Samsung is fighting on two fronts, amid challenging market conditions that don’t make things any easier.

While iPhone sales have been lackluster in some overseas markets, Apple’s smartphone continues to gain users in the US, according to eMarketer.

Worldwide spending on AI systems is forecast to reach $35.8 billion in 2019, an increase of 44.0% over the amount spent in 2018, according to IDC.

Vendor revenue in the worldwide enterprise storage systems market increased 7.4% year over year to $14.5 billion during the fourth quarter of 2018, according to IDC.

Unit shipments for the worldwide personal computing devices (PCD) market, comprised of Traditional PCs and Tablets, are expected to decline 3.3% in 2019, according to IDC.

For the first time, digital ad spending in the US will be greater than traditional ad spending, according to eMarketer.

Although the market for integration platform as a service (iPaaS) shows strong growth, the first signs of market consolidation are starting to emerge, according to Gartner.

Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 12.6% year over year to $23.6 billion during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), according to IDC.

Gartner has identified seven emerging security and risk management trends that will impact security, privacy and risk leaders in the longer term.

Dell EMC announced the results of the third Global Data Protection Index revealing an explosive growth rate of data of 569 percent.

A new study from Juniper Research found that operator revenues from international mobile roaming are expected to recover slightly.

The worldwide market for wearable devices grew 31.4% during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), reaching a new high of 59.3 million units, according to IDC.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the operational cost savings from using chatbots in banking will reach $7.3 billion globally by 2023, up from an estimated $209 million in 2019.

Nearly half of today’s platform as a service (PaaS) service offerings are cloud-only, according to Gartner.

Worldwide spending on blockchain solutions is forecast to be nearly $2.9 billion in 2019, an increase of 88.7% from the $1.5 billion spent in 2018, according to IDC.

Consumers are increasingly using digital technology for more than just shopping, according to PwC.

Huawei continued its rapid rise in the EMEA smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to IDC.

A new study by Juniper Research has found that the 4 biggest smartwatch vendors will have their market share for connected watch shipments fall to 47% by 2023.

37 percent of service leaders are either piloting or using AI bots and virtual customer assistants, according to Gartner.

13 percent of organizations implementing IoT projects already use digital twins, while 62 percent are either in the process of establishing digital twin use or plan to do so, according to a recent IoT implementation survey by Gartner.

The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $7.8 billion in revenue in 4Q18, an increase of 12.7% year over year, according to IDC.

85 percent of organizations have adopted, or plan to adopt, a product-centric application delivery model, according to a survey by Gartner.

The overall tablet market in EMEA declined 9.6% YoY, shipping 14.1 million units in the last quarter of 2018 (4Q18), according to IDC. 2018 closed with a 9.4% YoY drop for the region.

Augmented analytics, continuous intelligence and explainable AI are among the top trends in data and analytics technology that have significant disruptive potential over the next three to five years, according to Gartner.

The global K-12 mobile PC market continues to develop, with annual shipments exceeding 29 million units for the first time last year, according to Futuresource Consulting.

New data from Juniper Research has found that MPL platform revenue will reach $137 billion annually by 2023, up from less than $30 billion this year.

Gartner said IT and business leaders developing projects must separate reality from myths to devise their future AI strategies.

Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is forecast to reach $210 billion in 2019, an increase of 23.8% over 2018, according to IDC.

The worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market decreased 4.8% year over year to approximately 26.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), according to IDC.

A new study by IBM, "Women, Leadership, and the Priority Paradox," polled 2,300 executives and professionals and revealed that the leadership gender gap in the global workplace continues to persist because organizations have yet to make advancing women a formal business priority.