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Apple, Samsung Tablet Shares Fall In 2014
Boston – Combined shipments of Apple and Samsung tablets fell below 50 percent for the first time in the U.S. and globally in 2014,...
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Gartner Sees Rising Tide Of Used Phones
Stamford, Conn. – The number of used cellphones sold privately by their owners is growing rapidly in mature markets because of demand from consumers...
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Kantar: Apple Tops In Q4 U.S. Smartphone-OS Share
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...
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CIRP: No Big Spike In iPhone Buyers Who Dumped Android
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...
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Apple, Samsung In Global Smartphone Tie In Q4
Boston – Apple tied with Samsung as the world’s largest smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter, thanks to surging sales of its iPhone 6...
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Survey: iOS Gets 50% Of Q4 Cellphone Activations
Chicago — Smartphone activations repeated history in the fourth quarter when Apple’s iOS surged to account for more cellphone activations than the Android OS,...
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40% Of Homes To Get Streaming Players
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...
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iPhone ASPs Up, iPad ASPs Down In Q4, Survey Finds
Chicago – Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) sees iPhone average selling prices (ASPs) rising in last year’s fourth quarter and iPad ASPs falling based...
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Survey: iPhones Grab 50% Share Of Q4 U.S. Phone Sales
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...
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Target Cites Mobile-riffic Holiday Season
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...
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Global Smart Watch Market To Grow 13-Fold In 5 Years
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...
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Dec. CE/Majap Retail Sales Soared 7%: Feds
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...
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Consumer Sentiment Toward Economy Rises: CEA
Arlington, Va. — Consumer sentiment toward the overall economy reached a record level in December, the Consumer Electronics Association said with the release of...
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Futuresource: Global CE Sales Rose 4.5% In ‘14
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...
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TWICE/Mode Media Exclusive: Millennials Lead In CE Neediness
BRISBANE, CALIF. — CE manufacturers should focus their promotional firepower on millennials to get the biggest bang for their marketing buck. The group, generally...
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Shoppers Playing Patient This Cyber Monday: NRF
Washington — Fewer consumers plan to shop today’s Cyber Monday than last year, according to a survey commissioned by the National Retail Federation, preferring...
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Consumers To Break Holiday Shopping Records: CEA
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...
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TVs On One-Third Of All Holiday Shopping Lists: Report
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — TV is back in business. According to a poll conducted one week out from Thanksgiving, 34 percent of consumers plan to...
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Holidays Look Brighter For 4K This Year: NPD
Port Washington, N.Y. — Sales of 4K and Ultra HD TVs have hit $668 million so far this year, marking growth of nearly nine...
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Parks: Home-Automation Awareness Low
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...
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Dell Cites Study Showing PC Share Growth
Round Rock, Texas – In another sign of reinvigorated PC demand, Dell said this week that it continued to see growth in its client...
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Survey: Amazon Rises To Top In Tablet Satisfaction
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...
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Sept. CE Retail Sales Surge 6%
Washington — Never underestimate the power of an iPhone launch. Last month’s rollout of Apple’s 6 series sent retail sales soaring for mobile merchants,...
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CIRP: New iPhones Off To Faster Start Than Last Year
Chicago – Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus accounted for a larger percentage of iPhone sales in their first weeks of availability than last...
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IDC: Q3 PC Shipments Beat Estimates
Framingham, Mass. — Worldwide PC shipments dropped 1.7 percent to 78.5 million units in the third quarter, marking a sizable improvement over prior forecasts...
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Holidays Look Bright For Retailers: CEA
Arlington, Va. — The 2014 holiday season will see the highest levels of consumer spending on CE since 1994, according to the Consumer Electronics...
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Nielsen: Music Streaming Mainstream
New York – Music streaming, personal music libraries and smartphones account for major shares of consumers’ daily music listening, a Nielsen survey confirms. A...
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Consumer Tech Spending Attitudes Remain Strong: CEA
Arlington, Va. — Consumer confidence metrics reported by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today remain seasonally strong, but down slightly compared with last month....
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August Sales Edge Up 1.7% For CE/Majap Dealers
Washington – Retail sales rose 1.7 percent in August for electronics and appliance specialty stores, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. According to the agency’s...
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CEDIA Survey: Residential Installers’ Revenues Surge
Denver — Custom integrators are seeing residential install revenues rise at a faster pace in 2014 than 2013 because their projects are growing in...
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Q2 Ultra HD TV Shipments Top All Of 2013
Santa Clara, Calif. – Second quarter global shipments of 4K Ultra HD (UHD) TV sets surpassed all UHD shipments for full year 2013, according...
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CEA: Consumer Confidence Hits High Mark For 2014
Arlington, Va. — Consumer sentiment towards the economy reached its highest level this year in August, according to the latest figures released today by...
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CE Leads Back-To-School Sales Surge: Report
New York — Solid back-to-school sales of CE boosted chain store sell-through by 3.8 percent last week. According to The International Council of Shopping...
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July Majap Shipments Up 7.1%: AHAM
Washington — The appliance industry’s hot streak continued in July, with factory shipments of white goods rising 7.1 percent year over year. According to...
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CE/Majap Retail Sales Up 1.3% In July
WASHINGTON — CE and appliance retailers shrugged off the traditional summer slump and bumped up sales 1.3 percent in July. According to preliminary estimates...
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Consumers Favor Digital Coupons: Report
Austin, Texas – Digital coupons remain the most potent form of retail promotion, a new Forrester study shows. The report, commissioned by online discount...
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OTT Video Market To Grow 21%
Boston — The North American market for over-the-top (OTT) video streaming is forecasted to grow 21 percent in 2014 — hitting $10.7 billion, according...
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Kantar: Android Share Up Again In U.S.
London — The Android operating system increased its share of U.S. smartphones sold in the second quarter on a sequential and year-over-year basis, a...
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Futuresource: 3D Printing To Reach $7.5B By 2018
London — 3D printing is poised to grow into a $7.5 billion global market by 2018 as the technology evolves beyond industrial applications into...
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2nd-Half Retail Sales To Rise 3.9%; June CE Sales Edge Higher
Washington – Retail sales are expected to grow significantly faster over the next five months, according to a forecast by the National Retail Federation...
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Study: UHD TV Shows Slow, Steady Growth
El Segundo, Calif. — Global penetration of Ultra HD TVs continued to show slow and steady growth at the end of May, but is...
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Connected TV Use To Reach 204M By 2017
Port Washington, N.Y. — More than 204 million connected TV devices will deliver apps to U.S. homes linked to the internet by 2017, according...