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IDC: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

IDC forecasts total IT spending by small and medium-size businesses to be nearly $602 billion in 2018, an increase of 4.9% over 2017. With a CAGR of 4.7% for the 2016-2021 forecast period, spending …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 06

IDC: India Smartphone Market Finishes Strong in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

According to IDC, the Indian smartphone market witnessed a healthy 14% annual growth with a total shipment of 124 million units in 2017, making it the fastest growing market amongst the top 20 smartphone …

Tags:IDC| India| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 06

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Kagan: European SVOD Will Continue to Grow Over Next Five Years

by Andrew Fenn

The OTT subscription online video-on-demand market in Europe will keep growing over the next five years, according to Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. The research company is projecting the …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| SVOD| Vol 25 - Issue 06

LG’s OLED TV Sales Up 220% YoY in January 2018

by Andrew Fenn

LG said that its Korean sales of high-end OLED TVs surpassed 14,000 units last month—that’s one sold every three minutes—according to Yonhap. In contrast, the company sold 5,000 OLED TVs in January 2017, which …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| OLED TVs| Pricing| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Smartwatches Outselling Swiss Watches Again

by Andrew Fenn

After a slow 2016, global smartwatch shipments grew 40% year-on-year during 2017 and are now outselling Swiss watches once again, according to Strategy Analytics. New models from Apple and Fitbit were reported to be …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 25 - Issue 06

IHS: Chinese Panel Makers Catching Up in LTPS LCD Panel Shipments for Mobile

by Andrew Fenn

Total shipments of mobile phone displays, including TFT LCD and AMOLED panels, reached 2.01 billion units in 2017, up 3% from 2016, according to preliminary estimates from IHS Markit. In the growing mobile phone …

Tags:BOE| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Tianma| Vol 25 - Issue 05

WitsView: TV Vendors Aim to Regain Profits by Specs Upgrade

by Andrew Fenn

According to WitsView, a division of TrendForce, global shipments of branded LCD TV sets for 2017 totalled 211 million units, a decrease of 4.1% compared with the previous year. This is the lowest result …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TV Set Market| Vol 25 - Issue 05

IDC: China Smartphone Market Declined by 4.9% in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

According to preliminary data from IDC, the China smartphone market declined 15.7% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2017 and 4.9% for the whole of 2017. Tay Xiaohan, Research Manager of IDC Asia Pacific’s …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 05

IDC: Detachable Tablets Return to Growth During the Holiday Season

by Andrew Fenn

The worldwide detachable tablet market grew to 6.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of 10.3% from the previous holiday season, according to preliminary data from IDC. Growth for the …

Tags:Convertible PCs| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 25 - Issue 05

IDC: Apple Overtakes Samsung in Global Smartphone Market

by Andrew Fenn

A slower-than-expected 2017 holiday quarter closed out the year bringing minimal change to the worldwide smartphone market when compared to 2016. According to preliminary data from IDC, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 403.5 …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Yole Looks at MicroLED Patent Developments

by Bob Raikes

Yole Développement was at CES and looked at developments in microLED. The show highlighted the increasing interest in LED and the firm emphasised the developments from Samsung and Lumens (Lumens Idea of MicroLED is …

Tags:Market Data| MicroLED| Patents| Vol 25 - Issue 05