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I was struck this week by a statistic highlighted by Statistica, that Apple has generated $53.4 billion in profits in the last year, making it the most profitable company of all time, with the biggest quarter of its year still to come. The growth should continue in the fourth quarter as Apple is still growing … Read more
Arrow Electronics reported Q3 net profit of $109.2 million, down 26% YoY from $146.9 million. Turnover increased 2% YoY to $5.7 billion from $5.6 billion. For the nine month period, net profit was $339.2 million, down by 11% YoY from $381.9 million. Turnover for the period was $16.5 billion, up 1% YoY from $16.37 billion.
Sharp Corp. reported Q2 net profit of only JP¥ 3.5 billion ($29 million), a steep decline of nearly 86% YoY. For the 6 month period, the company registered a net loss of JP¥83.6 billion An increasingly loss-making display business was responsible, with 2 bailouts already in its wake. Pressure due to declining smartphone display demand … Read more
Ingram Micro reported Q3 net profit of $65 million, a 10% decline YoY from $72 million. Turnover was down 6% YoY at $10.5 billion from $11.2 billion. For the 9 month period, net profit was $73.9 million, nearly half of the previous year’s 9 month period. Turnover was flat for the 9 month period at … Read more
LG Display is said to be looking to the small-size OLED market, increasing its efforts to market these types of screens at Chinese vendors. Asian sources say that the company is talking to both Oppo and Vivo about supply them with more panels, offering them ‘major discounts’ as they ramp up production of OLED handsets. … Read more
Google is to ‘kill off’ the Chrome OS, according to the Wall Street Journal – sort of. Actually, Chrome will be folded into Android. The new combined OS will be revealed in 2017, but an early version is expected to be shown next year, according to sources. The move is a recognition of the fact … Read more
LeTV has set a shipment goal of 10 million units for its new smartphone, the Le1S (Sharp Supplies Panel for 120″ TV).
Innolux reported Q3 financial results with a net profit of NT$ 3.5 billion, the lowest in five quarters, down 52.7% YoY. Turnover hit a five year low with a 21.5% YoY decline, at NT$ 88.75. In spite of higher volume of small and medium TV panels, Innolux failed to increase it’s profitability, primarily on account … Read more
Panasonic’s Toughpad line of rugged tablets holds several UltraHD models, and the company has just introduced its first model running Windows 10. Going by the name of FZ-Y1, the 20″ ‘tablet’ features a new processor, graphics engine and storage options. Aimed squarely at business users, the unit runs Windows 10 Professional (which can be changed … Read more
Time Warner Cable’s residential video customers fell by 7,000 in Q3 – its best third quarter since 2006. Last year, the company lost 184,000 subscribers in Q3.
ARHT Media Inc. (Toronto, Canada) has developed and is commercializing a display system that the company has named Augmented Reality Holographic Technology (ARHT). The first point to note is that the term holographic is used in the product name, company literature and in articles written about the ARHT product. As is so often the case … Read more
It’s true, UHD TVs with a reduced subpixel count really do exist. And it seems that even the well-known brand LG has no qualms about launching Ultra HD televisions with cut-down definition. Could this ultimately do a disservice to the triumphant introduction of UHD resolution? I think so – and I would like to offer … Read more
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