Tablet Crunch

ARM Holdings (LON:ARM), the UK microsprocessor chip maker that provides the processing technology for Apple's iPhone and iPad,  reported that pre-tax profit rose 45 per cent to £69m in the fourth quarter, while revenues rose 21 per cent to $137.8m. About 2.2bn Arm-based chips were sold in the fourth quarter.  And there is no slowdown in ...

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today (Monday) that the best selling product on Black Friday was the Kindle Fire, seeing a huge surge in selling of the new Amazon Android tablet. Amazon.com had an explosive day on Black Friday, one day after the Thanksgiving Holiday and the biggest shopping day of the year. Kindle devices ruled the day for Amazon, ...

Apple shares (NASDAQ:AAPL) hold stead throughout the day as the first day comes to a close with Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple, and new Apple CEO Tim Cook taking the helm. Is it me, or does it feel like we’ve lost one of the most important people in the world today?I think it’s safe ...

Google Inc. stock (GOOG) is down 9.5% so far this year.  They are still the world's largest Internet search company, but they are taking some steps to diversify in order to increase their multiple streams of income.  They have recently gotten into offering premium movie services online and they are actively seeking out movies that ...

NVIDIA is the company that makes the Tegra 2 processor and the soon to be released Tegra 3 processor.  These processors are the ones used in the ASUS Eee Transformer. As we have previously reported ASUS has confirmed a shortage of components and this is evidence of one of their suppliers taking steps to ...

Apple continues to expand it's market share and many of it's competitors are beginning to feel the squeeze.  Analysts predict that Apple could be the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world by 2012.  In the first quarter of 2011 Apple shipped 18.7 million iPhones which represents almost 19% of the entire smartphone market.  This is ...

Samsung reported its weakest quarterly profit for the last 8 quarters.  Samsung is generally regarded as the world's largest top memory chip maker.  Samsung acknowledges that the market is very competitive and that it will probably remain so.  Some of the clear challenges are the lawsuit with Apple over the Galaxy Tablet, the fact that ...

After the market closes on Thursday Microsoft will be announcing it's fiscal third quarter earnings.  Investors seem to be concerned with the impact that tablets are having on the PC market.  It is indeed a fact that tablets are reducing the sales of PCs.  For many people who use electronic devices more for consuming data ...

Sprint plans on releasing the first ever HTC Evo 4G tablet this summer called the HTC Evo View 4G.  The new HTC Evo View tablet will be a 7 inch Android tablet that will have a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and the latest version of HTC sense. It will come with 32 gigabytes of internal ...

Nvidia shares (NASDAQ:NVDA) have been on a tear today because of the renewed optimism with Tegra, it's mobile processor used in both smartphones and tablets. Up to March, investors have been skeptical on Tegra. This due mostly to the iPad 2 popularity and uncertainty of the Motorola Xoom's (which uses Tegra) outlook in the tablet space. ...

Qualcomm's "Snapdragon" chips are used in every Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and their exposure is growing as the smartphone industry expands. But one segment that is set for explosive growth for Qualcomm is the tablet market. Since Apple launched their iPad back in April, tablet competitors have been in a frenzy to bring tablets to ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) shares surged on Thursday on the news that it earned $5.4 billion, or 62 cents per share during the 1st quarter. Despite rumors that the iPad and other Android tablets are going to be the demise of the PC market, Microsoft CFO Peter Klein says just the opposite. "We haven't seen that at all," ...

Motorala's co-CEO Sanjay Jha was brought on board in 2008 to turn around the companies slumping mobile phone sales, and I'd say that Google Android has been his saving grace. The "Motorola Droid phones" can just about take all of the credit for Motorola's mobile phone division finally seeing a profit. Motorola (NYSE:MOT) - currently up ...