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November 3, 2012 Posted By:
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The discrepancy in how the market values the two companies is too big to graph
FORTUNE -- The ratio of share price to annual earnings -- usually expressed as P/E or simply PE -- is the simplest and most widely used metric to gauge the relative value of a pair of companies.
Case in point: Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), two bellwether...
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November 3, 2012 Posted By:
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Analysts' estimates range from 800,000 to 3 million
FORTUNE -- Some queues for the iPad mini were shorter than expected. Others seemed unnaturally long. And when reports of stock outs began coming in, it wasn't clear whether demand was too strong or supplies too short.
Apple (AAPL), it seems, can't win the iPad mini expectations game. Take, for example, the sales estimates put...
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November 2, 2012 Posted By:
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The iPad mini officially went on sale today, and the response at physical retail stores has been mixed. Some areas are seeing decent-sized lines, according to Reuters this morning, including Tokyo and Seoul Apple Stores with crowds of 100 or more, but overall, the news organization notes that crowds are smaller than they have been in the past...
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November 2, 2012 Posted By:
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Despite a superstorm and continued blackouts, hundreds line up to buy the latest tablet
FORTUNE -- Turns out, if you were willing to catch the 5:30 a.m. shuttle bus from Brooklyn, the ride into Manhattan went pretty smoothly Friday morning.
Judging from the ethnic makeup of the queue in front of the big glass cube of Apple's (AAPL) Fifth Avenue store, however,...
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November 2, 2012 Posted By:
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Happy iPad mini day. Since my review a few days ago, by far the number one question I’ve been asked about the device is: how does it fit into my life? Do I really need another iPad — let alone a smaller, less powerful one with a non-retina screen? Will I use it alongside the regular iPad? What about...
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November 2, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple has pulled down a legal statement on its U.K. website, posted after it lost an appeal in a U.K. court against a ruling that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab tablets do not infringe the design of the iPad. It had been ordered to acknowledge the ruling in a public post. However yesterday, at another hearing at the U.K. Court of Appeal, Apple was...
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November 2, 2012 Posted By:
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Hundreds queued up in Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong Kong
FORTUNE -- Friday's launch of the iPad mini -- scheduled to hit 34 countries before the day was through -- began overnight in a half dozen Pacific Rim cities.
The turnout wasn't as big as for a new iPhone, but if you wanted to buy the mini at an Apple (AAPL) store,...
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November 2, 2012 Posted By:
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Apple’s minor bug-zapping update for iOS 6, iOS 6.0.1, is already making up 7.5 percent of mobile web traffic as measured by ad network and analytics firm Chitika, just 24 hours after release. If you’ve been following, you’ll note that that’s just half of the 15 percent adoption rate iOS 6 saw a day after being in the...
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November 2, 2012 Posted By:
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The iPad mini hit store shelves today, and I got the chance to get one for myself. The device is a terrific consumer tablet, but it has a lot of potential to be an even more impressive player in retail, restaurant and industrial applications. The iPad mini’s big brother...
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November 2, 2012 Posted By:
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Digital metrics firm comScore today released its most recent mobile market share report, detailing trends in the mobile industry for the three month period ending in September. The survey of over 30,000 mobile subscribers in the U.S. revealed that smartphone penetration topped 50 percent for the first time ever in the study’s history, with Android and...
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