"The fourth quarter market share numbers showed a fairly dramatic resurgence for Apple, " said Bob O'Donnell, program vice president, Clients and Displays.
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Fourth quarter market share numbers will be very telling because it is the quarter when all the new products were available and consumers were making choices with their wallets.
When electric power trading began in 1994, Koch came out with guns blazing, taking fourth place in market share.
Walter and company had the option of purchasing the Houston Astros, a lackluster franchise but one in the fourth-biggest market in America.
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Japan Tobacco has been especially aggressive, therefore, in Russia, the world's fourth-biggest market, where smokers lit up 300 billion cigarettes in 2002.
Brazil is the fourth largest auto market in the world and success in this country would imply a significant upside for the automaker.
We now sit in the midst of the fourth secular bear market since Charles Dow developed his famous index of industrial stocks in 1896.
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The shiny new Fords, Fiats, and Chevrolets tell the tale of an economy in full bloom that now boasts the fourth largest auto market in the world.
Already the fourth largest car market in the world in terms of sales, Brazil is poised to take the third spot from Japan within the next decade.
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Brazil is the fourth-largest market.
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The fourth flaw was the market's over-reliance on ratings as a short cut to assessing risk.
And it plans to have them on the market by fourth quarter this year.
Demand in Russia (the fourth largest gold jewelry market) increase for the second straight year.
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American diplomats claim this is reward for Mr Obama's economic and diplomatic investment in the ASEAN region, America's fourth-largest overseas market.
That year, when the Phillies (the fourth-largest television market in the United States) played the Tampa Bay Rays (the fourteenth-largest television market in the United States), viewership was down 20 percent compared to the year prior and included the lowest-rated game in the 40 years since Nielsen started tracking the Fall Classic.
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The company regained the second position behind Cisco in the router market, pushing Huawei down to fourth place in Q3 2012, according to a recent market report by Infonetics Research.
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It hasn't yet been released, but should hit the retail market in the fourth quarter of this year.
Apple fell from fourth to sixth place in market share in the third quarter of 2012, according to IDC.
Apple had 45% of the U.S. market in the fourth quarter, compared with 26.7% for Samsung, according to Strategy Analytics.
Fourth, changes in the market convinced companies that there were significant cost and time-to-market advantages in manufacturing close to customers.
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"We expected a very strong fourth quarter, and the market didn't disappoint, " said Tom Mainelli, research director of tablets at IDC.
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He says there will be 11 ultrabook designs in the market in the fourth quarter, with many more to follow in 2012.
We estimate Apple shipped 17.7 million mobile phones for a record 34 percent share of the United States market in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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According to Strategy Analytics, Broadcom continued to improve its product mix and ranked fourth in the cellular baseband market in the first half of 2012.
Mantega said he expects the economy to rebound in the fourth quarter, something the market does not see at all, and 5% growth by year end 2012.
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Apple overtook Samsung in the key U.S. market during the fourth quarter of 2012, according to Strategy Analytics , boosted by the launch of its iPhone 5.
Nor has it changed an already announced delay in Crestor's launch--the drug is still expected to go on the market in the fourth quarter, and not before.
The evolution of the industry will continue with LED TV panels sales expected to rise to account for more than 50 percent of the global market in the fourth quarter.
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People familiar with Microsoft's product plans have said the company didn't anticipate the rise of sub-8-inch tablets, which comprised nearly half of the tablet market in the fourth quarter, according to IDC.
"While we did see some strengthening of the IT market in the fourth quarter, first-half growth will be moderate and pent-up demand should drive a stronger recovery in the second half of the year, " he said in a statement.
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