Global smartphone shipments will reach 1.2 billion this year

Global smartphone shipments will reach 1.2 billion this year, an increase of 19%

Global smartphone shipments will reach 1.2 billion this year, up 19% from a year earlier, Juniper, a market research firm, reported today.

The report says smartphone use in Europe and the US is almost saturated, with high-end handsets dominated by brands such as Apple Samsung.

In the global market, millet, Lenovo, Huawei and other manufacturers of low-end models in China, India and other markets performance eye-catching. Samsung's share of the world market in the second quarter fell from 32.6% in the same period last year to 25.2%, while Apple fell from 13.4% to 11.9% per cent.

Uber's ban on operation throughout Germany was overturned

Today, Germany's Frankfurt District Court withdrew a temporary ban on Uber operations throughout Germany.

The withdrawal of the ban, the German taxi association said it would immediately appeal, the association's chairman Dait Schulanck (Deiter schlenker) said: "We do not understand the ruling." ”

Uber, currently valued at $17 billion, has been operating in more than 100 cities in 45 countries and regions, and Germany's current law allows private car owners to carry passengers without a commercial taxi licence.

Amazon's 158 million-dollar ad to Google's biggest advertiser last year

Amazon's 158 million-dollar advertising spending is the biggest customer of Google's advertising business last year, according to data released today by Ad Age.

Interestingly, Amazon has been developing its own ads in recent years, with revenues of 750 million of millions of dollars in advertising on its own websites and third-party websites last year.

With the exception of Amazon, the top five companies to advertise through Google are: Online travel companies Priceline, At&t, Expedia and Microsoft, with ad spending of $82.3 million, 81.9 million, 71.6 million and 67.1 million dollars, respectively.

Google announces suspension of Android Silver program

There have been rumors this year that Google is building Android Smart Device series Android Silver to replace the current Nexus series.

It is rumored that Google will be responsible for the software and hardware of Android Silver and will be a model for Android devices, but there have been recent reports that Google has suspended the program.

Some argue that the suspension is related to the departure of Nikesh Aurora, Google's top executive in charge of mobile operators, and that some employees doubt whether Google's silver plan will be restarted in the near future.

Foxconn employees looted iphone 6 shell before the iphone 6 release

Almost all of this year's iphone intelligence leaks originated in China, and today a Foxconn employee was arrested for reselling the iphone 6 shell before the iphone 6 was officially released.

Jincheng Foxconn staff Joe in the June to July this year has stolen 6 production lines of the iphone 6 shell, to each 1000 yuan to sell to the Huaqiang North Electronics market.

After the IPhone 6 shell was exposed online, Jincheng Foxconn reported to police, after more than 20 days of investigation, police eventually locked and detained Joe, the case is now further investigation.