Layoffs at BlackBerry affect 200 workers, including BBM co-founder
BlackBerry is a company in transition as it looks for ways to remain relevant in the highly competitive smartphone marketplace. While it’s latest smartphone, the BlackBerry Priv,...
Manufacturers
Motorola brand name to be phased out; “Moto” will still be around though
Anyone who knows anything about mobile communications will know the impact that the Motorola brand name has had on the industry – like pioneering the industry, for...
HTC’s Cher Wang defiantly declares HTC will never disappear
In today’s smartphone market climate, we really wouldn’t be surprised to hear that struggling brands like HTC and Sony might depart the industry in the not-too-distant...
Management that “doesn’t understand software” blamed for Samsung’s poor mobile performance
There are a lot of things that could be blamed for Samsung‘s poor mobile performance in recent years – arguably it’s a industry-wide shift rather than one...
Dongjin Koh is the new president of Samsung’s mobile business
It was only a matter of time before things were changed up at the top in Samsung‘s mobile division, and the Korean manufacturer moved to make those...
HTC launches the HTC Preview program to give people an early look at devices and software updates
HTC is struggling – let’s be honest, it’s not completely their fault (falling profit margins for all manufacturers not named Apple can’t be helping) but some...
Samsung executives to see pay cuts in the light of company hardships
Things are not good at Samsung – profits are falling, lay-offs have hit their workforce, and even the work culture at the Korean manufacturer has come...
Samsung CEO has called for a change in culture at Korean manufacturer
Yesterday, we heard an analyst predict that Samsung would exit the smartphone business in 5 years because it was suffering from the phenomenon known as “The...
Analyst predicts Samsung will be forced out of the smartphone market in 5 years
There are quite a few signs that the smartphone industry is an increasingly difficult place to sell premium devices with premium price tags – and that’s...
Reports of layoffs at Samsung surface again, 30% of workforce mentioned
Samsung has had a year of ups and downs – all of the Korean manufacturer’s flagship smartphones have been received extremely well by both media and...
Sony is building a new smartphone factory in Thailand
It’s no secret that Sony‘s smartphone business is facing some trying times. The Japanese manufacturer has publicly floated the idea of leaving the mobile industry if its...
Samsung is relocating its European headquarters to Warsaw, Poland
Poland isn’t an unfamiliar place to Samsung – most of its software updates are tested and released there first. As it turns out, it’s going to...
BlackBerry could exit hardware market if sales don’t pick up
We heard yesterday that Sony’s CEO Kazuo Hirai is considering 2016 to be a make-or-break year for Sony’s smartphone business, and it appears that the same...
Next year is make-or-break for Sony’s smartphone business
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that Sony‘s smartphone business has been in trouble for some time now. Despite releasing by far their best smartphones to...
Samsung predicts that it had a killer third quarter, shares jump accordingly
It’s been no secret that all Android manufacturers, even Samsung, have been struggling to turn a profit in the premium flagship category, a category that has...
Microsoft and ASUS agree on expanded patent licencing agreement
Microsoft‘s name has appeared in more Android news that most manufacturers in recent news, primarily due to its recent push for Microsoft apps to be fully...
Samsung denies that it is about to layoff workers, says it’s only “relocations”
Yesterday, it was alleged that Samsung was about to cut 10% of its workforce at its Korean headquarters, however Samsung denies that it is about to layoff workers...
Samsung is about to cut 10% of its workers from its headquarters
Even Samsung isn’t immune to the premium smartphone downfall that has taken hold in the industry this year. Samsung has been bleeding for some time now,...
The premium Android smartphones are seeing falling profits despite critical acclaim
It’s been an ongoing narrative in 2015 that many in the tech industry are afraid to acknowledge, but sadly it’s becoming more of an inevitable fact...
Bloomberg reveals that Chinese manufacturer ZTE is number four in the US
A few years ago, if we had asked you if you had heard of Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE, many of you would have answered “no”. In...
