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Monday 22 January 2018
Taiwan telecom operators begin offering IoT applications
Taiwan-based telecom operators including Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) have begun promoting related IoT applications as they are preparing...
Monday 22 January 2018
Mozilla cuts employees in Taiwan
Mozilla has recently cut the number of staff in the Taiwan office as the web browser developer is shifting its focus to meet the unique needs of consumers in emerging markets across...
Monday 22 January 2018
Taiwan 4Q17 international Internet bandwidth at 2.147Tbps
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 12 countries (including Hong Kong and Macau) reached bandwidth of 2.147Tbps in fourth-quarter 2017, decreasing 4.02% sequentially but increasing...
Monday 22 January 2018
Taiwan foreign direct investment reaches US$7.5 billion in 2017, says MOEA
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has disclosed it approved 3,415 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) totaling US$7.513 billion in 2017, respectively...
Monday 22 January 2018
Taiwan IT players have big opportunites in AI, IoT era, says Pegatron chairman
Despite not performing well in the era of smart mobile devices, there is no reason for Taiwan's information technology (IT) players to feel pessimistic about their future prospects,...
Monday 22 January 2018
Didi Chuxing starts trial operation in Taiwan
China-based Didi Chuxing's agent Ledi Technology has begun trial operation of taxi-matching services in Taiwan via its ride-hailing mobile app through cooperation with local taxi...
Friday 19 January 2018
LINE launches online shopping portal in Taiwan
LINE has launched its mobile web portal LINE Shopping in Taiwan. In addition to about 1,000 stores using LINE@ to operate online shopping, LINE Shopping partners with 28 online shopping...
Friday 19 January 2018
Taiwan to open 1st self-driving testing field in mid-2019
Taiwan will begin construction of its first self-driving testing field in a smart green energy science town in Tainan, southern Taiwan, in February 2018 and it will be open in mid-2019,...
Friday 19 January 2018
Taiwan steps up green energy development
The Taiwan government is implementing a Green Energy Industries and Technological Innovation plan to boost renewable energy development.
Thursday 18 January 2018
Taiwan makers to benefit from China OLED capacity build-ups
The massive build-ups of OLED panel production capacity by China-based panel makers are expected to bring business opportunities for Taiwan-based makers, including driver IC designers,...
Thursday 18 January 2018
Taiwan launches biomedical accelerator platform
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has newly established a "Taiwan Biomedical Accelerator" platform to drive a new wave of innovations by local players in the biomedical...
Thursday 18 January 2018
Taiwan unveils diagnostic image sharing cloud platform
Taiwan's National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) has unveiled a cloud-based platform for sharing diagnostic images among local hospitals and clinics.
Wednesday 17 January 2018
Global IT spending to reach US$3.7 trillion in 2018, says Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$3.7 trillion in 2018, an increase of 4.5% from 2017, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.
Wednesday 17 January 2018
UL sets up laser/LED optical radiation lab in Taiwan
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has unveiled its Laser/LED Optical Radiation Laboratory in Taiwan to undertake testing and certification for laser and LED products for photobiological...
Wednesday 17 January 2018
New Kinpo Group to construct lights-out factories in Southeast Asia
The New Kinpo Group is planning to establish lights-out factories in Thailand and the Philippines in 2018 and is looking to build another in Thailand in 2019 to help save manual labor,...