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Apple Results 02/01/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Apple Inc. announced its FY17 Q1 results with consolidated sales of $78.3 bn and net income of $17.9 bn, resulting in a net profit margin of 23%. The operating income for the quarter was …

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Com Hem is looking to fibre to increase the popularity of its Boxer Digital Terrestrial Television service. Many customers churning from Boxer say they would have stayed if a fibre broadband service had been …

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$1.8 Billion VC Funding for VR/AR in 2016

by Bob Raikes

Last year, the funding for VR/AR companies reached $1.8 billion, ending much higher than in 2015. According to Greenlight Insights year-end analysis of individual deals back to 2011, both median-deal size and the total …

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Fitbit Results 02/01/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Fitbit, Inc. announced its preliminary FY16 Q4 results with net sales of $580 mn, which was significantly lower than the company’s quarterly guidance of $725-750 mn. The quarterly sales showed a healthy increase of …

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Kyocera Result 02/01/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Kyocera Corp. announced its FY17 Q3 results with consolidated sales of ¥361 bn ($3.1 bn) and net income of ¥34.7 bn ($297 mn), resulting in a net profit margin of 9.6%. The quarterly sales …

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Dell Adds Exertis in Norway

by Isaac Oburu

Exertis Captech has been appointed by Dell to sell its solutions in Norway in addition to Tech Data.

Xiaomi Appoints Infoquest

by Isaac Oburu

Infoquest is now the official Xiaomi distributor in Greece following appointment by the company.

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JDI Demonstrates Flexible LCD on Video

by Bob Raikes

We found a video online from AVWatch in Japan that shows the flexible video that JDI announced last week. (JDI To Make Flexible LCDs in 2018) Analyst Comment It’s interesting to note that the …

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Videocon Sees Net Subscriber Growth of 250,000

by Alan Spencer

Videocon of India has seen net subscriber growth of 0.25 million in the third quarter of 2016, with this net subscribers totaled 12.77 million at the end of 2016. Churn was 0.87% per month …

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iPhone 7 Plus Survives 13 Hours in Russian Icy River

by Alan Spencer

Apple’s iPhone 7 is only officially classified as surviving immersion at a depth of one metre (3.3 feet) for 30 minutes. However, an incident occured during an ice fishing trip in Russia that showed …

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Planet Desert Tours with AV Stumpfl Screens

by Matthew Brennesholtz

AV Stumpfl VarioClip Screens will be used in the ongoing 150 venue “Planet Desert” multimedia tour by Michael Martin. Martin takes all his own multimedia equipment along, including a 20,000 ANSI Lumen Panasonic PT-DZ21 …

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GTG and QMA Report 150 Million RMB Investment

by Bob Raikes

The Guanghui Technology Group and Quantum Materials Asia Co., Ltd., a joint venture of GTG and Quantum Materials Corp, reported an investment by the China Government Guidance Fund of 150 Million RMB ($21.8 million) …

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