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PC industry posts steepest quarterly sales decline in history

PC industry posts steepest quarterly sales decline in history
  • Posted April 10, 2013, 11:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News Breaking News
  • Sales of personal computers plummeted 14 percent in the first quarter of 2013 – the worst drop in nearly 20 years according to a new report from International Data Corp. The findings are a bit breathtaking as even the firm…

HP rumored to be considering company "break up"

HP rumored to be considering company "break up"
  • Posted February 6, 2013, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News
  • In 2011, former CEO Leo Apotheker proposed jettisoning HP's iconic PC business -- a division which suffers from notoriously anemic profit margins -- in an attempt to return HP to greater profitability. Although Apotheker's successor, Meg Whitman, canned that idea,…

PC industry grows about 2%, beats Gartner, IDC expectations

PC industry grows about 2%, beats Gartner, IDC expectations
  • Posted April 13, 2012, 10:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Following a 6% decline during the holidays, the PC industry snapped back to growth in the first quarter of 2012 according to Gartner and IDC. The former outfit pegged worldwide shipments at 89 million units for a 1.9% increase year-over-year, while the latter reported a 2.3% bump...

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