Microsoft: writing down, but not writing-off

Microsoft announced on 8th July it is writing down the value of its Nokia Devices and Services acquisition by $7.6 billion and making a further 7,800 redundancies as part of its business unit restructuring. But it isn’t writing-off its smartphone…

Jolla & Intex Launches A ‘Snapdeal Phone’ in India

As we have highlighted previously in our insights two key trends which are disrupting the incumbent mobile value chain players from operators to device manufacturers:

Micromax scaling up its “Make in India” portfolio

At the beginning of July 2015, Counterpoint Research was invited for a visit to the Micromax local assembling operations in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand. After a long drive from Delhi of around seven hours we reached the facility and were given a warm…

Q2 2015: Apple :: China Revenues Double Annually

Apple reported its FYQ3 or CYQ2 results for 2015, some key highlights were:

• Apple generated almost US$ 50 Billion in revenues up 33% YoY.
• Operating income stood grew 37% annually to US$14…

Q2 2015: Verizon :: AOL Acquisition Timely As LTE Base Broadens

One of the top two US operators, Verizon announced its results today seeing some interesting growth in a what used to be a traditionally slow quarter. Furthermore, Verizon seemed to be immune from a strong and aggressive…

Is China’s economic slowdown Affecting Alibaba?

China’s economic growth is marginally slowing down, as per China’s National Bureau of Statistic accumulated GDP growth slowed down 9.4% growth rate in 2013Q2 to 5.5% in Q1205 calculated on YoY basis. This reduction not only a result of increased…

China Mobile: 4G Leapfrogging 3G Growth By a Margin

• China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile operator with more than 816 million mobile subscribers almost bigger than all subscribers in USA+Japan+Korea+UK+Germany combined.
• This is the scale China Mobile possesses…