Samsung Tablets Overtake Kindle Fire in North America: Study

Samsung is selling a lot of tablets in the United States and Canada, a new study suggests. Samsung products were the most popular type of Android tablet that Americans and Canadians used to surf the web, beating Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets for the first time, online ad network Chitika found.

As ever, Apple's iPad (all versions) was the overwhelmingly dominant tablet, accounting for 77.2% of web surfing on tablets in the second quarter of 2014. Samsung, however, finished strong at 8.3% — a leap up from its 4.7% share a year agoAmazon actually declined over the same period, dropping from 7.4% to 6.1%. Read more...