Global shipments of wearables like fitness trackers and smart watches grew by 67.2 per cent to 19.7 million units in the first quarter of 2...

Research firm IDC has said that the worldwide wearable device market more than doubled to 27.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015.

The global market for wearable tech surged in the third quarter, fueled by the Apple watch and gains from Chinese manufacturers, a market t...

Within months of its smartwatch launch, tech giant Apple is already at a "striking distance" with global leader in the wearable market, Fit...

Vendors shipped a total of 11.4 mn wearables in the first quarter of 2015, a more than two-fold jump from 3.8 mn wearables shipped in the y...

Analysts say the real challenge before the companies is to make money on such handsets in the affordable range, research firm IDC said.

Total sales volumes are forecast to reach 1.8 billion units in 2018, resulting in a 12.7% compound annual growth rate between 2013 and 2018.

Global smartphone sales grew 28.6 per cent to 281.5 million units in January-March, accounting for over 60 per cent of mobile phones sold, ...

According to IDC, the global smartphone shipment grew 38.4 per cent to touch 1,004.2 million units in 2013 from 725.3 million units in 2012.

India is expected to become the No. 3 three market for smartphones by 2017 as EM countries overtake mature markets like Japan and Britain, ...

Shipments of Android operating system-based smartphones rose to over 211 million in the July- September quarter this year accounting for mo...

Aided by rising demand for low-cost android phones & mobile phone makers launching flagship models, worldwide smartphone market is expected...

Apple's chief executive officer Tim Cook is facing rising production costs, competition from Samsung and slowing growth in smartphones.

China is expected to become the largest market for smart devices this year, overtaking the US, research firm IDC has said.

Smartphone sales reached 101 mn in the fourth quarter, up 87 per cent from a year earlier. Smartphones sales for 2010 were 302 mn, up 75 pe...

China's ZTE Corp. has replaced BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) among the world's top five mobile phone sellers.

Apple has for the first time outpaced Blackberry-maker Research in Motion in global smartphone sales thanks to the success of its iPhone 4,...