SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S.-based software startup WhatsApp, the fast-growing mobile messaging service, denies it's a threat to telephone carriers and the cash they earn from SMS messages. Instead, its co-founder, Brian Acton, said in a rare interview that WhatsApp was helping carriers move their customers to data packages that would, in the long term,...
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The global LED market is growing rapidly. Taiwan's energy bureau plans to use its ESCO (Energy Service Company) program to push forward three different plans and it is estimated that in 2018, Taiwan's LED street light firms will make NT$34 billion (US$1.1 billion) in revenue with a global market share of 20%. (read more...
TAIPEI (Reuters) – It promises to revolutionise television in the way the iPad did computing, and the chance to make Apple Inc's much-anticipated smart TV could explain Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry's bold move to buy into 100-year-old Japanese firm Sharp . Hon Hai took around a 10 percent stake in Sharp Corp, with...
