Consumer electronics giant LG is rumored to be going back into a market which they decided to vacate a few years ago. According to Korean tech site Munhwa.com, LG is getting quite serious about tablets all over again. About two years ago, LG’s original Optimus Pad flopped hard. It was way too pricey for what it offered and consumers noticed. Since then, LG has managed ...The post Could LG be coming back to the tablet market? appeared first on AndroidGuys.Read similar

The tablet market has been somewhat stagnant over past few months, but there are still some interesting developments that have formed. For starters, iPad market share is down to 39.6% from 58.2% a year ago, according to data from IDC. That’s quite a drop, but Apple is still remains on top over Samsung, who controls Read The Full StoryRead similar

Apple shared its March quarter earnings with the public yesterday afternoon, and while they managed to keep a steady quarter with their iPad sales, it wasn’t enough to thwart the growth of low-cost Android devices. Thanks to Androids presence, Apple saw big losses in terms of global market share. Apple announced that they sold 19.5 million iPads in the March quarter, which ...The post Android closes in on Apple’s tablet market share appeared first on AndroidGuys.Read similar

comScore released its quarterly smartphone market share results for Q1 2013, and it shows that Apple‘s smartphone market share rose 2.7% percentage points from last quarter. The company now stands at 39%, up from 36.3% back in December. This marks a record-high market share for the Cupertino-based company, while other manufacturers have remained mostly stagnant. Read The Full StoryRead similar

The worldwide market share of Android tablets is just a few percentage points below that of Apple's iPad, new research says. Meanwhile, Windows tablets have carved out a significant but "niche" market in their first fill quarter being available.Android tablets make up 43.4% of the global tablet market, while iOS-based ones (including the iPad, iPad 2 and iPad mini) represent 48.2%, according to data from Strategy Analytics. The 4.8% gap isn't negligible, but it's much less than 28.9% difference from the same period in 2012.Two important caveats: The data reflects only the tablets sold during t... Read similar

Samsung Electronics continues to challenge Apple in the handset market with an increase in third-party accessories made just for its Galaxy phones. Incase, a popular case maker in San Francisco, on Thursday began selling its first protective cases for the new Galaxy S4 phone, adding to the hundreds of thousands of accessories supporting Samsung products.Read similar

Nest, maker of a thermostat infused with artificial intelligence smarts, is reaching beyond the market of affluent, environmentally conscious technology enthusiasts with distribution partnerships with utilities that serve more than 90 million people.Read similar

One of the most well-known electronics companies in the world has finally entered the smartphone market. Panasonic has this week launched its first smartphone offering called the Panasonic P51, a 5-inch, quad-core offering which comes with Android 4.2.2. Key features of the P51 are: 1.2GHz quad-core CPU 5 -inch 1280×720 IPS display 8MP rear camera, 1.3MP front camera Bluetooth, [...]Read similar

Local Market Launch, a startup that helps companies manage the online presence of local stores, is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding.The company was founded by Brian Coryat, who previously founded ValueClick, an online ad company that went public in 2000. Coryat told me that he spent much of the past decade working with small businesses, and that Local Market Launch was created to address one of the big issues that he saw during that time — the need to manage the presence of these businesses on the web, both through their own websites and their listings on other pr... Read similar

Online real estate company Trulia has announced it plans to acquire real estate SaaS CRM provider Market Leader for approximately $355 million. The pair said the rational for the merger is to create a "combined platform" that covers both house buyers and real estate agents, with Trulia's front end listing businesses being complemented by Market Leader's back-end SaaS CRM.Read similar