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Tuesday 24 January 2017
Taiwan market: Seiko Epson launches Smart Canvas
Seiko Epson has launched Smart Canvas smartwatch in the Taiwan market at NT$5,490 (US$173) for watch body alone plus NT$999 for a belt made of synthetic leather, according to Epson...
Monday 23 January 2017
Taiwan December manufacturing production index up on month, year, says MOEA
Taiwan reported a manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 113.93 for December 2016, increasing 0.65% on month and 7.46% on year, according to statistics released by...
Monday 23 January 2017
Taiwan December unemployment rate down on month, year, says DGBAS
Taiwan had 446,000 jobless citizens in December 2016, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.79% and representing a drop of 0.08 percentage points on month and on year as well, according...
Monday 23 January 2017
Taiwan market: Asustek launches police service app
Asustek Computer has launched a smartphone-based app for providing police-related services through cooperation with Taiwan's National Police Agency (NPA), Chinese-language newspaper...
Monday 23 January 2017
Foxconn Electronics to have Sharp produce 4K TV panels in Japan
Foxconn Electronics will have Sharp produce 45-, 55-, 80- and 90-inch LCD TV panels at its 8G factory in Kameyama City, central Japan, beginning 2017, according to industry sources...
Monday 23 January 2017
Taiwan December export order value down on month, up on year, says MOEA
Taiwan received export orders worth US$41.24 billion in total in December 2016, decreasing 5.5% on month but increasing 6.3% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry...
Friday 20 January 2017
Taiwan attracts foreign direct investment of over US$11 billion in 2016, says MOEA
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 3,414 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) with a total value of US$11.037 billion in 2016, respectively decreasing...
Thursday 19 January 2017
Cable TV in Taiwan to be fully digitized at end of 2017, says NCC
96% of cable TV networks in Taiwan have been digitized and the remaining 4% is expected to be completed at the end of 2017, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC...
Thursday 19 January 2017
Pihsiang Machinery sets up 2MWp rooftop PV system in northeastern Taiwan
Pihsiang Machinery Mfg., a maker of electric wheelchairs, scooters and bicycles, has cooperated with J&V Energy Technology, an investor in PV power generation, and New Green Power,...
Thursday 19 January 2017
Digitimes Research: KDDI sets up smart drone platform, Rakuten Mobile launches drone
In the Japan market, mobile operator KDDI set up a smart drone platform to store photographs and video in a database in the fourth quarter of 2016, while MVNO (mobile virtual network...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Taiwan IC design houses pushing into automotive aftermarket
Taiwan-based IC design houses including Generalplus, Himax Technologies, Macroblock, MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics, Nuvoton Technology, Pixart Imaging, Sunplus Technology and...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Plus One Marketing sells 4.0 million smartphones globally in fiscal year 2016, says Nikkei
Plus One Marketing, a Japan-based vendor of inexpensive smartphones for sale under the own brand Freetel, estimates global sales of four million smartphones, consisting of one million...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Taiwan market: Largan Medical aims to double sales in 2017
Largan Medical's own-brand contact lenses are now available at 1,398 retail stores around Taiwan and it aims to expand the network to 2,000 stores in 2017 and double its sales volume...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Taiwan market: Sony Mobile ramps up share of high-end Android smartphone segment
Sony Mobile Communications saw its share in the over NT$15,000 (US$475) segment of the Android smartphone market in Taiwan increase to 35% in 2016 from 24% of a year earlier, according...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Tatung starts operation of PV power stations at former landfill sites
Electric machinery and appliance maker Tatung and the Taoyuan city government on January 17 jointly held a ceremony to unveil PV power-generating stations established by the company...