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Ocean Outdoor has acquired Forrest Media, a leading provider of large format outdoor media solutions in Scotland, for £200 million ($267.7 million). The deal expands Ocean’s national footprint and enhances its position as a large format digital-out-of-home operator in the UK, with an offering which will now include Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh and the … Read more
As global smartphone shipments reached 345.5 million units in the first quarter of 2018, Apple iPhone X was the leading model, with 12.7 million units shipped. According to IHS Markit, iPhone 8 ranked second, shipping 8.5 million units, followed by the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus, iPhone 8 Plus and Galaxy S9 Plus. IHS Markit’s … Read more
Mediatek has a new chip, the Helio P22 application processor for ‘new premium’ high end mid-tier devices and uses a 12nm manufacturing process, also used on the P60 which was announced earlier this year. (MediaTek Sales to be Boosted by Helio P60 Shipments to China in 2018 Q2) The processor has support for dual high … Read more
In May large panel shipments for the “big four” rose 13.2% MoM and 9.1% YoY to 20.928 million. AUO saw monthly revenue of NT$25.744 billion ($862 million), an increase of 5.2% MoM but down 8.3% YoY. This brought turnover to date to NT$124.665 billion ($4.2 billion), a drop of 13.7% YoY. The company shipped 11.2 … Read more
76% of TV viewers now subscribe to a traditional pay TV service, down from 86% in 2014, according to Horowitz Research. Just 71% of 18-34 year-olds subscribe to a traditional pay TV service, compared to 75% of 35-49 year-olds and 81% of viewers aged 50 or over. Viewers report watching an average of 6.5 hours … Read more
The Entertainment and Media (E&M) sector will be worth £76bn by 2022, up from £68bn this year, according to PwC’s latest Global Entertainment & Media (E&M) Outlook 2018-2022. Overall, the market will grow by £8bn over the next four years, making the UK the second largest market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), … Read more
PwC predicts that the Entertainment and Media sector will be worth £76 billion by 2022, up from £68 billion this year, and that the UK’s virtual reality sector will be the fastest growing segment with a CAGR of 34% over the next four years. With more than 7.8 million VR headsets forecast to be cumulatively … Read more
CES Asia, to be held June 13-15, 2018 in Shanghai, China, has announced its Innovation Awards. I’ve been focusing recently on AR and VR and two of the awards caught may eye. The first was from HiScene, an AR company that makes the HiAR G100 AR HMD which it targets at the enterprise market. The … Read more
At the Computex event, Asus has shown Project Precog, a clamshell notebook design base on a dual display concept that runs in stand, book, tent and flat mode and uses one of the displays as both a display and a touch keyboard. The keyboard can be in the upper or lower part of the display, … Read more
Fabrication of blue and green LEDs – whether for conventional LED signage or emerging microLED applications – has typically started with a GaN epitaxial layer on sapphire. But the limited size of sapphire substrates and the lack of wavelength uniformity may make this approach too costly for microdisplay applications. Allos Semiconductor and Plessey Semiconductor have … Read more
New research from Parks Associates shows that ownership of streaming media players has risen from about 6% of US broadband households in 2010 to almost 40% at the beginning of 2018. The data indicates that Amazon’s share of streaming media players owned in US broadband households has increased by 4% since last year, taking some … Read more
Apple has been served with a $5 million class-action lawsuit in California, which claims that the company has sold millions of smartwatches with defective screens, since its original Apple Watch in 2015, through to the Series 3 Apple Watch, which launched in 2017. The claim reads, “The Watches all contain the same defect and/or flaw, … Read more
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