Last update: Monday 13 May 2013 [94 news items]
Ability Enterprise expects to ship over 20 million digital cameras in 2010
Oct 28, 11:29
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Ability Enterprise is confident of attaining its 2009 shipment target of 15 million units and expects to ship more than 20 million units in 2010,...
Camera module maker AOET ready for LED chip production
Oct 27, 14:11
Camera lens and module maker Ability Opto-Electronics Technology (AOET), a subsidiary of Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), has reportedly entered the production of...
Ability Enterprise sees strong revenues in September
Oct 7, 11:00
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Ability Enterprise has reported unaudited record revenues of NT$4.962 billion (US$153 million) for September 2009.
Altek, Ability Enterprise may receive Fujifilm DSC orders for India
Oct 5, 11:21
Japan-based vendor Fujifilm, which is beefing up sales promotion of its digital cameras in India to hike its market share from the present 5% to 15% as soon as possible, may release...
Digital camera makers Ability and Altek report 2009 revenue highs in August
Sep 8, 11:16
Ability Enterprise and Altek, two of the three largest Taiwan-based digital camera makers, on September 7 reported unaudited consolidated revenues of NT$3.516 billion (US$107 million)...
Quanta and Suyin invest in camera lens maker Ability Opto-Electronics Technology
Aug 27, 14:34
Quanta Computer has invested NT$35.85 million (US$1.09 million) in the private fund raising of Taiwan-based camera lens maker Ability Opto-Electronics Technology to expand its vertical...
Ability Enterprise looks to ship nine million digital cameras in 2H09, says president
Aug 7, 11:21
Ability Enterprise expects to ship nine million digital cameras during the second half of 2009, increasing by 73.1% from the first half and by 20% from the second half of 2008, according...
Digital camera makers Ability Enterprise, Altek expected to obtain additional orders from Fujifilm
Jul 28, 10:38
Fujifilm has increased its fiscal 2009 (April 2009-March 2010) sales target from 8.3 million units originally to at least 9.0 million due to a better than expected sales performance,...
Ability Group may take control of pre-recorded optical disc maker Feng Sheng
Jul 14, 10:47
Feng Sheng Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of pre-recorded optical discs, has decided to issue 20 million new shares for private placement at NT$10.5 per share to raise additional...
Altek ranked as top digital camera maker in 2008
Jun 12, 10:55
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek ranked as the world's number one ODM digital camera maker with shipments of 13.17 million accounting for a 22.9% share in 2008, the company...
Digital camera maker Ability Enterprise sees decreased revenues in May
Jun 9, 10:46
Ability Enterprise, a Taiwan-based digital camera maker, has reported revenues of NT$2.51 billion (US$77 million) for May, representing a drop of 7.71% on month and a drop of 1.57%...
Ability suffers on-year revenue drop in April due to component shortages
May 7, 10:51
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Ability Enterprise on May 6 reported revenues of NT$2.71 billion (US$81 million) for April, rising by 16.02% on month but dropping by 6.05% on yea...
Ability Enterprise forecasts decrease in 1H09 OEM digital camera shipments
Stockwatch - Mar 9, 11:44
Ability Enterprise, one of the top three Taiwan-based ODM/OEM digital camera makers, expects to ship two million and three million digital cameras in the first and second quarters...
Taiwan maker Ability Enterprise to land over 70% of Fujifilm's digital camera OEM orders, says paper
Newswatch - Jan 20, 16:38
Ability Enterprise, one of the top-three Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, will obtain more than 70% of Fujifilm's outsourced production of digital cameras in 2009,...
Ability aims to ship 20 million CCMs in 2009, says paper
Newswatch - Jan 14, 10:18
Ability Enterprise, one of the top-three Taiwan-based makers of digital cameras, expects to deliver 20 million compact camera modules (CCMs) in 2009, according to the Chinese-language...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise suffer drops in December revenues
Jan 8, 13:48
Altek and Ability Enterprise, two major Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on January 7 reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.619 billion (US$48.9 million) and revenues...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise see November revenues down
Dec 10, 15:23
Taiwan-based digital camera ODM/OEMs, Altek and Ability Enterprise, on December 9 reported revenues figures for November 2008 at NT$2.524 billion (US$75.45 million) and NT$2.836 billion...
Taiwan digital camera makers may share 60% of 2009 global shipments, paper says
Newswatch - Dec 3, 11:37
Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras are expected to ship 70 million units in 2009, possibly accounting for 60% of the global total, according to the Chinese-language newspaper...
Top-three Taiwan digital camera OEMs benefit as vendors look to increase production efficiency
Nov 27, 16:56
As inexpensive digital cameras have been selling well worldwide, vendors have put more emphasis on ODM/OEM makers' economies of scale in an attempt to minimize production costs, according...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability suffer drops in October revenues
Nov 10, 14:48
Taiwan-based ODM/OEM digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise recently reported revenues for October 2008, with respective figures slipping on month and on year.
Taiwan maker Ability Enterprise lowers 2008 digital camera shipment goal
Sep 10, 12:02
Ability Enterprise, the third largest Taiwan-based ODM/OEM maker of digital cameras currently, has downwardly adjusted its 2008 target shipment volume from 15.0 million digital cameras...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise see drop in gross margins
Aug 25, 11:29
Altek and Ability Enterprise, two of the top four Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on August 22 released their financial reports for the first half of 2008, with Altek...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek, Ability Enterprise differ in June revenue performance
Jul 8, 11:08
Altek and Ability Enterprise, two of the top four Taiwan-based makers of digital cameras, on July 7 reported consolidated revenues for June 2008, with Altek seeing growth on month...
Taiwan digital camera players see mixed May
Jun 10, 12:20
Altek, Ability Enterprise and Asia Optical, three of the top four Taiwan ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, as well as Largan Precision and Kinko Optical, two leading Taiwan-based...
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
- Innolux, AUO differ in strategies for tapping China smartphone panel market
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- PCB firm Apex 2Q13 sales to rise over 10%
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Touch screen notebook shipments reach 4.57 million units in 1Q13, says Displaybank
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- Mobile DRAM revenues slip 5% in 1Q13, says DRAMeXchange
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- BlackBerry to offer BBM on Android and iOS platforms
- New generation iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for home button
- Ledlink to begin LED lighting shell volume production in May-June
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Soft-World sees over 50% of 1Q13 profit from 3 subsidiaries
- Corning introduces Lotus XT Glass
- Synnex Technology reports profits for 1Q13
- HannStar Display posts 1Q13 profits
- Taiwan market: HTC, Samsung optimistic about May sales
- Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
- Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
- Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
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- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal

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