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Amazon NFL Live Streaming Achieved 18.4m Total Viewers

by Andrew Fenn

Amazon has announced that it reached a total of 18.4 million viewers during its first season live-streaming NFL’s Thursday Night Football. Live matches were shown every Thursday night to 224 countries and territories via …

NGCodec raises $8 million in Funding

by Bob Raikes

Codec developer, NGCodec, which is working on HEVC and V-Nova and has Xilinx as an investor, has raised $8 million in Series A funding bringing the total funding raised by the company to $15.9 …

Tags:Codecs| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 02

PC Market Achieves Positive Holiday Quarter Shipment Growth

by Andrew Fenn

Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totalled 70.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, recording slightly positive (0.7%) year-on-year growth, according to IDC. The results outperformed the forecast of …

December Slower for Taiwanese Companies

by Yvette Raikes

Foxconn Technology Corporation posted December sales of NT$18.9 billion ($639 million), down 6.3% MoM but up 250.4% YoY. For the year, turnover reached NT$148.4 billion ($5.0 billion), an 84% increase. Parent company Foxconn Electronics …

Asus and MSI Achieve Half of All Worldwide Shipments in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

According to unconfirmed reports coming out of Taiwan, Asus and MSI shipped around 2.5 million gaming notebooks in 2017, accounting for approximately half of all worldwide shipments. Mid and high-range gaming notebooks were among …

December Small Shipments Up Except for CPT

by Yvette Raikes

Small and medium panel shipments for the four main Taiwanese LCD companies we track were 111.272 million in December, up 10.8% MoM and 1.3% YoY. AU Optronics reported December revenue of NT$25.84 billion ($873.8 …

Flex Develops AR Headset Using ‘Sketch to Scale’ Concept

by Bob Raikes

Flex has been trying to promote the range of design and manufacturing facilities that it is able to provide to brands, with its ‘Sketch to Scale’ tag line. The company saw that there are …

Taiwanese Companies See Slower December

by Yvette Raikes

Acer announced December revenue of NT$21 billion ($711 million), down 10.9% MoM but up 11.6% YoY. This brought sales for the year to NT$232.7 billion ($7.9 billion), up 2%. The company commented that the …

CY Vision Completes Series A Funding

by Andrew Fenn

Hakan Urey.We missed it at the time, but thought it was interesting that CY Vision, a vision systems and applications company, has officially closed its Series A funding round totalling $7 million, led by …

NBC and Intel Partner on Live VR Coverage of Winter Olympics

by Andrew Fenn

NBC has announced it will partner with Intel and its True VR technology, to provide 50 hours of VR coverage of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. NBC subscribers will be able to access the coverage …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 02

BARB Reveals Netflix UK Subscriptions are Slowing Down

by Andrew Fenn

The Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB) has released a new whitepaper, which shows that, while Netflix subscriptions in the UK are slowing down, Now TV, which is owned by Sky, is beginning to close …

Bagtag Confirms Lufthansa

by Bob Raikes

Bagtag, which told us earlier in 2017 at PTE (BagTag is Getting There…) that it was ‘very close’ to announcing some support for its E Ink-based baggage labels, has now confirmed that Lufthansa, Swissair …