Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)/Blackberry still have a hold rating and an $8 per share price target from Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB) (ETR:DBK) analyst Brian Modoff. He did a survey recently to check how sales of the company’s BlackBerry Q10 handsets are doing. He noted “tepid reception” for the Q10 in the U.K., although the response was stronger in the company’s home country of Canada. A Check Of 60 Stores For Research In Motion Ltd...
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Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) is rolling up its sleeves to launch newer models of the Lumia series in the United States in order to speed up the demand for the Windows Phone, report Forbes. The Finnish smartphone maker launched two phones, Lumia 928 and 925 recently. US market vital of Nokia The Lumia flagship from Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) could not throw any startling performance over the past couple of months as the phone...
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Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) is unlikely to capture smartphone growth. Analysts at Nomura Equity Research believe that the Finnish smartphone manufacturer is poorly positioned in the industry. Nomura Equity Research analysts, Stuart Jeffrey and Wu Jin Hoo said that their smartphone estimates were driven higher by APAC (70-79 percent of future growth) where Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) only account for a 1.7 percent share. They also believe that Android smartphones will outperform...
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) chief executive Steve Ballmer said today that the company plans to hire several thousand employees in China over the next year. Ballmer was speaking at a press conference in Shanghai. The new workers will help boost the world’s largest software maker’s smartphone and cloud computing businesses using Windows OS. However, Steve Ballmer didn’t specify exactly how many new workers will be added. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) currently has about 4,000 employees in China. Ballmer...
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HTC Corp (TPE:2498) is losing its top executives as the company faces strong competition in the mobile market. The company failed to avert its declining revenue through its latest smartphone devices such the HTC First and HTC One. According to CNET, Lennard Hoornik, CEO of HTC Corp (TPE:2498) in Asia resigned from the company. He was on leave for two months prior to his decision to vacate his position in the company. HTC is...
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Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) is clearly following the words “the bigger the better.” According to a report from a Taiwanese site Digitimes, citing industry sources, Nokia will come up with its first phablet in 2014. The segment will be an important one for Nokia, and more so, since the hand set maker has no plans to come out with a full blown tablet device. Therefore, a 6-inch smartphone will be best suited for...
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Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)/BlackBerry may not be the next giant in the smart phone industry. The company is not giving up on that dream just yet, but it may be shifting some of its resources to concentrate on a separate part of its business, mobile services. According to an article on Yahoo! News earlier today, the Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)/BlackBerry conference, which took place last week, shows that the company...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) ruled the tech world for almost a decade. But now the company seems to be stagnating while other tech giants are moving ahead in the race. According to IDC’s latest ranking of smartphone operating systems, the market share of Android smartphones increased to 75 percent in 1Q2013 from 59.1 percent in the same period of 2012. In contrast, iOS market share shrank from 23 percent to 17.3 percent in the same period....
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Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) regained some of its lost market share in Canada, its home territory, after launching its new BlackBerry devices, particularly the BlackBerry Z10, according to a research firm. Last year, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) captured a significant slice of the smartphone market share in Canada after selling 2.85 million iPhone units in the country compared with the 2.08 BlackBerry units sold by the Canadian smartphone manufacturer. According to Tavis McCourt,...
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The new product announcements of Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) failed to lift the ratings of analysts covering its stock. Analysts believe that although the new products of the company will bring a slight positive impact, “We fail to see any of them shifting the needle given the secular pressure we see on Blackberry access fees,” according to Credit Suisse analysts. In fact, analysts at Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE:CS) were surprised that...
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Pentagon may risk its cyber security to the hackers by exposing its communication network to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) (KRX:005930) Smartphone and other devices, according to cyber security officials, reports Bloomberg. On May 2, Suwon a device from Samsung was allowed by Pentagon for use. The mobile uses the secured version of Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s Android Operating System. The Blackberry devices and tablets running on OS have also been approved...
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