Samsung’s profits have fallen dramatically in the third quarter as cheap Chinese brands eat into its market, as the worlds leading smartphone maker struggles to maintain its dominance amid growing completion from the likes of Apple, Xiaomi and Lenovo.
Google could be developing a chat app to rival Facebook’s WhatsApp, targeting developing markets.
Chinese online retailer Alibaba has smashed records with the largest public offering in US history – and is now as valuable as Facebook after just one day on Wall Street.
The number of smartphone shipments will approach 1.2bn this year, an increase of 19% from 985m in 2013, according to new research.
Word-of-mouth marketing online is not just reserved for ‘cool’ brands like Nike or Coca-Cola. Even relatively mundane household cleaning brands can create social media buzz- as shown by this 2011 campaign from Dettol in China that targeted mothers.
Nearly 5% of all global internet users now use adblocking software, following a 69% surge in installations over the past 12 months, according to a new report.
Following the launch of the new iPhone yesterday evening, Marco Veremis , CEO and founder of Upstream, considers the strength of the iPhone’s newest features within the emerging markets, a difficult sector which will be a vital one for Apple to crack over the coming years.
Instant messaging pioneer MSN Messenger is finally being switched off after 15 years, as the once popular hangout for teens has been usurped by Skype and mobile chat apps such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat.
The emergence of wireless technologies, smart products and software-defined businesses are playing a central role in catapulting the volume of the world’s data. Due, in part, to this Internet of Things, the digital universe is doubling in size every two years and will multiply 10-fold between 2013 and 2020 – from 4.4 trillion gigabytes to … [Read more…]
WhatsApp’s user-base has now been increased to 600 million, as the Facebook-owned chatapp stroms ahead of LINE and WeChat as the most popular chat app in the world.