sales - marketing a year ago
Nokia grabs bigger slice of market
News And Nokia expects to grow handset sales through the rest of this year predicting about a 10 per cent increase in handset volume. Meanwhile, Nokia saw sales in Europe remain unchanged from last year's second quarter at 27.1 million. [21 Jul 2008]
Unveiled: The 3G iPhone
News Ninety-eight per cent of iPhone users are browsing, and 80 per cent are using 10 or more features, he said, quoting sales of six million units to date. Talking about the original launch almost a year ago, Jobs said: "It's widely believed that this... [10 Jun 2008]
Computing on the go
Comment Research company In-Stat says sales of smart phones will grow at more than 30 per cent per year for the next five years, and the number of units shipped per year already outstrips that of laptops. While the Asus is undeniably small, it comes up... [04 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment Not openly in conference of course but their representatives changed their one-on-one sales pitch based on whether or not the male delegates were wearing a wedding ring. A couple of years ago at a technology conference in Budapest I remember the... [03 Jun 2008]
Dell's smiling after quarter profits
News Dell reduced its headcount by 3,700 people during the quarter, many in its consumer products divisions and in international sales, for a total of 7,000 in the past year, according to Carty. Dell's unit sales increased 140 per cent in China over the... [30 May 2008]
Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed
Case Study Usability testing software has helped a holiday company boost its sales by spotting a glitch in its website's navigation that could have been costing it tens of thousands per week in lost business. Thomson relaunched its thomson.co.uk website about... [09 May 2008]
Motorola suffers a Q1 loss
News Net sales for the quarter were $7.45bn, down from $9.43bn a year ago. Sales at the Mobile Devices division were $3.3bn, down 39 per cent compared to a year ago. Motorola on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of $194m, or 9 cents per share, up... [25 Apr 2008]
Apple profits up thanks to Mac, iPhone and iPod
News Apple yesterday posted a 36 per cent rise in quarterly profit, helped by strong sales of Mac computers, iPod players and iPhones, but its profit margin and cautious outlook disappointed investors. The company blamed the slide in its gross margin on... [24 Apr 2008]
Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback
News The survey used a sample of 17,000 shops across all formats, with collective sales of £131bn a year. In terms of value, cash is used for 34 per cent of retail purchases, up from 32 per cent a year ago.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [21 Apr 2008]
SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle
News After joining the board, Gunst will fill the newly created position of chief operating officer, McDermott will eventually take over SAP's sales efforts worldwide - a role formerly held by Apotheker - and Snabe will oversee development of SAP... [04 Apr 2008]
Microsoft COO dismisses SP1 concerns
News Kaspersky said SP1 difficulties may have a negative effect on people's opinion of Vista, and that negative effect may impact Vista sales. Two weeks ago, Microsoft published a list of programs that would experience reduced functionality, or not work... [05 Mar 2008]
Retailers count the online Xmas coffers
News The sales index research by Capgemini and IMRG revealed that online retailing reached 15 per cent of total spend on retail and leisure over the whole year.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Overall, online revenues reached £46bn in the UK, out of a total... [17 Jan 2008]
How Topshop.com survives the Kate Moss effect
News And across the board, sales volumes have risen by 80 per cent, year-on-year. When Topshop launched the Kate Moss range earlier this year, its website traffic leapt from its average of 1.5 million page views per day to 5 million. [22 Nov 2007]
Nortel CEO: 'Hyperconnectivity' the big opportunity
News Since becoming Nortel CEO in November 2005, Mike Zafirovski has been concentrating on a revival at the Canadian vendor, after years which saw a slump in sales, large-scale lay-offs and several episodes of restating financial results. [20 Sep 2007]
CIOs face tough on-demand choices
News Fortis Investments, the global asset management arm of the group, is one company that has made a move into SaaS, ditching Siebel tools for its sales people in favour of Salesforce.com about three years ago. [20 Sep 2007]
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