11 – Worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011, a 57.7 per cent increase from 2010, according to Gartner Inc. By the end of 2011, Android will move to become the most popular operating system (OS) worldwide and will build on its strength to account for 49 per cent of the smartphone market by 2012 (see Table 1).
Sales of open OS* devices will account for 26 per cent of all mobile handset device sales in 2011, and are expected to surpass the 1 billion mark by 2015, wh
011 – IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that Gartner, Inc. has once again named IBM the worldwide market share leader in the application infrastructure and middleware software segment based on total worldwide revenue for 2010.
According to the report (1), IBM was the leading software vendor with 32.6 percent market share, extending its lead to nearly double that of its closest competitor. According to Gartner, IBM grew 14.4 percent in 2010, twice the overall market. The worldwide applicatio
.2011 – The worldwide semiconductor equipment market grew 143 per cent in 2010 to nearly $41 billion as the market recovered from the industry slowdown of the previous two years, according to final results from Gartner Inc. All major market segments grew significantly in 2010 with automatic test equipment (ATE) sales up by 149 per cent, wafer fab equipment (WFE) sales up by 145 per cent and sales of packaging assembly equipment (PAE) up by 127 per cent.
"The semiconductor equipment
SRC Research the bank-independent analysts house for Financial and Real Estate stocks today presents a rating update about Marburg-based investment company 3U Holding AG which is listed on Frankfurt Prime Standard.
The company released last week on 31 March its 2010 annual report. The picture was mixed. The net income was clearly above company-s guidance and our expectations at Euro 5.8m and profitted from some positive tax effects. The operating profit was worse than expected. EBITDA c
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– Revenue as expected declined to EUR 82.4 million
– Earnings increased to EUR 5.83 million
– EBITDA decreased to EUR 6.42 million due to one-time special items
– Equity ratio increased to 51.76%
– Positive start to the year 2011 – Positive outlook confirmed
– Proposed dividend of EUR 0.02
3U HOLDING AG (ISIN DE0005167902) today published its annual report for fiscal year 2010.
Group sales expectedly decreased significantly from
.2011 – A digital marketing approach and its associated channels are critical for overcoming the declining effectiveness of mass marketing, according to Gartner, Inc. Although marketers have been using digital channels as part of their campaign management strategies for more than ten years, most are using them for traditional push, mass-marketed, interruption-type execution of campaigns rather than a two-way engagement approach.
"Mass marketing is no longer a long-term strategy. Mas
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– Sales increased to ?9.5 billion (plus 29%)
– Record EBIT margin at 15.9% (2009: 6.1%)
– Net income of ?63 million
– Free cash flow at ?566 million
– Leverage ratio further reduced
– Full innovation power (2010: 1.641 pending patents)
– Positive outlook for 2011
Schaeffler Group, one of the world-s leading automotive and industrial suppliers, set new records in sales and operating results in 2010. "2010 was an extremely suc
