Apple iPhone 6+ Teardown, Alibaba Opening
I didn’t wait all line to get an iPhone 6 or 6+. But apparently a lot of people did. In San Francisco, I saw a report on Facebook that the line wrapped around three streets. That’s a little...
View ArticleLenovo To Close Acquisition Of IBM’s x86 Server Business
Lenovo and IBM announced today that conditions for Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business have been satisfied and the parties anticipate they will begin closing the transaction effective on...
View ArticleAlibaba, Open Sesame
Happy Tuesday. Much is going on in the world on this fine autumn Tuesday. The weather is starting too cool down here in Austin as we prepare for the city’s annual Austin City Limits music festival,...
View ArticleChina Internet Giant Tencent Cloud Partners With IBM
IBM and Tencent Cloud today signed a business cooperation memorandum to collaborate on providing public cloud with Software-as-a-Service solutions for industries. Both parties agreed to focus on...
View ArticleAlibaba Blows Through Single’s Day E-Commerce Record
I blogged recently that IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark was forecasting another record holiday shopping season, with online sales projected to increase 15 percent over the five-day holiday period...
View ArticleAustin Tech News: Appconomy, Hypori Get New Funding Rounds, AT&T To Hire 200
As reported in the Austin Business Journal, two Austin-based software providers raised new rounds of funding to kick off the new year. Appconomy Inc., which makes software targeting the Chinese retail...
View ArticleIBM and China Telecom Partner to Accelerate Mobile Enterprise Adoption
China Telecom, Inc. and IBM today announced a partnership to accelerate mobile enterprise adoption for Chinese organizations. Joint clients will benefit from the IBM MobileFirst Platform for iOS to...
View ArticleIBM Studio Opens in Shanghai
IBM has launched IBM Studio – Shanghai, where IBM design and digital experts will work with clients to help them engage with customers using big data, mobile, cloud and social innovations. Based at...
View ArticleChinese Smartphone Envy
The Wall Street Journal’s Geoffrey Fowler and Joanna Stern pen a nice piece (subscription required) today on why we in the U.S. ought to be getting envious about Chinese smartphones. Some highlights:...
View ArticleSmartphone Slowdown
IDC just came out with a smartphone growth estimate, and the headline is that global smartphone growth is expected to grow 10.4% in 2015. That’s down from 27.5% in 2014, but still racks up a nice 1.44...
View ArticleIBM Brings Bluemix Cloud Platform to China
IBM today announced that Bluemix, its cloud computing platform, will be available in China via a collaboration with 21Vianet Group, Inc., a leading carrier-neutral internet data center services...
View ArticleIBM Advances Hybrid Capabilities to China
IBM today announced it will expand the availability of IBM’s hybrid cloud capabilities to China through the launch of Bluemix Local, its cloud computing platform that allows enterprises to quickly...
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IBM Expands Green Horizons Initiative Globally To Address Pressing...
IBM Green Horizons research scientist Dr. Baoguo Xie in front of the Green Horizons Project overview panels. Photo credit: IBMIBM Research today announced that it will expand its Green Horizons...
View ArticleChina Tech Is On The March
China tech is on the march, and not just in China. First, Huawei has a new Microsoft Surface competitor called the “Matebook.” will arrive in the U.S. on July 11th, according to Engadget, and will cost...
View ArticleChinese Hospitals Adopt Watson for Oncology To Help Physicians Personalize...
IBM and Hangzhou CognitiveCare today announced 21 hospitals across China plan to adopt Watson for Oncology trained by Memorial Sloan Kettering, a cognitive computing platform for physicians to help...
View ArticleChina’s New Quantum Satellite
If you’re a tech and/or space nut, there was some important news from China overnight. Actually, from the Gobi desert in northern China, where China sent into orbit the world’s first...
View ArticleBodhi Healthcare Group Brings IBM Cloud-Based Healthcare Solution To Qingdao...
Bodhi Healthcare Group and IBM are partnering to develop a new cloud-based healthcare platform built on the IBM LinuxONE to support the new technology branch of Qingdao Municipal Hospital Group. Bodhi...
View ArticleIBM and China UnionPay Explore Blockchain
At the Shanghai International Blockchain Week 2016, IBM and China UnionPay E-payment Research Institute previewed the demo of a collaborative project on loyalty bonus points exchange among multiple...
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Walmart, IBM, And Tsinghua University Partner To Use Blockchain For Food...
As Walmart opened its new Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center in Beijing today IBM, Walmart and Tsinghua University announced a collaboration to improve the way food is tracked, transported and...
View ArticleOwner Of A Lonely E-Commerce Heart
Today was Singles’ Day in China, and Reuters is reporting that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posted 120.7 billion yuan worth of sales today (roughly $17.73 billion). To be clear, that’s in a single day....
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