Market Slowdown Affects Qualcomm
Hot on the heels of Apple and Samsung, Qualcomm is also predicting lower revenues in the coming months. The company expects its mobile chip shipments to fall by 16-25 percent in the second quarter and 3G, 4G device shipments to decline by 4-14 percent. The company trimmed its estimates for “premium tier shipments” due to […]
Weak Employment in IT Sectors in Malaysia
According to the latest Monster Employment Index (MEI), the demand for IT professionals in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines is still struggling, with little sign of recovery. The MEI, a monthly gauge of online job hiring activity, records the industries and occupations that show the highest and lowest growth in recruitment activity. In December 2015, […]
WEF Attendees Warned about Mobile Security
Kaspersky Lab has warned attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos about the risk of cyber-espionage attacks using malware designed for mobile devices. Many of the cyber-espionage groups investigated by Kaspersky Lab in recent years were found to make use of sophisticated mobile malware, capable of infecting a range of mobile devices and stealing […]
Toshiba Set to Quit Chip Business
Toshiba, recovering from a $1.3bn accounting scandal, could exit peripheral chip businesses while concentrating on its NAND core. Reuters and Japan’s Nikkei reported loss-making parts of Toshiba’s chip business lines, such as systems LSI (Large Scale Integration), microcontrollers, analogue semi-conductor chips, and discrete chips used in industrial machinery, vehicles, and domestic appliances, are all up […]
