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• 10 future trends for working with business leaders

  The IDC FutureScape team has turned its attention to CIOs’ relationship with business leaders to predict 10 winning digital business strategies for the years ahead.

• Samsung the ‘gold standard’ for global foldable smartphone market

  Samsung is set to be the ‘gold standard’ in the global foldable smartphone market, with device shipments from all vendors set to rise next year by 66.6 per cent year-on-year, to 13.5 million.

• Decline in PC and tablet shipments will continue through 2023

  Global shipments of PCs and tablets are in steep decline, but will pick up again in 2024, according to a new study released by IDC.

• Global collaboration app revenue market reaches US$29.1B

  The global collaboration application market rose 28.4 per cent year-on-year, to US$29.1 billion, driven by the demand to reach more people and address the needs of corporations.

• Geopolitical and supply chaos dampen PC shipments

  Global traditional PC shipments have fallen by up to 15 per cent during the second quarter of 2022 with geopolitical issues and supply chaos touted as the causes.

• Accenture, PwC and EY ranked as top cloud professional service providers

  ​Accenture, PwC and EY have been ranked as the world’s top cloud professional services providers respectively, based on an analysis of their capabilities and strategies by IDC.

• Global smartphone market takes ‘turn for the worse’ in Q1

  The global smartphone market fell more than expected in the three months to March 2022, dropping by 8.9 per cent year-on-year.

• Lenovo on top for Q1 as PC shipments dip

  Lenovo has maintained its top position as the most shipped PC vendor as 80.5 million PCs were shipped during the first quarter of 2022.

• COVID-19, slow endpoint deployment could put the brakes on private 5G growth

  Hiccups in the growth of industrial IoT endpoints and the lingering effects of the pandemic will undercut the rapid growth of 5G in the enterprise.

• Semiconductor shortage to last until late 2022

  The ongoing semiconductor shortage is forecast to last through 2022, with the potential for capacity improvement to take place later in the year.

• APAC IoT spending to hit $437B by 2025

  Asia Pacific's spending on internet of things (IoT) increased by almost 10 per cent in 2021, reaching US$437 billion by 2025 at its current growth rate.

• Cisco, Fortinet, HPE-Aruba and VMware lead hot SD-WAN market

  Cisco, Fortinet, HPE / Aruba, and VMware lead the evolving and highly-competitive SD-WAN market, according to a new report from IDC.

• The emerging IT trends for partners to capitalise on

  Partners are set to thrive in the short term as more than half of all ICT investments by organisations, at 55 per cent, are anticipated to be used for digital transformation projects by 2024.

• Supply chain issues catch up with APAC smartphone market

  Ongoing supply chain issues and global chip shortages have caught up with the smartphone market during the third quarter of 2021.

• Lenovo widens global PC market lead

  Lenovo has pulled further ahead of HP in the global PC market shipment stakes.