Similar to the Chinese government, which considers dissemination of seemingly innocuous data as capital crimes, Apple also strives to keep a tight lid on its new product statistics to help control its stock price and manage investor expectations. So recent data published by a Chinese third-party mobile data service platform called TalkingData claims to have […]
Baidu, JD.com Team To Promote Innovative Hardware Development In China
07 February 2014
Chinese search engine company Baidu and e-commerce website JD.com jointly established an innovative hardware open platform that provides resource support such as technology, data, and promotional marketing to selected innovative hardware products. Investment and ownership apportions of the project were not revealed by Baidu or JD.com, which just submitted its prospectus for an initial public […]
Twenty Asian Startups Will Gain Wearable Technologies Investments
17 December 2013
Smart watches, all-seeing eyeglasses, and embedded biological digital tools are all vying for one of twenty special investments to be made into companies. Foxconn has set up an investment fund to support start-up companies specialized in wearable device development. This NTD200 million fund will be managed by Syntrend Creative Park, a company under Foxconn in […]
What Time Is It? Shanda Will Soon Unveil Chinese Smart Watch
24 May 2013
It's ominous in China to give someone a timepiece as a gift, but that may soon be happening as a Chinese software company unveils a new smart watch. Nut Shell Electronics, a subsidiary of China's Shanda, announced that the company will launch several new products on June 17, 2013, including two second-generation Shanda smartphones, a […]