Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on July 24 approved the acquisition of an 80% stake in Hiiir, a provider of mobile application and advertising services in the Taiwan market,...

The gray market for cellphones will contract for the second consecutive year in 2013, with worldwide shipments dropping by 12% as both makers and buyers of these handsets turn to...

PCB makers' utilization rates for HDI boards, particularly any-layer HDI boards, will remain high despite recent speculation suggesting weaker-than-expected demand for high-end smartphones,...

ABI Research's latest forecasts for Indoor Small Cells, which are also referred to as Enterprise and Consumer Femtocells, predicts a return to growth after lackluster 2011 and 2012,...

With the first service providers, such as SK Telecom, now upgrading their networks to LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) and China Mobile deploying a TD-LTE network and issuing a huge tender for...

According to research firm TrendForce, smartphone shipments during the second quarter of 2013 reached 221 million units, up 6.6% on quarter and up 31.4% on year. For 2013, worldwide...

Apple's adoption of two new touch sensor structures, in-cell for the iPhone 5 and GF2 (double-sided ITO film) for the iPad, has produced shifts in the touch-panel industry supply...

Taiwan-based ODMs, OBMs (own-brand manufacturers) and JDMs (joint-design manufacturers) will ship 36.39 million handsets in the second half of 2013, increasing 30.3% from the first...

Despite recent shipment declines of touch panels used in notebooks, touch panel makers are seeing steady orders from Google for its next-generation Nexus 7, according to industry...

HTC will focus on marketing midrange smartphones priced at NT$10,000-15,000 (US$335-502) in the Taiwan market in the third quarter of 2013 targeting the younger generation, according...

HTC and mobile telecom carrier Taiwan Mobile (TWM) on July 23 jointly unveiled the HTC Desire 500, an Android 4.2.2 smartphone, for launch in the Taiwan market on August 1 at a contract-free...

MediaTek plans to begin volume production of three new chips in the third quarter of 2013 - the MT6572 and MT6582 for smartphones and the MT8135 for tablets, according to industry...

President Chain Store, which operates Taiwan's 7-Eleven convenience stores, has seen subscribers to its 7-Mobile 3G Internet-access services reach 800,000, growing 14.3% on year....

Sony Mobile Communications will launch the 6.4-inch smartphone Xperia Z Ultra in the Taiwan market around the end of July at a contract-free retail price of NT$22,900 (US$763), with...

IDC has revealed that the total shipments of X86 servers in China reached nearly 286,000 units in the first quarter of 2013, indicating a mild market growth of 3.9% on year.