{"id":58199,"date":"2014-05-21T13:20:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=58199"},"modified":"2014-05-21T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:20:50","slug":"lenovo-targets-100-million-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/58199\/lenovo-targets-100-million-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo targets 100 million smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese personal computer (PC) and smartphone maker Lenovo Group Ltd aims to sell 100 million smartphones and tablets in the coming year, the company said during a conference call with media on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lenovo also aims to be the world&#8217;s number one tablet PC maker within two years, said Chief Executive Yang Yuanqing.<\/p>\n<p>Lenovo on Wednesday reported its earnings for the fiscal year ended March, where it saw net profit rise 29 percent to $817.2 million, in line with analyst estimates.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Lenovo<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Lenovo sees record smartphone  growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/58169\/lenovo-sees-record-smartphone-growth\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lenovo sees record smartphone growth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lenovo spending spree will have short-term downside\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/53055\/lenovo-spending-spree-will-have-short-term-downside\/\"><strong>Lenovo spending spree will have short-term downside<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lenovo to buy Motorola from Google\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/52440\/lenovo-to-buy-motorola-from-google\/\"><strong>Lenovo to buy Motorola from Google<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lenovo profits surge on mobile gains\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/49057\/lenovo-profits-surge-on-mobile-gains\/\"><strong>Lenovo profits surge on mobile gains<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese personal computer (PC) and smartphone maker Lenovo Group Ltd aims to sell 100 million smartphones and tablets in the coming year, the company said during a conference call with media on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":52535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,1388,117],"class_list":["post-58199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-lenovo","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58205,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58199\/revisions\/58205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}