Research Reports

This was a year that brought the first down year for iPhone, yet Apple closed out the holiday quarter by surpassing Samsung for the top spot in the smartphone industry

Consumer desktops were particularly affected, with shipments dropping by as much as 17.7% in the fourth quarter.

The survey, conducted by social media management platform Hootsuite and social media agency We Are Social, also revealed that the user base of social media in the Philippines saw strong double digit growth in 2016.

Critical autonomous driving functions, including obstacle detection and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), will drive the automotive industry?s adoption of LiDAR sensors, according to analyst firm ABI Research.

Increasing electrification in vehicles generally -- and in hybrid and electric vehicles specifically -- is energizing the market for power semiconductors in vehicles.

Messaging and communications apps such as Line and Whatsapp will grow from five billion users in 2016 to 7.5 billion by 2020, the report added.

At a time of lackluster productivity growth worldwide, automation technologies, including robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), can give a needed boost to economic growth and prosperity and help offset the impact of a declining share of the working-age population in many countries.

In the Philippines, four out of 10 Filipino netizens admitted that it is fairly important for them that their posts will get likes on social media.

Worldwide devices spending (PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones) is projected to remain flat in 2017 at $589 billion.