The electronics industry is a “relationships” business. It has always been. I daresay, though, that electronic component distributors have tended to build, nurture and value “relationships” as an integral part of business functions more than any other segments of the market. The Chinese call this “guanxi” referring to the network of trusted relationships that a…
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One of the most successful distributors in the electronics industry once told me something I think about a lot. This distributor, at the time, did not participate in suppliers’ design registration programs because it wanted to put as few barriers between customers and their purchases as possible. This was very unusual. Design registration programs, in…
DetailsDetroit, Mich. — Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX), is linking the high technology advances of Silicon Valley with the automotive industry in Detroit. At its newly established location adjacent to Detroit, Flextronics’ specialized automotive team is actively helping to further enable swift implementation of cutting edge smart, connected technologies and applications by collaborating with The Detroit Big Three and partnering with OEM…
DetailsFremont, Calif. — UL Consumer Technology, a global leader of product safety testing and certification for over 100 years, announced today the launch of a comprehensive service that offers customized product validation, advisory, testing, risk mitigation, interoperability, and global market access services. The services will help to assist manufacturers in supplying consumers with safer and more reliable wearable products while…
DetailsNew York, N.Y. – Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 73,000 customers, today announced Infor Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Managed Service to offer manufacturers a powerful yet economic solution to maintain operations. Infor EDI Managed Service is specifically developed to help solve growing customer demands, helping organizations meet challenges with greater…
DetailsDigi-Key Corp. posted solid revenue growth in 2014, cruising easily past the industry’s single-digit average and boosting the electronics company distributor’s annual revenue to record level on rising demand for its services from OEMs and engineers working on Internet of Things (IoT) products. The company also attributed the surge in 2014 sales to continued demand…
DetailsThe advent of social networking has significantly altered our behavior as consumers but also professionals. The need to stay connected to a community is now firmly anchored. Riding this wave, Supplyeo, a new professional social network, arrives with the ambition to create the largest community of supply chain professionals. Launched nearly two years ago, the…
DetailsSEMI today announced details from the SEMI World Fab Forecast Report illuminating the state of the semiconductor manufacturing industry, coincident with convening SEMI’s Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Among the insights across the various segments, the changes in the DRAM (Dynamic Random-Access Memory) segment are an example of the significant shifts…
DetailsCree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) has filed complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against Feit Electric Company, Inc. and its Asian supplier, Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd., to curb infringement on Cree’s patented technologies and to address Feit’s false and misleading advertising claims…
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Consumers are using social media to help them make purchase decisions. An infographic by Invesp provides key details including that: 4 in 10 social media users have purchased an item online or in-store after sharing it or marking it as a favorite on Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest. 50% of those purchases take place within a…
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