Lenovo's Motorola announced that the company has appointed Fu Lili, former acting president of Motorola Solutions China division, as new …

Lenovo Group will implement an employee layoff program, but the total number of employees affected will be no more than …

Lenovo-Motorola's India branch recently submitted an application for a single-brand retail business license as it aims to open a new …

China's Lenovo published its unaudited performance for the second financial quarter ended September 30, 2015, stating that the group's revenue increased by 16% year-on-year to USD12.2 billion, which included the details of SystemX and Motorola for the entire quarter. Meanwhile, the group reported one-time costs of USD923 million, including USD599 million for restructuring and USD324 […]

China's Lenovo Group announced that they will cut about 3,200 non-manufacturing employees worldwide. Lenovo announced this decision in its financial report for the first quarter of the 2015/16 financial year. The company said facing the dramatic decline of PC sales, Lenovo Group must continue to improve effectiveness and cut expenses. They will reduce about 3,200 […]

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 […]

Yang Yuanqing, chairman and chief executive officer of Lenovo Group, announced via an internal email that Liu Jun, executive vice president of Lenovo Group, president of mobile business group, and president of Motorola Mobility management committee, will depart the company. Meanwhile, Chen Xudong will replace Liu's roles, effective immediately. The email did not disclose Liu's […]

With a total investment of over CNY5 billion, Motorola's global development and quality test center has been positioned within Lenovo's Wuhan operational zone. This new center will cover various sectors, including manufacturing, operations, management, development testing, trade, and sales. The first batch of Motorola mobile phones is expected to realize volume production in Wuhan in […]

Ren Weiguang, former head of HTC China, has joined Electrolux as general manager of the China region. Ren revealed that he took office on February 10, 2014. He said the reason for choosing Electrolux is because the company is like Nokia was in the old days with strength and good prospects. Ren also said that […]

China-based Lenovo is either the world's savviest business negotiator or in for a crude surprise as it purchases the dilapidated remnants of Motorola Mobility from Google for about USD2.91 billion. Google had purchased much of the same assets from Motorola only three years ago for USD12.5 billion, so Lenovo's purchase comes at an incredible discount. […]

Telstra, Australia's leading provider of mobile phones, mobile devices, home phones and broadband Internet, announced that the company formally appointed Gao Ruibin as chief executive officer of Telstra Greater China. In his new role, Gao will be responsible for crafting the comprehensive strategy for Telstra Greater China and seeking new business growth opportunities in this […]

Hugo Barra, the vice president for Android product management at Google, has taken a new job at China-based smartphone maker Xiaomi. Foreign media have reported extensively over the past day that Barra's departure from Google is a dark omen for the search engine, but a boon for the Chinese startup Xiaomi, which values itself at […]

Meng Pu, president for Motorola Greater China, has resigned with the coming of the company's second-round layoff plans in China. According to reports in Chinese local media, Motorola will soon start the second-round layoff in China and the company will have less than 200 employees left in the country, working mainly in the carrier business […]

Google just announced a new round of layoffs targeting Motorola Mobility and 1,200 employees will lose their jobs, accounting for about 10% of all employees in the company. The layoffs will reportedly affect employees in China, U.S. and India, though the amount of redundant employees for each region are not yet available. Motorola reportedly sent […]

Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. has reportedly closed its official websites in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Motorola Mobility currently only maintains websites in four countries and regions in Asia Pacific region, including Australia, mainland China, Japan, and South Korea, according to reports in Chinese local media. While former websites in New Zealand, India, Hong Kong, and […]

Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad has cooperated with American carrier MetroPCS in the launch of its first LTE 4G mobile phone named Quattro in America. As a CDMA network operator, MetroPCS has CDMA and LTE networks and it is one of the world's first operators to provide LTE products and services. So far, it has established […]

China Unicom and Motorola have jointly launched Motorola's first low-price smartphone XT390 in China. This is reportedly the first time for Motorola to launch a smartphone with price of around CNY1,000 in China and the company is the first international mobile phone maker to support China's "CNY1,000 smartphone strategy". Motorola XT390 adopts the Android 2.3 […]

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC will pay to gain patent licenses from Intertrust Technologies Corporation; meanwhile, the Taiwanese company will acquire a 20% stake in SyncTV, a subsidiary of Intertrust. According to HTC, the involved patent licenses are mainly related to digital copyrights management technologies. However, the company did not reveal the acquisition price for the […]

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom announced its strategic focus for 2012 and said it will focus on the sales of phones with the prices between CNY1,000 and CNY2,000. On December 12, 2011, China Unicom and ZTE, the Chinese telecom equipment maker, jointly launched a customized phone named Skate V960, which is recognized as a strategic […]

Nokia Siemens Networks has announced plans to cut 17,000 employees around the world by the end of 2013, including about 4,000 mainland Chinese employees. This is reportedly the largest layoff in the history of Nokia Siemens. According to the company, it had about 74,000 employees worldwide by November 1, 2011, which means one out of […]