AND THE WINNER IS?
Every four years Latam thrives on football feast. For Latam, this event is far more important than the Olympics or any other worldwide sport event.…
Amazon fire PHONE : All Smoke, No Fire?
Business Models. Ecosystems & Amazon We have talked about how important is a robust sustainable business model to excel in this current mobile…
Nokia HERE Acquires Medio : Could Become IBM Of The Mobile Data Analytics World
An eventful couple of months for Nokia's HERE business unit as it blossomed into a more independent unit after the parent Nokia's move to become more…
Top 10 Smartphones in China for April 2014
Xiaomi's Redmi was the bestselling smartphone in China during April Xiaomi’s $130 smartphone, Redmi (Red Rice or Hongmi) topped the smartphone chart…
Apple, Samsung & The Great Cluster
A lot has happened since the advent of iPhone in 2007, birth of long tail of startup brands in smartphone space to end of an era for the then market…
Market Monitor : Q1 2014 :: LTE Smartphones Grow 91% Annually
According to the latest granular research from Counterpoint's Market Monitor service, the global LTE smartphone shipments grew 91% annually in Q1…
WWDC 2014: Apple Aims For Premium Cloud Services & Experiences
Apple hosted its 25th annual Worldwide Developer Conference unveiling the forward looking developments of the Apple's proprietary platforms OS X and…
Apple Should Buy Broadcom’s Cellular Baseband Business
Broadcom this week announced its intentions to explore options to either sell-off or shutdown its cellular baseband business. The key reasons being a…
Long-Term Play Beckons as Samsung Unveils World’s First Tizen Smartphone
Samsung today announced world's first Tizen OS powered smartphone, Samsung Z after long iterations. While this move from Samsung might not be…
Nokia HERE Acquires Desti : Unlocks The ‘Contextual Search Engine’ Badge
We recently discussed about how companies need to become more horizontal and deepen its understanding about their customers and consumers to excel in…
WeChat Is Leapfrogging Amazon With A Richer Mobile-Social-Commerce Strategy
We are in a mobile personal computing era living in a mobile-centric real-time social way. Consumers are moving quickly from fixed, shared computers…
Market Monitor : Q1 2014 :: Smartphones Now 95% of Total Handset Revenues
Adding to our recently published insights on how smartphone volumes grew almost 30% annually during Q1 2014, latest research from Market Monitor…
Q1 2014 : Smartphone Brands Market Share By US Carriers
According to latest research from Counterpoint's Market Monitor quarterly tracker program, USA smartphone market reached 33 million units at the end…
2020 & Beyond: When Big Data Will Become Big Information
We are at a stage in our technology industry and in our lives where we are witnessing growth beyond mobile phones. Everything today wants to become…
Apple’s Beats Will Sound Much Better
At this point, Apple reportedly acquiring 'Beats' for $3+ Billion will have noteworthy implications on the mobile & internet industry. This deal…
LG: Q1 2014 : LTE Smartphones now 40% of Total Smartphone Shipments
Our preliminary analysis for the Q1 2014 handset and smartphone landscape was published last week and the Korean vendor LG remained the fourth…
Q1 2014 : Xiaomi Becomes The Third Largest Smartphone Brand in China
Latest research from our Market Monitor service highlighted, Xiaomi climbing to become sixth largest smartphone brand and eight largest handset brand…
Market Monitor : Q1 2014 :: Handset & Smartphone Markets Landscape
Counterpoint Research team of Analysts have completed preliminary sizing of the global handset and smartphone market as few OEMs have already…