Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has released its fourth-quarter financials, posting its first quarterly profit drop in two years as it lost ground on rivals Apple and Samsung in the smartphone...

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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC today announced its monthly sales figures for November, posting financials that highlighted a 30% drop in sales from October, and 20% down on the same period...

Read More: HTC sees massive monthly sales dip, down 30% in November

Korean electronics giant Samsung believes it will surpass internal sales estimates for its Android and Windows Phone handsets in 2011, ending the year with a flourish as its competition begins...

Read More: Samsung: We have ‘high hopes’ on beating smartphone sales estimates in 2011

Smartphone sales set Nokia’s cash registers ringing this past Deepawali in India, with the company reportedly having sold about ₹ 400 crore’s ($81 million) worth of phones. The report comes...

Read More: Nokia, other companies see smartphone sales boost during holidays in India

I'm a big believer in integration. Not integration from the perspective that you're saying the same thing through every communication channel, but from a "breaking down the silos" point-of-view. You see, marketing, public relations, advertising, HR, IT, customer service, and all of the other disciplines are supposed to work in tandem with sales. Not in [...]

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Today during the company's Q3 earnings call, Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak predicted record sales of Kindle and Kindle Fire products. He also said that since much of the profit from...

Read More: Amazon predicts record Kindle sales, but says revenue will lag behind

A new report from technology research firm Strategy Analytics suggests that Microsoft, helped by handset partners Samsung, HTC and Nokia, will see increased sales of smartphones running its Windows Phone...

Read More: Report: Windows Phone sales to top 14 million in Western Europe during 2012

Often when appropriating funds for social media asks itself "Are we spending money on Social because everyone else is, or do we stand a chance at making a return on our investment here?" This is the age old question with social media, can you make real money directly from your effort in this arena. Of [...]

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Apple's successful launch of iOS 5 and selling more than 4 million iPhone 4S handsets in 3 days hasn't just benefited the Cupertino-based company, the sheer number of users utilising...

Read More: iOS magazine publisher sees Apple’s Newsstand boost sales by 750%

Apple has announced that sales of its new iPhone 4S smartphone have exceeded 4 million units over the first weekend, adding that it saw 25 million people install iOS 5...

Read More: Apple’s first weekend iPhone 4S sales surpass 4 million

Samsung has announced that combined sales of its popular Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones have topped 30 million units worldwide, with both devices breaking company sales records since...

Read More: Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones top 30 million combined sales

In the latest development of its ongoing spat with Apple, Samsung is seeking to block the sale of the iPhone 4S in Australia and Japan. The Wall Street Journal reports...

Read More: Samsung seeks iPhone 4S sales ban in Japan and Australia

Samsung will not be holding the Dutch legal system in high regard today after a court in The Hague dismissed the Korean smartphone vendor's claims of patent infringement by Apple,...

Read More: Samsung suffers blow in The Netherlands as Apple sales ban is denied

The opening day of iPhone 4S sales in Japan did not start well for Softbank. According to the Wall Street Journal, the operator was forced to suspend the sale of all smartphones,...

Read More: Computer glitch halts Softbank sales on iPhone 4S launch day in Japan

If you, like me, used to own a digital wristwatch with a stopwatch on it, you may have played the ‘stopwatch game', where you would see how close you could...

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Now deep into its product cycle, the Xbox 360 continues to sell better than its chief rivals, the Playstation 3 and the Wii. Microsoft, who found new legs for its...

Read More: Xbox 360 stays dominant, keeps top sales spot in September

Research In Motion's Blackberry line might be losing market share in North America but it is growing rapidly in Africa. In South Africa for instance, it commands a whooping 70%...

Read More: BlackBerry takes flight in Africa as sales slump in North America

To evade a temporary sales ban on its Android smartphones, Samsung has said it will release modified versions of three of its Galaxy smartphones in Europe, models that have already...

Read More: Samsung to evade Dutch sales ban by launching three modified Galaxy handsets

Those of you who know me well enough know that most everything I do has more than one purpose. Today, as I prepare to leave the lovely weather in southern California to drive through the desert to Las Vegas, I wanted to do a post that does more than just tell you that I'll be [...]

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maximizing_linkedin.jpg neal_schaffer.jpg We are introducing our October Book of the Month, Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales and Social Media Marketing by Neal Schaffer. Past titles we've featured have been more content development, social media best practices so we're especially excited to have a title that offers a deeper dive on a specific platform.Neal is an author, speaker and social media strategy [...]

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