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Apple Ends Fiscal Year In Record-Breaking Style

Tim Cook's lasses and lads sold more than 10 million more - so 48 million total - iPhone units in the last quarter alone.

Apple Pipped By Surging Microsoft Surface Sales

The Surface line has matured and the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book outsold Apple's tablets during the month of October.

Apple's The Clear Winner When It Comes To Smartphone Profitability

According to a recently published Canaccord Genuity report, on which Apple Insider reported yesterday, Apple has made 94 per cent of global smartphone profits during the third quarter alone.

Cloud Proving To Be Big Win For Microsoft

Windows 10 may not be a big hit yet - but the company still reported impressive results thanks to the performance in some segments its CEO calls key for the company's future. Clue: it's not on-premise.

G-Cloud Breaks Billion Pound Barrier

Digital Marketplacehas reached £1 billion in sales, it was recently announced.

G-Cloud Sales Averaging £27m A Month

The Government Digital Service (GDS) has revealed that sales via the G-Cloud framework since it opened have now reached £345m, averaging at £27m a month.

G-Cloud Sees Positive Start to Year with £15m Sales

Figures released last week by the government put the running total of G-Cloud sales since the beginning at £92.7m, up from last month’s running total of £77.8m, placing January sales around the £15m mark.

Google: We Need To Get Better At Enterprise Sales

Google’s new cloud chief Diane Greene, a Silicon Valley legend at VMware, has told employees that the company needs to improve with regards to its efforts selling to corporate customers.

Has Smartphone Demand Just Quietly Peaked?

The demand for smartphones, globally, has reached its peak in Q4 of 2015 – up 14 per cent since last quarter, and 6 per cent since last year, says market analysts GfK.

Irate eBay Users Demand Downtime Compensation

Social networks are abuzz with eBay members demanding some form of payback for Tuesday’s prolonged outage.

Is The Enterprise The Real Market For Tablets?

Tablet sales might not be great, thanks to the ever growing popularity of the phablet, but that is all about to change, analytics say, according to a report by Strategy Analytics.

Morde Details Emerge About G-Cloud's Billion Pound Sales Milestone

Digital Marketplace sales pushed up by £55m in December, bringing the total sales up to £959 million - and small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) accounted for 51 per cent of sales by value during the month.

Opinion: Are You Using Mobile Enough In Your Retail Experience?

For retailers seeking to become more competitive in the digital world, technology can be a powerful tool, says Raj Parmar, marketing director at Box Technologies.

Oracle Needs 1,400 Cloud Sales People, If You're Looking...

Oracle is looking to hire new workforce across the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa), in a major thumbs up for this IT model.

Poor Phone Sales Hurt Amazon's Bottom Line

The firm announced that it would take a $170m charge on Q3 as its new smartphone continues to struggle.

Singleton Claims Corporations Aren't Forcing SMEs Out

The UK government’s plan to get more SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) selling cloud services to the public sector is paying off, says the administration, despite fears that larger companies are coming back to dominate.

Smartphone Market Hits Saturation Point In China, Sales Drop

Basically everyone in China now has a smartphone, and that’s why the biggest smartphone market in the world has seen its sales fall, for the first time in history.

The Upcoming 'Black Friday' Sales Day May Fall Flat For Data Fumblers

As many as one in four UK retailers admit they are not using their data effectively enough in order to drive and optimise sales. What can be done to help?

What Internet Of Things Apps Do SMEs Actually Want?

New research from the Economist Intelligence Unit shows 96% of business leaders expect their businesses to be using IoT in one form or another by 2016, says Magic Software's Stephan Romeder.