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TV and Smartphones to Drive 3D

Allied Market Research (AMR) has predicted that the global 3D display market will be worth $112.9 billion by 2020, with a CAGR of 26.8% from 2014. More than 65% of revenue will be contributed by TVs and smartphones; AMR predicts that half of all TVs will have 3D by 2018. Stereoscopic and auto-stereoscopic will remain … Read more

CCO to Split Management of US and International Units

Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) is to separate the management of its US and international businesses, just three years since the two units were brought under the control of a single CEO. William Eccleshare, who has served as group CEO since 2012, will relinquish responsibility for the US and will become CEO of Clear Channel International … Read more

Microsoft to Close Two China Phone Plants

Microsoft is reported to be planning to close two mobile phone manufacturing factories in Dongguan and Beijing, China by the end of this month. The two plants were previously operated by Nokia and came to Microsoft when it acquired the Finnish phone company last year. The closure was anticipated when Microsoft announced last summer a … Read more

Coretronic Expects Monitor BLU Growth and Tablet Fall

Sources at Coretronic say that the company expects its shipments of backlight units to rise 10% YoY in 2015. Total shipments last year were just under 93 million units: a 20% YoY increase. Q4 shipments were down 11% QoQ, to 23.5 million, of which 6% were TV backlights, 25% were for monitors, 33% for notebooks … Read more

No One Company Rules PMA’s January Projector Data

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in January. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘large venue’. Optoma took the top spot in the large venue category, with the EH501. Epson had the second- and third-best-selling models: the Powerlite 1940W and 1980WU. ASK Proxima’s C520 … Read more

Cambrios and Heraeus Announce New Conductive Material

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Cambrios and Heraeus have announced a new class of flexible, transparent and conductive material. Both companies already produce materials that produce such conductive layers. Heraeus is the supplier for Clevios a PEDOT:PSS organic solution, while Cambrios is the supplier of Clear Ohm silver nanowires. Both materials are already in use by customers and now they … Read more

Monitor Market Finishes 2014 Slightly Up

The European Desktop Monitor market managed to end the year just 1% up on 2013, according to Meko’s DisplayCast service. Although the growth was low, it follows four consecutive years of decline. “There was a huge number of CRT monitors replaced by the first LCD monitors between 2005 and 2009 and those monitors are coming … Read more