Global smartphone shipments grew 31% annually from 290.2 million units in fourth-quarter 2013 to a record 380.1 million in fourth-quarter 2014, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. "An impressive 1.3 billion ...
Tags: Smartphone Vendor, Electrical
IRL has launched a new edition of its regional title A Profile of the Eastern European Paint Industry. This fully updated report provides market data for 2013 and forecasts for 2018, and gives an overview of the paint industry trends across ...
Posted in Mobile Health by Chris Newmarker on January 30, 2015 Why would two women who visit the doctor with identical early symptoms of multiple sclerosis have vastly different outcomes 10 years later? That’s what pharmaceutical ...
Bloomberg News sat down with Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek Economics Editor, and Susan Lyne, AOL BBG Ventures President, to discuss the American economy, and to try to answer the question: is America roaring back economically? Coy ...
China's top smartphone companies challenged Samsung and Apple with surging sales and revenue in 2014, vowing to scramble for a larger share in a global turf war with the top two makers. As one of the major competitors, telecom behemoth ...
Tags: Smartphone, Samsung, Apple
On February 4, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting to discuss how a new scientific study about a previously unknown contaminant relates to the ongoing cleanup at the Reich Farm Superfund site in Toms ...
Tags: groundwater treatment system, drinking water, Agriculture
A report from the nonprofit organisation, As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), reveals that while there is a rise in the use of plastic packaging across the US market to meet the needs of fast food and consumer ...
Tags: plastic PET bottles, Agriculture
Qualcomm Inc said it expects its newest Snapdragon mobile chip will not be used in a major customer's flagship smartphone, sending its shares lower. The chipmaker said in a statement on Wednesday it expects fiscal 2015 revenue between $26.0 ...
Tags: Qualcomm, Snapdragon, mobile chip
Globally, the Ikea Group's net income for the financial year 2014 amounted to €3.3b – the same as that reported for the previous year. Market conditions continued to improve with strong performance in China and North America, and ...
Tags: stores, Flat Performance, Furniture
There were ten out of twelve months of increasing demand for design services in 2014, and the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) points to a healthy outlook for the nonresidential construction industry. As a leading economic indicator of ...
Tags: nonresidential construction industry, architecture billings, Lights
The age-old parental advice to “eat your fruits and vegetables” has taken hold. From 2003 to 2013, global consumption of fresh foods — fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, and eggs — grew by 20 per cent to ...
Tags: fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, Agriculture
According to the Report on the Operation of the Electronic & Information Industry: January to November 2014, written by the Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT), in the first 11 months of last year, there was steady and ...
According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in China was 2.1 million in Q4-2014. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) ...
The market for chip-on-board (COB) LEDs and multi-chip array COBs will grow significantly from $1.5bn in 2014 to $4.4bn in 2020, including 40% growth from 2014 to 2015, according to the report 'The World Market for COB LEDs in General ...
Australians are drinking 25 per cent less alcohol than 40 years ago, according to a new report prepared by the Australian Liquor Stores Association (ALSA). ALSA said the report, which it said was based on data sourced from the Australian ...
Tags: Liquor Stores, alcohol, Agriculture