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The Silicon Angle blog has highlighted the rumours about new smartphones at CES. As well as the four LG phones we reported on (LG Boosts Volume Phone Offerings) and the TCK Blackberry (Blackberry Confirms TCL (Alcatel) Deal). The site said that Samsung will have three phones, including the Galaxy A3 with 4.7″ HD display, the … Read more
Forbes.com has said that it believes that HTC will suffer poorer sales and market share in VR during 2017 because of difficulties in sourcing enough OLED displays for its Vive headsets. The site quoted Jason Tsai of Trendforce as the source of the story.
Popai Italia has decided to change its name to the “Retail Institute Italy” and has signed a deal to join the EHI network which is based in Germany and represents 500 retailers in Germany. The move follows a change by the US ‘historic leader’ to join the Association for Retail Environments and become Shop!
Sharp has confirmed that it is executing on its plan to take back more control of the Sharp-branded TV business via a majority investment in Skytec UMC, the parent company of UMC of Slovakia, which is the licensee for the Sharp TV brand in Europe and is running the plant in Poland that had formerly … Read more
Digitimes of Taiwan said that Asustek is looking to get out of the tablet business by re-allocating R&D and sales staff to other business areas. Meanwhile, the blog said that Gigabyte is doing the same to re-allocate staff away from smartphones and handset peripherals. The Taipei Times recently pointed out that changes by the Indian … Read more
GWS Displays in Shenzhen, China is a company that is not well known to Display Daily readers – there are no hits on “GWS” for either free or subscriber-only news on the Display Daily website. The company is said to have invented the transparent LED display in 2011 and is currently the world’s largest supplier. … Read more
V-Nova Ltd., a leading provider of video compression solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Arttek, a leading Turkish distributor, in a move that extends the company’s footprint in Turkey and expands its existing distribution network. Arttek in Turkey constitutes the latest addition to the V-Nova Partner programme, and will act as an official … Read more
V-Nova said that it has done a deal with Arttek to extend the distribution to Turkey and will sell to local pay-TV operators, broadcasters and mobile service providers. V-Nova hopes that Working with a leading regional distributor will pave the way for developments in high growth areas, including VR and 360º video, UltraHD and High … Read more
Microvision had a busy holiday period and confirmed that it has sold 2 million shares worth $1.07 to Ben Lawrence-Farhi, after he was unable “for logistical reasons” to take part in a recent public offering of shares which raised around $13 million for general corporate purposes and was full subscribed. Separately, the company said that … Read more
eMagin said that it has arranged a $5 million revolving credit facility for working capital. The money will be used for general corporate purposes including funding the inventory build for the company’s recently launched consumer products, BlazeSpark and BlazeTorch. The facility has a term of three years and will provide borrowing capacity based on the … Read more
Huawei is reported to be planning to try to sell two million 13.3″ and 15.6″ clamshell notebooks in 2017 and will be supplied by Pegatron and Quanta, according to unconfirmed reports from Taiwan. The sources report that the notebooks will be available in the market in Q2 2017 and may be targeted at Europe, where … Read more
Zaxel Systems said that it would be in the Central Hall (18226) with China America Electronics Corporation Ltd (Catronics) booth at LVCC Central Hall, showing an 8K server that will be driving a CEC Panda display at 120Hz with 10 bits. The server has eight DisplayPort 1.2 or HDMI 2.0 outputs and can play back … Read more
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