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Nuance Communications recorded its highest price since May after Carl Icahn reportedly increased his stake in the speech recognition software developer.

Microsoft's Windows Phone boosted its smartphone market share from 3% to 4% allowing it to take the third highest position in the market.

Telstra's mobile market share in Australia rose to 50% as its income beat analysts' projections.

Android-powered smartphones continued to reign with its growing market share while iPhone and BlackBerry's sales plunged in the second quarter.

Analysts said there's nothing wrong with Apple grabbing the silver medal since it also took a third of the global market share.

Apple turned things around and sought for Samsung phone sales ban in its home market.

Fusion-io posted a large quarterly loss due to advertising costs and expenditures associated with the absorption of NexGen Storage's workers.

The five publishers that conspired with Apple objected to the US restrictions sought by the government against Apple in the e-book court case.

BlackBerry lost its third place position in a race for major smartphone platforms.

The US Court of Appeals renewed the patent claims that Apple filed against Google's Motorola Mobility.

Samsung would benefit from its failure to block the US imports of Apple products.

Xiaomi Tech has overtaken Apple's market share in China with 0.2% lead.

According to analysts, Apple should focus on the growing smartphone markets like China and India.

Analysts said Apple must make its own smartphone trade-in program to boost its sales.

Steve Milunovich, an analyst from UBS, said Apple's iPhone M would outsell the company's flagship smartphone iPhone 5s next year.