The 200 million annual shipments milestone for branded tablets continues to elude OEM vendors, and overall growth for 2014 is set to come in at just 2.5%.
3M recently announced it has completed its acquisition, through Sumitomo 3M Ltd., of Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.’s 25% interest in Sumitomo 3M Ltd. for ¥90 billion (~ $865 million).
The GPS personal tracking market has always had huge potential, yet it has faced barriers in terms of awareness and return on investment, regionalization, and fragmentation.