Posted on 29 June 2011.
On June 20, 2011, Huawei Technologies released the Huawei MediaPad at ‘CommunicAsia 2011′ in Singapore. The release of this new tablet made me raise the question on the necessity of tablets in a world where more advanced and innovative laptops and smart phones offer a plethora of features to consumers. The answer to this question…
Posted on 25 June 2011.
Huawei, China’s waking tech giant From a nation recognized by the West as no-name factories and ‘shanzhai’ copied devices, Huawei (Huawei Technologies Cos.) is ramping up activity and looking to build up its own brand in the consumer devices market, competing against companies such as Apple Inc. Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, Huawei is China’s largest…
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Posted on 17 June 2011.
Hailing from a Singaporean digital marketing background, Western social media influences were the name of the game as far as my generation is concerned. Knowing this, social media marketing campaigns revolved very much around Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare – until I was placed in China, where all such channels were banned. Being a social media…
Posted on 16 June 2011.
Last week, while the Worldwide Developer Conference and Apple’s exclusive products have caught the whole world’s attention, Qihoo 360, a Chinese Internet company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), unveiled its ambitious strategy on building a cross-value-chain Open Platform, as an opening for the first year of “China Open Internet Conference”. Qihoo 360,…
Posted on 08 June 2011.
If you missed this year’s Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) 2011, you can download and view the presentation slides! GMIC 2011 concluded on April 28th after 3 days of exciting events, highlighting the New Challenges, New Opportunities, and New Leaders in the global mobile internet industry. Held for the first time at the Chinese National…
Posted on 04 June 2011.
I’m happy to introduce a new weekly segment to mobiSights, Mobile Mentions. Each week we will post some of the more noteworthy things going on in mobile tech each week and our thoughts on the issues, especially as they pertain to China. I (@calvinsmith), along with Duncan Leung (@leungD), Shawn Cui, & Gurpreet Singh (@gurpreet1816)…
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