nearly three quarters of the 63.6 million units MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 22, 2011 11:29 AM ET
What Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman told the Senate antitrust panel about Google
Yelp's Stoppelman, Nextag's Katz, and former Justice Department antitrust director Thomas Barnett. Photo: AP
As feared, the Senate hearings Wednesday on "The Power of Google: Serving Customers or Threatening Competition?" barely scratched the surface.
What Google (GOOG) did to Apple (AAPL) -- copying Apple's touchscreen operating system and offering it to Apple's competitors for free -- never came up. Amy Klobuchar MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 22, 2011 7:00 AM ET
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* HP's (HPQ) board is weighing its options, and one of them includes kicking out CEO Leo Apotheker after barely a year in and replacing him with former eBay boss Meg Whitman. However, Fortune contributor Eleanor Bloxham argues Whitman, who serves as HP's director and a strategic advisor for Kleiner Perkins, may not be MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 22, 2011 3:30 AM ET
The troubled technology giant is weighing a major shakeup that could see CEO Leo Apotheker replaced by former eBay boss Meg Whitman.
By James Bandler and Matt Vella
FORTUNE -- Hewlett-Packard's board is weighing a shakeup that would include replacing its current CEO Leo Apotheker after barely a year on the job, according to a person familiar with the matter. The troubled technology giant plans to offer the top spot to former MORE
Sep 21, 2011 11:16 AM ET
"Sources close to the situation" say within a few weeks. History suggests earlier.
All Things Digital's John Paczkowski reports that Apple (AAPL) plans to unveil the new iPhone at a special event on Tuesday Oct. 4.
If so, when can we buy one?
Paczkowski's sources say "within a few weeks." But in a note to clients Tuesday, Ticonderoga's Brian White suggests that the lag time between unveiling and release is likely to be considerably MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 21, 2011 9:56 AM ET
When Google's executive chairman testifies during a Senate hearing on antitrust issues today, he'll be following in the footsteps of another tech titan: Bill Gates. Here's what he should know.
FORTUNE -- When Google's executive chairman testifies during a Senate hearing on antitrust issues today, he'll be following in the footsteps of another tech titan: Bill Gates.
In 1998, Gates appeared before Congress alongside ex-Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and former Netscape MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 21, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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* Google (GOOG) upped the ante with Google + by prominently promoting the social network on Google.com with a big blue arrow. (As you can see from the above screenshot, it's hard to miss.) The Internet giant also added new features, including search, the ability for Android users to use the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 21, 2011 3:30 AM ET
Donates thousands to teachers in America's poorest schools
Source: Apple Inc.
Teach for America might sound like a fun way to spend a couple years after college, but it's a pretty tough gig. With just five-weeks training, recent graduates -- many from America's most elite colleges and universities -- are thrown into classrooms in some of the country's meanest, most-impoverished public schools.
Into this improbable mix Apple (AAPL) has just added a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 20, 2011 2:22 PM ET
All investors seem to want is a bigger piece of the company's $53 billion cash pile. They'd do better to pay attention to what Windows 8 and Windows Phone really mean.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Microsoft's obituary has been written plenty of times. There was no place for the software mammoth in a tech world designed -- and dominated -- by Apple. CEO Steve Ballmer was unable to steer the MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.24 | -0.06 | -0.89% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.46 | -3.61% |
| Frontier Communicati... | 4.20 | -0.27 | -6.04% |
| Juniper Networks Inc... | 21.65 | -0.72 | -3.22% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 19.58 | -0.25 | -1.26% |
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