Nokia: market share lowering due to iPhone

Nokia today preemptively lowered its market share estimates for the summer quarter, warning that it expects to lose share compared to the spring. The company had previously predicted that its market share would remain largely flat but now claims that multiple concerns have forced it to change its view; the firm remains deliberately unspecific regarding which firms are taking that share but claims...

Opinion: How Apple can gain significant OS market share

Never before has Apple had such a fine opportunity to grab considerable market share from Microsoft. But in order to do that, it must first be willing to change its tactics.Read More...

Napster faces proxy fight with 3 investors

The shareholders, seeking board seats, want the digital music service to turn around its stock slump or pursue a sale. Napster Inc. has struggled to catch the ear of enough customers. Now the company is out of tune with some of its big shareholders.

Investors should raise a glass to Whitbread’s budget hotels

A day after Punch Taverns’ surprise dividend cut destroyed investor sentiment on a swath of the leisure sector, Whitbread’s second-quarter trading update did its level best to restore it.

Microsoft plans 'Skymarket' apps store for Windows Mobile 7 in 2009

Following in the footsteps of US mobile provider T-Mobile and Google's own Android smartphone platform, Microsoft is now plotting its own effort to create an online store for mobile software in the model of Apple's iPhone App Store. The project, t...

Google reveals open Android Market to rival iPhone's App Store

Google on Thursday afternoon provided first details of a marketplace for phones based on its Android mobile platform -- including word that its store won't be as tightly monitored as the Apple-run shop for iPhones. While Google will host the new s...