Samsung and LG to make huge investment in Vietnam
Samsung and LG plan to make additional investment in Vietnam, the Vietnamese government said on Tuesday.
The announcement comes after Samsung cut smartphone production in Vietnam twice this year...
Apple may shift iPad production to India from China
Apple has started negotiations with India to bring some of the iPad production to the country from China, CNBC report said.
Apple announced earlier this...
Samsung names a female executive as president
Samsung Electronics has promoted a female executive to the president of global marketing for its mobile business, in the first move to tap a...
Android-based smartphones to reach 1,037 mn: IDC
Shipments of smartphones will decline 9.1 percent to 1.24 billion units in 2022, according to IDC.
While a recovery of 2.8 percent is still anticipated...
Samsung India to hire around 1,000 engineers
Samsung, India’s largest consumer electronics brand, is planning to hire around 1,000 engineers for its R&D institutes across India.
Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, Samsung R&D...
Smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia dip 4% in Q3: Canalys
Smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia dropped 4 percent in Q3 2022 to 23.5 million units, the lowest level in the region since Q1 2020,...
Apple iPhone production at Foxconn plant to hit ahead of holiday season
Foxconn is likely to face significant drop in production of Apple iPhones at its plant in China in November after the latest bout of worker...
Foxconn apologises for pay-related error at China iPhone plant
Apple’s major supplier Foxconn said a technical error occurred when hiring new recruits at a COVID-hit iPhone factory in China and apologised to workers after...
Foxconn’s iPhone plant in China faces unrest and production disruptions
Hundreds of workers have joined protests at Foxconn’s iPhone plant in China as a result of strict COVID-19 controls.
Reuters news report has published a timeline of...
Operators to lose $2.5 bn of business messaging revenue to OTT apps
Mobile operators will lose $2.5 billion in 2023 to OTT business messaging providers such as Messenger, WeChat and WhatsApp, according to a new Juniper Research study.
The...
UK investigating Apple, Google mobile browser dominance
Britain’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the dominance of the mobile browsers of Apple and Google.
Google Android has around 71 percent share in...
Indian electronics industry agrees to roll-out uniform charging ports
The Indian government said electronics industry stakeholders in India have agreed to a phased roll-out of USB-C type uniform charging ports for devices including...
Smartphone market dips 6.8% to 3.9 mn in Philippines: IDC
Smartphone shipments in the Philippines dropped 8 percent Quarter-on-Quarter and 6.8 percent year-on-year to 3.9 million units in Q3 2022, according to IDC.
“Phone vendors took...
Indonesia’s smartphone market dips 12.4% in Q3: IDC
Indonesia’s smartphone market recorded 12.4 percent YoY decline and 14.6 percent Quarter-on-Quarter (QoQ), reaching 8.1 million units in Q3 2022, according to IDC.
The smartphone market...
