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Consumers are Spending Billions Through Their Tablets

Consumers are Spending Billions Through Their Tablets

By Sean Patterson January 29, 2013

Last week, analyst predictions asserted that tablet shipments could reach 145 million in 2013. The market for tablets is only swelling, and now research firm ABI Research is predicting that an additional 1 billion tablets will be shipped over the …

Rolls-Royce: Record Sales in 2012 Rolls-Royce: Record Sales in 2012

While most of us are working toward climbing out of a years-long recession or struggling with unemployment, there are still a select few that are able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a very nice car. Rolls-Royce Motor …

Smartphone Sales Hit a Record 10 Million at AT&T Smartphone Sales Hit a Record 10 Million at AT&T

AT&T announced today that it sold more than 10 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2012. The number tops AT&T’s company record of 9.4 million, which was set during the 2011 holiday season. The huge sales numbers include a …

Steam Holiday Sale Starts Tomorrow Steam Holiday Sale Starts Tomorrow
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Steam sales are highly anticipated, with PC gamers longingly staring at their Steam wish list for days as they wait for a sale to start, hoping that the game they want will finally fall to a price within their budget. …

Etsy Sellers Had a Huge Day on Cyber Monday Etsy Sellers Had a Huge Day on Cyber Monday
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By all reports, Black Friday and Cyber Monday produced record sales figures in the ecommerce world. Companies like Amazon are already touting a blockbuster weekend, as they claim the best few days of Kindle sales in the history of the …

Smartphone Sales Jumped Nearly 50% in Q3 2012 Smartphone Sales Jumped Nearly 50% in Q3 2012

Research firm Gartner today released the results of it’s analysis of third quarter 2012 smartphone sales. According to its data, worldwide sales of smartphones are up 46.9% from the third quarter of 2011 and account for 39.6% of all mobile …

Halo 4 Sees $220 Million in Sales in First 24 Hours Halo 4 Sees $220 Million in Sales in First 24 Hours

Everyone knew that Halo 4 was going to have a huge launch, and now Microsoft is conforming that with some fresh sales figures. According to the company, Halo 4 topped $220 million in sales worldwide in its first 24 hours …

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Borderlands 2 Tops Mass Effect 3 Sales in UK Borderlands 2 Tops Mass Effect 3 Sales in UK

Borderlands 2 has beaten Mass Effect 3 and claimed the title of best-selling debut launch of 2012 for the U.K. According to Chart-track, Gearbox’s and 2k Games’ Borderlands sequel has sold over 4,000 more copies than Bioware’s and EA’s Mass …

iPhone 5 Tops 5 Million in Opening Weekend Sales iPhone 5 Tops 5 Million in Opening Weekend Sales

So, what did you have in the “how many iPhones is Apple going to sell in its first weekend” office pool? If your guess bordered on the conservative end, good job. Apple has just announced that they sold over 5 …

iPhone 5 Sales Far Surpassing the iPhone 4S iPhone 5 Sales Far Surpassing the iPhone 4S

Today was finally it. iPhone 5 day. Customers who had been waiting in lines outside of Apple stores were finally able to enter and receive their new most-prized possession. But, wait – isn’t that deja vu we’re all feeling? Hasn’t …

iPhone 5 Breaks First Day Pre-Order Record iPhone 5 Breaks First Day Pre-Order Record

In news that shouldn’t really be a shock to anyone, Apple has officially announced the the iPhone 5 is their fatest selling phone of all time. In its first 24 hours on the market, pre-orders topped 2 million. The previous …

Could Apple Sell 10M iPhone 5s in the First Week? Could Apple Sell 10M iPhone 5s in the First Week?
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After much speculation, Apple confirmed that they will unveil their next generation iPhone during an event taking place on September 12th. The invite to the press event featured a giant “12″ casting an even bigger “5″ shadow, so it’s pretty …

HTC Hires a New President for North America HTC Hires a New President for North America

HTC announced today that Mike Woodward has become its new president of North America. Woodward will be overseeing HTC’s sales, marketing, and operations for the U.S. and Canada. “I have been fortunate to witness first-hand HTC’s leadership in mobile innovation, …

Good Old Games Lets Users Vote For Summer Sales Good Old Games Lets Users Vote For Summer Sales

Good Old Games (GOG), which claims to be the fastest-growing online distributor of DRM-free games, is having a summer sale, and it’s allowing players to vote on which games will receive the biggest discounts. In addition to the sale, GOG …

JCPenney Decides to Have a Sale After All JCPenney Decides to Have a Sale After All

When JCPenney decided to obliterate the term “sale” from their corporate vocabulary, it seemed like a stroke of genius. The removal of the terminology from commercials, promotions, and in-store displays suggested that everything on the retailer’s sales floor was inexpensive …

Are Slashdot and SourceForge For Sale? Are Slashdot and SourceForge For Sale?

Thanks to announcement from Geeknet, there’s speculation that the company could be selling some incredibly notable web properties in an effort to “maximize shareholder value,” meaning stalwart sites like SourceForge, Slashdot, and Freecode may soon be for sale. While we …

Viddy Growing by 1 Million Users a Day Viddy Growing by 1 Million Users a Day

Last week we reported that Viddy is currently undergoing a round of fundraising that puts valuation of $370 million on the company. A report today from the Wall Street Journal via Mashable puts a value of the company a $200 …