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LG Electronics to close down smartphone business

LG Electronics to close down smartphone business

LG Electronics, South Korea’s second-largest appliance firm after Samsung, is closing down its mobile phone business, the company said Monday, after the division lost billions in recent years. The firm was once considered a pioneer of the Android operating system, collaborating with Google on the Nexus series in the early 2010s. But it has long struggled to […]
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2Q18 Report: Smartphone market in third consecutive decline

2Q18 Report: Smartphone market in third consecutive decline

Since the debut of Simon Personal Communi-cator in 1992 and the commercialization of what is today known as smartphones in 1995, it is only in the second quarter of 2016 that manufacturers recorded the first decline in shipments across the world.