It's 3am on the first day of 2014. Shanghai's Hengshan Road, an area popular for restaurants and nightclubs, is lit up with what seems like hundreds of bright green taxi lights, inviting the rowdy New Year's crowd to hop in. But the drivers ...
Tags: Taxi Apps, Government Regulations, taxi
Taiwan Glass Industrial raised $100 million on Monday from a five-year convertible bond, even as European stocks fell 2% amid fears of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine in Crimea. Investors pushed a hard bargain given the uncertain ...
Tags: Modern Commercial Buildings, Glass
Verizon on Wednesday became the first major US telecom carrier to release a "transparency report," and said it received 320,000 data queries last year in the United States alone. Verizon also said it received between 1,000 and 2,000 ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Raising a mountain of funding doesn't prove a tech company is success-bound. But if you ask Jeff Fagnan at Atlas Venture, there's a closer correlation between the two today than even a few years ago. "I think the current crop (of ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Once prominent Japanese tech firms Sony – SNE and Panasonic – OTCPK:PCRFY have been bleeding money over the last several years, but now may be back on track to a return to profitability. Both companies have struggled due to ...
Tags: Profitability, Sony, Panasonic, Japanese Giants
Prime Minister David Cameron is to enter talks with China over cyber spying after raising the issue with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang during his visit to the country. It follows on from a long-running war of words between the US and ...
Tags: Cyber Spying, Talks with China
Over 3,000 firms have signed up to the Safe Harbor deal. The European Union (EU) has confirmed plans not to withdraw from the 'Safe Harbor' deal on data protection, which allows the US firms to access European data, snubbing demands for a ...
John Roberts, co-founder & chief technical officer of GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless provider of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has won the ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Electrical, Electronics
Brazil needs its own global technology companies if it is to capitalise on its market growth, says Antonio Gil, president of Brasscom, Brazil's technology industry trade body. Brasscom represents 45 companies in Brazil's IT industry and ...
Tags: Computer Products
With the influx of digitalization in apparel retailing, several e-commerce platforms have started installing 3D body scanners to attract more customers as it helps online clothing retailers to boost their revenue and profitability by ...
Tags: E-Retailers, 3D Scanners
Google has once again been told by the European Union that it must do more to allay fears that it is attempting to squeeze rivals from the web search market, after competitors - including Microsoft - voiced concerns that the concessions ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, web search
The government is to review Huawei's Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (the Cell) and will report its findings later in the year. The Chinese telecommunications firm, which has flourished on a global scale in recent years, has been ...
Tags: Computer Products, huawei
Apple is on the hunt for cloud infrastructure engineers familiar with building large-scale deployments like those at Amazon Web Services and OpenStack companies, according to a job posting. The eventual hire will work to "build the next ...
There are two ways analysts report hiring trends in the tech: Some focus on the half-empty, others on the half-full. For the half-empty view, there is this new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which claims that layoffs in ...
Tags: Computer Products, IT economy, telecommunications industries
HP would put up a fight for its customers' data if the US authorities came calling to access it, according to HP's privacy officer EMEA, Daniel Pradelles. The US Patriot Act enables authorities in the US to seize data if they believe it ...