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Acer to Double Smartphone Shipments

by Tom Allen

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.

Tags:Acer| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Colombia Passes 8 Million TV Subs – Unofficially

by Tom Allen

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 …

IPTV Continues to Lead in Montenegro

by Tom Allen

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 …

New Google Play Highlights Software Focus

by Tom Allen

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 …

Pay-TV and VoD Fails to Compensate for Falling AV

by Tom Allen

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 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Netflix tops 57m subs; accelerates expansion

by Vanessa Browning

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 …

Tags:IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Celestica Result 21/01/2015

by Helen Vince

Celestica Inc. has announced its fourth quarter and full year results, recording a net loss in Q4 of $4.4 million compared with a net profit in the final quarter of the previous year of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

NEC Display Solutions Names DACH Sales Manager

by Helen Vince

NEC Display Solutions Europe has appointed Christian Krämer as channel sales manager for its business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In his new role, he will be responsible for the company’s entire retail business with …

HP Focuses on Business for Mobility

by Tom Allen

HP has unveiled eight new mobile devices for enterprise and education use, running Windows or Android. The company has not shared full specifications for some of these units yet, however. We saw several of …

Tags:HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 04

New Director General Named for Acer France

by Helen Vince

Acer has named Angelo d’Ambrosio as the new country manager of its business in France. He replaces Daniel Trachino who held the position since 2009 and who has now been appointed to lead Acer’s operations in …

Dixons Carphone Raises Profit Forecast

by Helen Vince

Dixons Carphone described the Christmas trading period as a “rollercoaster” after the huge scale and success of its Black Friday promotions impacted the three weeks that followed. However, customers responded positively to the Boxing …

Tags:Dixons| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

UK Minister Calls for Single Economy

by Tom Allen

Vince Cable, the UK’s secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, has called for the creation of a single digital economy in Europe. In a speech in Lisbon, Cable said that such a market …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04