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Klaus Mittelbach, CEO of Germany’s ZVEI trade association, has predicted that sales of electrical goods in the country will rise 0.5% this year, to almost €174 billion. Results from last year’s sales are still being calculated, but ZVEI is confident that growth will be positive. Sales were up 2.4% YoY between January and November, and sales … Read more
ZTE reported a 94% increase in net profit for 2014, at CNY2.6 billion ($420 million), thanks mostly to growing sales of smartphones in its overseas markets. Turnover for the year was 8% higher at CNY81.2 billion ($12.9 billion). The company aims to double smartphone sales to 20 million units in the US market this year and has … Read more
‘People with direct knowledge of the matter’, speaking to Bloomberg, have said that Samsung will not use Qualcomm processors in its upcoming Galaxy S6 smartphone. The company will instead use its own microprocessors, after testing revealed that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chip overheated. LG, meanwhile, has said that the G Flex 2 will be launched with … Read more
TV panel prices have remained steady in early January, as global top tier brands are still showing strong demand, DisplaySearch data shows. Samsung and some leading Chinese vendors (with reasonable levels of demand in emerging markets) are still ordering panels to meet Q1’15 forecasts. DisplaySearch says that panel makers currently intend to keep increasing the … Read more
To expand vehicle panel module production, Japan Display will invest NT$800 million ($25.5 million) into Taiwan-based subsidiary Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics. Sources in Asia said that the investment should raise Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics’s monthly substrate production to 450,000 by the end of 2016 (currently 180,000) and create 400 new jobs.
According to CEO John Chen, Acer plans to double its smartphone shipments this year, to about 10 million units. The company’s smartphones are now available in 53 countries worldwide.
The BB Business Bureau of Argentina estimates that there were almost 8.1 million pay-TV subscribers in Colombia at the end of 2014, up 4.3% YoY. Official figures from the Autoridad Nacional de Television put the number at 5.1 million; the BBBB’s result includes estimates for piracy and industry under-reporting, adding 15% and 11% to the total, respectively. … Read more
At the end of 2014 digital TV subscribers in Montenegro, across all platforms, fell 0.8% (1,242) QoQ, but were up 3.8% (5,692) YoY. The total subscriber base was 154,393, representing 79.26% of households. IPTV remained the leading platform (41.63% share), followed by DTH (33.27%) and MMDS and cable (12.97% and 11.8%, respectively).
The Google stand was, naturally, dominated by Chromebooks – Google’s low-cost notebook product that is seeing rising adoption in the education market. However, the main news was Google Play for Education (GPE): an initiative for devices running the company’s Android OS, and which is now being launched in the UK. GPE provides teachers with a … Read more
LG Electronics has introduced a new set-top box that will bring the power and convenience of its Pro:Centric Internet-protocol television (IPTV) platform to even more hotel rooms. Available now, LG’s new hotel set-top box, the Pro:Centric Smart STB-3000, provides advanced smart interactive IPTV functionality as well as a broad range of compatible third party System … Read more
The recently-published 20th edition of the European Audiovisual Observatory’s Yearbook shows that Europe’s AV sector remained flat for a second year in 2013, despite the rise of VoD services that year. For the third year running, the market generated revenues near to €133 billion, although 2013 was the first time a slight (0.1%) fall was … Read more
Netflix has revealed that its customer base grew by 13 million last year, comparing favourably to the 11.1 million customers added in 2013. The result brings the company’s total subscribers to 57.4 million. 4.33 million were added in Q4’14. Netflix expects to end 2015 with 61.4 million members.
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