That is a worrisome sign for Samsung which has shown an increasing reliance on mobile-phone earnings to drive growth.
It is a worrying sign for Samsung which isn't only the world's biggest mobile-phone maker but is also the largest television-set manufacturer and memory-chip producer because of its growing reliance on mobile-phone earnings.
On a more macro level, we believe LinkedIn is one of the companies best positioned to benefit from growth in mobile usage given its reliance on subscriptions over advertising.
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Intel needs to make chips on a large scale again to keep profits coming in, and Apple needs to reduce its reliance on arch rival Samsung for mobile processors.
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In July a bid by Reliance Communications, run by Anil Ambani, to buy a South African mobile-phone company was thwarted by Mukesh Ambani, the boss of Reliance Industries.
Thus alongside stars born in the 1990s, such as Bharti Airtel, a mobile-phone firm, older conglomerates such as Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla and Tata Sons still loom large in the Indian mind, their extraordinarily diverse output driven, eaten, worn and watched, their hereditary bosses as famous as film stars.
Every single sign points to an increased reliance on the networks that surround us and bind us together through our mobile phones.
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The government's slow response and failure to maintain order were partly caused by its reliance not on old-fashioned radios, but on the internet and mobile telephones both of which were knocked out by a power failure.
He cites Reliance Communications, a bank client and one of the country's leading mobile phone operators.
After starting out ten years ago, Bharti has faced down fearsome rivals, including the Reliance and Tata groups and Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, to become the largest mobile-phone operator in India's hypercompetitive wireless market.
There has in the past been friction between it and Zynga, which is building a web and mobile platform of its own, called Zynga Direct, in order to reduce its reliance on Facebook.
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