Vol 23 – Issue 30 – Page 6

JCDecaux Wins Japan’s Largest Bus Shelter Contract

by Tom Allen

The Japanese subsidiary of JCDecaux, MCDecaux (85% owned by JCDecaux and 15% by Mitsubishi) has won a tender for the supply of advertising on bus shelters in Tokyo. The tender, which will run for …

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JCDecaux Result 01/08/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

JCDecaux reported half year 2016 net profit of €80.4 million ($90 million), up 1.1% YoY from €79.5 million ($89 million). Turnover was €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion), up 10.8% YoY from €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion). …

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Microsoft to Cut Almost 3,000 More Jobs

by Tom Allen

Microsoft has revisited its plans to cut 1,850 jobs in its smartphone division (Microsoft Restructures Smartphones and Cuts Jobs) – but not in a good way. In addition to the already-announced cuts, Microsoft will …

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Pro Display’s Transparent Screen Used at Farnborough

by Isaac Oburu

Ouno Creative used Pro Display’s transparent touchscreen to deliver an interactive experience in the GKN Aerospace pavilion at this year’s Farnborough Air Show in the UK. The display was a 65″ multi-touch transparent LCD …

Vufine Jumps on the Pokémon Bandwagon

by Norbert Hildebrand

After the surprising success of the Pokemon Go augmented reality game, it was only a question of time before augmented reality headset makers embraced this new application. The first to go public in offering …

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Ubimax Joins Vuzix VIP Programme

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix Corporation has announced that Ubimax, a supplier of industrial wearable computing solutions, has joined the Vuzix Industrial Partner (VIP) programme, by invitation. As a VIP, Ubimax will be able to translate its software …

E Fun is Ready for Term Time

by Tom Allen

E Fun has designed its new convertible tablet for the back-to-school season. The Nextbook Flex 11A runs Windows 10 on a quad-core Intel Atom processor, with Microsoft Office Mobile. Control is possible through the …

Eutelsat Result 29/07/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Eutelsat reported full year 2016 net profit of €348.5 million ($390 million), down 2% YoY from €355.2 million ($398 million). Turnover was €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion), up 3.6% YoY from €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion). …

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Innolux Result 29/07/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Innolux reported Q2 2016 net loss of NT$3.5 billion ($110 million), down from NT$8.6 billion ($271 million) in the previous quarter. Turnover as NT$ 66.8 billion ($2.1 billion). Panel shipment volume increased 24.4% sequentially …

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Sky Will Launch VR App This Summer

by Isaac Oburu

During its full year results announcement, Sky said that it will launch its VR app this summer.

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Sky Base Up, but Churn Spoils the ‘Party’

by Isaac Oburu

Pay-TV broadcaster Sky reported a gain of 808,000 new customers in the past year. Churn is at 11.2%, and has been blamed on price increases and fewer discounts offered to renewing customers.

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Fove Showcases New Design for VR Headset

by Milos Pavlovic

Fove showed designs for a new VR headset at Siggraph last month. The concept has a head strap and cable-management system different from the original prototype, which had a plastic wrap-around piece.

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