China’s saturated smartphone market saw another victim on Tuesday, as Chinese media reported the extreme downsizing of domestic smartphone company IUNI, which cut around 60 percent of its staff. IUNI is a wholly owned subsidiary of fellow smartphone vendor Gionee Communications Equipment Co. Ltd. “After this round of layoffs, the only employees left will be product development […]
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Xiaomi Phones Went On Sale In The US This Week – For One Day
Xiaomi fans in the US were pleasantly surprised by announcements this week that Mi phones would be immediately available via US-based virtual carrier US mobile on Monday. The phones were on sale for less than 24 hours however, before being removed from the store. US Mobile, backed by T-Mobile, advertised that they were the first legitimate US […]
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LeEco’s Attempt To Establish An Ecosystem In US Market
On 19th of October, LeEco made their official debut into the US market. According to speech made by Jia Yeuting, the CEO and founder of LeEco in San Francisco, LeEco would begin selling their smartphones and Smart TVs from Nov. 2nd. Along with their main products, TV and smartphone, they have also presented streaming service, […]
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Alibaba’s Artificial Intelligence Will Be Able To Tell How Angry You Are
Alibaba has invested some serious dollars in their AI program, and as an e-retail platform it’s no surprise that cranky customers are one of their top concerns. The company is now using audio speech recognition to guess just how angry a customer is over anything from a botched product to a bungled order. “Speech recognition […]
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This Kickstarter Project Lets You Talk To Your Plants
Giving people the ability to control objects with their voice has typically been the domain of big tech companies: Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple’s Siri. Shenzhen-based hardware company Seeed Studio wants to change that. “You can take a plant and make it something you can talk to,” says Xiaobo Ye, the product manager of ReSpeaker. “Now, raising a plant […]
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China Transportation Wars 2.0: Bike Sharing
The dust kicked up by ride sharing has settled, but the air is again charged with electricity. This time, it’s bike sharing, and companies are losing no time stocking up on ammo. The latest news is that Ofo, a dockless bike sharing company which started on campus, has completed a C round totaling 130 million […]
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Mobile is Reshaping Content Aggregation and Delivery in China
Different from the incumbent online content aggregators who produce a large portion of their content in-house and depend on traditional display advertising for revenue generation, a new wave of content aggregation apps in China use an open publishing system, an algorithm-powered recommendation engine, and a programmatic advertising system. This trend is led by four-year-old startup […]
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Will Chinese Consumers Consider Buying The New iPhone 7? We Asked.
Apple’s having a hard time in China this year. For the first time ever, it reported a decline in year-on-year revenue and lost the iPhone patent case. Beijing also imposed strict rules on online publishing and Apple’s online stores for iBooks and movies were closed in April. China is the largest iPhone market in the world by the number of […]
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China Still Rules, But Will India Emulate as A Top Tech Frontier?
India has emerged as the next hot spot for Chinese smartphone makers while demand from domestic market wanes. Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE, Vivo, OPPO, nearly all leading phone manufacturers raced to the country in the hope of duplicating their success in the emerging market. Not only in smartphone industry, the mindset prevails in China’s tech circle […]
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The Company Behind The Roomba Wants To Tap A Xiaomi-Like Formula in China
iRobot, the company behind the Roomba automatic floor vacuum, has turned their attention to China, setting up an office in Shanghai and seeking local investment opportunities. The company is seeking to grow its presence in the market, and lower manufacturing costs for their brand of home robots, the same formula that saw Xiaomi build a multi-billion USD ‘smart home’ […]
