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May 7, 2012 Posted By:
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In one of the most anticlimactic (and likely ineffective) marketing campaigns in history, RIM has today launched its “Wake Up. Be Bold.” campaign in Australia. It began with a group of “protestors” disembarking from a bus outside of Apple’s Sydney store with signs that read “Wake Up.” But don’t get too excited — that’s the most exciting part of the...
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May 7, 2012 Posted By:
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Among ethnic groups, Asian Americans are the most likely to pack a smartphone
FORTUNE -- The move from so-called feature phones to smartphones continues apace.
As of March 2012, 50.4% of U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones, up from 47.8% in December 2011, according to a Nielsen survey released Monday. Google's (GOOG) Android was the most popular smartphone operating system (48.5%), while...
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May 7, 2012 Posted By:
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From Jobs to Sculley to Spindler to Amelio to Jobs (again) and Cook
Click to enlarge. Source: Fabio Zambelli from Fortune data
FORTUNE -- It's been nearly a year since Fabio Zambelli retired SetteB.IT, the Italian-language blog with which he'd been covering Apple (AAPL) since 2006. But he's still tracking the company's progress. When Fortune released its annual listing of...
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May 7, 2012 Posted By:
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From Jobs to Sculley to Spindler to Amelio to Jobs (again) and Cook
Click to enlarge. Source: Fabio Zambelli from Fortune data
FORTUNE -- It's been seven months since Fabio Zambelli retired SetteB.IT, the Italian-language blog with which he'd been covering Apple (AAPL) for more than five years. But he's still tracking the company's progress. When Fortune released its annual...
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May 6, 2012 Posted By:
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Editor’s note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip.
Congratulations. You’re the CEO of a startup. You’re doing the hardest job in business. You’ve raised money from venture capitalists and turned down better-paying jobs elsewhere. You’ve mastered complicated things such as capitalization...
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May 6, 2012 Posted By:
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The Oracle of Omaha has a second rule: Don't buy companies you don't understand
Buffett with University of Nebraska cheerleaders Saturday. Photo: Lane Hickenbottom/Reuters
FORTUNE -- Some 18,300 people -- more than attended Barack Obama's massive campaign kickoff Saturday -- showed up for Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder's meeting in Omaha yesterday. And judging from the New York Times' live blog, it was a...
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May 5, 2012 Posted By:
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One hundred and two minutes with Clay Christensen and Horace Dediu
Christensen on TCTV, via TechCrunch
FORTUNE -- About 40 minutes into the interview with Clay Christensen that Asymco's Horace Dediu posted Wednesday on his Critical Path podcast, Dediu brings the conversation around to Apple (AAPL).
Christensen, who was Dediu's mentor at Harvard Business School, is best known as the author of
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May 4, 2012 Posted By:
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Sales of the Kindle e-readers have apparently also fallen off a cliff
FORTUNE -- Thursday was bad-news day for Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle line of tablets and e-readers.
- IDC released first quarter tablet sales data that had Kindle Fire shipments falling from 4.8 million in the Christmas quarter to less than 750,000 units last quarter. "Kindle Fire Shipments Fizzle"...
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May 4, 2012 Posted By:
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Horace Dediu at Asymco has run the numbers and it’s not looking good. Samsung and Apple now control an estimated 99% of vendor profits with HTC scraping in with 1%. BlackBerry and Nokia barely register and, in fact, form a loss.
First, I’d like to note why Dediu believes carriers are willing to cede so much of their profit to...
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May 4, 2012 Posted By:
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When Apple launched iPhoto for iPhone, it quickly became clear that there was something odd going on with the maps in the application. Even though Apple never talked about this publicly, the data Apple used to render these new maps was clearly not from Google anymore. Instead, most experts agreed, Apple was using a number of different sources to...
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