Bottom line: Google has quietly resumed updates of its China mapping service in a bid to tap the booming local market for location-based services.
Are they or aren't they? That's the question going through everyone's minds these days about Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) stealth return to China, following reports that the company has quietly re-launched its previously dormant mapping service in the market. In this case there are quite a few c...
Bottom line: Google's launch of a China AI lab marks the latest step in its campaign to curry favor with Beijing, which could give it a 50-50 chance of being allowed to sell its Pixel phones and open a China Google Play store in 2018.
Chronicling Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) slow march back to China has been a bit like watching grass grow these days. It's been a painfully slow process, including the latest announcement that the c...
Bottom line: Google's purchase of HTC's Pixel assets is a sign of no confidence in HTC's chances of longer-term survival as an independent smartphone maker.
Everyone is giving their two cents about the big new tie-up between Taiwan smartphone maker HTC (Taipei: 2498) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), so I figured I'd weigh in as well on this deal that has quite a few threads. From where I sit, the deal marks the latest dis...
Bottom line: Google's campaign to build a China-based artificial intelligence team is at least partly designed to woo Beijing, as part of its broader effort to get permission to open a China-based Google Play app store.
In the latest signal of its move back to China, Internet titan Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is apparently on a hiring spree in Beijing that looks aimed at building up an artificial intelligence (AI) team in the world's largest o...
不出意外,苹果在10月23日(北京时间10月24日凌晨)发布了iPad mini,从7.9英寸大小尺寸、非Retina屏,到329美元的定价,甚至出货日期,都没有出乎人们的意料,这些重要细节早在发布会之前就已泄露一空。
虽然在发布会前几天,科技博客9to5mac独家爆料过苹果将更新iPad的消息,但显然绝大多数看发布会直播的人看到iPad 4出现的时候,都觉得相当意外。用Instapaper开发者Marco Arment的话来形容iPad 3用户看到iPad 4出现时的心情就是:“屎了”。( iPad 3 owners: “Shit.”)不过iPad 4升级幅度并不大,主要将原来为A5X的处理器换...
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