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Ant Financial To Acquire 20% Stake In Thai Payment Company
24 June 2016
Alibaba's financial subsidiary Ant Financial reportedly plans to acquire a 20% stake in Ascend Money, an electronic payment and small …
Global Users Will Soon Trust Baidu Maps Around The World
21 April 2016
Chinese search engine Baidu.com, which censors its nuanced and oft-irrelevant search results, is now hoping its global maps will be …
Vietnamese Government Cancels Foxconn's Mobile Phone Plans
15 July 2015
The Vietnamese government is canceling plans for Taiwan-based Foxconn to manufacture mobile phones in the country. An official from the government of Vietnam revealed that their related department has cancelled the investment license issued to Foxconn Group for the construction of a USD200 million mobile phone plant in Vietnam. Nguyen Tien Hanh, head of investment […]
China's 21vianet Acquires VPN Service Provider Dermot
13 August 2014
Chinese Internet infrastructure service provider 21vianet announced that the company has reached an agreement with DYXnet to acquire the entire stake in Dermot Holdings Limited and its affiliates. Dermot operates VPN businesses in DYXnet and it includes Diyixian.com Limited and Shenzhen Diyixian. Virtual private network services provide users online privacy and circumvention services. Founded in […]
Nokia's Beijing Factory May Cut 3,000 Employees
23 July 2014
Nokia's brand motto "Connecting People" should instead be "Disconnecting People" as the company plans China layoffs of up to 3,000 workers in its Beijing factory. Moreover, the company's factory may be relocated to another city within three to five months, according to reports in Chinese local media. Nokia's Beijing factory is located in the Beijing […]
Lenovo's Smartphone Shipments Outpace Its PCs
15 November 2012
Yang Yuanqing, chairman and chief executive officer of Lenovo Group, revealed that in the third quarter of 2012, their smartphone shipments reached seven million units, increasing by 18 times compared with the same period of last year. During that period, the company gained a 14% market share, ranking second in the Chinese smartphone market. The […]
Hong Kong Provides Most Economical Local Broadband In Asia
29 June 2010
Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority reports that a study released by the Asia Pacific Carriers' Coalition shows Hong Kong provides the most economical local broadband access services in the Asia Pacific region.
The prices of broadband leased lines in Hong Kong at transmission speed of 1.5 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 45 Mbps and 155 Mbps […]
Hutchison Whampoa To Buy Out Hutchison Telecom
05 January 2010
Hutchison Telecommunications International has announced that its parent company Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong-headquartered innovation […]
ZTE To Build UMTS Network For Turkish Turkcell
31 July 2009
Chinese telecom equipment provider ZTE Corporation has signed a contract with the Turkish telecom operator Turkcell to build a universal mobile telecommunication system network for Byelorussian Telecommunication Network, the operator's subsidiary in Belarus.
This is another achievement for ZTE's UMTS network in the European market, following its successful entry into Estonia, Romania, and Turkey.
Under the contract, […]
CPCNet To Extend VPN Services From Hong Kong Through Vietnam
04 June 2009
CPCNet Hong Kong Limited has started working with Vietnam Datacommunication Company to establish a virtual private network in Vietnam, with the first POP ready for operations in Ho Chi Minh city this July.
"This partnership fulfills our mission to be a preferred partner by multinational corporations and certainly helps extend our reach to a new group […]
Hutchison Telecom Lists New Entity In Hong Kong
11 May 2009
Hong Kong's Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited has announced the successful spin-off and listing of the company's Hong Kong and Macau operations on the main board of the Hong Kong stock exchange.
The listing was by way of introduction of the shares of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited on the stock exchange which began trading on […]
Hutchison Telecom Says Business Looking Better Over Past Quarter
07 May 2008
Hutchison Telecommunications announced its unaudited key performance indicators for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 and said consolidated profit attributable to equity holders of the company was HK$310 million for the quarter, compared with a loss of HK$236 million for the same period last year.