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Google Cloud has ranked as the number one cloud service provider to the retail sector, outpacing overall market leader AWS and second-placed Microsoft Azure.

Global shipments of tablets reached 37.5 million units in Q2 2020, a 26% year-on-year increase, according to new figures from Canalys.

As a whole, in Q2 2020 the global smartphone market dropped 14%. The market fell to 285 million units, a second consecutive quarter of freefall, as lockdown orders caused by the COVID-19 pandemic persisted through April and May.

Global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $34.6 billion in Q220

Champions receive generally positive partner feedback, have a large share of shipments, maintain growth and show improvement in channel management.

Accounting for 21.1% of global shipments, Asia Pacific overtook Europe to become the third largest sub-region, after North America and Greater China. 

Even if the global economy worsens and IT budgets suffer, the cybersecurity market will still grow by at least 2.5%, according to a new report by Canalys.

New research from GlobalData found that the industry will recover after this initial slump to be worth almost US$238 billion by 2030.

A new report from Canalys indicates investment in cybersecurity has increased 9.7% - but worsening economic conditions could turn the statistic around.

Strong growth was driven by smartphone vendors Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and others, as well as audio brands that pivoted to the true wireless stereo category more aggressively in the quarter. 

Despite the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, worldwide smartwatch shipments reached 14.3 million units in the first quarter 2020, up 12% year on year.

Despite the disruption caused by COVID-19, cloud infrastructure services spending reached US$3.9 billion for the first quarter of 2020, according to Canalys.

Several big names have been revealed as underperforming compared with the market average with low partner sentiment. 

“COVID-19 has given the PC industry a boost. Despite the progress that smartphones and tablets have made in recent years, the need for a high-performance mobile computing device has never been more pronounced."

Of the top five PC vendors, Apple was hit hardest in Q1 as its shipments fell by over 20% to 3.2 million units.

Canalys states that all three cloud companies have responded quickly to COVID-19, providing governments, businesses, research institutions and students access to services such as on-demand compute and artificial intelligence.

The impact of coronavirus on the world’s smart speaker supply chain is expected to be short-term. 

The security standard can give businesses insight into the level of cloud security they require.

Shipments of smartphones grew 1% this quarter, despite falling 2% generally in 2019.

"A lot of progress has been made in the past 12 months, and it will be the most important trend in consumer technology in 2020."

The company was named the top cybersecurity vendor for channel satisfaction after achieving the highest overall rating against 10 others.

With the first year of full-year growth since 2011, Lenovo, HP and Dell took the lion’s share with 65% of the global PC market.

"These changes will accelerate in the next five years while technology advancements like machine learning and smart assistants will bring more radical innovations."

Fitbit faltered in Q3 and was the only vendor in the top five not to grow shipments over last year.