Amazon Prime Day 2021: Month Announced
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April 30, 2021
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The massive annual online shopping event will this year fall some time in June, Amazon has just confirmed. The ecommerce event usually... Read More
Shyla Heal Scores Points For TCL
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April 22, 2021
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TCL Communication has just announced a new ambassador agreement with emerging Australian basketball player Shyla Heal. At just 19, Heal is the... Read More
Amazon To Pay Big Bonuses As Unions Try To Dent Business
Amazon is set to pay their Australian staff bonuses after sales soared during the COVID-19 lock down, but despite this unions are... Read More
Telstra Masks High Risk Chinese ZTE Phones By Branding Them As Their Own
Telstra who recently agreed to pay a $50 million penalty over the sale of mobile plans that left thousands of vulnerable Australians... Read More
Samsung TV Sales Surge The Big Loser Is Hisense
Samsung Electronics TV sales are surging both locally and across the world according to new data released this week, the big loser... Read More
Apple Beaten Up By Samsung As Demand For Galaxy Android Smartphones Soar
Samsung is beating up Apple in its home market South Korean where the Galaxy smartphone maker has over 70% share of the... Read More
Samsung Warns Of Downturn After Massive Jump In Sales
Samsung Electronics who have spent the last 12 months expanding their Australian business into value markets while preserving their premium product offering... Read More
Cheap As Chips Boss Nick Abboud Facing Take Over Offer
Nick Abboud the former CEO of Dick Smith who is under siege in the NSW Supreme Court following the $400M+ collapse of... Read More
Despite Big Growth Bunnings Refuses To Rule Out JobKeeper Money After Woolworths Bail
As Woolworths bails out of COVID-19 and JobKeeper support because of booming sales,Bunnings has not ruled out using the government’s $4 billion... Read More
Google Could Be Forced To Offload Chrome, DoJ Set To Take Action
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is considering a plan that could see Google forced to offload the world’s most popular browser... Read More
OZ Company BlueAnt Takes On The Big Sound Brands Backed By Big Retailers
It’s very easy in the world of consumer technology to take the view that everything is better from an overseas supplier, this... Read More
Sony Losing Key Category Market Share Facing Big Impact On Profits
Sony is losing share in a key category; image sensors and the decline could have a significant impact on their overall results... Read More
Warranty Problems & 29% Revenue Decline Plagues Bang & Olufsen
Is Bang & Olufsen having warranty problems with their disastrous B&O Play Products? According to sources retailers in Australia are getting returns,... Read More
Cellnet Reports Loss After Sales Fall 13% Now Moving To Sell Direct Online
Queensland based distributor The Cellnet Group have reported a $1.96M loss after sales fell 13%. The Company who recently took on several... Read More
Microsoft Roll Out New Notebooks As They Hose Down Office 365 Problems
Microsoft who have spent the week hosing down problems with their Office 365, Teams and Outlook has overnight rolled out a cheap... Read More
Sonos OZ Struggles With Profits As Insiders Sell Down Their Stock Holdings
What do Sonos insiders know? According to analysts Sonos insiders have decreased the amount of stock they own where it now only... Read More
As Brands Move To Syndigo Google Shows How Rich Media Works Inside Google Shopping
As more brands switch to using the US Syndigo system to deliver content to retailer web sites such as JB Hi Fi... Read More
Telstra, Optus And Vodafone TPG, Facing Bleak Retail Future
Carriers in Australia are facing a bleak future with Telstra, Vodafone TPG and Optus facing the real possibility that their future is... Read More
EXCLUSIVE:Loewe Launch We.by Loewe Brand Of Speakers Headphones & New We.TV’s With Built In Soundbars
Best known for their TV’s, German brand Loewe is getting into the sound business, with a new brand name We.by Loewe, which... Read More
Amazon Forced To Pay Suppliers $24M In Rebates After Ripping Off Suppliers
Amazon has been forced to repay suppliers $24M after they forced them to fund an online discount program aimed at boosting sales... Read More
Sony Consumer Business Under Pressure, Big Restructure Tipped
Sony’s future as a consumer electronics Company is being questioned, with the Company desperately looking to restructure their business as they fail... Read More
No Office Shiro Wobbles, COVID Costs Cut Boosts Profits, Sales Down
NSW based distributor Shriro who are currently without a head office or showroom has reported a 3.2% fall in Australian revenues, overall... Read More
Aussies favour shopping online during Covid19
SYDNEY/MELBOURNE: Australian retailers are being forced to digitalise their physical offerings as more customers go online during the coronavirus pandemic, new analysis... Read More
ChannelNews On A Roll Vs Competition
ChannelNews is Australia’s #1 consumer technology and appliance website for sellers and buyers of both appliances and consumer technology. During COVID-19 we... Read More
oOh!media Revenue Down A Third As Out-Of-Home Audiences Plunge
Despite remaining the market leader in Australia, outdoor advertising and media company oOh!media’s revenue declined by 33% to $205 million in the... Read More
Poor Performing Tech Site CNET Up For Sale Value Drops From $1.8B To Sub $500M
Global tech site CNET is up for sale with owners CBSViacom who also own the Ten Network in Australia looking to sell... Read More
JB HiFi Online Smashes Competition
JB Hi Fi was the best performing consumer electronics and appliance retailer in Australia during the past six months significantly outperformed Kogan,... Read More
CE & Audio Retailers Reap Benefits Of JobKeeper As Sales Surge
Retailers, many who have stayed open during the COVID-19 downturn are set to report record profits after receiving millions of dollars in... Read More
oOh!media Slash Rates As Outdoor Advertisers Dry Up
oOh!media is the worst performer in terms of percentage on the ASX 200 index today, contracting by 4.9%, as advertisers move their... Read More
Fitbit Online Sales Up 102%
As Fitbit navigates the COVID-19 crisis and global downturn, the company has announced that it will continue to ramp up efforts to... Read More
Stuff Lockdown, CE & Pro Audio Is Booming & The Cash Is Pouring In
Logistics and online sales are set to be critical according to retailers and specialist audio and custom install Companies after the hapless... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Niles Audio & Sunfire To Be Merged Into Speakercraft Brand In Major Rationalisation
US security & control conglomerate Nortek is undertaking a major rationalisation of their popular audio brands Nile Sunfire and Speakercraft, a big... Read More
COMMENT: Junkee Introduces No Byline Journalism, For Whimp Journalists
What a load of bollocks! It appears that what we now have is a bunch of new age writers who don’t want... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: TCL Facing Major TV Supply Issues JB Hi Fi Ffalcon Range Affected
TCL’s TV division in Australia is having major problems with supply with the JB Hi Fi Ffalcon range which is manufactured by... Read More
EXCLUSIVE:Supply Chain Facing Major Problems As Chinese Factories Stop Credit
Consumer electronics, audio and appliance distributors are facing new supply issue with Chinese factories now demanding “cash up front”, at the same... Read More
Harvey Norman Sponsored Porn Star Earns $25K A Week
Family retailer, Harvey Norman is a big sponsorship investor, from NRL to AFL and it appears porn stars such as Renee Gracie... Read More
What Will Be Bose’s Next Move, The Good Guys?
The big US sound brand has shut 19 shops in Australia, now they have moved to selling their headphones on Catch despite... Read More
Netgear Takes To Chartering Flights To Meet Retail Demand For Routers
Netgear has taken to chartering flights to get new W6 routers into Australian retailers as the Company delivers on record demand for... Read More
Chinese Brand Hisense Slashes Thousands Of Jobs, New TV Range Lacks Apps
Chinese TV and appliance Company Hisense has moved to slash thousands of jobs due to COVID-19, what’s not known at this stage... Read More
Banned Huawei Lifts Revenue With Support From Chinese Market
As the UK gets set to dump Huawei communication gear from their national networks the Chinese Company has announced a 13.1% rise... Read More
Apple Fails To Materialize As Sonos Buyer, Google Reveals New Competitor
The lack of any response from Apple after analysts were suggesting that struggling US sound Company Sonos who is again laying off... Read More
Panasonic Gets Out Of Another Category
After getting out of the TV market earlier this year Japanese Company Panasonic has moved to quit the cash the cash register... Read More
Telstra, Optus & TPG Ignore Major Security Threats Despite Two Suppliers Banned In The USA
It appears that Telstra, TPG and Optus are continuing to ignore major security threats after the US deemed two of their major... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Set To Close Stores, New Online Initiative Set To Compete With Retailers
Microsoft is set to close their Australian retail store along with 82 others worldwide after another consumer exercise failure, the Sydney store... Read More
Amazon Undergoing Major Expansion, New Warehouse, New Categories
Amazon who has delivered a record period of growth during COVID-19 is looking to expand their Australian operations with new product categories,... Read More
Intel Facing Major Problems After Being Dumped By Apple
Intel is facing major revenue shortfalls, after the processor Company that has failed to get traction in the smartphone market was dumped... Read More
Catch Big Brand Play Paying Dividends, A Real Threat To Kogan
The Wesfarmers owned Catch is on a roll with the online business which is a serious threat to Kogan now cutting deals... Read More
Apple Being Probed Over Supplier Relationships
24 hours after we exclusively revealed that Apple had simply walked away from a multimillion dollar deal to buy Power banks from... Read More
Is Harman Set To Exit Convoy International? Little Traction For Key Brands
Harman has some of the best premium lifestyle audio brands in the world, but in Australia you would never know it. While... Read More
Apple & Zoom Bow Down To Communist China
Both Apple and Zoom appear to have bowed down to Communist China’s Government demands, Apple by removing a podcast service and Zoom... Read More
