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Tuesday 25 July 2017
Taiwan market: Online shopping operators looking to combine platforms
Many B2B2C or B2C online shopping service operators in the Taiwan market have two or more platforms for market differentiation, but in view of increasing competition, are looking...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Taiwan to set up innovation service platform to integrate technology R&D forces
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs will spend NT$5 billion (US$170 million) in the next four years setting up an open innovation service platform (OISP) to facilitate cooperative...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Taiwan market: Mobile e-payments monopoly is unlikely
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay successively landed the Taiwan market in late March, late May and early June 2017 respectively, and several local smartphone-based mobile third-party...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Taiwan June manufacturing production index up, says MOEA
Taiwan recorded a manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 113.01 for June 2017, increasing 1.11% on month and 3.60% on year, according to statistics released by the...
Monday 24 July 2017
Taiwan June unemployment rate down on year, says DGBAS
Taiwan had 440,000 jobless citizens in June 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.74% which rose 0.08pp on month but dropped 0.18pp on year, according to the Directorate-General...
Monday 24 July 2017
CEE and notebooks, main drivers of the EMEA traditional PC market recovery, said IDC
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks and workstations) continued to improve in the second quarter of 2017, with a stable performance...
Monday 24 July 2017
Taipower to set up wind turbine assembly site
Taiwan's state-run power company has unveiled a plan to set up a site at a port to assemble wind turbines to be installed in the Taiwan Straits.
Monday 24 July 2017
Apple sets up OLED panel R&D line in Taiwan, says report
Apple has purchased evaporators from Korea-based Sunic System to build a 2.5G OLED panel line to develop related technology and products in Taiwan, according to a Korea-based ET...
Monday 24 July 2017
Taiwan 2Q17 international Internet bandwidth stands at 2.182Tbps, says TWNIC
Taiwan's direct Internet connection bandwidth with 12 countries (including Hong Kong and Macau) reached of 2.182Tbps at the end of the second quarter of 2017, increasing 4.19% on...
Monday 24 July 2017
Advantech, Intel, Carrefour cooperate to create first smart hypermarket in Taiwan
Industrial computing device maker Advantech, Intel and France-based Carrefour have cooperated to establish Taiwan's first smart Carrefour hypermarket through adopting Advantech-developed...
Friday 21 July 2017
Taiwan market: FET launches position tracking service
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has launched a position tracking service, dubbed BoBee, targeting the elderly, dementia and children groups as well as the pet market.
Friday 21 July 2017
Ardentec obtains testing orders for car-use chips from TI
Taiwan-based Ardentec has grabbed testing orders for car-use chips from Texas Instruments (TI), which will buoy its sales performance in the third quarter, according to industry so...
Friday 21 July 2017
Rakuten introduces Taiwan products for online sale in Japan
Japan-based online shopping operator Rakuten has cooperated with Taiwan-based Commerce Development Research Institute to set up a Taiwan Life Pavilion on Rakuten's online shopping...
Friday 21 July 2017
Korea chipmakers looking to expand foundry biz
Samsung Electronics, Dongbu HiTek and SK Hynix have stepped up their foundry business expansions, which will as a group pose a threat to the existing major dedicated foundry houses...
Friday 21 July 2017
Four Taiwan firms file countersuit against Qualcomm
Four Taiwan-based hardware production partners of Apple, namely Foxconn Electronics, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Pegatron, have jointly filed a countersuit against Qualcomm in...