LCD TV Panels, 4K Units Set Records In March: IHS
Santa Clara, Calif. — LCD TV panel shipments reach a record monthly high in March, according to research from IHS, reaching 23.9 million units,...
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Santa Clara, Calif. — LCD TV panel shipments reach a record monthly high in March, according to research from IHS, reaching 23.9 million units,...
Washington – Consumers plan to spend about $1.9 billion on CE gifts for their moms this Mother’s Day. According to a survey conducted for...
Dallas – The percentage of broadband U.S. households subscribing to a subscription OTT (over-the-top) video service has grown to 55 percent from 2013’s 44...
Port Washington, N.Y. — Total video game sales slid 6 percent in March, dragged down by decreasing hardware sales, according to figures from The...
New York — Vinyl-album sales continued to surge in the first quarter, rising 53 percent in units compared with the year-ago quarter, Nielsen found....
Palo Alto, Calif. — Nearly 1 million people pre-ordered the Apple Watch on the first day it became available, according to research firm Slice...
Port Washington, N.Y. –The NPD Group launched a home automation service that includes consumer panel-based reporting, U.S. point-of-sale data, and analysis from NPD analysts....
Chicago — Carrier stores, carrier websites and independently owned carrier-branded stores continue to dominate smartphone sales to consumers, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) found...
Port Washington, N.Y. — Video game sales continued their upward momentum in 2015, propelled by strong results in portable hardware. Total video game sales...
Beloit, Wis. — Demand for smartphones, tablets, wearables, and wireless headphones and speakers will be among the CE industry’s growth categories in 2015, based...
Somerville, N.J. — Music streaming at home, in the car and on the go continues to rise, and people are listening more through cellphones,...
Waban, Mass. — Amazon beat Apple in offering the best customer experience among tablet and computers makers in the U.S., a consumer survey by...
El Segundo, Calif. — Annual shipments of connected-audio products will surge at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 88 percent, from 1.5 million...
Boston — The number of households subscribing to a pay-TV service shrank slightly in 2014, and cord cutting threatens to take the subscriber base...
San Diego – Research company gap intelligence launched a weekly competitive-intelligence service covering smartphones at retail. The company is tracking more than 1,000 device...
Santa Clara, Calif. — 4K TVs and a rebound in notebook computers helped drive growth in large-panel display shipments and revenue, according to the...
Boston – Combined shipments of Apple and Samsung tablets fell below 50 percent for the first time in the U.S. and globally in 2014,...
Stamford, Conn. – The number of used cellphones sold privately by their owners is growing rapidly in mature markets because of demand from consumers...
London — Apple’s fourth-quarter share of smartphone sales exceeded Android-phone sales in the U.S. in for the first time in any quarter since the...
Chicago – The launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus didn’t cause a bigger spike in the percentage of U.S. iPhone buyers who...
Boston – Apple tied with Samsung as the world’s largest smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter, thanks to surging sales of its iPhone 6...
Chicago — Smartphone activations repeated history in the fourth quarter when Apple’s iOS surged to account for more cellphone activations than the Android OS,...
Port Washington, N.Y. – A new study predicts 40 percent of U.S. Internet-connected homes will have a streaming-media player by the end of the...
Chicago – Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) sees iPhone average selling prices (ASPs) rising in last year’s fourth quarter and iPad ASPs falling based...
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) has completed its year-end list of mostand least-beloved companies, based on interviews with over...
Chicago – The strength of Apple’s iPhone launches last September boosted its share of cellphones sold in the U.S. to 50 percent in the...
Minneapolis — Target said it hit the bull’s-eye with record-breaking m- and e-commerce results this past holiday season. According to the No. 2 discount...
Dallas – The global smart-watch market will grow at a CAGR of 96.8 percent from 2014 through 2019 for a 13-fold gain from 2014...
Washington — Retail sales for CE and appliance dealers rose 6.8 percent in December year-over-year, representing the third-strongest showing by channel behind only car dealers...
Arlington, Va. — Consumer sentiment toward the overall economy reached a record level in December, the Consumer Electronics Association said with the release of...
London – Global consumer electronics sales rose 4.5 percent in 2014 to a factory-level $707 billion, driven by 24 percent growth in cellphone and...
Port Washington, N.Y. — Overall U.S. retail sales revenue for video game hardware, software and accessories declined 11 percent in the month of November...
San Diego — Market research firm Gap Intelligence launched GapCompare on Tuesday, described as an online research tool to help dealers and distributors quickly...
BRISBANE, CALIF. — CE manufacturers should focus their promotional firepower on millennials to get the biggest bang for their marketing buck. The group, generally...
Washington — Fewer consumers plan to shop today’s Cyber Monday than last year, according to a survey commissioned by the National Retail Federation, preferring...
ARLINGTON, VA. — A record-breaking 103.3 million Americans will shop online between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday this year, up by 6.1 million shoppers over...
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — TV is back in business. According to a poll conducted one week out from Thanksgiving, 34 percent of consumers plan to...
Dunstable, England — Global smart-TV shipments are on course to reach 228 million units by 2018, but TV manufacturers may be starting to reassess...
Port Washington, N.Y. — Sales of 4K and Ultra HD TVs have hit $668 million so far this year, marking growth of nearly nine...
Dallas – Sixty-two percent of broadband-connected households in the U.S. are unfamiliar with smart home products, almost 70 percent don’t know where to buy...
Round Rock, Texas – In another sign of reinvigorated PC demand, Dell said this week that it continued to see growth in its client...
Westlake Village, Calif. – Amazon ranked highest in overall satisfaction for the first time in J.D. Power U.S. tablet satisfaction study, edging out Apple...