Sales - SlashGear

‘Sales’ Stories

Apple surpasses Lenovo in greater China sales

Rue Liu, Aug 22nd 2011 Discuss [2]

For the first time, Apple's sales in greater China have surpassed that of Lenovo, which has been a reigning heavyweight in the region and has also been hailed the fastest growing company in the PC industry for the past seven quarters. Although analysts have been suspecting that Apple's sales would overtake Lenovo in China, it wasn't until Q2 2011 reports were confirmed for both companies that revealed this to indeed be the case. Read The Full Story

Goodyear Bursts Through Raw Material Costs by Selling Higher End Tires

Chris Burns, Aug 13th 2011 Discuss [0]

It was announced late Friday that shares of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co had jumped considerably after chief financial officer Darren R Wells expressed confidence in the group that it would be able to stay ahead of ever-rising raw material costs - but how, you ask? Apparently Goodyear, being spoken about again by its chief financial officer Darren R Wells at the J.P. Morgan Auto conference in Detroit, is staying ahead of the curve with "a strategy of pricing and a focus on selling higher end tires." Meanwhile the price of milk remains stagnant. Read The Full Story

Featured

Android Leads Mobile Sales as Symbian Takes a Dip Worldwide

Chris Burns, Aug 11th 2011 Discuss [37]

There’s been a rather sizable increase in mobile units moved compared to last year, a 16.5 percent increase to be more specific, this being one of the more impressive statistics released in a Gartner study arriving today. This 16.5 percent is tied to the second quarter of this year, 2011, as compared to the second quarter sales from one year ago, this year’s total adding up to 428.7 million units. The leader of this pack of smartphones is Android, a very different situation compared to last year at this time when Symbian was still the very clear forerunner.

Read The Full Story

Apple May Have Sold A Record 4.2 Million Macs In June Quarter

Rue Liu, Jul 18th 2011 Discuss [1]

According to a new report today from NPD Group, prepared by analyst Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray, Apple may have sold a record 4.2 million units of Mac computers in the June quarter. If NPD's estimate holds true, it means a 12% gain year-over-year and a Mac sales quarter that may be Apple's best so far. Read The Full Story

Apple’s Q2 Sales Results Show 18.65 million iPhones, 4.69 Million iPads, Apparent Growth

Chris Burns, Apr 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

It appears that Apple's sales call has shown the company to - surprise - be growing wildly, while the numbers on iPad sales specifically seem to be ever so slightly slipping. The sales call included the computer giant's fiscal 2011 quarter ending on March 26th, 2011. During this quarter they've posted record second quarter revenue of $24.67 billion as well as record second quarter net profit of $5.00 billion, this translating to $6.40 per diluted share. Stock prices at the moment I publish this post: Read The Full Story

iPad 2 Arrives at Radio Shack TOMORROW

Chris Burns, Mar 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

That's right all you crazy iPad 2 seekers who still haven't been able to purchase the wildly popular tablet computer, you'll get your chance tomorrow when Radio Shack has the slate available at 500 locations across the USA. You'll only know if your store will be carrying the tablet if you call, but for those that do, you can rest assure that they'll have at least ONE tablet in stock. Beyond that, not much else is known! What we DO know is that some of these locations will sell out instantly while others (like the ones up here in Minnesota) will have their whole stock in stock forever. Read The Full Story

Apple iPad crushes the competition

Kevin Fubar, Mar 2nd 2011 Discuss [9]

Jobs announced a major win this morning while unveiling the new iPad 2 to those of us in the press. Speaking from San Francisco, he announced the release of this new tablet and spoke of the strength of the company moving into 2011. Apple's sales are more than strong. The industry giant has managed to nail the tablet market while hitting a huge milestone in the smart phone market. Steve Jobs announced this during his presentation today in San Francisco. He also presented figures on the more than phenomenal 2010 iPad sales figures. Read The Full Story

iOS Accounts for 65% of Apple’s Current Sales

Chris Burns, Jan 21st 2011 Discuss [2]

Oh my goodness gracious. Take a peek at the chart below created by the talented folks over at asymco. It depicts Apple's quarterly sales since the fourth quarter of 2005, three quarters before the iPhone was first released. The most staggering factor might either be the very obvious upward moving trend without very much of a dip since the chart began, or it might be the face that even though the iPhone (which was released in 2007) was the only iOS device out three and a half years ago, this past quarter iOS accounted for 65% of Apple's sales. That's monstrous. Read The Full Story

Apple COO Tim Cook Dismisses Android Tablets as Bizarre and Vapor

Chris Burns, Jan 18th 2011 Discuss [25]

Today there's been quite the outpouring of yahoos and woops for the release of Apple's first quarter results which showed a growth in revenue by 71 percent and an earnings growth of 78 percent. Wowzers. Not only that, but iPads alone sold 7.33 million, that's MILLION during this past quarter. That's a lot, if you don't already know. This might very well be because of the apparent lack of competition in tablet-based computers on the market. Today in the accompanying sales call with Apple, COO Tim Cook took time to respond to a question on competition, and his words were sharply put. Read The Full Story

Amazon Likely to Break 8 Million Kindle Units Sold This Year

Chris Burns, Dec 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

And that's a LOT. Not really the most a pad-type piece of tech has sold, compared to Apple's 4.5 million iPads sold PER QUARTER this year (according to Tech CNN), but heck! It's up there! And it's over 60 percent more than analysts projected on Bloomberg. Business Week's spoken with two sources "aware of the company's sales projections" who say that compared to last year's 2.4 million Kindles, their figures for this year are monstrous. Bloomberg estimated, on average, that Amazon would sell 5 million Kindles in 2010. Read The Full Story

Wine Vending Machines in Pennsylvania

Chris Burns, Dec 10th 2010 Discuss [0]

I always knew that some day I'd be able to use that title for a post. That day has come. There are now wine vending machines in Pennsylvania, where there's no such thing as a legal independent wine and liquor store. For real! Pennsylvania is notorious for its strange liquor laws, this Wine Vending Machine move the latest in efforts to get liquor to regular residents safely. Certainly they'll be delivering wine strangely, with a process that might end up leading to more spreading of germs via the mouth than it does tasty glasses of red or white. Read The Full Story

Featured

The SlashGear Black Friday Deal Guide of Complete Excellence

Chris Burns, Nov 24th 2010 Discuss [2]

So you’d like some deals, yes? I’d like some deals, we’d ALL like some deals. But do you want to go out into the streets and risk getting punched in the face, that’s the real question. Here at SlashGear, we know your pain. We know you want to get a sweet discount on your favorite device, service, or strange product (my favorite), but you want to know if you’re going to have to jump out of bed to do it, or if you’re going to be able to just chill in your Turkey-basted leftovers haze. Therefor the first way we’re separating deals here in The SlashGear Black Friday Deal Guide of Complete Excellence is in two categories: Online and In the Streets. This is also a LIVE post, meaning we’ll be adding to it as that faithful day approaches.