LG Electronics has jumped into the specialized sector of personal beauty devices, a growing market that has largely been off the radar of Korea’s biggest tech firms.…
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Connected consumers driving growth of smart devices in Asia Pacific
Action cameras, flat panel TVs and wearables were the fastest-growing technology products in the past year.…
Oppo adopts offline strategy for Asia
Oppo Vice President Alen Wu confirmed that the company is focusing its efforts on Southeast Asia and is deploying the same offline strategy that worked well for it in China.…
OnePlus to stick to online sales strategy
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus will stick to its online-only sales strategy, bucking the trend that has seen rivals such as Xiaomi and LeEco increasing focus on brick-and-mortar stores in India for …
Foxconn participates in $106m funding round of Paris-based Devialet
Paris-headquartered speaker and audio systems developer Devialet has raised €100 million ($106 million) funding from a group of investors including Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, a company behind …
Amazon Alexa is teaming up with LG Electronics
South Korea’s LG Electronics said on Friday it is partnering with Amazon.com on smart-home services, enabling the U.S. company’s services such as the Alexa virtual assistant on some of the electronics…
Oneplus closes smartphone retail stores to focus on e-commerce
Chinese smartphone maker Oneplus has officially announced that they have closed all their self-owned offline retail stores in Beijing and Shanghai.…
Huawei dethrones Xiaomi in China’s smartphone market
The number one spot of Xiaomi, which built a global name for itself by marketing smartphones at a fraction of its competitors’ prices, has officially been overtaken by Huawei Technologies.…
How OPPO smartphones overtook Apple in China
The biggest competitor to Apple in China isn’t Huawei or Xiaomi, surprisingly.…
Xiaomi to open ‘experience centers’ in China
Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s CEO, has talked about a plan to open more than 1,000 retail stores in the next few years, according to local reports.…