Amazon’s first quarter figures are in and the clear winner is the Kindle. While the online retail platform posted a 19% increase in its media sales, the Kindle still won out as its top seller. While net sales increased 34% in this quarter, largely thanks to Amazon’s current bestselling item in the new Kindle Fire tablet, profits actually fell by 35% as Amazon invested in other … [Read more...] about Kindle Still Reigns Supreme in Amazon’s Quarterly Report
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IDC: tablet sales drop 28 percent in Q1 2011 but predicts 53.5 million sales by end of year
So you thought tablet PCs are what the future of computing will be all about. Well may be not as analyst firm IDC has a different story to tell. So while tablet sales reached a commendable 18 million units in 2010, the growth trajectory has slipped by about 28 percent so that only about 7.2 million tablets found buyers between the January to March 2011 period. This is quite a … [Read more...] about IDC: tablet sales drop 28 percent in Q1 2011 but predicts 53.5 million sales by end of year