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Telecoms

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As Gionee falters, rival grabs 40% of Africa sales
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

When news first surfaced that handset maker Gionee was in financial trouble, Caixin Weekly reported speculation that company chairman and chief executive Liu Lirong had a gambling addiction. Others claimed Liu spent too much time golfing – ...

Patently wrong?

A ruling by Chinese patent authorities favours Huawei over Samsung
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

When NBA superstar Stephen Curry was giving autographs to fans during the Golden State Warriors’ pre-season trip to Shanghai this month, he lingered for a while over a sneaker given to him to sign. Curry showed it to a number of staffers before ...

Can TCL revive Palm and BlackBerry?
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

In January 2015, TCL purchased the rights to the Palm brand from HP. The next year, the Chinese consumer electronics maker announced that it had also bought BlackBerry’s mobile phone unit, and would assume all design, manufacturing and customer ...

China Unicom announces big restructuring as new investors pay up
Sep 1, 2017 (WiC 378)

Investing in telecoms carriers can be uninspiring but these utility firms typically offer stable cashflows and healthy dividend payouts. Perhaps that explains their occasional attraction for some of the world’s internet bosses, who tend to ...

Information war

How Big Data is bringing Chinese tech giants to blows
Aug 25, 2017 (WiC 377)

Big Data has been identified as a key driver for Alibaba’s earnings growth and its boss Jack Ma says he is already sitting on a huge trove of valuable information. “Do you want to know which province in China boasts [the women with] the ...

Beijing subway poses another e-payment blockage for Apple
Jul 7, 2017 (WiC 373)

It is just over 10 years since the iPhone was first released: the brand celebrated its anniversary last week. However, it wasn’t until the end of 2009 that it went on sale in China, where it quickly became a status symbol. But more recently the ...

China looks set to spend $249 billion on its new 5G network
Jun 30, 2017 (WiC 372)

Many people are familiar with the concept of peak oil. Far fewer have heard about peak data, or rather the Shannon-Hartley theorem, which posits the theoretical amount of error-free data that can be transmitted over a specified bandwidth. It ...

Short-seller attacks key iPhone supplier
May 19, 2017 (WiC 366)

Batman almost never makes a mistake as the caped crusader who fights crime in Gotham City. Back in the real world, Daniel Yu, the Asian-American behind Gotham City Research, has a pretty consistent hit rate himself against the companies he ...

Chinese telecom firms to drop long-distance charges and roaming fees
Mar 24, 2017 (WiC 359)

In 1987 the mobile telecommunication industry got its commercial start in China when the government of Guangdong made 100 cell phones available for sale. State giant China Mobile (then known as China Telecom) developed its mobile network ...

ZTE’s record penalty in the US draws muted response in China
Mar 17, 2017 (WiC 358)

“If people know you have the big bazooka, you probably don’t have to use it,” Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration, told Bloomberg last week. Ross was talking about how to win trade wars without firing a shot. ...

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