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Article | 11/08/2011 HTC invests in Beats for better smartphone audio

HTC has invested in Beats Electronics, a U.S. headphones company rap artist Dr. Dre helped found, as part of a move to improve the audio on the Taiwan...

Article | 10/08/2011 Baidu shuts down Twitter-like service

China's largest search engine Baidu has pulled back from the country's Twitter-like services market after the company said it would shutdown its own m...

Article | 9/08/2011 Taiwan political party accusses China of hacking

A Taiwanese political party suspects the Chinese government is behind a hacking attack that stole information about the party's election activities.

Article | 9/08/2011 Lenovo to release new Le tablet and smartphone in Q3

Lenovo will launch a new tablet and smartphone during the third quarter in the Le series which has so far been launched only in China, according to a ...

Article | 5/08/2011 China's IT outsourcing firms aim to move up the value chain

Microsoft, IBM and other multinational companies have long been customers for VanceInfo, one of China's largest IT outsourcing firms. With more than 1...

Article | 3/08/2011 US court rejects dismissal in China Internet filter case

A U.S. court rejected motions to dismiss defendants in a US$2.2 billion lawsuit involving a Chinese government-backed Web filtering package that was a...

Article | 2/08/2011 Huawei appoints former UK CIO to head cyber security post

Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei has appointed a former U.K. government chief information officer to oversee the company's cyber s...

Article | 1/08/2011 Foxconn to rely more on robots for manufacturing

Foxconn, the maker of Apple's iPhone and iPad, plans to rely more on robots for manufacturing over the coming years, allowing the company to invest mo...

Article | 29/07/2011 Dell launches 10-inch Android tablet in China

Dell launched its newest 10-inch Android tablet exclusively in China on Friday, with the aim of capturing a slice of the country's growing mobile Inte...

Article | 28/07/2011 China's Alibaba unveils new mobile OS

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has launched its own mobile operating system for handsets and tablets in its home country, with the aim of prom...

Article | 26/07/2011 Zynga partners with Tencent to launch game in China

U.S. social game developer Zynga has partnered with one of China's largest Internet companies, Tencent, to bring its popular CityVille game to the cou...

Article | 26/07/2011 China's Baidu revenues gets boost from advertisers

China’s largest search engine Baidu posted strong earnings for the second quarter, driven by growing traffic and increased spending by advertising cus...

Article | 22/07/2011 HTC unveils smartphone for Chinese Twitter-like service

After announcing smartphones with a dedicated Facebook button, HTC is trying the same formula in China. This time it will have a button connecting to ...

Article | 21/07/2011 Acer to buy U.S. cloud technology provider iGware

Acer said Thursday it plans to acquire iGware, a cloud technology company in the U.S., for US$320 million, as part of a plan to allow users to more ea...

Article | 21/07/2011 Foxconn worker falls to death in suspected suicide

An employee of Foxconn fell to his death in China earlier this week, just a year after a string of suicides at its facilities in the country.