For the first time, Apple has ousted Ontario-based RIM from the top spot for smartphone shipments in Canada, reports Bloomberg.
In 2011, RIM shipped 2.08 million BlackBerrys in its home market. Apple’s figures for the same period were 2.85 million units, as per data compiled by IDC and Bloomberg.
In 2010, the difference between BlackBerry and iPhone shipments was half a million, in favor of BlackBerry.
iPhone’s increasing popularity in Canada is a clear indication that people in Canada are …

Apple Inc. was the world’s biggest buyer of semiconductors last year, data released on Tuesday by research firm Gartner reveals.
According to the research firm, Apple bought $17.3 billion-worth of semiconductors in 2011, a sharp increase from its spending on semiconductors in 2010.
Apple bought semiconductors worth $12.8 billion in 2010.
The news of the big spending Apple is doing in the semiconductor space comes after the company reported also on Tuesday of its record-breaking revenue …

Social networking website Facebook introduced an app called Facebook Moment of 2011 as a way to celebrate the year 2011 and bring in the year 2012.
 
The Facebook Moment app, which can be accessed here, lets users celebrate and share their most memorable events for the year 2011, which it of course hopes will have been shared on its website during the year. Users can submit their event via the submission form (if they can get it to load) in order to share with the Facebook world the most …

Many watchers have long considered Yahoo to have been outmatched by Google for quite some time; however, stockholders might disagree.
It cannot be said, however that either company did exceptionally well during 2010. Yahoo is currently up 1% in 2010 while Google is down 4.5%.
Google ended up down this year after their run-in with the Chinese government that led them to pull out of the country.
Yahoo entered into a partnership with Microsoft to replace their search engine with the Bing search …