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…
Ecosystem Wars: Content is King, Video is Emperor & Installed Base is Kingdom
Content is King & Video is The Emperor I believe we all agree that even in this digital era, content is king*. However, video is the emperor…
Q1 2014: Apple’s iPhone Mania Steadily Spreading Internationally
Apple announced its Jan-Mar quarter results for 2014 and while the results beat street expectations were inline with Counterpoint Research's…
Top 10 smartphones in February 2014
Apple’s iPhone 5S and 5C were the bestselling smartphones in February while Xiaomi also entered the top 10 list. Apple’s iPhone 5s continues to be…
BlackBerry Q4FY2014 Results : BlackBerry Hardware Becoming Insignificant, Need A Platform Play
BlackBerry today announced its Q4FY2014 results and as expected they were not rosy BlackBerry smartphone shipments dipped to an all-time low of 1.3…
Office for iPad: Advantage Apple… And Microsoft!!
Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella yesterday took wraps off an Office suite (client) for iPad broadening its horizontal cloud, software and services…
Samsung Regains Momentum in Global Smartphone Market in February 2014
According to the latest research from Counterpoint, global smartphone demand slowed down slightly sequentially but was up a healthy 51% annually in…