LONDON (Reuters) - British insurer Aviva (AV.L) said on Friday it is to sell its 49 percent stake in its Taiwan joint venture to its partner First Financial Holding, as it tries to focus on more profitable markets. The decision came after a strategic ... ( read original story ...)
UK insurer Aviva to sell Taiwan business for $1
This is an experimental feature. Give us your feedback. Thank you for your feedback. Aviva looks set to finally say goodbye to its 60,000 customers in Taiwan six years after it first tried to leave the market. The UK insurance firm, which has about 33 ... ( read original story ...)
Uber Faced $1 Billion in Damages in Waymo Self-Driving Car Lawsuit
The Uber logo shown on an iPad during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan on April 13 ... Waymo views winning a permanent injunction against Uber using any Waymo intellectual property as the main priority, another source familiar with the company ... ( read original story ...)
Alarm in Taiwan over triad ties to pro-China groups
But delineating politics, business and the underworld in Taiwan and across the strait to China is not easy. The CIB concedes it will be “difficult to clarify the grey areas”. Triads notorious for drugs, weapons, gambling and prostitution have for years ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Fines Qualcomm $773M for Practices That Hamper Competition
In all, companies in Taiwan over the past several years had bought $30 billion in baseband chips from Qualcomm, the regulators said. The FTC wrote that “the core of the overall [Qualcomm] business model involved, damage[s] the base frequency chip ... ( read original story ...)
Workplace bullying pervasive in Taiwan: survey
TAIPEI, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Workplace bullying has become a ... Employees in the manufacturing and property sectors, as well as administrative or customer service work, were most susceptible to workplace bullying, the survey showed. Despite pervasive ... ( read original story ...)
iPhone X makers still struggling to refine facial recognition
TAIPEI -- "For never was a story of more woe than this of ... Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn Technology Group. TSMC's sales in September fell 1.25% from a year-ago to 88.57 billion New Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Company in focus: TSMC’s founder ready to hand world’s largest chipmaker to next generation
Chang also said that while Taipei's ties with Beijing have cooled since last ... about taking on South Korea's Samsung Electronics over cutting-edge semiconductor technology. "There is no way to be sure [that we still stay ahead]. We try our best. ( read original story ...)
Taiwanese and Indian business groups sign letters of intent
Taipei, Oct. 12 (CNA) Taiwan's Chinese National Federation ... secretary of India's Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and FICCI representative Manish Sharma. Taiwan's Deputy Economic Affairs Minister Kung Ming-hsin (龔明鑫) said at ... ( read original story ...)
Largan and the 8-Lens iPhone, According to Bernstein
Interestingly, the technology of the iPhone continues to evolve ... He illustrates the lenses with the graphic shown up top. Large shares rose 4% in Taipei trading to close at 5,635 Taiwan Dollars. ( read original story ...)
Malaysia’s IT sector pushes global envelope, wins WCIT awards
held recently in Taipei, Taiwan. The national ICT industry association of Malaysia, PIKOM, led a delegation of 71 business leaders - the largest foreign delegation attending the 21st WCIT 2017 - organised by World Information Technology & Services Alliance ... ( read original story ...)
Qualcomm slapped with record antitrust fine in Taiwan
Taipei: Taiwanese authorities have imposed a record fine of ... Qualcomm, in turn, has sued Apple for allegedly using the chip maker's technology without paying for it. ( read original story ...)
Sri Lanka Makes Arrests in $60 Million Taiwanese Bank Cyberheist
Far Eastern International Bank’s computer systems were attacked by malware that affected several transactions and has since been removed, the Taipei-based lender said ... Swift and appoint external information-technology consultants to review the ... ( read original story ...)
Imperva expands global Incapsula network to increase performance and speed attack mitigation
Imperva has expanded its Incapsula data centre footprint with the addition of points of presence (PoPs) in Delhi, Dubai, Moscow, Mumbai, Taipei and Vancouver ... Second-generation scrubbing technology deployed in mesh network The Incapsula global network ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Taiwan fines Qualcomm $774 mln for anti-trust violations
HONG KONG, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission said on Wednesday it would fine U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc T$23.4 billion ($774.14 million) for anti-trust violations of its chip technology. The Commission said in a Chinese-language ... ( read original story ...)
The Tencent of Southeast Asia Isn’t Really Like Tencent at All
That may make it a stretch for Sea to hit the $4.45 billion valuation it’s seeking at the top of the IPO range, up from $3.75 billion in ... Asia,” a far from standard term because it includes Taiwan. “This is the first time I heard about the ... ( read original story ...)