Pony Ma, aged 42, outpaced Robin Li to become the richest entrepreneur in the IT industry with wealth of CNY 56 billion, while Li ranked number two with CNY 46 billion, according to 2013 Hurun Rich List. Ten magnates on the IT rich list ...
Tags: IT Entrepreneur, software, IT
China-based smartphone and tablet makers' influence in the IT market has been growing rapidly and according to Digitimes Research's latest figures, among the 950 million smartphones shipped globally in the first half of 2013, about 330 ...
Tags: smartphone, tablet, IT market
US consumer technology giant Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is said to sign an agreement with China Mobile Ltd. (SEHK: 0941 and NYSE: CHL) on the sale of iPhones soon. It for the first time held a press conference for the release of new ...
Tags: Apple, China Mobile
Apple unveiled its long-rumored “budget” iPhone on Tuesday, but it’s not as cheap as some had expected. The lower-cost iPhone is actually quite expensive, at least in China, a vital market where Apple has been struggling ...
Xiaomi paraded its new international figurehead on stage at a press conference late last week in Beijing, signaling to the world that the company is preparing to go global. Hugo Barra, the former Google executive Xiaomi poached last ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Homegrown Strategy
There were 90.39 million handsets sold in the China market during second-quarter 2013, slipping 0.2% sequentially but growing 41.8% on year, and 77.11 million of the units sold were smartphones, increasing 2.4% sequentially and 56.8% on ...
Tags: Smartphone, China market
China’s Xiaomi is bringing the low-price strategy that has driven its success in mobile phones to the country’s smart TV arena with a new 47-inch television that it says is the most affordable on the market. The Xiaomi TV runs ...
Tags: Smart TV, Smartphone
Up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has hired Hugo Barra, former Google vice president for Android product management, to lead its expansion worldwide. The hiring of Barra is a high-profile move for Xiaomi, a company that only ...
Tags: Computer Products, smartphone, Xiaomi
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has said the company is now worth 10 billion U.S. dollars after a new round of funding, presenting the latest evidence of Chinese smartphone makers' breakneck growth. The private company owns the ...
Tags: Smartphone Makers, Chemicals
Canalys has published its final second-quarter-2013 smartphone shipment estimates by vendor for the 50-plus countries that it tracks. Some 238.1 million units shipped in the second quarter, an impressive 50% on-year increase. And while ...
Tags: Smartphone Shipments, Top Vendors
China's popular Xiaomi smartphone company is diving into the country's low-end handset market with a new product, taking note of the rumors that Apple is preparing its own budget iPhone. On Wednesday, Xiaomi unveiled its new "Red Rice" ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Rumored Budget iPhone
Taiwan and Hong Kong may be only the beginning of Xiaomi's expansion outside China. The popular Chinese vendor of low-priced handsets is aiming at getting into five more markets next year. "This year, we will only do Hong Kong and ...
Tags: Computer Products, xiaomi, Phone
It's no secret that Samsung is up against Apple in many ways, in products, sales and innovation. However, even in the face of Apple's patent infringement lawsuits, Samsung is still climbing the charts. The electronics giant sold ...
Tags: Samsung, Consumer Electronics, apple
To review the year of 2012, we can see that both mobile phone products and mobile phone markets changed a lot. The configuration of smart phones developed much while the price dumped into thousand RMB. A year ago, the situation was beyond ...
Tags: mobile phone, smart phone, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nokia, phone market
Network World-A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices,as part of a phishing scheme. MORE ON ANDROID:Hottest Android ...
Tags: Android SMS, vulnerability, phishing scheme