An aggressive online channel focus helped China’s Xiaomi buck a trend that saw the global smartphone market’s worse ever decline in Q1 2020. With analysts predicting further shifts to online stores post-pandemic, its growth strategy will be closely followed by other vendors.

“There will be some geographic differences but I am expecting a more favourable mix towards online sales vs. offline,” Gartner research VP Annette Zimmermann told Connectivity Business. “As stores start to re-open...

Connectivity enablers promising lower latency and better security amid enterprise cloud migration are increasingly favoured by hyperscalers over mobile service providers.

Unlike major telcos that serve enterprise customers by selling their networks, these players enable businesses to...