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Danielle Levitas
Group Vice President, Consumer, Broadband and Digital Marketplace

Team:
Digital Marketplace and New Media
Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts

Facebook's New Home on Android
Danielle Levitas, John Jackson, Ramon T. Llamas, William Stofega
Apr 2013 - Doc # lcUS24059613      IDC Link
On Thursday, April 4, 2013, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook Home for Android. The announcement comes at a time following numerous rumors and much speculation whether Facebook would launch its own smartphone, despite Zucke ...
Cisco Expected to Jettison Linksys
Jonathan Gaw, Danielle Levitas
Dec 2012 - Doc # lcUS23887012      IDC Link
Rumors of Cisco putting its Linksys home networking unit up for sale is both a long time coming and a mild surprise.Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg has reported that Cisco has hired Barclays PLC to find a buyer for Linksys, which Cisco fi ...
Nokia Launches HERE, Integrating and Upleveling Its Location Assets
Danielle Levitas
Nov 2012 - Doc # lcUS23788412      IDC Link
The lead author for this IDC Link is John Jackson.At a media event in San Francisco today, Nokia announced "HERE," a rebranding and repositioning of its location and mapping services, namely Navteq and Nokia Nokia Location and Commerce. The ...
Cisco C-Scape 2012: An Overview of the Event
Vernon Turner, Chris Lewis, Courtney Munroe, Danielle Levitas, Lee Doyle
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcUS23552712      IDC Link
At the recent Cisco Live event in San Diego, Cisco's Chairman of the Board and CEO, John Chambers, told a crowd of over 17,000 technology professionals, "We need to focus on collaboration. It's social, mobile, virtual, and visual." His keyn ...
Microsoft Announces Surface-Branded Windows 8 and Windows RT Tablets
Tom Mainelli, Al Gillen, Danielle Levitas
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcUS23550112      IDC Link
Microsoft announced plans Monday to launch two self-branded tablets — one called Surface for Windows RT and one called Surface for Windows 8 Pro — later this year. The announcement, made at an invitation-only press event reminiscent of past ...
VIZIO Announces Entry into PC Market with Style
David Daoud, Danielle Levitas, Steven Buehler, Tom Mainelli
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcUS23546512      IDC Link
Following the initial announcement to launch a line of PCs at CES 2012, flat-panel TV and computer accessory manufacturer VIZIO, headquartered in Irvine, California, announced the release of its lineup of personal computers. The new VIZIO P ...
WWDC 2012: MacBook Pro Steals Limelight as iOS 6 Pushes UX Envelope
Danielle Levitas, Bob O'Donnell, Scott Ellison
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcUS23538212      IDC Link
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco is where the company sets the priorities for its developers and shows consumers and competitors alike where the market is going in the coming one to two years. Apple's greatest ...
HP Unifies Personal Systems and Imaging and Printing Groups, Consolidates Global Marketing and Communications, Realigns Global Accounts Sales
Crawford Del Prete, Angèle Boyd, Danielle Levitas, Richard Vancil
Mar 2012 - Doc # lcUS23392512      IDC Link
Earlier today, HP announced that it is combining its Imaging and Printing (IPG) and Personal Systems Group (PSG) into a single unit, The Printing and Personal Systems Group. Executive Vice President Todd Bradley (previously the Executive VP ...
HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source Community
Tom Mainelli, Scott Ellison, Danielle Levitas, Crawford Del Prete
Dec 2011 - Doc # lcUS23209911      IDC Link
Today, HP's CEO and President Meg Whitman made the best of a bad situation and announced that HP would turn over webOS — which it acquired on July 1, 2010, when the company purchased Palm — to the open source community. The company also sai ...