Foldable Smartphone Market Set to Grow 30 Percent in 2026
Worldwide foldable smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 10% year-on-year in 2025 to 20.6 million units, according to IDC.

Worldwide foldable smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 10% year-on-year in 2025 to 20.6 million units, according to IDC.
A new study from Juniper Research found that the number of businesses deploying Anti-money Laundering (AML) systems will surge to more than 3.8 million worldwide by 2030.
Energy efficiency in facilities and buildings has emerged as the No. 1 infrastructure priority for organisations seeking to leverage it for decarbonization and competitiveness, according to a Siemens survey.
ZTE could pay more than $1 billion to settle a foreign bribery case.
The Walt Disney Company agreed to a $1 billion investment in OpenAI.
Croatian RegTech company Legit was included in this year's RegTech100 list.
Deutsche Telekom and OpenAI will collaborate on multilingual products designed for Europe.
New research from the GSMA has found that European policymakers could ease investment pressure on the region’s mobile operators by reforming spectrum pricing and renewal rules.
Croatia-based Orqa, Europe’s leading developer of FPV (first-person view) and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has significantly expanded manufacturing at its headquarters in Osijek, Croatia.
The Australian ban on using major social media platforms for children under 16 years of age took effect on December 9.
Worldwide spending on information technology (hardware, software, and IT services) is on course to post an increase of 14% in 2025, according to IDC.
Satellite-enabled smartwatches are emerging as the next frontier in the wearables ecosystem, bridging terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTN), according to Counterpoint Research.
A new study by Juniper Research has revealed that 4.9 billion cellular connections will use eSIMs by 2030, rising from 1.2 billion in 2025.
More than three-fifths (61%) of investors say technology will be the sector attracting the most investment over the next three years, well ahead of every other sector, according to PwC’s 2025 Global Investor Survey.
By 2029, only 5% of automakers are expected to maintain strong AI investment growth, a decline from the current rate of over 95%, according to Gartner.
New research from Omdia revealed that Spain is now Europe’s leading free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) market, with 35% of online adults watching FAST services each month.
A new study by Juniper Research revealed that the number of cross-border Account-to-Account (A2A) transactions is expected to increase by 1.8 billion over the next year, reaching 11% of the 16.6 billion B2B cross-border transactions forecasted for 2026.
Netflix agreed to a $72 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
Infobip identified a remarkable upswing in its Black Friday messaging traffic, with the use of Rich Communication Services (RCS) surging 277% on Black Friday 2025 compared to the previous year.
In 2026, 116 million electric vehicles (EVs) – cars, buses, vans, and heavy trucks – are forecast to be on the road, according to Gartner.