Neowin News Feed for: Spending

IDC: Spending on AI-centric systems to rise 26.9% this year

Paul Hill — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:24:01 +0000

IDC is forecasting a 26.9% rise in AI spending in 2023. It has projected out until 2026 too and believes that the spending will rise from $154 billion in 2023 to more than $300 billion in 2026. Read more...

The cybersecurity market grew 15.9% year-over-year, Microsoft grew 38.6% in the space

Paul Hill — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:32:01 +0000

Canalys has revealed that the cybersecurity market grew year-over-year in the third quarter, despite worsening economic conditions. Nevertheless, small-to-medium businesses tightened their spending. Read more...

Gartner: Governments globally set to increase IT spending in 2021

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:10:01 +0000

The analyst firm Gartner has said that it expects IT spending by governments to increase by 5.1% this year as they invest more in devices and telecoms to let employees get work done from home. Read more...

Perhaps unwisely, Steam will now show you exactly how much money you've spent on video games

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:36:01 +0000

In what may be a terrible decision for the largest digital marketplace for games, Steam will now allow you to see just how much money you've spent on those oh-so-appealing Summer Sales over the years. Read more...

Here are the tech highlights of the UK's 2017 Budget

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:54:01 +0000

Phillip Hammond, the Chancellor of the UK, has issued the Autumn Budget which sets out what the Government plans to spend in the coming months and years. It included a heavy focus on digital. Read more...

The 2012 holiday season produces the best online sales figures ever

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:05:22 +0000

Figures released by comScore show the 2012 holiday season as the most lucrative online shopping period ever, with over $1 billion spent on seven separate days following Thanksgiving. Read more...

$25.3 billion spent on games in U.S. during 2009

Matthew Hopson — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:38:01 +0000

Gamers in the United States are reported to have spent a massive $25.3 billion on videos games during 2009, with used game sales and online sale models accounting for almost half of that figure, according... Read more...

US festive online spending up 19%

Tom Warren — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:34:26 +0000

US sales from internet retailers rose 19% between 1 November and 27 December compared with the same period of 2006, a report estimated. The online information group comScore said that online spending excluding travel... Read more...

Cell Phone Spending Surpasses Land Lines

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:57:14 +0000

With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services, industry and government officials say. The most... Read more...

Online Holiday Retail Spending Skyrockets in 2007

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:54:40 +0000

According to comScore Incorporated, a global leader in measuring the digital world, for the first 44 days of the November – December 2007 holiday e-commerce spending has hit $22 billion, which is an 18% increase... Read more...

Microsoft to hike spending on Embedded

Steven Parker — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:27:56 +0000

Microsoft will spend $75 million in 2007 on its "Windows Embedded" operating system for portable devices, up 33% from 2006, an executive at the world's largest software maker said yesterday. Microsoft, which competes with operating... Read more...

Is Lexmark Spending Enough On R&D To Beat HP?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:35:06 +0000

Lexmark Chairman and CEO Paul Curlander Tuesday defended his company's spending on research and development compared to rivals like Hewlett Packard. Curlander's comments came as he acknowledged Lexmark suffered a "disappointing" second quarter, during a... Read more...

Video game spending to surpass music spending this year

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:07:45 +0000

In its annual "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook" report covering 2007 through 2011, consulting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers has concluded that the video gaming industry is poised to overtake the music industry in the US, with... Read more...

British Online Spending Tops £100 billion

Joe Cashman — Sat, 19 May 2007 10:57:07 +0000

Total online spending by British shoppers has hit Â£100 billion, research shows. This figure dates back to April 1995 when e-retail first launched, according to the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG). Britons spent Â£3.465... Read more...

Nintendo beefs up publicity and R&D spending

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:04 +0000

Intent on supporting the successful launch of the DS, and developing its next-generation game console Revolution, Nintendo is increasing cash flow into two key areas during the remaining months of its fiscal year. ... Read more...

When Is Tech Spending a Bad Idea?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:33:13 +0000

Not expecting a rush of IT spending during the last three months of 2004, Hewlett-Packard Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina said this week that IT buyers have become smarter and more discriminating in... Read more...

Dell CEO: IT spending to increase in 2004

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:26:54 +0000

The world's largest personal computer maker, Dell, expects large companies to resume spending on information technology in 2004, Chief Executive Michael Dell was quoted as saying on Monday. In a joint interview in... Read more...

Spending To Fend Off Online Attacks Grows In 2004

Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:38:44 +0000

More than half of companies surveyed say they will increase their security budgets over the next three years. The information-security spending focus next year will be on hackers and viruses, according to research... Read more...

NASA Reviews Spending on Information Technology

Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:02:10 +0000

When times come hard, wheres the place we cut the money? The R & D. :S "NASA has instituted a review of spending for nonessential information technology, an action that the industry says... Read more...

Online spending busts records

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:15:22 +0000

Buoyed by an increase in the population of online shoppers and more liberal spending by online shopping veterans, e-commerce in the United States blew away old spending records with a nearly 40 percent leap over... Read more...

Computer Services Slip as Tech Spending Slumps

Darren Bolton — Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:36:32 +0000

The computer services sector, where contracts are signed well in advance and there is a suit-wearing, old-economy style, had always seemed a predictable stock market bet. But a warning by Electronic Data... Read more...

Intel's 2003 capital spending to reach $5.6-to-$6.5 billion

Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:12:04 +0000

Intel Corp. announced its 2002 capital spending plans only a few months ago, but analysts are already making some educated guesses about the company's expenditures for 2003. The first prediction of the year... Read more...

UK spending £40m on talking fridges

Mon, 08 Apr 2002 05:10:26 +0000

Talking fridges and intelligent boilers could become standard household appliances as the UK Government announces a Â£40m spend on new technologies. The newly created Virtual Interdisciplinary Research Centre (vIRC) will bring together... Read more...

Tech Spending Should Increase Gradually In 2002

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:03:33 +0000

Corporate spending on IT (information technology) in 2002 will not come close to matching the free-spending levels of the late 1990s, but according to a new study it will be a vast improvement over last... Read more...