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China aims to double software share

China aims to boost its share of the world software market from the current 1.2 per cent to 3 per cent by 2005, Xinhua reported. Chen Chong, president of the China Software Industry Association, was quoted as saying that the value of China's software market was expected to grow to Yn250bn by 2005, including annual […]

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Motorola continues to dominate market

Motorola has consolidated its position as the leading supplier of mobile phone handsets in China, according to a report by Beijing-based Norson Telecom Consulting. It held a 31 per cent share of sales in the first half of the year, the same as at the end of 2001, while secondplaced Nokia's share fell from 30 […]

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Sony Ericsson to expand capacity

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced that it was going to invest m40m to set up a holding company and a research and development centre in China. The statement was made at the official launch of the China operations of the joint venture, which has taken over Ericsson's mobile phone manufacturing operations. Sony Ericsson also said […]

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Phone giants in price war

China's two mobile phone companies are engaged in a price war in several provinces, pitching prices below the levels set by the government, said the People's Posts and Telecommunications, the official newspaper of the Ministry of Information Industry. A China Mobile branch in Sichuan province was reported to be offering customers rates described as 'a […]

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Foreign firms continue to dominate

Advertising spending in China in the second quarter of 2002 was US$3.8bn, an increase of 33 per cent year-on-year, according to a survey by Nielsen Media Research. The company said that a strong domestic economy and the staging of Asia's first football World Cup were the major stimuli for the sector. Multinational agencies have strengthened […]