The world’s third largest wireless operator, China Unicom, has today announced an alliance with Microsoft’s Windows Phone to help boost sales and provide more innovative Windows Phone devices in the Chinese market, reports the China Daily.
According to Analysys International, a Beijing-based research firm, Windows Phone holds less than 3 percent of the market in China, whereas Android
Summary: Microsoft still surrenders its American troops for people overseas whose work conditions and wages will be relatively atrocious
EXPECT MORE Microsoft layoffs very shortly but also expect Microsoft to conceal those by hiring people (replacements) in places where wages are a lot cheaper.
Top Hat Monocle, the Toronto, Canada-based service that provides a web-based clicker and online homework tool that aims to make large lecture-based classes more engaging, just announced that it is expanding its reach to the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Australia and New Zealand.
Windows 8 is almost here, but despite Microsoft’s best efforts, there just aren’t that many Windows 8-style apps available yet. To kick-start the Windows 8 development community, Microsoft today announced that it is hosting a global hackathon in over 60 cities from November 9 to 11.
Less than a month after sinking reportedly $40-80 million into Lamoda, Rocket Internet’s “Russian Zappos”, JP Morgan is investing once again in the Samwer brothers and their vision for a global e-commerce operation: the latest is Zalora, Rocket Internet’s fashion site based in Singapore and operating across seven countries in South East Asia.
Summary: Microsoft’s #1 cash cow still suffers on/from the Web, so Microsoft rebrands and also uses help from Facebook, which it partly owns
“Microsoft [is] trademarking ‘Be What’s Next’ slogan,” which comes as no surprise as the company craves an image makeover (there is a new Web site coming).
Summary: Microsoft is shedding off failed parts of its portfolio as financial stress grows and layoffs/offshoring become an ordinary reality
Mary Jo Microsoft has reasons to worry about the company that made her career. “In August,” she explains, “I noted that Microsoft had discontinued Quadrant,one of its Oslo data-modeling tools.
Microsoft has made a deal with China to offer Windows Azure in the country. The deal is ballyhooed as a landmark agreement but, at its core, represents something that only the Chinese government can love.
The agreement with the municipality of Shanghai shows how China will begin rolling out more cloud services to China.
Written by: Stephen WithersAn Australian company has won the first Dell Asia Pacific PartnerDirect Excellence Award for Storage.
{loadposition stephen08}Sydney-based Regal-IT beat other Dell partners from China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and India in the storage category of the inaugural Dell Asia Pacific PartnerDirect Excellence Awards.
"The APJ PartnerDirect Excellence Awards is a platform t
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