Chengdu, a leading centre of hi-tech excellence in China, is building an alliance of world-class … Chengdu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone and Sophia Antipolis, a leading European technology park, proposed building a confederation of first-class…
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Exclusive: China Unicom counts Alibaba, Tencent among investors in drive to raise $10 billion – sources
FILE PHOTO: Two men chat beside a logo of Alibaba (China) Technology Co. Ltd at its headquarters on the outskirts of Hangzhou Thomson Reuters By Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese…
EXCLUSIVE-China Unicom counts Alibaba, Tencent among investors in drive to raise $10 bln -sources
* China Unicom to raise $7.3 bln from new share issue -sources * Share sale plan to be finalised this summer -sources * Unicom among first SOEs targeted in shift to mixed ownership By Julie…
China Unicom counts Alibaba, Tencent among investors in drive to raise US$10b: Sources
Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group Holdings and Tencent Holdings will be among new investors pouring a total of around US$10 billion into mobile carrier China Unicom, sources said, part of efforts by Beijing to rejuvenate…
China’s Big Three sign up 102M 4G subs from Jan-May 2017
China’s three largest operators – China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom – registered a further 24.3 million 4G subscribers in May 2017. This brings their collective additions to 102 million for the first five…
China: Mobile advertising expenditure increases 90% in Q1 2017
The mobile advertising market has made significant gains over the last few years and APAC stood out as it leads growth across all regions with a 139% increase in eCPMs. According to the latest Smaato…
China sees quantum leap in secure telecommunications technology
Enjoy a longer, more in-depth read. June 20, 2017 Beijing—A Chinese quantum satellite has dispatched transmissions over a distance of 746 miles, a dozen times further than the previous record, a breakthrough in a technology…
China investments drives rise of ultra-performance electric cars
We test drive what’s on the way from China’s biggest car company * Petrol cars will be obsolete in 8 years, says US report * Chinese carmaker aims for electric, self-driving car by 2020 The…
China propels rise of electric ultra-high-performance cars
The ventures mix U.S. and European technology with Chinese money and manufacturing, reflecting this country’s rise as a market and investor for an industry where Beijing wants a leading role. Communist leaders see electric vehicles…
China sets new record for quantum entanglement en route to build new communication network
While the spectre of a communication network enabled via quantum satellites is still a long way off, as China edges closer to the goal it has led to predictions of a new space race. Quantum…
China Unicom 4G subscriber base reaches 133.37 mn
China Unicom said its 4G subscriber base has reached 133.37 million by adding 5.62 million users in May 2017. China Unicom has 268.35 million total mobile subscribers. It added 1.05 million mobile phone users to…
Why China is set to spend US$411 billion on 5G mobile networks
Mainland China is expected to see total investments on 5G mobile networks reach 2.8 trillion yuan (US$411 billion) in the period from 2020 to 2030, which could mark the country’s most expensive build-out of telecommunications…
China’s quantum leap in space a step toward unhackable communications
“We have done something that was absolutely impossible using conventional approaches,” said Jian-Wei Pan, project leader and physicist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. Dr. Pan suggested his team’s achievement…