Love is in the air
Mark Bridge writes:
Mobile World Congress is just a week away, with lovers of mobile technology preparing to be wooed by manufacturers, networks and developers. But if MWC is like St Valentine’s Day, then LG has been behaving rather like the world’s worst boyfriend.
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Strategy Analytics has published information about the major companies producing applications processors for smartphones during 2013.
It shows that Qualcomm remains the leading producer of smartphone processors and is also the second-largest tablet chip producer as well.
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Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside says he’s leaving the company at the end of March to join Dropbox as its Chief Operating Officer.
It follows Google’s recent decision to sell its smartphone business to Lenovo.
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Japanese online specialist Rakuten, which runs a major e-commerce site in Japan as well as operating the Kobo eBook reader and Play.com brands, has acquired mobile messaging and VoIP company Viber.
The deal is worth $900 million (£538 million).
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Figures from the Strategy Analytics Wearable Device Ecosystems service show that 1.9 million smartwatches were shipped last year, with 61.1% of them (1.2 million) running a version of the Android operating system.
Much of this Android growth was driven by sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Gear watch.
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