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Chinese selfie app and smartphone company Meitu announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Xiaomi. Going forward, Meitu will license its brand, technologies and hardware to China-based Xiaomi, and for upcoming smartphones, Xiaomi will handle design, research, development, production, business operation, sales and marketing while Meitu will deal with image-related algorithms and technologies. […]
Google rebranded Android Wear as Wear OS by Google yesterday. It’s a marketing change meant to signal the wearable operating system does not require Android (even though that hasn’t been the case in years), but it practically changes nothing. What Wear OS really needs is a champion that will not only showcase what the platform […]
Sensing an opening, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi says it plans to enter the U.S. smartphone market in late 2018 or 2019. The news comes just several weeks after rival Huawei, which appeared to have a head start, had its hopes dashed when a partnership with AT&T was scuttled. While both companies said the parting was […]
Xiaomi and Microsoft announced today that they’re deepening a previously-established partnership to encompass work on cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and PC hardware. Thus far, the two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding, pledging to evaluate future avenues of collaboration. It’s good news for Microsoft, since Xiaomi is a fast-growing company with a strong presence […]
Enlarge Yet another Android OEM is dragging its feet with its GPL compliance. This time, it’s Xiaomi with the Mi A1 Android One device, which still hasn’t seen a kernel source code release. Android vendors are required to release their kernel sources thanks to the Linux kernel’s GPLv2 licensing. The Mi A1 has been out […]
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi was once the world’s most valuable startup. Then it stumbled. Now, Xiaomi is clawing its way back. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a3c0f5a635c6e46e7005ada/master/pass/Xiaomi-FeatureArt-664734054.jpg Feed: All Latest
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc has told bankers it would top its annual revenue target by as much as 18 percent, sources with knowledge of the matter said, marking a comeback from a sales slump in recent years that triggered a business overhaul. Xiaomi, which has been hearing bank pitches for what […]
Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 341.6 million smartphones worldwide last quarter, down 1.3 percent from the 346.1 million units in Q2 2016. That’s a rare enough of an occurrence — the smartphone market. And yet, all five of the top vendors gained share: Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi. In Q2 2017, the South […]
Samsung shipped two percent more phones in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the same period last year, according to Strategy Analytics. By shipping 79.5 million out of 360 million units worldwide, it remains the top smartphone-maker in the world — it has been for a while, so it’s not the standout name in […]
Xiaomi, through its subsidiary Xiaomi H.K. Ltd, announced it has raised $ 1 billion in debt financing from 18 banks across Europe, the Middle East, India, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, with Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley coordinating the three-year loan arrangement. The Chinese tech giant, a popular smartphone brand across a number of countries in […]
