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China market: Booming online smartphone sales to affect vendor rankings
Source: DIGITIMES Efforts by China-based smartphone vendors to push sales through online trading is likely to result in significant impacts on sales volumes and vendor rankings in the China market in...
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HTC eyes 15pc market share in India
Source: Business Standard Taiwan-based handset manufacturer HTC plans to raise its share of the Indian smartphone market to 15 percent in two years. The company recently announced its foray into the...
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Philippine telco launches new retail payment solution Globe Charge
Source: Retail in Asia Philippine telecommunications company Globe Telecom recently launched Globe Charge, a new retail payment solution, providing small and medium business (SMB) owners an...
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China's Xiaomi leads Asia's low-cost smartphone drive
Source: The Malaysian Insider Xiaomi may be little known outside China, but the fast growing smartphone maker is at the forefront of a new wave of Asian brands challenging the dominance of Apple and...
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Xiaomi finding its groove in China smartphone market
Source: DIGITIMES With interesting designs, superior pricing and an innovative marketing strategy, China-based smartphone vendor Xiaomi was able to become the top local brand in China in the first...
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18m smartphones sold in Southeast Asia in Q1
Source: Retail In Asia Smartphone sales in Southeast Asia where six of the seven markets are developing markets continue to increase month aftermath and posted 43 percent growth in the first quarter...
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Report:Australian retailers not meeting needs of omni-channel shoppers
Source: RetailTech Innovation Approximately 65 percent of the Australian population owns a smartphone and over half (52 percent) of users are now using smartphones in the shopping process, but less...
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Chinese vendors outpace smartphone market
Source: Retail In Asia Chinese OEMs more than outpaced the smartphone market in the second quarter of 2014, preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile...
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"China's Apple" knocks Samsung off top spot in China
Source: CNBC China's upstart smartphone maker, Xiaomi, has overtaken Samsung as the biggest smartphone vendor in China, intensifying pressure on the South Korean technology company.In the second...
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More vendors launching selfie phones
Source: DIGITIMES More smartphone vendors have shifted focus to upgrading the front-end cameras of their new models, particularly adding the selfie functionality and related applications, according...
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Outlook for smartphone sales remains strong for 2014, says IDC
Source: Retail In Asia More than 1.25 billion smartphones will be shipped worldwide in 2014, representing a 23.8% increase from the 1.01 billion units shipped in 2013, according to a new mobile phone...
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124m smartphones sold in Southeast Asia in past 12 months
Source: Retail In Asia Total smartphones sales in the last 12 months in seven Southeast Asian markets nearly 120 million units, reflecting a 44 percent increase in volume and 24 percent increase in...
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Xiaomi defends its smartphone business model
Source: The Wall Street Journal Online Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. said its international expansion plans are dictated by choosing markets where its low-cost business model will work well...
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Japan's Rakuten Inc launches cheap smartphone service
Source: The Malaysian Insider Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc said it will offer a cut-rate smartphone service for about a third of the monthly fees charged by the country's three dominant...
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Xiaomi jumps to world's no. 3 smartphone vendor
Source: Retail In Asia Xiaomi is now the number three smartphone vendor in the world, next to Samsung (no. 1) and Apple (no. 2), research firm IDC reported recently.The research firm said the...
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India is fastest growing smartphone market in Asia-Pacific
Source: Retail in Asia India was the fastest growing market in Asia-Pacific for smartphones with a quarter-on-quarter growth of 27 percent in the third quarter of 2014. Research firm IDC said the...
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Rakuten Mobile expands smartphone line-up
Source: Retail In Asia Fusion Communications Corp., the telecommunications company of the Rakuten Group, has expanded its lineup of smartphones with two new models.Along with the opening of a counter...
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Mobile shopping to double China’s e-commerce market by 2020
Source: RetailTech Innovation Increasing smartphone ownership and investment from retailers are fuelling the rapid growth of m-commerce in China.New research from OC&C Strategy Consultants...
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Samsung loses pole position in India smartphone market to Micromax
Source: The Malaysian Insider Indian budget smartphone maker Micromax leapfrogged South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to become the leading supplier in India's booming smartphone market for the...
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Alibaba invests in Chinese smartphone maker Meizu
Source: Retail in Asia Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce company, said on Sunday that it will invest USD590 million for a minority stake in Meizu, one of China's leading smartphone...
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