The financial report from Taiwan-based semiconductor firm MediaTek for the second quarter of 2017 shows the company's net profit declined …
MediaTek Takes Hit As Chinese Smartphones Migrate To Qualcomm
21 August 2017
China's Meizu Restructuring Forms Three Major Business Units
10 May 2017
Chinese smartphone maker Meizu is facing stiff competition and shrinking margins, and the company is responding with its new organizational …
China's Meizu Gives Up On Shenzhen And Returns To Zhuhai
20 February 2017
Smartphone maker Meizu will move its Shenzhen branch back to Zhuhai and its smart home services department will begin a …
Top Executive Exits Xiaomi
28 October 2016
While Xiaomi has been lauded over the past few days for the launch of its bezel-less Mi Mix smartphone, the …
Alibaba Acquires Android Mobile App Distribution Platform In China
12 July 2016
Alibaba's reach into online finance, Internet commerce, streaming movies, and gaming just expanded to include mobile apps. China's independent mobile …
Chinese Smartphone Foes Head For America
12 February 2016
Second-tier American mobile carrier US Mobile announced plans to introduce rival Xiaomi and Meizu smartphones into America. US Mobile is …
China's Meizu To Cut Up To 5% Of Employees
12 January 2016
With stiff competition from Xiaomi and Apple, Chinese smartphone maker Meizu says it will layoff staff. Commenting on the layoff, Meizu's president Bai Yongxiang said that they know that employee layoff plan is not the entire solution, but it can improve the possibility of building an excellent team to build an excellent company and provide […]
Meizu Forms Strategic Partnership With D.Phone For CNY2 Billion Smartphone Sales
28 April 2015
Chinese smartphone maker Meizu announced a strategic deal with mobile phone retail chain D.Phone that aims at annual sales of CNY2 billion. Meizu revealed that its products will enter 3,000 D.Phone chain stores across China and the company will complete the building of 1,000 image sites within 2015. At the same time, Meizu will invest […]
Letv.com Establishes New Beijing Company For Mobile Phone Development
11 July 2014
According to data from the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce, Letv has registered a new company named Letv Mobile Smart Information Technology (Beijing) Company Limited, with registered capital of CNY20 million. The business scope of this new company covers production and development of mobile phones and sales of communications devices, electronic products, mechanical equipment, […]
Ubuntu Linux Mobile Phones Arriving Soon In China
24 February 2014
Canonical, the developer of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, has signed an agreement with a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer to soon ship Ubuntu phones to Chinese consumers. Canonical signed a deal with China's Meizu to ship the first Ubuntu devices on the latest hardware in 2014. Financial terms for the deal were not revealed. Meizu […]
Meizu's Management Changes Target Upstart Mobile Phone Competitors
18 February 2014
Chinese smartphone maker Meizu is bolstering its management team as the company faces more competition from Chinese upstarts like Xiaomi and foreign competitors like Apple and Samsung. Bai Yongxiang has been named Meizu's senior vice president and president's assistant. Bai will assist the CEO to operate all businesses of the company. The CEO position will […]