In the second half 2017, Chinese laptop maker Lenovo showed 20.2% market share, a year-on-year drop of 4.9%, while the market leader HP showed considerable growth, driving the overall performance of notebook shipments beyond previous expectation, market research firm TrendForce is reporting. For 2018, the market share of the top six brands is expected to […]
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Tencent to launch its own smart speaker, enabling WeChat by voice command
Tencent is to launch its own smart speaker that offers functionality from the Tencent family such as sending WeChat messages via voice command and—unlike all the other smart speakers on the market, contains a battery and so is fully portable—according to 36Kr (in Chinese). The official launch date is not yet available, but the app […]
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Xiaomi turns to brick-and-mortar to bolster decreasing market share
Xiaomi, a once red-hot Chinese hardware startup touted as the China’s answer to Apple, is encountering serious challenges from local competitors of Oppo, Vivo, and Huawei in the past year. It’s even been being moved from the first to the fifth spot in the market share list. The reasons behind this disastrous drop were multi-faceted and involve […]
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6 of the world’s top 10 smartphone brands are Chinese
Chinese manufacturers took six of places in the global top ten smartphone manufacturers in the first quarter of 2017 with one in ten phones sold worldwide made by Huawei, according to a report by market research agency IDC. Three of the top five were Chinese, from zero just five years ago. While the global heavyweights […]
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Samsung and Huawei’s Honor score top honors in China Mobile report
China Mobile (中国移动), China’s largest mobile network operator, released a report today ranking China’s mobile phone brand (in Chinese). According to the report, Chinese brands have caught up with international brands in some areas. China Mobile surveyed 42 million users from 15 provinces and used 18 network indicators for their analysis and evaluation. They also randomly […]
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Xiaomi Expects Mijia Hardware Sales to Reach $2.2 Billion in 2016
Correction: An earlier version of this story’s headline implied that the expected sales are to come from Xiaomi’s first-party hardware. The expected sales are to come from third-party companies that Xiaomi has invested in. Lei Jun, CEO of Chinese smart device maker Xiaomi, is known for making ambitious predictions. This year is no different: At […]
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Now In Shenzhen: “Designed in China” needs more expat designers
This is the third post of Now in Shenzhen, where TechNode visits a handful of Shenzhen-based companies leveraging Shenzhen’s core strength: manufacturing. China is moving from “Made in China” towards “Designed in China”. China has made eye-catching growth in its technology and innovation, and now is the time to make the global audience fall in love […]
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A year in constant review: China’s surveillance breakthroughs in 2017
Developments in hardware, software, AI, and networking in China have allowed the country to make huge leaps in security. As AI and networking allow the systems to become smarter and connected to more databases, they are increasingly proactive and effective. Many of these advances have come with little fanfare at home, but others have caught […]
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Analyse Asia Podcast: Xiaomi (Part 2/2) – The Future Of Xiaomi
http://content.blubrry.com/analyseasia/Episode_130__The_Future_of_Xiaomi_with_Eva_Xiao.mp3 Eva Xiao from TechNode continued our discussion on Xiaomi, focusing on what kind of company Xiaomi truly is, and the current challenges they are facing to justify their US$45B valuation. We discussed the company’s recent failures to hit their 100 million smartphones target, their loss of smartphone market share, their failure to expand aggressively […]
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Tactics to make sure you get your hongbao this Chinese New Year
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on our sister site, TechNode Chinese. If you’re working in a Chinese company, then you’d better be prepared for Chinese New Year’s Eve, the best time of the year to grab red envelopes on your WeChat group. Chinese people give red envelope (hongbao, 红包) with money to their younger children and co-workers as […]
