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Reg Bailey, chief executive of UK charity Mother’s Union, has said that British parents are some of the most likely in Europe to neglect their children. Bailey cited a Unicef study, examining the behaviour of families from the UK, Spain and Sweden. He said that parents are letting ‘screens take over’ family time. The spread … Read more
Analysts in South Korea have lowered their expectations for Samsung’s third quarter profit because of the tough market conditions in which Samsung operates. They cite falling ASPs, the absence of any major product launches and the anticipated arrival of Apple’s iPhone 6 as reasons for the negative forecast for Samsung’s mobile and IT business. Similarly, … Read more
Clear Channel Outdoor is reported to have sold its Russian business to its general director in Russia, Sergei Kolesnikov. Reports suggest that Clear Channel Outdoor had concerns about the political situation in the region as well as instability in the market. Clear Channel Russia originally operated 3,000 advertising locations in Moscow, St Petersburg and elsewhere … Read more
Cree and Lextar Electronics have entered into a supply agreement for sapphire-based LED chips, with Cree gaining approximately 13% of Lextar through an $83 million investment. The deal also includes a royalty-bearing license agreement for certain Cree LED chip and component intellectual property. The deal will make Cree the second-biggest stakeholder in Lextar after AU … Read more
The European Commission has set a new date of 3rd November 2014 by which it will decide whether to approve or reject Liberty Global’s proposed acquisition of Dutch cable operator Ziggo. Earlier this month, the EC halted its investigation of the deal as it was waiting for Liberty to provide more information (Display Monitor Vol … Read more
Earlier this year, German media claimed that Eizo (Eizo Japan and Eizo GmbH in Karlsruhe) had blocked the business activities of IT company S-Cape GmbH. S-Cape alleged that Eizo had ‘poached’ its employees and instigated the betrayal of trade secrets. The former S-Cape employees denied the claims and said that they had ended their employment … Read more
Loewe has announced that it now intends to maintain its manufacturing base in Germany, having signed a strategic deal last year with Hisense to produce the major hardware components of its products in China. The company’s co-CEO, Mark Huesges, told Reuters that there would not be a cheaper version of any Loewe product as the … Read more
A Reuters report suggests that Qualcomm could be facing an investigation by the European Commission into an allegation of anti-competitive behaviour made by a subsidiary of Nvidia four years ago. British firm Icera was acquired by Nvidia in 2011, after it had already made a complaint to the EC in June 2010 accusing Qualcomm of … Read more
Samsung and LG have signed agreements with Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) to pay approximately $19 million to settle a cartel investigation involving the Brazilian LCD market. The two companies had been under investigation in Brazil since 2008 for alleged price-fixing practices, as part of the wider global investigations into the LCD cartel … Read more
This week we are highlighting LCD Public Displays in the 46″ Full HD category covering sizes 43.5″ to 48.49″ with 1920 x 1080 resolution. There are 11 brands featured in the advertising. Samsung is at the top of the PageShare for the combined three major countries, NEC Displays is second and Philips is third. The … Read more
As I wrote to readers this week, we are in the process of combining Display Monitor and Large Display Report into a new publication, Large Display Monitor (the creativity of the naming is astounding, isn’t it?). The plan is to release the new issue next week as the LDR has been on a monthly cycle … Read more
The Public Display market in Europe was 21.6% up on an annual basis but was flat compared to Q1 in Q2 of 2014 according to Meko’s DisplayCast market research service. “We’ve recently revised our PD forecast to be seasonal”, said Bob Raikes, principal analyst of Meko Ltd. “When we started the service, we designed our … Read more
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