Mobile display competition heats up

Global mobile phone display module shipments are expected to rise just 4% year-over-year in 2015 to reach 2-billion units, leading to even stronger competition among manufacturers. According to a new report from IHS, the leading global source for critical information...

Chinese IT manufacturers come to the party

By 2019, two-thirds of data centre IT infrastructure spending in China will be obtained by local Chinese vendors, according to Gartner. Gartner says that local vendors are getting more and more competitive in all aspects, from product service quality to cost control...

SA manufacturers set to increase IT spend

IT spending by manufacturers in the three core manufacturing countries of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) – Turkey, Saudi Arabia and South Africa – is set to grow almost 40% over the next five years, according to newly released data from IDC Manufacturing Insights....

Manufacturers at risk of IP loss

A survey of nearly 4 000 IT managers across 27 countries, conducted by Kaspersky Lab in partnership with B2B International, found that 21% of manufacturers suffered a loss of intellectual property to security breaches within the past year. Malware was the most common...

Manufacturers must use lead generation

Companies in traditionally business-to-business industries are often under the misapprehension that marketing initiatives are not for them. This is particularly true for the manufacturing sector, which is more sales dominant and less marketing oriented. While you...