“Mobile Battle To Intensify This Year” |
| Mobile Battle To Intensify This Year Posted: 03 Jan 2011 09:52 AM PST , On Monday January 3, 2011, 12:52 pm EST As if the battle didn't rage hard enough in 2010, the clash between Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL - News) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG - News) looks poised to deliver even more theatrics this year, perhaps on multiple fronts. The smartphone market could be the epicenter of this battle of tech titans and shares of Apple are up 2.2% today, in line with the performance of the Personal Computer and Smartphone Stocks Index, which has climbed 10% in the past three months. Apple held 28.6% share of the U.S. smartphone market as of November 2010, but phones running on Google's Android operating system are closing the gap and had 25.8% market share as of November compared with 22.7% in October and 15% in June, according to data from the Nielsen Company. Research in Motion's (NASDAQ: RIMM - News) operating system saw its market share dip 26.1% in November from 27.4% in October, but RIM shares are up 3% today. Apple and Google are also squaring off in a fight to gain favor among media publishers to become the king of distributing online magazines and newspapers on smartphones and tablet devices. Apple already sells newspapers and magazines through the iTunes store and Google is preparing to play catch-up with a new Google-operated digital newsstand that runs on Android-operated devices, the Wall Street Journal reported. Apple is facing competition from other rivals on another front: Tablet devices. The iPad has helped the company assert a dominant market position for tablet devices, but with the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ - News), Motorola (NYSE: MOT - News), RIM and others are poised to introduce iPad competitors. More than 24 million tablet devices are expected to be sold in the U.S. this year, according to Forrester Research while global sales could reach 42 million units research firm IDC says, the New York Times reported. Investors can track the Personal Computer and Smartphone Stocks Index for performance trends and a suite of other metrics at tickerspy.com. Fun and informative, tickerspy.com is a free investing website where you can track multiple stock portfolios and compare against 250 proprietary Indexes tracking themes from dividends to ETFs to green energy to precious metals. Best of all, tickerspy.com lets you spy on the portfolios of nearly 3,000 Wall Street institutions and hedge funds and see graphs of their performance. Try tickerspy.com today and find out how you stack up against investing legends like Warren Buffett! Follow Yahoo! Finance on ; become a fan on Facebook. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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