Foxconn Faces Challenges in Boosting Automation
Apple Inc. supplier Hon Hai Precision Co. has declared plans to install robotic arms at its factories dotted across China to boost efficiency and address labor unrest. But its bid to automate swaths of...
View ArticleViral Video: Manti Te'o Gets the Taiwan Treatment (And That's No Lie)
It seems inevitable that the bizarre story of Notre Dame football player Manti Te’o — who says he was tricked into a relationship with someone whom he met online, but who never existed — would get the...
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HTC's Rapid Fall a Cautionary Tale for Huawei, ZTE and Others
With an all-important product launch on Tuesday, Taiwanese phone maker HTC is hoping to write a new chapter in what has been a truly incredible story. On the back of Android, the former contract...
View ArticleFoxconn Gets Boost From Apple's Sales
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said its net profit rose 16 percent in 2012 from the previous year, as the Taiwan-based assembler of Apple Inc. products saw its revenue increase as the U.S. company’s...
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How Hard Will Weak PC Sales Hit Intel?
The reports by market research firms Gartner and IDC earlier this week showing what appears to have been one of the worst year-on-year contractions in the personal computer market since records have...
View ArticleHTC to Name New Leaders Soon
HTC Corp. expects to announce successors within the month for some of the high-level managers who have left the Taiwanese smartphone maker in recent weeks. In an interview, HTC Marketing Chief Benjamin...
View ArticleHTC’s Lowest-Cost Smartphone to Date
HTC Corp.’s least-expensive smartphone to date hit Taiwan shelves on Wednesday, priced at less than a third of its flagship device. Taiwan’s HTC has been trying to push a premium image, with its...
View ArticleHow HTC Lost Its Way With Smartphones
After product fumbles and two years of share price declines, HTC Corp. Chief Executive Peter Chou knows the inevitable question is coming. “I know you guys want to ask, will I quit,” Mr. Chou says in...
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Foxconn's Firefox OS Hiring Spree
Now that electronics manufacturer Foxconn has partnered with Mozilla to develop devices running its Firefox operating system, the company is hiring up in support of that effort. Foxconn hopes to...
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PC Industry Train Wreck Hammers Taiwanese Manufacturers
Not that we really needed one, but here’s another sign of the historically bad patch the personal computer industry is going through. Research firm IHS checked in with contract manufacturers who built...
View ArticleHon Hai Bids for Taiwan 4G Mobile Spectrum
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said Tuesday it has submitted an application for a fourth-generation high-speed mobile spectrum license in Taiwan, its latest effort to diversify beyond the contract...
View ArticleHTC Profit Misses Expectations
HTC Corp. posted an 83 percent decline in second-quarter net profit, missing analyst estimates, as the Taiwanese smartphone maker works on a difficult recovery from the first quarter’s record-low...
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Has Apple Hit a Wall in China?
When Apple reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter back in April, CEO Tim Cook touted the period as the company’s “best quarter ever in Greater China,” and celebrated the eight percent growth...
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Asus's Chief Jonney Shih Dishes on How the New Nexus 7 Came to Be
Google and Asus had already set some pretty audacious goals for the redesigned Nexus 7. Starting last October, work began to make a second-generation device that was thinner, packed a faster chip,...
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HTC Hopes New Mid-Tier Phones Will Help It Amid Tough Competition
While HTC has managed to regain some lost ground with its high-end HTC One, the company continues to struggle in other parts of the market. The Taiwanese phone maker said on its earnings conference...
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HTC Looks to Robert Downey Jr. to Rehab Its Image
After seeing its fortunes rapidly rise — and then come back down to earth just as fast — Taiwanese phone maker HTC is looking to rebuild its image. For the past few months, HTC has been talking about a...
View ArticleHTC Developing Smartphone Operating System
HTC Corp. is developing a mobile software system specifically for Chinese consumers, people familiar with the project say, as part of a big China bet that the Taiwanese smartphone maker hopes will help...
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HTC Confirms Job Cuts at U.S. Operations
Struggling Taiwanese phone maker HTC cut more than two dozen jobs at its U.S. offices on Friday. The company said in a statement that the cuts were “a decisive action by HTC Corp (US) to streamline and...
View ArticleSpotify Extends Reach in Asia With Taiwan Rollout
Spotify AB is expanding its streaming-music service in Asia, extending its push for a more solid global footing than its rivals as the company continues to post losses. The Stockholm-based company, one...
View ArticleiPhone 5s and iPhone 5c Headed to 50 New Markets by November 1
Apple’s newest iPhones will arrive at market in more than 50 countries by Nov. 1. On Oct. 25, the flagship iPhone 5s and its sibling, the iPhone 5c, will go on sale in 35 new markets, including...
View ArticleSamsung Fined Over HTC Smear Campaign
Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission has slapped Samsung with a fine for the astroturf smear campaigns it has waged against some of its rivals. On Thursday, the agency levied a $341,037 fine against...
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PlayPhone Adds SingTel to Its Roster, Betting on "Not Yet Mature" Emerging...
Game discovery and billing platform PlayPhone has signed another big carrier to its growing list of partnerships: SingTel, the Singaporean telecom that claims 477 million subscribers across Asia,...
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Acer Seeks to Regroup With New CEO, Job Cuts
The worst market for personal computers in history claimed another victim today: J.T. Wang, CEO of Taiwan-based manufacturer Acer, is resigning. He’ll be replaced by the company’s president, Jim Wong....
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Yahoo 10-Q Filing Shows It Has to Hug It Out With Microsoft on Global Search
I love a good public company regulatory filing, because it yields all kinds of little golden nuggets of news that get hidden under a pile of dull and mostly accounting related information. For...
View ArticleTaiwan Fines Apple for iPhone Price-Plan Meddling
TAIPEI — Apple Inc. has been fined 20 million New Taiwan dollars and ordered to stop interfering with mobile service providers and handset distributors’ pricing, Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission said on...
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