Smartphone Sales To Drop 2.5% In 2019
Global smartphone sales are forecast to drop 2.5% year-on-year in 2019, with 5G handsets tipped to spark a rebound in 2020 –... Read More
June Retail Sales Up, Electronics Strong
Australian retail sales jumped a sharp 0.4% in June, beating economist expectations for a 0.3% lift – buoyed by income tax cuts... Read More
Fitbit Tipped To Launch Apple Watch Dupe With Alexa
Fitbit’s next-gen Versa smartwatch is tipped to feature an OLED screen with Amazon Alexa smarts, in a body closely resembling the market-leading... Read More
LG To Release Rollable OLED TV 2020
Despite receiving over 70 awards and honours at this year’s CES, recent reports claim LG will broadly release its world-first rollable TV... Read More
Zip Shares Up 4% After Big W Deal
Buy-now-pay-later platform, Zip Co Limited, has signed up discount department store, Big W, just a few months after on-boarding rival retailer Kmart... Read More
Panasonic Q1 Profit Down 43% YoY
Japanese electronics manufacturer, Panasonic, has post a whopping 43.6% drop in operating profit for the April to June quarter, blaming strained US... Read More
Telstra CEO Warns 5G A Threat To NBN
Telstra CEO, Andy Penn, has warned high-speed mobile technology (such as 5G) could prove “incredibly damaging” to the National Broadband Network (NBN)... Read More
Samsung Q2 Profit Tumbles 56% YoY
Samsung Electronics has fared a significant a 55.6% year-on-year drop in Q2 operating profit, citing falling memory chip prices. It’s the second... Read More
Tax Refunds Lift Oz Consumer Confidence
Australian consumer confidence lift over the weekend, coinciding with a surge in cashed up customers from tax time refunds. The ANZ-Roy Morgan... Read More
TikTok App Owner To Enter Phone Business
Considered among the world’s most valuable start-ups, ByteDance – the owner of viral video app TikTok – has confirmed it’s releasing its... Read More