
InFocus Launches 4G Flagship Smartphone M810
TAIPEI, Taiwan — InFocus, which is a close OEM/ODM partner of Foxconn group, unveiled its 4G LTE flagship smartphone M810 in Taiwan. InFocus has penetrated in Taiwan's smartphone market for one year, according to a market research institute GfK that InFocus ranked in top five in terms of handset unit sale in June...

AUO Reports Net Profit of NT$4 Billion for Q2, EPS of NT$0.45 for H1
HSINCHU, Taiwan – AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) today held its investor conference and announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the second quarter of 2014. Consolidated revenues in the second quarter of 2014 were NT$102,042 million (US$ 3,416 million), up 8...

Holtek Rolls out Ultra-Thin Optical Fingerprint Recognition Solutions
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Holtek Semiconductor Inc. held its Q2 investor conference, saying that the year-end revenue and performance will be the same as that of in 2013. Li Pei-ying, Associate General Manager at Holtek, stated out that their wireless charger chipsets will sooner passed the WPC Certification in Q3, which will be put into mass production in Q4...

U.S. Takes High Anti-Dumping Tax on Taiwanese PV Companies
TAIPEI, Taiwan- The United States on Sunday announced preliminary anti-dumping tax rates for foreign solar manufacturers. Taiwan’s tariff rate was levied at 35.89%, exceeding the originally expected rate of 25%. However, Taiwanese manufacturers have already stated that they have countermeasures and believe that although this will have an initial impact, the impact will not be large...

Acer Monitors Top the US Retail Market in 1H 2014
Acer monitors have held the top position in the US retail market for the first six months of this year with between 18-20% of the unit share each month, according to the NPD Group. In the touchscreen retail monitor segment, Acer monitors occupied the No...

OVUM: Analytics and Loyalty to Drive Mobile Payments Growth
Mobile proximity payments have to date proven lacklustre and despite hundreds of millions spent on developing these platforms, consumer take-up remains virtually non-existent. While the reasons for this are many, the application of loyalty rewards and benefits via the digital wallet is now seen by many as potentially the killer app that will help to finally ignite the long simmering mobile proximity payment market, according to OVUM...