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Comcast Preparing to Outbid Disney in Sky Acquisition Battle

by Andrew Fenn

Subject to the approval of AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner, Comcast is apparently prepared to pay $60 billion in cash to acquire most of 21st Century Fox’s assets, including a 100% share of Sky, …

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Mitsubishi Electric Result 27/04/2018

by Vijaya

Mitsubishi Electric Corp announced its fourth quarter and full year consolidated financial results for fiscal 2018 ended on March 31, 2018. Net sales for Q4 2018 were ¥1,316 billion ($12.01 billion), an increase of …

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Siewert & Kau Adds Dell EMC Interactive Touch Screens to Its Portfolio

by Andrew Fenn

Siewert & Kau has announced it has added large-format displays from Dell EMC to its distribution portfolio. Products include interactive touchscreens in sizes ranging from 55″ to 86″, designed for small conference rooms and …

HTC Has a Positive Blip

by Bob Raikes

HTC has come to the end of eleven consecutive quarters of losses to hit a profit of NT$21.1 billion ($708 million) for Q1, following the sale of its smartphone ODM business to Google. (HTC …

Acer Gaming Products Booming

by Bob Raikes

Taiwan sources say that Acer is up 190% on a year on year basis in its gaming product lines in April with 113% year to date growth compared to 2017. Chromebook and enterprise notebook …

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Asahi Glass Result 08/05/2018

by Vijaya

Asahi Glass Corporation announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018. Net sales for Q1 2018 were ¥372.5 billion ($3.40 billion), an increase of 11.1%, compared to ¥335.3 billion ($3.06 …

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LG Launches The Google Assistant On 2018 AI-Enabled TVs

by Damir Lokas

LG Electronics USA announced the Google Assistant is launched on its 2018 AI TV line-up. This includes both LG OLED TVs and LG SUPER UHD TVs with ThinQ AI, which will deliver cutting-edge AI …

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Hisense Roku TV 4K UHD R7 Smart TV Series Now Available

by Damir Lokas

Hisense, a global technology leader, announced the availability of its Hisense Roku TV 4K UHD R7 Smart TV Series. The R7 is the latest TV series in the partnership between Hisense and Roku to …

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Meitu Partners with British Museum to Launch Limited Edition Smartphone Aimed at Female Consumers

by Damir Lokas

Meitu, Inc. (Meitu) (Stock code: 1357.HK), China’s leading mobile Internet company with its apps installed on more than 1.5 billion unique devices, has unveiled a limited edition of its V6 smartphone, a joint project …

Store More Images, Videos and Content with the New 128GB and 256GB Galaxy S9 and S9+

by Damir Lokas

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced that the award-winning Galaxy S9 and S9+, reimagined for the way we communicate, share and experience the world, will now be available to U.S. consumers in 128GB and 256GB …

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Nikon Doing Well with G10.5

by Bob Raikes

The Nikkei has reported that Nikon has been able to boost its sales of photo-lithography systems for G10.5 fabs from just three in the last fiscal year to fifteen to twenty per year. Nikkei …

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April Sees Reduction in Small Panel Shipments

by Yvette Raikes

Overall small and medium panel shipments for the “big four” fell 5% MoM in April to 92.92 million, although this was up 5.2% from last year. AU Optronics posted revenue for April of NT$24.477 …