Xiaomi Plans to Boost Smartphone Sale in India as Samsung Struggles

Xiaomi Plans to Boost Smartphone Sale in India as Samsung Struggles

China’s Xiaomi will focus on boosting its India sales from retail outlets after years of big bets on e-commerce, its India president said, as the company seeks to revive smartphone sales after falling behind South Korea’s Samsung. E-commerce sales in India via Amazon and Walmart‘s Flipkart have surged in recent…

Google Said to Have Urged Supreme Court to Quash Android Antitrust Directives

Google Said to Have Urged Supreme Court to Quash Android Antitrust Directives

Google has urged India’s Supreme Court to quash antitrust directives against it for abuse of the Android market, two sources said, as its presses its legal battle against the competition watchdog in one of its most important markets. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in October that Google, whose…

MediaTek Shifts Focus to Cars, AI Amid Supply Glut in Smartphone Market

MediaTek Shifts Focus to Cars, AI Amid Supply Glut in Smartphone Market

Taiwan’s top chip design company MediaTek is focusing more resources on chips for cars and AI computing as its smartphone clients face a supply glut and inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty dent demand for consumer electronics. “We are definitely moving our resources very, very rapidly towards the automotive and computing areas,…

TikTok to Get Banned in France for Use on Smartphones of Civil Servants

TikTok to Get Banned in France for Use on Smartphones of Civil Servants

France will ban the use of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on the work phones of civil servants, Civil Service Minister Stanislas Guerini said on his Twitter account. “In order to guarantee the cybersecurity of our administrations and civil servants, the government has decided to ban recreational applications such as TikTok…

China’s Smartphone Sales Plunged to Lowest in a Decade in 2022, Vivo Top-Selling Brand: Report

China’s Smartphone Sales Plunged to Lowest in a Decade in 2022, Vivo Top-Selling Brand: Report

China’s smartphone sales endured a record fall in 2022, tumbling 13 percent to their lowest level in a decade as COVID controls and a slowing economy sapped consumer appetite, data from third-party research firms showed. The total number of devices shipped was 286 million, down from 329 million in 2021….