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FlexTech Alliance Secures $75 Million DoD Funding

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded FlexTech Alliance $75 million in federal funding to establish and manage a Manufacturing ...

Carrefour Result 10/16/15

Carrerfour reported a rise in turnover of 4.1% (ex-petrol) to €21.5bn ($23.9 billion), growing 4.2% organically for Q3. For the first ...

AUO Debuts Circular OLED at CITE

AUO recently showed a range of new products at the China Information Technology Expo 2015, in Shenzen. As well as its ...

Steljes Back at Avocor – Expands to the US

After the failure of his long term distribution business, Steljes, which both profited from and developed the strong market for Smart ...

Fraunhofer IPMS Presents MEMS-based 3D Laser Scanning Technology at Vision 2014

Laser Scanning Technology – Fraunhofer researchers have developed a 3D laser scanner with a light-travel time measurement system that is based on ...

LG OLEDs Line the Sky Shuttle Lift

The lift, known as the Sky Shuttle, that takes visitors to the Seoul Lotte World Tower observatory level has floor to ...

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ZTE Sees 94% Jump in 2014 Profit

by Helen Vince

ZTE reported a 94% increase in net profit for 2014, at CNY2.6 billion ($420 million), thanks mostly to growing sales of smartphones in its overseas markets. Turnover for the year was 8% higher at CNY81.2 …

Tags:Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 06| ZTE

Samsung Drops Qualcomm

by Vanessa Browning

‘People with direct knowledge of the matter’, speaking to Bloomberg, have said that Samsung will not use Qualcomm processors in its upcoming Galaxy S6 smartphone. The company will instead use its own microprocessors, after testing …

Tags:Chips| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 04

TV Panels Remain Steady and Monitors Fall in January

by Vanessa Browning

TV panel prices have remained steady in early January, as global top tier brands are still showing strong demand, DisplaySearch data shows. Samsung and some leading Chinese vendors (with reasonable levels of demand in …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Vehicle Panels to Rise With JDI

by Tom Allen

To expand vehicle panel module production, Japan Display will invest NT$800 million ($25.5 million) into Taiwan-based subsidiary Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics. Sources in Asia said that the investment should raise Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics’s monthly substrate production to 450,000 by …

Tags:Automotive| Investment| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Acer to Double Smartphone Shipments

by Tom Allen

According to CEO John Chen, Acer plans to double its smartphone shipments this year, to about 10 million units. The company’s smartphones are now available in 53 countries worldwide.     

Tags:Acer| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Colombia Passes 8 Million TV Subs – Unofficially

by Tom Allen

The BB Business Bureau of Argentina estimates that there were almost 8.1 million pay-TV subscribers in Colombia at the end of 2014, up 4.3% YoY. Official figures from the Autoridad Nacional de Television put the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Montenegro digital TV connections

IPTV Continues to Lead in Montenegro

by Tom Allen

At the end of 2014 digital TV subscribers in Montenegro, across all platforms, fell 0.8% (1,242) QoQ, but were up 3.8% (5,692) YoY. The total subscriber base was 154,393, representing 79.26% of households. IPTV …

Tags:Cable| DTV| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Satellite| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 05

New Google Play Highlights Software Focus

by Tom Allen

The Google stand was, naturally, dominated by Chromebooks – Google’s low-cost notebook product that is seeing rising adoption in the education market. However, the main news was Google Play for Education (GPE): an initiative …

Tags:Android| BETT 2015| Chromebooks| Google| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 05

LG Launches Pro:Centric Set Top Box For U.S. Hospitality Market

by Vanessa Browning

LG Electronics has introduced a new set-top box that will bring the power and convenience of its Pro:Centric Internet-protocol television (IPTV) platform to even more hotel rooms. Available now, LG’s new hotel set-top box, …

Tags:Hospitality TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| STBs

Pay-TV and VoD Fails to Compensate for Falling AV

by Tom Allen

The recently-published 20th edition of the European Audiovisual Observatory’s Yearbook shows that Europe’s AV sector remained flat for a second year in 2013, despite the rise of VoD services that year. For the third …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Netflix tops 57m subs; accelerates expansion

by Vanessa Browning

Netflix has revealed that its customer base grew by 13 million last year, comparing favourably to the 11.1 million customers added in 2013. The result brings the company’s total subscribers to 57.4 million. 4.33 …

Tags:IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Uncertainty Surrounds Exterion Media

by Helen Vince

Exterion Media, which said earlier this month that it is ‘exploring strategic alternatives’ for the company, is reported to have announced a round of job cuts this week at its London base. Among the …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 22 - Issue 05