HP Bungles Bucolic Bundling
China Tech News reports:
In cooperation with China Telecom, HP has been offering a “Computer + Broadband” service in areas like Taizhou and Nantong of Jiangsu Province since December 2006, but the company is now being criticized by many Chinese users for the computers’ poor performances.
The program was initially hailed as a bundling innovation in China [...]
Dell Goes to the Mall
Pacific Epoch reports:
Dell China is going beyond directly-operated experience centers to franchise-like storefronts for the nationwide promotion of Dell consumer products, reports China Business News. According to Dell Greater China spokesman Zhang Saying, the company currently has more than 50 partners setting up shop in forth-, fifth- and sixth-tier markets. The sales partners will display [...]
China Laptops: Rumors of War
Marbridge Daily reports:
Vice president Zhang Hui of Lenovo’s (0992.HK) global consumer notebook division revealed recently that the company intends to change its notebook assembly strategy, moving from the old model, in which notebooks were produced at EMS plants in Taiwan and assembled and shipped out by Lenovo, to a new model under which assembly and [...]
China PC Market: Why Investment Declines While the Market Expands
Shanghai Daily reports on the Ministry of Information Industry’s (MII) report on fixed-asset investment in the IT sector:
CHINA’S fixed-asset investment in the information technology industry grew nearly 28 percent year-on-year in the first nine months, the Ministry of Information Industry said yesterday.
…In the first nine months, China’s IT fixed-asset investment was 185.18 billion yuan (US$24.7 [...]
Foreign Investors Are Cordially Reminded to Stay Away from Chinese Internet Cafes
I came across an interesting, if brief, tidbit in a story about China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s new investment regulations (from the International Herald Tribune):
China’s economic planning agency has issued restrictions on foreign investment in real estate and other industries, part of a range of measures aimed at righting imbalances in the economy.
..Some restrictions [...]
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