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Diamond Foods Inc. said Thursday its Emerald nuts brand achieved a 10 percent market share in the four-week period that ended Nov. 28.
Microsoft Corp.'s souped-up Internet search engine gained a little more ground on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in July, according to data released late Monday.
The retail industry is set to report the fifth straight month of year-over-year sales declines at established stores on Thursday. While some merchants see opportunities in picking up market share from their fallen competitors, the deteriorating economy could stand in the way of them capturing those orphan shoppers.
Retailers left standing amid the carcasses of their competitors are going after orphaned customers. They're using aggressive mailers, accepting dead stores' gift cards and stocking the items that were once their rivals' best sellers.
Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.
In a May 30 story about market shares for "smart" cell phones, The Associated Press, citing a research firm analyst, erroneously reported that the Samsung BlackJack is available from Verizon Wireless. AT&T is the only major U.S. carrier that sells the phone.
Apple Inc.'s iPhone, a new model of which is widely expected this summer, took 19.2 percent of the U.S. market for "smart" phones in the first quarter of 2008, according to research firm IDC's vendor survey.
Report: Google to sell its own phoneGoogle plans to sell its own cell phone direct to consumers as soon as next year, bypassing wireless operators in a rare strategic move, the Wall Street Journal has cited sources as saying.
Microsoft Bing Search Share Keeps GrowingLooks like Bing's September market share decline (as calculated by Hitwise) was more an anomaly than anything else.
What 5% Drop? ComScore Says Bing Search Share Stayed Steady In SeptemberEarlier this month, a couple reports came out suggesting that Bing's search market share took a hit in September. Hitwise reported that Bing's share of U.S. searches was down 5 percent (in absolute terms, it was a half-point drop to 8.9 percent share).
September 2009 browser stats: IE sees biggest drop yetAnother month, another set of data that shows the main browser usage trend is unchanged: though its lead remains large, Internet Explorer is still losing ground to all other browsers.
Bing Keeps Pecking Away At Search Share And Making GainsEvery month since its launch, Microsoft's Bing search engine keeps taking a little bit of market share. In August, Bing gained 0.4 percent to end the month with 9.3 percent of search query volumes in the U.S., according to comScore's Qsearch estimates.
iPhones go on sale in China later this yearApple's iPhone will go on sale later this year in China, the world's largest mobile market, but its partner China Unicom may find selling the phone carries its own burdens.
Yahoo Mail still king as Gmail lurksGoogle's Gmail is the fastest-growing e-mail service on the planet, but it has a way to go to catch Yahoo's still-growing market share.
Rebates for 'Clunkers' Aid Ford Most as Car Sales ClimbThe government's "cash for clunkers" program gave automakers a desperately needed sales boost in July, though their relief could be short-lived if the Senate does not vote to extend the trade-in program after it ran out of money within days of starting.
Bing Gains Some Search Share (From Yahoo)All the fuss about Microsoft finally posing a credible challenge to Google with Bing, its new search engine, misses the real primary target of Microsoft's search efforts: Yahoo.
Bing Reports 8 Percent Visitor Growth Its First Month After LaunchMicrosoft is definitely relishing its Bing moment, communicating gains in market share every chance it gets to build a story of steady progression against both Google and Yahoo.
Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And ChromeThe new browser wars are on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, which has now been downloaded nearly 14 million times.
Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft's new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.
When It Comes To URL Shorteners, bit.ly Is Now The BiggestWell, that was fast. No more than a day or two after Twitter switched over to bit.ly as its default link shortener (from TinyURL), bit.ly is now the most popular URL shortening service.
Why BlackBerry's Lead Over the iPhone Won't LastBut why did iPhone sales fall 10 percent? Rumors of a new and improved iPhone have been circulating for months, and it's likely that potential buyers are sitting on the fence to see what Apple rolls out this summer.
Report: BlackBerry Curve outsells iPhoneResearch in Motion's BlackBerry Curve moved past Apple's iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the United States, according to research by The NPD Group.
Blackberry Curve Overtakes iPhone As Most Popular SmartphoneChalk it up to the fact that the Curve is available on the four biggest U.S. carriers, not to mention a two-for-one sale on Verizon Wireless. Also in the top five for the first quarter of 2009: The Storm and the T-Mobile G1.
Firefox 3 becomes top browser in Europe -studyMicrosoft last week lost European browser market leadership for the first time in years, when Mozilla's Firefox 3 took the top spot from Internet Explorer 7, Web analytics firm StatCounter said on Tuesday.
IE8 Users Downgrade To Explorer 7Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Internet Explorer 8 appears to be losing market share, even though the browser has been on the market for less than a week.
With IE8, Microsoft Ignores One Third Of The MarketWith today's release of Internet Explorer 8, everyone who use Microsoft's browser will be getting some much-needed improvements: color-coded related tabs, "Accelerator" add-ons, search and site suggestions, toolbar favorites, WebSlice bookmarking, and "inPrivate" stea …
Visits to Gmail surpass YouTubeFor the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube. Previously, YouTube consistently ranked 10th among all websites by market share of visits until the week ending Jan.
Some businesses think big during the downturnThe recession offers bold firms an opportunity to increase market share. But the risk can be huge.
Internet Explorer bleeding market sharePreliminary statistics from Net Application show that Internet Explorer is losing more ground in the internet browser battle. It's not really surprising as Firefox, Safari and Chrome are all gaining popularity.
Mozilla breaks 20 per cent market share The latest data on browser market share indicates that Mozilla has broken the 20 per cent barrier in worldwide adoption. Data collected by Net Applications showed Firefox's November market share was 20.78 per cent, with Microsoft's Internet explorer falling below 70 per cent …
Apple, RIM gain in global smartphone marketSurging demand for the latest iPhone and Blackberry models helped Apple and Research In Motion to win larger shares of the smartphone market in the third quarter at the expense of top vendor Nokia, market research firm Canalys said on Thursday.
PC makers move closer to a post-Windows worldToday, evidence is mounting that Microsoft's dominance in computing isn't what it used to be.
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