Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is building its East China headquarters in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Lei Jun, chairman and chief executive …
Xiaomi To Build East China Headquarters In Nanjing
16 October 2017
Xiaomi Signs Strategic Supply Chain Investment Deal With Hubei Province
08 May 2017
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Hubei province. Under the strategic cooperation agreement, Xiaomi will join …
Hugo Barra Will Go Home After Three Years In China With Xiaomi
23 January 2017
Few foreigners can do well over a sustained time period within China's insular technology sector, and fewer can do well …
Xiaomi Sold Over Two Million Smartphones In India During Q3 2016
05 December 2016
Manu Jain, head of Xiaomi India, announced that the company sold over two million smartphones in the Indian market during …
Lei Jun Resigns Chairman Post At YY To Focus On Troubled Xiaomi
18 August 2016
Lei Jun, founder of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc., has resigned his position as chairman of the board at NASDAQ-listed …
China's Xiaomi Launches New Smart Home Brand Mijia
31 March 2016
Chinese smartphone phone maker Xiaomi held a press conference in Beijing and announced that the company launched its new "ecological …
Xiaomi Prepares To Fight Apple Pay In China
28 February 2016
Apple made big news last week when its mobile payment service Apple Pay entered China. But China's upstart mobile phone …
Former Qualcomm China Chief Joins Xiaomi As Senior VP
16 June 2015
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced that Wang Xiang, former Qualcomm global senior vice president and Greater China president, will join Xiaomi as senior vice president to lead the company's strategic cooperation efforts. Lei Jun, Xiaomi's founder, chairman and chief executive officer, said that Wang is an experienced manager. He has a deep understanding of the […]
Xiaomi's New Chinese Phablet Looks Like An iPhone
15 January 2015
Xiaomi today launched new devices including the Xiaomi Mi Note, an Android-powered phablet sporting 3D curved Gorilla Glass, a Snapdragon 801 2.5GHz processor, and a form factor that looks like an iPhone 6 clone.
Xiaomi Releases Financial Details For The First Time
16 December 2014
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi achieved operating revenue of about CNY26.583 billion in 2013 and its net profit was about CNY347 million. These accounting details are the first concrete look into the private company's financial health. The data was released to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange because of an investment deal between Xiaomi and Midea. The two […]
Xiaomi Aims For Better Mobile Content In Latest Chinese Video Investment Push
10 November 2014
Lei Jun, chairman and chief executive officer of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, says the company will invest USD1 billion in the video content industry as it aims to improve content of its TV and TV box products. For content, Lei said they prefer to cooperate with partners in the video content sector and realize joint […]
Xiaomi Adopts New Domain Name For Online Rebranding
28 April 2014
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has launched its new domain name Mi.com, and users will be re-directed to this domain when visiting the old one at Xiaomi.com. According to domain record information, the current holder of Mi.com is Xiaomi and the information updated date is April 21, 2014. Xiaomi reportedly spent over USD1 million on this […]
Xiaomi Builds Upon "Close" Tech Relationship With Kingsoft In China
01 April 2014
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi and security software provider Kingsoft jointly announced that the two companies will invest to build a technology industrial park in the Haidian district of Beijing to establish a mobile Internet ecosystem. In the future, Xiaomi and Kingsoft will both locate their headquarters in this industrial park. Lei Jun, who is founder […]
China's Xiaomi Establishes Payment Company
12 February 2014
To capitalize on growing mobile payments and to keep more business in-house, smartphone maker Xiaomi has established a payment company. The company has registered capital of CNY50 million and Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi, is the legal representative and chairman of this company. The operating scope of Xiaomi's payment company includes electronic payment technology, payment […]
China's Xiaomi Formally Launches 2nd Generation Smartphone
22 August 2012
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi formally launched its second-generation smartphone product Xiaomi 1S a few days ago. Xiaomi 1S, which means the super first generation, adopts Qualcomm's dual-core 1.7G CPU, a camera with two million pixels, and a rear camera with eight million pixels. The retail price of this new product is CNY1,499. At the same […]
Xiaomi Smartphone Eyes Taiwanese Market At Year-end
18 July 2012
Lei Jun, chairman and chief executive officer of Xiaomi, reportedly recently visited Taiwan and announced his company plans to launch Xiaomi smartphones in Taiwan at the end of 2012. According to reports in Taiwanese local media, the Chinese mainland smartphone maker aims to become a top smartphone brand in the Taiwanese market, challenging leading smartphone […]
Xiaomi Unveils Youth-focused Smartphone In China
28 May 2012
Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi has announced the launch of a youth version of its product with retail price of CNY1,499. The company said it will open the sales of 150,000 units and only those who booked before May 18, 2012 can get the smartphones. The standard version Xiaomi currently under sales has a 1.5GHz dual-core […]
China Has 110 Million 3G Mobile Users
27 December 2011
According to statistics provided by the three major Chinese telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the number of 3G users largely increased in November 2011, reaching a total of 110 million. China Unicom reported that the number of its newly increased 3G users was over three million for the first time in […]