Chinese consumer electronics giant Huawei said on Tuesday that it had shipped 100m smartphones in 2015. The company said that the number represented a 3 000% increase over 2010 and
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Global smartphone shipments are losing steam, but lower-priced devices and the African market are likely to be engines of growth, says an international research organisation. International Data Corp last week forecast that global smartphone growth
Information and communications technology spending in South Africa is forecast to grow by 2,6% year-on-year to R26,6bn in 2016. This is according to International Data Corp, which says that mobile devices will largely be responsible for growth in this sector
Korean electronics giant Samsung is leaving its smartphone rivals in South Africa in its dust, according to market research. Samsung grew its local smartphone market share to 56,6%, well ahead of Vodacom’s smartphone brands at 7,6% and Huawei (6,9%), according to
Mobile operators have made a significant contribution to the sub-Saharan economy in the past year, an international organisation has found. According to the GSM Association, the mobile industry
PC sales in Africa and the Middle East fell by a massive 25,6% in the second quarter of 2015, the steepest decline ever recorded in the region for a single quarter, International Data Corp said on Monday. Overall PC shipments for the quarter fell to 3,3m
Cheaper tablets are driving growth for this segment in South Africa, a report says. According to data from International Data Corp, tablets recorded 56% growth in the country, with lower-priced devices leading the charge
Sales of tablet computers recorded their first ever regional year-on-year decline in the first quarter of 2015, according to new research from International Data Corp (IDC). Shipments of tablets to Africa and the Middle East declined by 5,8% to 3,8m
Shipments of PCs to Africa and the Media East slumped by 9,6% in the first quarter of 2015, new research by International Data Corp shows. Shipments to the region totalled 4,3m units in the first three months of the
The state, through the Industrial Development Corp (IDC), intends to invest R100bn in job-creating activities in the next five years, including R23bn specifically to promote industrialisation owned and managed by blacks. This was announced