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Kingston has announced that more than 6 million SSD units have shipped worldwide featuring Marvell controllers. The 6 million units includes both Kingston and HyperX product lines. The feat was accomplished in just over two years, as the HyperX Predator PCIe SSD in February 2015 was the company’s first SSD to ship utilising a Marvell controller. Marvell’s 88SS9293 controller provides fast, next generation SSD performance, making HyperX’s Predator PCIe SSD appealing to system builders and enthusiasts.
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Item tracking solutions vendor TrackR has secured US$50m in Series B funding led by Steve Murray at Revolution Growth, with Foundry Group, Amazon Alexa Fund, DoCoMo Capital, The Glenmede Trust, and Bespoke Strategies also joining the round. The capital will aid the company as it continues creating reliable solutions to quickly find lost items while growing its global community of users. Prior to its Series B, TrackR has raised over US$10m from Foundry Group, Resolute Ventures, IncWell Capital, Orange Fab, Amazon Alexa Fund, and prominent angel investors.
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Nuheara raises funds for retail expansion
Audio device brand Nuheara has successfully completed an institutional placement raising A$9m (US$7.15m) to fund the aggressive global retail expansion of its wearable audio device, IQbuds. ASX-quoted Nuheara’s IQbuds combines the features of a hearing device, a bluetooth earpiece and a noise cancelling headset. Investors will be issued shares at A$0.092 per share, which represents a premium of 2.8% to Nuheara’s 30-day volume weighted average share price.
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Arrow Electronics bags Oracle VAD awards
Oracle recognised Arrow Electronics with three awards at the Oracle VAD global community forum in Budapest, Hungary. Arrow was presented the following awards for 2017: highest EMEA overall revenue contribution award; highest EMEA cloud revenue contribution award, EMEA cloud innovation and best practices award.
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DISTREE Events opens ‘Call for Speakers’ for upcoming consumer tech channel events in APAC & EMEA
DISTREE Events has announced its ‘Call for Speakers’ for the next two regional consumer tech channel events in its global calendar. DISTREE Asia-Pacific (APAC) takes place at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel in Singapore on 8th to 10th November 2017. The 16th annual DISTREE Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) event will take place at the luxurious Fairmont Hotel in Monaco on 6th to 9th February 2018.
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Desktop 3D printer shipments up 17% in first quarter
The first quarter of 2017 saw both worldwide shipments and revenues in the 3D printer space increase, with activity ramping up in the midmarket, according to market research firm CONTEXT. Shipments in the personal and desktop 3D printer segment climbed 17% year-on-year to hit 88,000 units. The average price of a personal and desktop 3D printer slid to US$970 in the first quarter, down from US$1,142 a year earlier.
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DISTREE EMEA 2018 scheduled for February 6-9 in Monaco
The 16th annual DISTREE Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) event will take place at the luxurious Fairmont Hotel in Monaco on 6th to 9th February 2018. DISTREE EMEA is a premium hosted buyer event, giving consumer tech brands access to 400 senior executives, representing 350 consumer tech distributors from 50-plus countries within the EMEA region.
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Panasonic signs pan-EMEA deal with Nuvias
Panasonic Business has appointed Nuvias as its first pan-EMEA distributor for its range of business IP phone handsets. The initial roll-out will focus on established markets for Nuvias, including the UK, Benelux, Germany and France, along with Southern Europe and the Nordics. Nuvias will act as a high value distributor for the full range of Panasonic IP handsets. This comprises desktop phones, and both single cell and multi-cell DECT solutions, for use within cloud-based UC environments, including BroadSoft.
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Also wins Microsoft distributor accolade
Distribution giant Also picked up a 2017 Microsoft distributor partner of the year award. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for successfully implementing innovations and customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. “We are delighted to receive this award,” said Gustavo Möller-Hergt, CEO of Also Holding.
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Monitor market shifts towards high-end
Worldwide shipments of desktop monitors declined by 1.1% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2017, according to the latest figures from CONTEXT, the IT market analysis company. The low-end of each market has been noticeably shrinking, and there has been a marked change in the product mix. There has been a shift to larger, more expensive screens; rising sales of curved monitors, higher resolution displays and gaming monitors; and growing demand for 21:9 monitors. This, in turn, has increased the ASP with prices rising +2% year-on-year, according to CONTEXT.
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