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Thursday 25 May 2017
Pegatron to showcase new products on June 1
Pegatron is scheduled to showcase an array of new products and applications, including AI (artificial intelligence), VR (virtual reality) and in-car electronics devices, as well as...
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Taiwan market: Samsung Pay launched
Samsung Electronics formally launched Samsung Pay on May 23 in Taiwan after a three-week trial operation of the smartphone-based e-payment services in cooperation with seven local...
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Posiflex unveils new headquarters
Own-brand POS (point of sale/service) device and peripheral maker Posiflex Technology has unveiled an 8-story headquarters building located in New Taipei City, northern Taiwan, according...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Axiomtek focuses development on smart factory, transport solutions
Industrial computing device maker Axiomtek focuses mid- and long-term business development on smart factory and smart transportation solutions, with the former including sensors and...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Taiwan market: Alliance Digital Tech to boost mobile e-payment services
Alliance Digital Tech, a TSM (trusted service management) company jointly established by five local mobile telecom carriers and EasyCard Corp., will promote mobile e-payment services...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Taiwan market: FET offers rental online consulting services
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has teamed up with Soluto to launch online consulting services regarding use of handsets and connected consumer electronics for its subscribers,...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Global tablet market – 1Q 2017
Cannibalized by large-size smartphones, global tablet shipments in first-quarter 2017 dropped 16.7% on year to reach 37.12 million units.
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Huawei competes head to head with Oppo in domestic and overseas markets
Competition between China-based Huawei and rival Oppo for ramping up their smartphone shipments in the domestic and overseas markets are to intensify in the second half of 2017, according...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
FIH Mobile warns losses to expand in 1H17
FIH Mobile has issued a warning on its profitability, saying its net losses for the first half of 2017 are expected to more than double to US$240 million compared to US$110 million...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Litemax selected as one of potential Mittelstand enterprises
On April 19, 2017, Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs invited CNFI, ROCCOC, Taiwan Association of Small & Medium Enterprises, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Interior, Ministry...
Monday 22 May 2017
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to ship nearly 21 million handsets in 2Q17
Taiwan-based ODMs, OBMs (own-brand manufacturers) and JDM (joint-design manufacturers), but not including OEMs (such as for the iPhone), will together ship 20.92 million smartphones...
Monday 22 May 2017
iPhone shipments still grow in US, UK, Australia in 1Q17, says Kantar Worldpanel
Despite an overall 0.8% on year shipment decline in the first quarter of 2017, shipments of iPhone devices in the UK, US and Australia still posted a growth of 5.6%, 5.2% and 3.8%...
Monday 22 May 2017
China market: LeEco CEO steps down
Jia Yueting, chairman and CEO of China-based LeEco, has stepped down as CEO of the company but will retain his position as chairman, according to a recent stock exchange filing.
Monday 22 May 2017
Shipments of Google Daydream-enabled smartphones to reach over 10 million units in 2017
Global shipments of smartphones supporting Google's Daydream platform will reach over 10 million units in 2017, according to Clay Bavor, vice president of virtual and augmented reality...
Friday 19 May 2017
Volta and Vega: With increased integration, what's left for Taiwan vendors to customize?
Last week's Nvidia GTC event was - from the hardware point of view, at least - all about the new Volta GPU generation, and its expected leadership in AI (Artificial intelligence)...