iPad Mini

Consumers love Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) products. Hours before the iPhone 5 was released, one eager consumer told Benzinga that she "wouldn't give a s*** if it didn't have nothing." In her opinion, new features and upgrades were not necessary. "I would be in line anyway," she insisted. "I just love...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has announced that it has sold three million new iPads worldwide this weekend, combining sales of both the fourth-generation model and the iPad Mini. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant did not break down the sales figures by region or by model. Instead, Apple simply...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) released the long-awaited iPad Mini Friday morning, but instead of inspiring a large crowd of techies to wait in line all night, the company could barely muster a crowd of 20 people. In fact, at 6:55 a.m. EDT this morning, one Apple Store in Metro Detroit had just 13 people...

Scott Forstall, the former senior vice president of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iOS software division, seems to have a hidden talent: stock market psychic. In May, Forstall sold 95 percent of his shares in Apple for $39 million. At the time, many assumed that he was planning to leave Apple. Why would a...

With just a couple days before the fourth-generation iPad is scheduled to ship, Apple.com (NASDAQ: AAPL) shows that the initial allotments have already sold out. In the United States, customers can expect the device to arrive within a week. According to The Inquirer, British customers are...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is offering customers in Canada and the United Kingdom a voucher to compensate those who have yet to receive their ordered tablet. According to The Register, Microsoft has apologized for "any confusion caused by emails stating an earlier or later arrival date." "To make...

Hot on the heels of the 32GB Nexus 7, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has announced another new table today -- the Nexus 10. Priced at $399 (for the 16GB model) and $499 (for the 32GB iteration), the Nexus 10 features a high-def screen (2,560 x 1,600 resolution, 300 pixels per inch), nine hours of continuous...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has launched an interesting campaign that is designed to highlight the many differences between the Kindle Fire HD and Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) newly announced iPad Mini. On the front page of Amazon.com, the online retail giant has published a quote from Gizmodo regarding its...

This past weekend in Barron's online: the results of the autumn Big Money Poll, the prospects for General Mills, Hyster-Yale Materials Handling and Barnes & Noble, as well as what President Obama does and does not know about American business. Cover Story "Bye-Bye Bull?" by Jacqueline...

Is this the coincidence of the century or a sign of things to come? Thursday evening, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that it was no longer the indestructible stalwart that created the MacBook, iPod and iPhone. While the company is still enormously successful (and has a ton of cash on hand), Apple...

Now that Sprint (NYSE: S) is getting the iPad, all eyes are on the company's unlimited data plans. Will they carry over to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) new tablets or will consumers be forced to buy chunks of data, a la Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T)? Sprint announced that its unlimited plans...

For the third straight quarter, Sprint (NYSE: S) has announced that it sold another 1.5 million iPhones. Once again, 40 percent of those units were sold to new customers. While that number is relatively small compared to the millions of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) products that AT&T (NYSE: T) and...

U.S. equity futures rose in early Wednesday trading following a strong sell-off on Wall Street Tuesday, as a result from German business confidence that missed expectations and new data on the Chinese economy seemed to confirm that China has bottomed. The HSBC China Flash Manufacturing PMI beat...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) might have a difficult road ahead when it releases the iPad Mini on November 2. Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research, said that he felt Apple's media event was met with "too much hype." "[The] announcements failed to live up to the...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was expected to focus on the iPad Mini during its press event this morning. Instead the company kicked things off by revealing several refreshes to its Mac line of computers. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant confirmed reports of a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina...