Sony Ericsson | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Beijing, Wednesday 27th July 2011: Sony Ericsson today announced the opening of its global Research and Development (R&D) operation center in Beijing. The new center demonstrates Sony Ericsson’s expansion of its R&D capabilities and its commitment...
Reuters | July 29, 2011 | Clare Jim
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Friday the lawsuit against Apple Inc will not have a fundamental impact on the company, adding the company is preparing an appeal to a U.S. court decision on the case.
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Reuters | July 29, 2011 | Miyoung Kim
Samsung Electronics Co is relying on the smartphone market to boost group profits after its flat screen unit reported a second quarter of losses and the mainstay chip business struggled.
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Reuters | August 1, 2011 | Lee Chyen Yee, Clare Jim
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple's iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots, with one report saying the company will use one million of them in the next three...
DigiTimes | August 1, 2011 | Yenting Chen, Adam Hwang
Samsung Electronics, in view of booming sales of its Galaxy i9000 and S2 smartphone, has placed orders for 30 million touch sensors used to make 4-inch AMOLED screens
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BBC News | July 28, 2011
South Korea has blamed Chinese hackers for stealing data from 35 million accounts on a popular social network.
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DigiTimes | August 1, 2011 | Chloe Yu, Adam Hwang
Chairwoman Rosemary Ho for Global Mobile, one of the six WiMAX operators in Taiwan, has expressed her opinions about how WiMAX will develop under competition from LTE and the company's WiMAX operations in an interview...
iTnews | July 29, 2011 | Liz Tay
Westpac has established an in-house team of commerce, legal and finance experts to support its move toward shorter deals with a greater number of outsourcers.
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iTnews | August 1, 2011 | John Hilvert
Telstra has sought an 18-month exemption from proposed laws that would require telcos to preserve data on persons suspected of serious crimes.
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Bloomberg | August 1, 2011 | Robert Schneider, Robert Fenner
Apple Inc. won an agreement from Samsung Electronics Co. that the South Korean company won’t sell the newest version of its tablet computer in Australia until a patent lawsuit in the country is resolved.
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Vodafone | July 29, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Spain has been awarded a total of 60 MHz (2x30 MHz) of new spectrum in the Spanish government’s auction, enabling the Company to provide its customers with enhanced mobile internet services across the country, including in...
Vodafone | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone today announces that the Board of Verizon Wireless has approved the payment of a $10 billion (£6.1 billion) dividend. As a 45% shareholder in Verizon Wireless, Vodafone’s share of the dividend will be $4.5 billion (£2.8...
Vodafone | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone Turkey today announced that it has agreed terms with the Koç Group to acquire Koç.net1 for a cash consideration of TRY30 million (£11 million2). Koç.net provides fixed voice and data services to enterprise customers and will...
Vodafone | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone today announced the world’s first designated prepay phone specifically designed to put the Facebook experience into the heart of the handset, allowing people to easily share and connect with their friends when they’re on the move.
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Orange | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
7.0% increase in customer numbers on a comparable basis, led by a 23% rise in mobile services in Africa and the Middle East, with total Group customers of 217.3 million at 30 June 2011
consolidated revenues rose 0.3%...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Orange and Google today announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Orange’s SMS platform to bring Google’s services to African customers. This agreement marks an important step forward that will facilitate access to the growing mobile internet...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Benoit Scheen, currently Chief Executive Officer of Mobistar in Belgium, has been appointed Executive Vice President of Europe (excluding France) of France Telecom-Orange as from 1 September 2011. In this role, he will be directly responsible for...
Orange | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Marc Blanchet has been named Director of Enterprise France, effective 1 October 2011. His mission will be to improve customer satisfaction, increase revenues and sell convergent and IT offers on markets under his responsibility.
The Enterprise France Department...
Orange | July 26, 2011 | Press Release
BNP Paribas and Orange have formed a partnership and signed a trademark licence agreement to launch innovative mobile banking services in November 2011.
This strategic business partnership allows the groups to share expertise in their respective areas of...
VimpelCom | August 1, 2011 | Press Release
Amsterdam (August 1, 2011) – VimpelCom Ltd. (“VimpelCom” or the “Company”) (NYSE: VIP) today published its 2010 Annual Report. The report is available at http://vimpelcom.com/ir/financials/reports.wbp
Shareholders may request a hard copy of the 2010 Annual Report free of...
Bloomberg | August 1, 2011 | Cornelius Rahn
Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) plans to reduce administrative employees at its headquarters as Europe’s largest phone company tries to improve profitability.
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XY Mobile | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
The Red Herring selection committee has chosen XY Mobile, as an exceptional candidate to become a 2011 Red Herring 100 Asia Finalist.
Vientiane, Laos PDR, 27 July, 2011: The Laos company, XY Mobile, who provides affordable mobile...
Bloomberg | July 31, 2011
China Mobile Ltd. (941) will cut international roaming fees charged for 38 countries and regions by as much as 80 percent starting tomorrow, Caijing said today on its website, citing a company announcement.
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Two top social apps are apparently joining forces, with news Groupon and Foursquare are teaming up with a daily deal partnership.
Location based social app Foursquare has long been trying to make some sort of “deal” breaker into the industry, and how better than to...
