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Global smartphone sales dropped by 5.6% in Q4 2017, marking the first yearly decline since 2004, as per Gartner. Samsung stayed on top despite this shift.

he Singapore colocation market generated an estimated SG$1.3 billion this year, and is expected to be worth SG$2 billion by 2021.

Global smartphone sales grew by 3% in Q3 2017, with top vendors posting strong gains. Samsung led with 19.3% growth, while Xiaomi soared with an 80% rise.

Demand from data centers, large enterprises and telcos, along with increasing demand for cloud based services is driving high demand for SDN in India.

The findings come from market research company Counterpoint in its recently released Market Pulse report for July 2017.

Tata Communications has expanded its new fully-managed IZO Private Cloud service to multiple countries including Malaysia.

Huawei, Oppo and Vivo have grabbed a combined 24% of the global smartphone market, with ASPs on the up as buyers spend more for better phones.

Hyperscale operators are snapping up increasing amounts of the fast growing cloud markets - and its changing the data center vendor landscape.

Security improvements and cloud capabilities are spurring Windows 10 deployments in enterprises, leading to the fastest OS upgrades seen says Gartner.

Apple is back on top in the fiercely fought global smartphone market according to Gartner – but Chinese vendors are making big inroads.

Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT extended their colocation leadership last year, growing three times as much as the overall market.

The number hyperscale data centers globally has surged past the 300 mark following a flurry of end of year data center openings.

IDC predicts that 4G smartphone shipments will reach 1 billion this year as emerging markets catch up, but growth is slower than last year.

New statistics from IDC show that despite Samsung's Galaxy Note7 being removed from the market, this has had no effect on global smartphone shipments.

PC vendors are competing in the global market despite challenges, with the market declining by 3.9% in Q3, according to IDC.

Global smartphone sales look to have reached its peak, with new reports forecasting sales will no longer grow in double digits.

Global smartphone market to hit its first single-digit growth, slowing to 7% in 2016, as the industry braces for change, says Gartner.

The PC market continued its downward trajectory in 2015, with mobiles, tablets and Windows 10 contributing to the decline.

The data center infrastructure market in India is forecast to be worth US$2 billion in 2016 according to a report from industry analysts, Gartner.

Hesitant consumers are prompting a 1% drop in global device shipments, with only mobile phones bucking the trend, Gartner reports.