Taiwan’s Asustek is working with China Mobile to launch five smartphones that run on the mainland’s homegrown 3G network. That is TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), which runs on China Mobile’s network and uses China Mobile’s Ophone operating system. These phones are a triumph for China Mobile as TD-SCDMA was thought, perhaps, […]
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Daily deals website Groupon went live in China on Monday, launching a website, GaoPeng.com, that is funded by Groupon, the Tencent Collaboration Fund (Tencent Holdings; 700.HK) and Yunfeng Capital, Reuters reported. The site has begun accepting email registrations from local consumers, as daily deals promoting local merchants are set to debut in March. Groupon has […]
Prior to resigning over a scandal involving criminal fraud within Alibaba.com, David Wei spoke about the challenges of reforming the program
China Telecom chairman and chief executive Wang Xiaochu said his company will procure 60 million units of consumer-premise telecom equipment from Taiwan this year, a 33% increase from last year’s 45 million units. China Telecom is currently the No.1 fixed-line and No. 3 mobile telecom carrier in mainland China, offering fixed-line service to 175 million […]
China’s education department has called for more games to be developed that are good for children’s intellectual growth. This comes after an official online poll found that 87% of respondents said they often see primary or middle school students playing board games, and 60% knew children who were obsessed by such games. Many of the […]