Google to benefit from Taiwan-China link?
Could Google become one of the beneficiaries of improving ties between Taiwan and China?
The US internet company on Tuesday began construction of its own data center in central Taiwan, one of three that it is building in Asia, after Hong Kong and Singa...
TSMC: Three chiefs to replace one?
There’s no denying that Morris Chang, founder, chief executive and chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, is a titan of the semiconductor industry after more than 20 years at the helm of the contract chipmaker. But it may come as...
TSMC: Three chiefs to replace one?
There’s no denying that Morris Chang, founder, chief executive and chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, is a titan of the semiconductor industry after more than 20 years at the helm of the contract chipmaker. But it may come as...
Acer sues former chief exec Lanci – UPDATED
Acer and its former chief executive Gianfranco Lanci may have parted ways for almost a year now, but it is apparently not quite water under the bridge between the two sides. The Taiwanese company said on Tuesday that it has …Continue reading: "A...
Wikipedia goes dark, Google logo blacked out
This screen on the left is what greeted visitors to Wikipedia on Wednesday, as the online encyclopedia site began its ‘blackout’ protest of two controversial intellectual property bills currently being discussed in the US Congress. For 24 h...
Lenovo appoints former Acer chief to boost Europe operations
When Acer last March unceremoniously ousted its then-chief executive Gianfranco Lanci, it was not an amicable parting, with both sides apportioning blame on the other for the split. But if the Taiwanese company had thought they were rid of Mr …Co...
Schmidt says governments, not Google, should help ease bandwidth squeeze
When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Wednesday addressed a Taiwanese audience for the first time, he was in some sense preaching to the choir. As Mr Schmidt noted, Taiwan already fared better than the US in terms of broadband …Continue ...
Quanta takes on HP and IBM in servers
When Taiwan’s Quanta landed orders from Facebook and Google to help custom-build their data centres earlier this year, it was the first step into a new industry for the world’s biggest contract maker of notebooks. Quanta chairman Barry Lam&...
HTC warns of weaker fourth quarter
HTC has had an amazing run as it grew from anonymity to one of the top Android phonemakers. This has been reflected in its shipments, which have been record-breaking for the Taiwanese company for each of the last six quarters. …Continue reading: ...
EM consumers: ‘fatscreen’ is the new flatscreen
Over the past decade, technological advancements have made televisions thinner and thinner, with giant cathode ray tube sets replaced by flatscreen TVs whose thickness are now measured in millimeters. Starting next year, however, ‘fatter’ flatscree...
HTC buys Zoodles for the kids
When HTC chief executive Peter Chou said this month that he was on the lookout for further acquisitions, he wasn’t kidding. The Taiwanese smartphone company on Tuesday announced it had acquired Inquisitive Minds, a US company that developed Zoodl...
Google invests in Asia data centres
Google announced on Wednesday that it is spending more than $200m to build its first proprietary data centres in Asia, a move that reflects the growth in demand for internet and cloud-based services in the region. These are not, of …Continue read...
