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Is China gearing up to finally issue its long-awaited 3G licenses? Chinese Industry and Information Technology vice minister Xi Guohua said at the China Mobility International Summit today that the "time is now ripe" for the country to issue 3G licenses, reports China Daily . Xi added that...
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Easou Technology, the Chinese mobile search and advertising firm, has raised $12 million in a third round of funding led by iD Tech Ventures and AXA Private Equity, reports ChinaVenture (via Pacific Epoch ). The three-year old company, which employs 500 staff, is using the investment for product research...
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China Mobile, which has more subscribers than there are U.S. residents, is looking replicate the success of the iPhone App store on a much grander scale. At this point, there's probably very few operators and handset manufactures that aren't trying to open up a content and application store on...
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Earlier this year, China's Huawei Technologies was trying to sell a portion of its mobile-devices unit to a U.S.-based firm in order to gain some momentum for entering the North American market, but after it failed to get enough interest, there's signs that the company is still moving forward...
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US-ordered G1's have been "pouring into China" illegally since it was released in the US on October 26 through T-Mobile, reports Pacific Epoch , citing the Chinese IT site DoNews. The handsets are going for a lofty 3,999 remminbi ($584) in Bejing's Zhongguancun, or consumer electronics...
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China Mobile plans to release an Android handset built by Chinese handset maker Lenovo Mobile between February and March 2009, writes Pacific Epoch , citing a ChinaByte story that quotes Lenovo Mobile brand commuication department GM Wang Yan. Recent stories have surfaced that China Mobile would release...
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Some interesting content stats from China's largest carrier China Mobile. The carrier, which has some 436 million subscribers at the end of September 2008, reported that it had over 100 million registered users for its mobile instant messaging tool Fetion. Its music service had 80 million users in...
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China has been good to Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ), and though its economy may be slowing, the Finnish handset giant said it still expects strong growth in handsets there, as well as other emerging markets, reports the WSJ.com . China has a population of 1.33 billion, of which there are over 600 million mobile...
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Madhouse, the Chinese mobile marketing and advertising startup, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Nokia's $250 million VC arm Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) Growth Partners. This is the VC firm's first deal in the mainland. The Shanghai-based company received $8 million in its second round...
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China Mobile is planning to open a new research and development center in Silicon Valley sometime next year, ChinaTechNews reports . It will be the first overseas facility for the carrier, which is hoping to find innovative ideas that will help the company drive data usage among customers. China Mobile...
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China's Huawei Technologies is canceling the sale of a major stake in its mobile-devices unit after only two bidders submitted offers, the WSJ reported. The lack of interest is an example of how the credit crisis is affecting private equity in Asia. Huawei is able to postpone the auction because...
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Tech stocks took a huge hit today, following the house's failure to pass a bailout plan intended to rescue the nation's financial system and the Dow tumbling 778 points. To give a sense of how it hurt the broader telecom, wireless and communications-related stocks, of the 25-or-so stocks I regularly...
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