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...As income levels go up, so do aspirations for electronic items like televisions. Awasthi’s family, who have also rigged up their own small solar panel, decided to pay for Tata’s power....
...Its new electronic SodaStream machine is an order of magnitude better than the one I bought....
...The European Commission issued fines for online re-price fixing against four electronics companies last year — Philips, Pioneer, Asus and Denon....
...It looks ludicrously cool; it’s a superb piece of physical and electronic design; and it also makes reading for the tired-of-eyeball much, much easier....
...Chinese white goods producers such as Midea, TCL and Hisense have increased their market share overseas and exported a combined $15bn-worth of consumer electronics in 2016, according to Chinese customs....
...Xie Tian, the bespectacled, shaven-headed founder of Yuyao Boyuan Electronic, employs 100 workers at his Ningbo factory, making lights for the nail bars of Europe and Southeast Asia....
...Nanoco is also targeting the lighting, biomedical and security sectors....
...Other new investors include China Investment Corp and China-based FreeS Fund, Thrive Capital and Max Levchin, a co-founder of PayPal who now runs fintech company Affirm....
...However, Philips, the Dutch healthcare and lighting group, jumped to the top of the table for global companies with 2,402 applications, a 3.7 per cent rise from 2014 that helped it to dislodge Samsung from...
...A niche British electronics maker is to triple its workforce as it invests £60m in a Plymouth factory producing next-generation lighting, in a boost to the city’s bid to reinvent its local economy....
...Samsung Electronics in October announced the South Korean group would cease selling LED bulbs overseas....
...Many different products are grouped beneath the “digital health” umbrella, from wearable fitness trackers to electronic patient records to diagnostic systems that mine genomic data....
...Meanwhile shares in Ningbo-based Sunny Optical, which supplies camera modules to the likes of Xiaomi and Lenovo, have doubled in the past year....
...Samsung Electronics last year paid a reported $200m for SmartThings, a start-up that allows a variety of internet-connected devices to be controlled by a single mobile app....
...If consumers know that their “smart” watches, thermostats and lighting systems will work smoothly with one another, they will be willing to spend more to fill their homes with these devices....
...Work on solar panels and low-power LED lighting has been quietly scaled back in the face of competition from China, but the company maintains hopes for growth in the remaining three....
...After General Electric of the US took a pioneering stake in Tungsram, the Hungarian lighting producer in 1989, it was followed into the region by other consumer electronics groups such as Philips of the...
...Its packages focus on specific purposes such as monitoring for leaks, automating lighting or saving energy, with security monitoring the most popular....
...It has launched a platform, HomeKit, that software developers can use to pair household devices with the iPhone, and has been developing a “hub” to co-ordinate these devices, say people familiar with the...
...The softly spoken 47 year old is in the communal meeting area of Nexon’s Tokyo headquarters in the Shinkawa district, furnished in the style beloved of trendy tech companies: funky cushions, low lighting...
...Similarly, a second factory in Ningbo in 2000 produced “very poor product, poor quality”....
...A similar set of technologies will soon be extended to other parts of the home such as security systems, lighting and appliances – perhaps with the addition of a new component, near-field communication....
...Maxim’s de Paris, a French restaurant chain, was started in 1966 by Sony’s co-founder Akio Morita but was sold 40 years later, as the once pre-eminent electronics and entertainment group tried to scale back...
...The S5 delivers superbly crisp, bright colours in most lighting conditions including bright sunlight....
...For example, owners of Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smart watch can speak into it, saying that they are going out, and the home’s lighting and air conditioning will turn themselves off....
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