Samsung Electronics announced a fourth quarter earnings decline on Thursday, its first holiday season drop in three years. The earnings report wasn’t as gloomy as the past few quarters have been: Samsung made… Read more »
Xiaomi, a Chinese company and the third largest smartphone maker in the world, held one of its big events in Beijing on Thursday. Among the now-standard Xiaomi launch fanfare, the company introduced… Read more »
Xiaomi has completed a $1.1 billion funding round that values the Chinese smartphone startup at $45 billion, the company announced on Monday. Xiaomi’s valuation and raise matches reports from earlier this year,… Read more »
Xiaomi reported only 347.5 million yuan in net profit last year on a regulatory filing which works out to USD $56 million — which means Xiaomi’s operating margin works out to… Read more »
Misfit announced on Tuesday that it has landed a $40 million funding round from a group of companies including rising Chinese smartphone startup Xiaomi. Read more »
Samsung makes a lot of different phones, almost all of them functionally identical Android devices with slight differences. Now it’s planning to streamline the number of smartphones it makes by at… Read more »
Meizu, a handset maker focused on China, packs a 1152 x 1920 screen and a 20-megapixel Sony camera into its latest $300 smartphone, but it uses a less desirable MediaTek chip. Read more »