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Thursday 5 January 2017
Cloud storage solution provider Hope Bay to lay off employees
Taiwan-based Hope Bay Technologies, an enterprise-use cloud storage solution provider, has decided to scale down its operations and plans to lay off 80% of its employees due to financial...
Thursday 5 January 2017
Supermicro enters gaming motherboard market
US-based server vendor Supermicro has entered the brand gaming motherboard market with its new Supero brand and released a series of products recently. The company has been pushing...
Thursday 5 January 2017
Smartphone vendors to showcase new products at CES 2017
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 will be hosted from January 5-8 in Las Vegas, the US, and firms including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Xiaomi and Huawei are expected...
Thursday 5 January 2017
IPC maker Ennoconn reports record high revenues for December, all of 2016
IPC maker Ennoconn, an affiliate company under the Foxconn Group, has reported record high revenues for December and all of 2016, buoyed by its overseas acquisition projects.
Thursday 5 January 2017
IPC maker Advantech to buy up to 60% stake in Korea-based Kostec
IPC and related solutions provider Advantech will invest less than NT$300 million (US$9.307 billion) to take up a 60% stake in Korea-based medical-use monitor product maker, Kostec,...
Wednesday 4 January 2017
Oppo, Vivo both target to ship over 150 million smartphones in 2017
China-based smartphone vendors Oppo and Vivo aim to ship over 150 million smartphones, in 2017, a target which some industry sources in Taiwan and China see as questionable.
Wednesday 4 January 2017
Wistron expanding ODM handset production capacity in India, says paper
Wistron is expanding ODM handset production capacity at its existing plant in the suburb of New Delhi from the current 600,000-700,00 units to two million a month, and it is also...
Wednesday 4 January 2017
CHT sets 2017 capex budget at NT$29 billion
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has tentatively set its capex budget for 2017 at NT$29 billion (US$900.74 million), up from NT$27 billion spent a year earlier, according to company president...
Tuesday 3 January 2017
FIH Mobile appoints acting chairman
Vincent Tong, chairman and executive director of FIH Mobile, a handset arm of the Foxconn Group, has resigned from the positions of chairman and director he held in the handset company...
Tuesday 3 January 2017
Digitimes Resaerch: AT&T launches inexpensive virtual pay-TV service DirectTV Now
AT&T has launched DirectTV Now, the third virtual pay-TV platform in the US market, at a minimum monthly charge rate of US$35, lower than competitors', for more than 100 live...
Tuesday 3 January 2017
Quanta to make next-generation Apple Watch, says paper
Apple is expected to unveil its next-generation Apple Watch in the third quarter and the wearable device will be manufactured by Quanta Computer and features better performance and...
Tuesday 3 January 2017
Adlink offers smart solutions for Taipei buses
Industrial computing device maker Adlink Technology has won a contract to provide smart ticketing and tour-guide solution for use in eight double-decker sight-seeing buses in Taipe...
Friday 30 December 2016
NCC releases draft Telecommunication Regulation Act, Digital Communications Act
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on December 28 presented a draft Telecommunication Regulation Act and Digital Communications Act, a bid to facilitate digital convergence...
Friday 30 December 2016
Chunghwa Telecom appoints new president
Chunghwa Telecom's board of directors on December 29 appointed Sheih Chi-mau, currently executive vice president, as the new president to succeed Shih Mu-piao who will retire on January...
Friday 30 December 2016
China market: Component order visibility weak from some smartphone vendors for 1Q17
The visibility of component orders from some China-based smartphone vendors, notably Huawei, Xiaomi Technology and LeEco, for the first quarter of 2017 has become weak recently, according...