Meanwhile, number four Asus saw its share slip from 7.8% to 5.8% despite continued strong shipments of its Google-branded Nexus 7 tablet and the highest year-over-year increase in the top five at 402.5%.
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Yields on 10-year Spanish government bonds climbed to the highest level of the year, while Italian 10-year yields rose to the highest level since February.
In terms of tourism, Scottish lochs and rivers support one of the largest wild salmon populations in Europe with rod catches reaching almost 90, 000 last year, the sixth highest year on record.
Official figures show that annual net migration to the UK in 2010 was 252, 000 - the highest calendar year figure on record.
Wal-Mart, for example, pulled back for three days in a row at the end of October, shortly after rallying to what were then the highest levels of the year for the stock.
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Based on the 3-month rolling average that WSTS (the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics) uses November sales were the highest month of the year and the first month of 2012 to come in higher than the same month of 2011.
The poverty rate was 15.1%, up from 14.3% in 2009, the second highest jump ever in the year after a recession, and the highest level since 1993.
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Job growth in the area was, amazingly, the highest in the country last year.
Compared to the previous year, the highest-end category of luxury watches, haute horlogerie, experienced a 7% increase in brand interest.
They show for all the banks a combined net profit of JPY 1.76 trillion, a 2.2 fold increase over the previous year, the highest level in four years.
David Petraeus, are due to report next month on how much progress is being made with the buildup, which now has some 162, 000 troops, the highest of the four-year-old war.
The United States is in the midst of a miraculous supply boom that has seen domestic oil output soar by more than 1 million barrels per day in the past year to the highest levels in decades.
The deal has worked out great for CBS. In 2009, the first under the new deal, the game drew a 4.2 overnight rating, up 75% from the previous year and the highest overnight rating for the Army-Navy game since 1999 (4.9).
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That's not his normal title he's a technical program manager who works on Google's privacy and security team but his love of the extreme outdoors led him and his colleagues to start organizing visits to the highest mountains throughout the past year and a half.
The seven-year-olds in the highest meat category were eating 12 or more portions a week, and the three-year-olds were having more than eight portions.
In a sign of further volatility, the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield hit 1.0%, the highest in nearly a year.
Siemens has expanded the leading position it held last year in the two assessment categories Compliance and Risk Management and this year received the highest points possible in each category.
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The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage, which is closely tied to yields on the 10-year Treasury, rose to 3.9% on Tuesday, the highest level in a year, according to HSH.com, a financial publisher.
Just look at the list of the highest earning movies of the year so far.
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Its study says the figure is the highest since 2007, the year before the global economic crisis struck.
The council areas showing the highest percentage increase over the year to February 2013 were Larne, 24.8%, probably reflecting the lay-offs at FG Wilson, Magherafelt, 16.1%, and Ards, 11.3%.
Our plans call for the fourth quarter to show the highest earnings growth of the year, with increasing contributions from pricing actions we have taken to partially offset significant commodity cost increases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said more than 41, 000 cases of whooping cough were reported to the agency last year, the highest level in more than 50 years and more than double the 2011 total.
Unlike last year, when China sent its defence minister, Liang Guanglie, to the Shangri-La Dialogue, this year the highest-ranking Chinese delegate was a senior military academic, Lieutenant-General Ren Haiquan.
The number of job vacancies in the economy increased by 10, 000 to almost half a million at the end of last year, the highest number for four years.
The figure was the highest in one year since testing became widely available in 1985.
Fourth quarter revenues were the highest of the year, growing 15 percent to KRW 2.81 trillion (USD 2.58 billion) quarter-on-quarter.
By way of contrast, the highest 3-year monetary base growth that had been observed prior to 2008 was 85.1%, in 1941.
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She is probably more concerned with inflation which rose to 6.7% in the last 12 months, the highest level all year.
Nike launched in June a campaign for its new action sports line and has had the highest income this year since 2008.
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