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Apple Takes a Bite of Research In Motion

Sramana Mitra submits: Apple AAPL, which recently topped my list of the Top Five Handset Stocks, reported fourth quarter results on Wednesday that beat profit estimates but missed revenue estimates. Despite the tough market, Apple sold 6.9 million iPhones in the quarter and beat its sales target of 10...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Apple Inc., Seeking Alpha, Sramana Mitra, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Gadgets

External links 2008-10-23

Nokia Slows

Sramana Mitra submits: While Apple AAPL had a great quarter, Nokia NOK lost market share and reported a disappointing quarter last week. The loss in market share follows its decision not to match aggressive pricing from its competitors at the cost of profitability. While market share slid to 38%...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Quarter, Seeking Alpha, Sramana Mitra, Asset Management, Pricing, Marketing Research, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Marketing, Gadgets

External links 2008-10-24

Apple Beats Estimates

Sramana Mitra submits: On Wednesday, Apple AAPL reported strong first quarter results that were driven by strong Mac sales and better-than-expected iPod sales. After IBM’s results this week, it is now Apple’s turn to beat analyst estimates and its guidance of last quarter. As usual, its outlook was short...

Tags: Gadgets, Sramana Mitra, Apple Inc.

External links 2009-01-23

Nervous Nokia

Sramana Mitra submits: On January 22, Nokia NOK reported fourth quarter results that missed analyst estimates due to weak consumer spending, currency volatility and credit tightness. Nokia had earlier warned that it is experiencing weak demand, but the actual impact of the dismal global economy was far greater than...

Tags: Gadgets, Sramana Mitra, Nokia Corp.

External links 2009-01-27

Struggles at Seagate, SanDisk

Sramana Mitra submits: Seagate and Sandisk, both storage solutions companies, are having a hard time in this economic environment. Both are leaders in their markets, but need massive restructurings to stay afloat. On January 21, Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX), the leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions...

Tags: Hardware, Gadgets, Sramana Mitra, SanDisk Corp., Seagate Technology LLC

External links 2009-02-18

Motorola's Sharp Drop in Mobile Phone Share

Sramana Mitra submits: In the past week, Motorola MOT has released two products: MC55 EDA enterprise smartphones based on Windows Mobile and Stature i9, an iDEN phone, with Sprint S. According to a recent Gartner report, worldwide mobile phone sales declined 5% in the fourth quarter and Motorola slipped...

Tags: Gadgets, Sramana Mitra, Motorola Inc.

External links 2009-03-17

Does RIM See The Gap in iPhone?s Defenses?

Sramana Mitra submits: Yesterday, Research In Motion Limited RIMM, a world leader in the mobile communications market reported a strong fourth quarter that beat estimates driven by the success of its BlackBerry Storm, which initially had some technical problems in its release in Q3. Q4 revenue...

Tags: Gadgets, Sramana Mitra, Apple Inc., Research In Motion Ltd.

External links 2009-04-03