7 years ago044LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile operator, reported better-than-expected 2.2 percent revenue growth in its first quarter, reflecting a robust performance in Italy and Spain and an acceleration in demand in Turkey.
The British company said the increase in organic service revenue, which beat analysts'...
7 years ago041BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese telecoms carrier said it had begun closing virtual private networks (VPNs) and other tools that can bypass the so-called Great Firewall, which state authorities use to filter and block traffic between Chinese and overseas servers.
A spokesman for Guangzhou Huoyun Information Technology Ltd, which operates...
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BEIJING, July 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Geek+ (www.geekplus.com.cn), a leading robot company in China, today announced it has received US$60 million in Series B financing. This new round of financing is led by an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing, and participated by...
7 years ago01433Silicon Valley startup Stripe has partnered with digital payment providers Alipay and WeChat Pay to enable merchants using its platform globally to accept payments from hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers.
Starting Sunday, the partnerships will allow online merchants using Stripe to integrate the ability for Chinese users to pay...
7 years ago0122Lexmark International Inc., a global imaging solutions leader, announced today the appointment of Ying (Vivian) Liu as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO).
Liu comes to Lexmark from Huawei Technology Inc., a leading global information and communications technology solutions provider, where she served as vice...
7 years ago084Tencent Holdings Ltd has shrugged off concerns that a move to limit play time for some users of its top-grossing "Honour of Kings" game could hurt its bottom line, saying those targeted make up only a small portion of its overall user base.
The company said on Sunday "Honour of Kings" players below 12 years of age would be limited to...
7 years ago058China's latest maneuver in a sweeping crackdown on internet content has sent a chill through a diverse community of filmmakers, bloggers, media and educators who fear their sites could be shut down as Beijing tightens control. Over the last month, Chinese regulators have closed celebrity gossip websites, restricted what video people can...
7 years ago075Self-driving startup Drive.ai said on Tuesday it raised $50 million in a second round of funding as the Silicon Valley company prepared to deploy its technology in pilot vehicles later this year.
The company, one of a handful of startups building fully autonomous systems for cars, also said it had added to its board Andrew Ng, a...
7 years ago0106JD.com Inc, China's second-largest e-commerce company, plans to enter the Thai market later this year in a move to expand its overseas business beyond Indonesia, its founder and chief executive said on Friday.
Richard Liu also told Reuters in an interview the company planned to use Thailand as a hub for servicing other Southeast Asian...
8 years ago054Apple is opening a 300 million yuan ($45 million) research and development center in Beijing, its first ever in China, as the U.S. technology giant looks to reverse declining sales in the country.
The announcement was made on social media by the Zhongguancun Science Park Administrative Committee, the landlords that run the site where...
8 years ago049When in April Apple AAPL -0.65% announced the first ever decline in iPhone sales, some observers questioned if the company's best days are behind it. Despite the angst, Tim Cook's Apple continues to outshine its peers in every metric that counts. Among global tech companies it has the highest revenue ($233 billion), profit ($53 billion),...
8 years ago050Asia's largest Integrated Electronic Information Industry Exhibition, China Information Technology Expo (CITE), will make the Internet of things (IoT) the focal point of this year's show, which will be held in Shenzhen, China from April 8-10.
CITE has, for the first time, allocated an area specifically dedicated to "Sensors and the...
8 years ago054China's second largest e-commerce company, JD.com, raised $1 billion in new funding for its consumer finance subsidiary, JD Finance.
Investors included Sequoia Capital China, China Harvest Investments, and China Taiping Insurance. The new financing values JD Finance at $7 billion, and the e-commerce giant will continue to have a...