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Microsoft revenue grows despite PC market woes

...and server divisions in its second quarter, but woes in the consumer PC market affected revenue from Windows. Image credit: Luke Hopewell/ZDNet Australia The... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Ben Woods

Hard-drive woes hit PC shipments in fourth quarter

Shortages of hard drives and competition from other devices squeezed the PC market at the end of 2011, research has shown, with only Apple... Read more

13 January, 2012 by Larry Dignan

Lenovo and Apple defy faltering PC sales

In a sluggish PC market, Lenovo saw big gains in global share in the second quarter... Read more

15 July, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Lenovo sees dividends in emerging markets

...6bn, topping expectations. In the big picture, Lenovo is outgrowing the overall PC market and has global market share of 10.2 percent. Emerging market... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Larry Dignan
Intel reports a record $54bn in revenue

Intel reports a record $54bn in revenue

The chipmaker hits a record $54bn in revenue for 2011, spurred by rising demans from major web companies for its high-end processors and continued good performance in mid-range notebook and desktop chips Read more

20 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

UK PC market grows as Western Europe declines

The British PC market enjoyed a small increase in shipments in this year's first... Read more

11 May, 2012

PC market sees modest growth at end of 2010

...quarter of 2010 was the strongest quarter of the year for the PC market, although it failed to meet the expectations of research firms IDC... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

PC market returns to growth in 2012's first quarter

...was followed by Acer, Dell, Asus and Lenovo. As expected, the global PC market was constrained by a shortage of hard disk drives following last... Read more

13 April, 2012

European PC market slumps 11 percent, says Gartner

...Toshiba. Isabelle Durand, Gartner's principal analyst for France, said: "The consumer PC market declined 9.2 percent mainly because the demand for mini notebooks... Read more

14 November, 2011

PC market growth lower than expected, says Gartner

...notebooks, the market is shifting to modest, but steady growth." The global PC market was lead by Hewlett-Packard, which shipped 14.9m PCs for... Read more

15 July, 2011

PC market shrinks as business spending dips

...from Toshiba — stumbled. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see PC market contracts: Business upgrade cycle weakens, consumers wary on ZDNet.com. Get... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Too bad, America - the PC market is moving to Asia

...t that important any more. It used to represent over half the PC market, and on Gartner’s numbers, that has fallen to 21.6... Read more

19 July, 2010
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30 August, 2010

UK PC sales up 15%, but growth is weaker than in Western Europe

Gartner says the PC market in Western Europe grew by 19.6% in the second quarter... Read more

25 August, 2010

Photos: Samsung unveils Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab

Another iPad challenger enters the tablet PC market Samsung has unveiled a new entry in the increasingly crowded tablet... Read more

3 September, 2010 by Nick Heath

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knapper

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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