Taiwan protests Apple maps that show island as province of China
Taiwan is demanding Apple revise its mapping software and remove a label that describes the island as a province of China, rather than as a sovereign state.
Stories by Michael Kan
Baidu's profit flat on growing investments in mobile
Chinese search giant Baidu's profit was flat in the third quarter because of expenses on marketing its mobile services and investing in research.
China's Baidu works on bringing software to smartwatches, wearable devices
Chinese search giant Baidu is gearing up to break into the wearable devices market, with what appears to be software made to run on smartwatches, and even weighing scales.
LG follows Samsung, unveils curved-screen phone with 'self-healing' covering
LG is flexing its muscle in smartphone technology with a new handset that boasts a curved touchscreen, along with a special "self healing" technology that the company claims can prevent scratches on the phone's casing.
Samsung's profit up 26 per cent on memory chip, smartphone sales
Samsung Electronics' net profit in the third quarter was up 25.6 pe rcent year-over-year on record revenue driven by sales of its memory chips and smartphone products.
Taiwan fines Samsung for defaming HTC with fabricated reviews
Taiwan has slapped Korean electronics giant Samsung with a fine for fabricating Internet forum posts that praised the company at the expense of rivals including its home-country handset competitor HTC.
In rerun of Apple debacle, Samsung apologizes in China after state media criticism
Months after Apple apologized to consumers in China, Korean rival Samsung is doing the same after the country's state media criticized the vendor for failing to fix glitches in several of its phone models.
China's Alibaba to expand U.S. reach with new investment group
China's Alibaba Group is poised to invest more in U.S. tech companies with the start of a new investment group that the e-commerce giant is setting up in San Francisco .
Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Round: few new features, but posh design
What different advantages can a curved screen bring to a smartphone? Well, not a whole lot. But Samsung's newest smartphone, the Galaxy Round, comes off as a posh device that may be the company's best looking handset yet.
China Mobile posts rare profit decline of 8.8 per cent in Q3
Despite its growing customer base, China Mobile, the country's largest carrier, saw a rare decline in profit for the third quarter in the latest sign that rival operators and local Internet companies are eating into its earnings.
China's Huawei turns the table on security after Snowden NSA leaks
One year after U.S. politicians labeled it an espionage threat, China's Huawei Technologies continues to face security concerns -- but this time, those might not be a factor as the company sells to a market rattled by the Edward Snowden leaks of U.S. classified surveillance programs.
Chipmaker TSMC reports earnings up 5 percent on record Q3 revenue
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. saw net profit for the third quarter rise 5 percent year on year as revenue hit a record, but the chipmaker warned that this could slip later in the year due to a slowdown in demand for high-end smartphones.
HTC pins hopes on China to avoid becoming the next Nokia
Its fortunes in the West having stumbled, HTC is looking to the massive China smartphone market to keep it in business.
HTC One Max packs fingerprint scanner, 5.9-inch screen
HTC's newest phone, the 5.9-inch HTC One Max, includes a fingerprint scanner -- although unlike the one in Apple's latest iPhone, it's located on the back of the device.
China's Alibaba backs Amazon rival ShopRunner
Alibaba Group is targeting the U.S. market with a US$200 million investment in ShopRunner, an online retailer that competes with Amazon.com, a source familiar with the deal said Friday.