With Apple due to report first quarter earnings May 2, investors will be eying sales figures for China—once its second biggest market, now its third. But it’s also worth seeing if CEO Tim Cook mentions a minor incident in April that pit Apple against Tencent—maker of China’s behemoth WeChat messaging app.
Over the past two years, American tech CEOs eager to break into the elusive China market have made a habit of posing for the cameras with Chinese government officials. Yet the most recent instance of a staged photo op has occurred in relative stealth.
Last year Nintendo enjoyed a surprise hit when Pokémon Go took the world by storm. This year, it’s enjoying another hit—one that’s all the more surprising, and arguably more critical for the troubled company’s future.
One of Japan’s former tech giants is in the emergency room and struggling to stay alive, saying earlier this month that it doubted its “ability to continue as a going concern.” Its most recent hospital visit was caused by a disastrous acquisition. But its overall health has deteriorated over the past two decades, as it failed to age gracefully into a new global economy.
A bidding war has emerged to purchase the best bit of Toshiba, the once-great Japanese tech giant that’s now on life support. As many as eight companies, from hardware players like Apple and Foxconn, to component makers like Western Digital, to software giants like Amazon and Google, have emerged as potential bidders willing to pay tens of billions of dollars for Toshiba’s chip unit, the only valuable part of the company.
The forced, violent removal of a passenger who refused to give up his seat on an overbooked United Airlines flight, as documented in a viral video, has shocked people all over the world. But were United’s actions racially motivated?
Tudor-style beams, red brick, a private lake and well-mowed quads—these are the architectural trappings of the next campus for one of China’s top universities.
Does President Trump deserve praise for attacking Syria? Or is he turning out to be another “cuck“?
US president Donald Trump welcomed Chinese president Xi Jinping and his wife to his private club in Florida on Thursday evening, and then announced he had bombed Syria, one of China’s allies.
Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping starting Thursday (April 6) at Mar-a-Lago will finally give the US president a chance to meet face-to-face with the leader of the country he has trash-talked ceaselessly, describing it numerous times as the source of “trade deficits and job losses.” Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade advisor, published a diatribe against China in which he repeatedly claims ”they took our jobs” and calls on US politicians to restore the country’s manufacturing sector.
On the morning of April 5 in Asia, officials in South Korea and the US discovered that North Korea had launched yet another projectile missile towards Japan. But the Trump administration doesn’t have much to say about it.
Huawei has spent the better part of the past two years gunning to become the next smartphone king. But the Chinese handset maker’s annual report for 2016 revealed a plunge in profit growth, marking a plateau to the company’s fast ascent. The drag in growth tells a familiar lesson—you can be king (or crown prince, rather) of Android smartphones for a day, but not for a lifetime.
Samsung today (March 29) unveiled the Galaxy S8, its first flagship smartphone model since the ill-fated Galaxy Note 7.
KFC and McDonald’s have spent the better part of the past year getting out of China. The world’s best-known American coffee chain, however, is only getting bigger there.
Over the past year in China, a sudden surge of “Uber for bike” startups made commuting easier than ever by scattering thousands of bikes across cities for people to find anywhere, ride anywhere, and park anywhere, all for a small fee of about 0.5 yuan ($0.14) for 30 minutes (conveniently paid for via a smartphone app).
In China tomorrow (March 24) Apple will launch the crimson-hued iPhone 7 and 7plus devices in partnership with (RED), an AIDS-relief charity it has promoted and supported for over a decade.
Yet another Silicon Valley veteran has left a post at a major Chinese tech firm.
Chinese cities are slowly starting to clamp down on the bike-sharing startups spreading across the country. Apple’s Tim Cook, however, is lending them his diplomatic endorsement.
For all the relief South Korea’s political elite are feeling now that disgraced former president Park Geun-hye is out of office, the incoming administration will immediately be facing a crisis of its own.
Chinese people protesting South Korea’s deployment of its THAAD anti-missile defense program have a corny pop ballad to use as their anthem.
First it was K-pop. Then it was tourism. Now another South Korean industry is enduring pressure from China: online video games.
Samsung is surrounded by bad news—but its investors aren’t the least bit bothered.
East Asia woke up this morning to a geopolitical nightmare, as tensions mounting from separate, ongoing incidents involving the Korean peninsula began to converge.
Donald Trump has regularly spoken out against Iran’s regime—but that hasn’t stopped him from helping it get rich.
