Neowin News Feed for: Growth

OpenAI projects staggering revenue growth: $3.7 Billion in 2024, $11.6 Billion in 2025

Pradeep Viswanathan — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 05:42:01 +0000

OpenAI is experiencing rapid growth, with monthly active users reaching 350 million. The company projects significant revenue increases. Read more...

Netflix's crackdown on password sharing appears to be working

Steve Bennett — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:22:02 +0000

Since Netflix started clamping down on users sharing passwords between households, many said they would cancel their subscriptions. But Netflix may be seeing a sharp increase in new user sign-ups. Read more...

TikTok rumoured to be working on a paywall feature for creators

Steve Bennett — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:08:02 +0000

In a way to drive growth on the platform, TikTok is turning to more different ways to help creators earn more money. The latest rumour is that it is working on a paywall feature for creators. Read more...

Things are looking good for Netflix again in latest financial results

Usama Jawad — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:04:01 +0000

Netflix is finally turning things around again with the company reporting a strong quarter and $7.9 billion in revenue. It has also forecasted a significant growth in subscribers in the next quarter. Read more...

Epic Games confirms free games will continue in 2022, shares store growth numbers

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:16:01 +0000

The weekly freebies will keep flowing throughout 2022 according to the Epic Games Store, which now touts almost 200 million users. Upcoming features and plans were also shared today. Read more...

PC monitors saw their highest growth ever in 2020, says IDC

Paul Hill — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:04:01 +0000

IDC's data has revealed that PC monitors saw their biggest growth ever in 2020 due to the shift to home learning and working. The market also saw its best fourth quarter since 2011. Read more...

Epic Games Store grew to 160 million users in 2020, daily active players at 31 million

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:58:01 +0000

Epic Games revealed the massive growth its PC game store saw in 2020, with it seeing triple-digit increases to daily active users and 160 million total customers. Weekly freebies will remain as well. Read more...

Netflix membership passed 200 million in 2020

Paul Hill — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:24:01 +0000

Netflix has revealed that it gained 8.5 million new subscribers in 4Q20 and a record 37 million new users over the whole year. It also expects six million new sign-up in the first quarter of 2021. Read more...

Canalys: Global PC market saw 25% YoY growth in 4Q20

Paul Hill — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:26:01 +0000

Canalys has reported that the PC market saw 25% growth YoY in 4Q20. The market also had a great 2020 in general as people sought out new computers to help them work from home during the pandemic. Read more...

Microsoft making gains in the K-12 market; Google leads in the U.S.

Gurkaran Singh — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:26:02 +0000

Microsoft and its partner OEMs introduced several budget devices last year that has helped its market share in the K-12 education market, which grew 6.5 percent in the sub-$300 category. Read more...

Report: Digital will represent 35% of China's GDP

Paul Hill — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:48:01 +0000

A new white paper suggests that 35% of China's GDP will be accounted for by the digital economy in 2020. By the middle of the century, the report predicts that half the GDP will come from digital. Read more...

IBM: Consumers want better mobile video experiences on account of growth

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:56:01 +0000

This week at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam, IBM has released a study which reveals that 65 percent of surveyed individuals experience regular buffering of video content. Read more...

Snapchat's disappointing growth leads to shares slump

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 May 2017 01:32:01 +0000

Snapchat failed to meet several targets that were expected of it by analysts in the last quarter. As a result of slower than expected growth the price of stocks slumped in after-hours trading. Read more...

Apple's App Store experienced 60% growth, Google Play app revenue grew 82% in Q4 2016

Steven Johns — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 07:46:01 +0000

Revenue across both the App Store and Play Store have increased from approximately $5.2 billion to around $8.7 billion. Spotify, Netflix, Tinder, and LINE contributed the most to the figure. Read more...

Gartner: PC shipments to bottom out, smartphone sales to increase by only 7% in 2016

Usama Jawad — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 13:08:01 +0000

Gartner has published a new report predicting that PC shipments will finally bottom out in 2016 but smartphone market will increase only by 7%, its first single-digit growth up till now. Read more...

Alphabet overtakes Apple as world's most valuable company

Paul Hill — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:14:01 +0000

Alphabet has become the world's most valuable company, overtaking Apple. The report shows mobile search as well as YouTube and ads drove Q4 growth. Moonshot projects incurred losses. Read more...

Netflix hits major growth milestones in Q1

Jett Goldsmith — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:22:01 +0000

Netflix has hit several major milestones in Q1 2015, including over 60 million subscribers and over 10 billion streaming hours, according to their quarterly earnings report. Read more...

Tumblr overtakes Instagram as fastest-growing social platform

Usama Jawad — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:42:01 +0000

A quite surprising report by Global Web Index dictates that Tumblr is now the fastest growing social platform. Other social networks like Facebook are currently facing strong competition. Read more...

Report: Smartphone sales set to triple by 2019

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:05:35 +0000

A new report from Ericsson predicts that smartphone usage will triple by the end of this decade, with low-end market playing a key role. Mobile data traffic is also set to see a tenfold increase. Read more...

IDC: Smartphone annual growth to hit single digits by 2017; Windows Phone well equipped for the future

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:14:35 +0000

According to the latest data from IDC last year's record growth in smartphone sales will be followed by a sharp decline in the following years, with focus switching to emerging markets and low prices. Read more...

Microsoft, it's time to get serious about devices

Andy Weir — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:12:26 +0000

Its hardware partners are turning to Android and Chrome OS. PC shipments are falling. Meanwhile, its devices strategy consists of two Surface tablets, plus Nokia. It's time for Microsoft to do more. Read more...

IDC: Some Android OEMs see triple digit growth in Q2, focus shifts on the low-end markets

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:50:00 +0000

According to the latest stats from IDC, the high-end smartphone market is clearly dominated by Samsung and Apple; but lots of companies are shifting focus towards the low-end, with a lot of success. Read more...

Microsoft tablet share predicted to grow to 10% by 2017

Max Slater-Robins — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:20:01 +0000

Research by the IDC has predicted that Microsoft's tablet market share will grow to 10% in 2017, but the Surface RT will account for just 2.7% of that. Additionally, iPad shipments will drop in 2013. Read more...

Lenovo looking at mobile acquisitions to drive growth

Stephen Robinson — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:39:17 +0000

As Lenovo expands into areas such as mobile, they are considering company acquisitions to drive the growth of the company, as they aim to overtake Hewlett Packard as market leader. Read more...

Linux becoming a threat to Windows in the enterprise

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:01:21 +0000

The Linux Foundation released a report today that shows Linux implementations growing within large companies over the next five years. According to PC World, the full report included data from 1900 respondents. Among the full... Read more...

RIM growth breaks analyst predictions and records, don't look at Torch

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:12:51 +0000

RIM has had a pretty rough time of it lately. After a few ho-hum product releases and the wide proliferation of powerful smartphones from Apple, HTC, Motorola, and Samsung, analysts were getting pessimistic about the... Read more...

Apple unfazed by Windows 7 launch, says Analyst

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:08:48 +0000

The launch of Windows 7 on October 22 is unlikely to cause any significant damage to Mac sales, according to Wall Street analyst Brian Marshall of Broadpoint AmTech. Marshall came to this conclusion by analysing... Read more...

Netflix not slowing down, shows growth

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:44:15 +0000

Unlike most companies during the recession, Netflix has shown growth with its recent additions to the movie rental company. Netflix grew 26% over the last year with 9,390,000 subscribers at the end of 2008.... Read more...

Massive growth for VMware in 2008

Sam Symons — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:28:33 +0000

VMware, Inc. has recently posted details of their fourth quarter and full year revenue and growth statistics for 2008. The company, known for it's virtualization software, has managed a massive annual growth rate of 42%,... Read more...

Global Demand Lifts PC Sales

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:43:47 +0000

Despite weak growth in the US, computer makers still posted another double-digit gain in shipments worldwide in the first quarter, according to two technology research firms that said the increase beat their forecasts. IDC and... Read more...

Microsoft Reports 27% Revenue Growth

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:33:16 +0000

Microsoft Corporation has announced a revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ending on September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year. Microsoft's businesses of Client, Microsoft Business Division,... Read more...

PC Shipments Show Strong Growth

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:04:04 +0000

According to research firms IDC and Gartner Inc., computer shipments rose at the fastest rate in nearly two years during Q3 of this year, a development which raises expectations for another strong performance during this... Read more...

Two-tier internet could damage future growth

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:18:24 +0000

A 'two-tier' internet where content providers pay a premium to guarantee a speedy web site will damage the future growth of the web, according to search giant Google. The net neutrality principle Â which argues... Read more...

Net growth prompts privacy update

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:38:08 +0000

The world's leading industrialised nations have been forced to update privacy laws made obsolete by the huge volume of data moving around the net. Of particular concern to the 30 OECD states was the... Read more...

Global WiMAX market set for strong growth in 2008

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:13:21 +0000

With the emergence of more WiMAX devices as well as initiatives by telecom services providers, the global WiMAX market is set for robust growth in 2008, according to Sriram Viswanathan, managing director of Intel Capital... Read more...

iPod Market Still in Beginning Stages of Growth

Wed, 24 May 2006 21:07:10 +0000

Apple is still expanding its available range of iPod products, and has room to grow its iPod business - and unit sales - by 20 percent for the foreseeable future, Credit Suisse believes. "We believe... Read more...

PC shipments continue double-digit growth in 1Q

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:00:42 +0000

The worldwide PC market continued its solid expansion, in the first quarter of 2006, with year-on-year growth of 12.9%, despite an expected decline from growth of 15.9% in 2005, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).... Read more...

Apple Announce Massive Growth in Q1 of 2005

Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:44:30 +0000

Apple today announced its first quarter financial results for 2005. In the quarter leading up to the festive period, the company saw net profits of $295m for the quarter, representing an increase of ~350% on... Read more...

Wi-Fi shows rapid growth

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:15:48 +0000

Sales of Wi-Fi networking gear were up significantly in 2003, driven mostly by consumer demand. The Wi-Fi gear market continued its rapid growth in 2003, led mostly by consumer holiday sales, but companies saw a... Read more...

Sun Microsystems Aims to Get Back on Growth Track

Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:31:43 +0000

The question has been asked before, but the issue has new urgency now for investors in Sun Microsystems Inc., who have seen their stock tread water over the past year even as other big-name tech... Read more...