HOME The fast-growing billion-dollar global e-sports economy drove worldwide gaming monitor sales up 175% year-on-year for the second quarter of 2017, according to the latest figures from CONTEXT, the global IT market analysis company. The rapid growth of gaming monitors was not quite enough to offset an overall 3% year-on-year decline in worldwide monitor shipments, driven by lower sales in China.
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Unit shipments of printer hardware to EMEA improved in the second quarter of 2017, climbing 4% year-on-year, according to data from research house CONTEXT. While there was positive performance across the board, the increase was driven mainly by shipments of multifunction inkjet devices. Sell-in to Western Europe (WE) accounted for almost 70% of all printer hardware shipments to EMEA. Shipments of laser multifunction printers (MFPs) registered growth of 10% year-on-year and were largely responsible for the overall increase.
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Arrow gets strategic with Symantec
Arrow Electronics has been named a multinational strategic distribution partner of Symantec in the EMEA region. Following the acquisition of Blue Coat by Symantec in 2016, Arrow has renewed its distribution contract with Symantec. Prior to the acquisition, Arrow had distributed the products and solutions of both companies in numerous countries.
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Nuvias gets GitHub rights for EMEA
GitHub, the software development platform, has signed its first pan-EMEA distribution agreement with VAD Nuvias. The new partnership will further expand GitHub’s enterprise customer base across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and represents a commitment by Nuvias to accelerate the growth of its DevOps business.
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Tuncmatik wins DISTREE Diamond Award for Power Solutions
Energy products vendor Tuncmatik was awarded the DISTREE Diamond Award for Charging & Power Solutions. This latest accolade was based on the company’s successful participation at regional consumer tech channel event DISTREE EMEA 2017, which gathered together 300-plus distributors from across the wider Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region earlier this year.
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Kingston and Marvell celebrate 6 million milestone
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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