Apple Maintains Top Mobile PC Share in Q1’12 on Strong iPad Shipment Growth HP, Acer, Lenovo, and Dell Round Out Top Five Spots; China Market Posts Sequential Growth Sort Date: 05222012 Santa Clara, Calif., May 22, 2012—Apple shipped nearly 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1’12, accounting for 118% Y/Y shipment growth, according to preliminary results from the latest NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report. Nearly 80% of Apple’s mobile PC shipments were iPads, which reached over 13.6 million units in the quarter, for 162% Y/Y growth. Total mobile PC shipments in Q1’12 were 76.2 million units, a seasonal drop of 15% compared to Q4’11. Shipments grew 30% Y/Y, with tablet PCs growing 124% Y/Y and notebooks and mini-notes growing 12%. From the ... Continue reading →
Yes, this is a striking stat. But it doesn't tell us that college is losing its value. It tells us that more people are going to college -- and not enough are finishing.(Reuters) Everybody is looking for the next big "bubble". Maybe it's bonds. Or tech stocks. Or ... college? With tuition soaring and job prospects not, a growing chorus thinks higher education might just be too big not to fail. The calculus is simple. If college costs keep rising, but job prospects don't improve, eventually higher education won't be worth it. Pop goes the campus bubble -- or so the story goes.That brings us to one of the more inauspicious recent headlines. For the first time ever, the majority of the unemployed have attended ... Continue reading →
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal’s latest experiment – having already re-created Tudor feasts, Victorian banquets and perfected the hamburger – is to mentor a pop-up restaurant in London that serves airline meals. For two weeks in April, he was the consultant chef behind British Airways’ Olympics-themed “Flight BA2012” project. This temporary restaurant has been designed to look like the inside of an aircraft and, yes, airline food really is being served in a fuselage that’s going nowhere. Even with tickets costing GBP 50 per head, the pop-up restaurant in Shoreditch was fully booked for its short run within three hours of the online tickets going on sale. This says much about the power of a celebrity chef’s name, but possibly even more about the capricious, novelty-seeking ... Continue reading →
Posted in: Celebrity, Weddings By Cheryl Wischhover Tuesday, May 22, 2012 / 11:15 AM She may be an unlikely style icon but Priscilla Chan (aka the new Mrs. Mark Zuckerberg) is causing a bit of wedding gown feeding frenzy. After the couple’s surprise and low-key nuptials were announced via Facebook over the weekend, details about the wedding started to emerge yesterday.LA-based designer Claire Pettibone designed the lacy beaded dress, and she was completely unaware that Chan was going to wear the gown, according to Buzzfeed Shift. There were no consultations, and when asked where Chan bought the dress (which has been in the collection for about two years), Pettibone told Shift, “We’re honestly not sure. I think she may not have used her actual name.” ... Continue reading →
We are on the cusp of a big economic shift. I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and Kickstarter just might be the most visible representation of that. When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so popular that the company name has become a verb. Take the Pebble Watch as an example. It was an idea that was rejected by institutional investors but embraced by actual buyers via Kickstarter. Without broadband-enabled connectivity and Kickstarter, this watch that has now raised upwards of $10 million from over 85,000 ... Continue reading →
