‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ sales surpass $1 billion
Activision announced Tuesday the third major record-breaking milestone achieved by its recent smash hit, Call of Duty: Black Ops. The latest addition to Activision’s Call …
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Amazon’s Kindle Wi-Fi is sold out ahead of Christmas
The Amazon Kindle’s position as one of the top electronics gifts of the 2010 holiday season is reaffirmed today as Amazon notes that the Wi-Fi-only …
Windows Phone 7 device sales top 1.5 million units
Microsoft announced Tuesday that sales of Windows Phone 7 devices have surpassed 1.5 million units. The milestone took just over eight weeks from the international …
Sales of new Apple TV to pass 1 million ‘later this week’
In a short press release this morning, iMaker Apple, Inc. announced that it anticipates sales of its new Apple TV device to eclipse 1 million …
Roku CEO: Sales doubled when Apple TV launched
When Apple first announced that it would be issuing a refreshed version of Apple TV, several analysts and bloggers assumed set top boxes like Roku’s …
Best Buy mysteriously halts sale of Verizon’s DROID 2 Global, DROID Pro
Here’s a head scratcher. Several of our Best Buy ninjas have come forward to let us know that Best Buy Mobile is informing employees that …
Piper Jaffray: Verizon iPhone to sell 9 million units in 2011
In a new research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster estimates that Apple will sell approximately 9 million iPhone handsets through Verizon Wireless next year. …
NPD Group: Apple to sell over 4 million Macs in fourth quarter
According to new projections issued by market research firm NPD Group, Apple is poised to break its previous quarterly sales record. For the first time, …
Amazon’s Daily Deal aims to take customers, market share from iTunes
A recent report filed by Reuters aims to shed some light on how online retail giant Amazon plans to commandeer market share of digital-music downloads from Apple’s iTunes Music …
Infinity Blade for iOS grosses over $1.6 million in four days
In its first four days of availability, Epic Games’ new title Infinity Blade grossed over $1.6 million according to a report. The highly anticipated game …
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm sets one-day sales record
Blizzard Entertainment announced Monday that its new title World of Warcraft: Cataclysm sold 3.3 million copies on its first day of availability. The game’s remarkable …
Fourth quarter Amazon Kindle sales in the millions
In a post on Amazon.com’s Kindle user forums Monday morning, an Amazon official has shed some light on Kindle sales in Q4. Posting via an …
Sony: Over 5.5 million copies of Gran Turismo 5 sold so far
Sony announced Friday that it has sold over 5.5 million copies of Gran Turismo 5 in the game’s first 12 days of availability. Sony also …
Android dominates Verizon smartphone sales; BlackBerry tanks
Investment research firm ITG has been investigating the sales figures from Verizon Wireless and it has come up with a pretty interesting find: the vast majority of …
Propelled by Kinect, Microsoft’s Xbox outsells Wii, PS3 again
According to analytics firm NPD Group, Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console has outsold Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s PlayStation 3 for the sixth consecutive month. Microsoft moved …
Analyst sees solid demand for BlackBerry Torch; PlayBook sales to be unimpressive
In a note to investors Monday, Barclays Capital analyst Jeff Kvaal restated his “overweight” rating and set an $85 target for shares of RIM’s stock. …
Gartner names Samsung top Android provider in States, 3M Galaxy S handsets shipped in U.S.
Samsung has just issued a press release pertaining to kudos it recently received from analytics firm Gartner. Gartner has named Samsung the top Android provider in the …
Samsung Galaxy Tab sales top 1 million units
Less than two months after the Galaxy Tab first became available, Samsung announced that global sales of its Android tablet have surpassed the 1 million …
Sony sells more than 4.1 million PlayStation Move controllers in 2 months
Sony announced Tuesday that it sold more than 4.1 million PlayStation Move controllers worldwide in the product’s first 2 months of availability. The news comes …
Nintendo boasts of 1.5 million DS, Wii units sold last week
Gaming giant Nintendo recently announced that during Black Friday week, U.S. consumers purchased a combined 1.5 million DS and Wii gaming systems. Holiday shoppers scooped up nearly …
More than 2.5 million Microsoft Kinect sensors sold to date
Following the biggest shopping weekend of the year, Microsoft announced Monday that it has sold over 2.5 million Kinect sensors in less than one month …
The Beatles sell 2 million songs, 450,000 albums in first week on iTunes
Last Tuesday, years of negotiations between Apple, Inc., Apple Corp and EMI finally culminated in the widely publicized arrival of The Beatles’ catalog in Apple’s …
Apple’s Black Friday sale teaser posted to website
There are plenty of ways to spend your money on Black Friday, but some people are too lazy to be bothered with trekking out before …
BGR’s guide to Black Friday 2010
You’re still stuffed from a supersized feast the day before but you manage to pry yourself out of bed hours ahead of sunrise. A quick …
Samsung sells 600,000 Galaxy Tab units worldwide
If you build it, they will come. According to a report from Korean newspaper The Korean Herald, Samsung has confirmed global sales numbers for its …
RBC: Apple ups Q4 iPad orders, adjusts build plans for Verizon iPhone
Analyst Mike Abramsky at Investment Bank RBC Capital Markets has issued a note to investors detailing two key manufacturing changes regarding Apple hardware. According to …
RAGE HD first-person shoots its way to top-grossing App Store spot
After less than a day of availability, id Software’s RAGE HD shot to the number 1 spot on Apple’s top-grossing App Store chart. The highly-anticipated …
‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ grosses record-setting $650 million in five days
Activision announced Thursday that Call of Duty: Black Ops has set a new five-day entertainment industry record, grossing over $650 million globally. Following the first-day …
The return of the Kin: Microsoft’s Kin ONEm, TWOm hit Verizon Wireless
It looks like Microsoft’s banished Kin handsets have taken the long walk of shame back to Verizon Wireless. You may remember back in late-June, Microsoft lowered the …
Video game industry takes 4% hit in October; Xbox outsells Wii and PS3 for fifth straight month
Ahead of the 2010 holiday season, NPD Group reports that the U.S. gaming industry took a hit in October. While software sales were up 6% …
