Regained the spot that it took from Nokia in June and gave up to Samsung in September
It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago.
Getting comparable figures from Apple's competitors is a different matter, and that's where companies like IDC come in. Samsung, for example, used to report only the number of mobile MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 7, 2012 4:53 AM ET
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* Whether or not Spotify can achieve its ambitious goal of nabbing 50 million U.S. users during its first year of domestic operations remains to be seen, but at the very least, it MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 9, 2011 6:30 AM ET
The Microsoft (MSFT) CEO says that Google's (GOOG) mobile OS isn't without a cost in an interview with Jon Fortt.
Ben Baer, Senior Producer - May 21, 2010 2:13 PM ET
Don't look now, but the year's most buzz-worthy tech company might be Microsoft.
Microsoft went around with a big, fat target on its forehead for a couple of decades. It was the tech giant we loved to hate. The company deserved the scorn; in the 1990s it crushed pipsqueaks Apple (AAPL), Netscape and Palm (PALM), and still found time to push around a few hapless PC makers who seemed to barely MORE
Jon Fortt - Feb 26, 2010 9:39 AM ET