Huawei’s smartphone struggles are hitting it hard in China

Posted on 05/03/2021 by Engadget

US trade bans against Huawei are having a very tangible effect on the company's sales at home. Counterpoint Research now estimates that Huawei's China market share dropped to 16 percent in January 2021. For context, the tech giant had a 41 pe...

Chromebook demand more than doubled in 2020 due to the pandemic

Posted on 31/01/2021 by Engadget

It’s no secret that Chromebook demand surged in 2020 as people were forced to work and learn from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s now clear just how much demand there really was. According to 9to5Google, Canalys estimated that Chromebook...

Xiaomi overtook Apple in smartphone sales last quarter

Posted on 30/11/2020 by Engadget

The smartphone world is bouncing back from the early days of the pandemic, and there’s been a changing of the guard as a result. Gartner estimates that Xiaomi overtook Apple in phone sales during the third quarter of 2020, climbing from 32.9 million...

EVs are a rare bright spot in a pandemic-struck European car market

Posted on 02/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It’s no surprise that car sales were down globally in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. But despite Europe being hit hardest by that decline, battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars increased their market share across the EU from seven...

Huawei boosts smartphone sales in China by a whopping 66 percent

Posted on 30/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

In spite of US sanctions, Huawei is doing just fine in China. The company's domestic smartphone shipments increased 66 percent year-over-year, according to a report by market research firm Canalys. In the last quarter, Huawei shipped 41.5 million dev...

Samsung’s midrange phones helped its market share surge in Europe

Posted on 12/08/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Samsung might have good reason for suggesting that midrange phones could help it escape its profit slump. Canalys estimated that Samsung was thriving in Europe in the second quarter of 2019 thanks partly to its midrange phones, surging to 40.6 perce...

It’s not just the Apple Watch powering the smartwatch market’s growth

Posted on 02/05/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

The smartwatch market is still growing at a breakneck pace several years in. Counterpoint Research estimated that smartwatch shipments jumped by 48 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2019 -- no mean feat in a season that's typically quie...

Icahn’s Letter To Apple: The Missing Key Points

Posted on 27/01/2014 by forbes

Carl Icahn tweeted on Thursday, January 23, announcing that he had bought another $500 million of Apple’s stock that day ($1 billon over the past week) bringing his total to $3.6 billion and...

Best Buy is a Dinosaur and Canary

Posted on 24/01/2014 by forbes

You might be tempted to lump recent news about Best Buy’s disappointing holiday performance into the long-running narrative about that retail giant’s slow slide toward irrelevance and extinction. Don...

Windows Phone is in Danger

Posted on 24/01/2014 by forbes

Everyone was expecting Nokia’s smartphones sale in Q4 2013 to go up, with estimates that it would break 10 million units. Instead they sold 8.2 million Lumia handsets, a sequential drop on the...