IDC: The PC Market Will Hardly Recover

IDC: The PC Market Will Hardly Recover

The global PC market is stable and sees no substantial increase in the near future

In the report published this Tuesday by the marketing research company IDC, the future market movement in the PC market concerns the manufacturers. IDC claims that the global PC market dropped by 2.7%, slightly lower than the 3.7% of last year. Although the threats from tablet PCs have been lowered, the global PC market will continue declining next year.

(English) Microsoft to pay China $140 million for 'tax evasion'

The tax payment is only the latest headache for Microsoft in China, where it is already under investigation by anti-trust regulators.

According to an article published by China's Xinhua official news agency on Sunday, an unnamed U.S. multinational must pay the Chinese government 840 million yuan ($137 million) in back taxes and interest, as well as more than 100 million yuan in additional taxes a year in the future.

The article refers only to a company whose name starts with "M," is one of the world's biggest 500 firms and which established a wholly-owned foreign subsidiary in Beijing in 1995. Microsoft is the only company that fits that description.

Xunlei's net profit for Q3 2014 declined to 300 thousand USD

Declined by 95% compared to Q3 2013

Since the government's censorship on internet contents becomes stricter, Xunlei's income on PC download acceleration service is declining. Xunlei believes that the government's censorship has a negative influence on its subscription service.

MediaTeck Responded on the "Suspend" with Xiaomi

MediaTeck made statement today declaring that its partnership with Xiaomi "goes well".

Xiaomi denied receiving any lawyer's letter from Huawei or ZTE

Xiaomi confirmed with its lawyer and indicated that the company hadn't received any lawyer's letter from Huawei or ZTE, and declared that that 21 Century Business Herald's report is inaccurate. ZTE refused to comment on this. Huawei denied having sent any lawyer's letter to any local mobile phone company.

Ma Yun: Alibaba hopes to assist Gansun in leap-forward development

The provincial government of Gansu recently signed a Strategic Cooperation Frame Agreement with Alibaba. According to the Agreement, several cloud computation projects.will launch in Gansu. Gansu province and Alibaba will also cooperation in E-Commerce and O2O fields.

(English) Tencent to Air HBO in China as Government Shuts Down Free Sites

The agreement between Tencent and Time Warner Inc. (TWC)’s HBO comes as the Chinese government shuts down popular websites including Yyets.com and Shooter.cn that broadcast HBO series and other dramas for free to China’s 632 million Internet users.