
EQT flogs Vertu to mysterious security outfit
Secret phone for a price
The Bentley of phone makers Vertu has been flogged to a mysterious Hong Kong security firm by its Swedish private equity group EQT.

Chinese Tablet makers turn production lines to notebooks
Fad has passed
The Chinese white box tablet makers have decided that there is no more mileage in the so called game changing tablet technology.

Early China launch saved Apple's figures
Analysts worried about cracks in the dam
Despite doing its best to spin yesterday’s results, the Fruity cargo cult Apple’s figures are starting to show signs that the outfit is unable to maintain its record growth.

China’s IoT market will grow faster than others
Analyst claims $41 billion by 2020
China's Internet of Things (IoT) services revenues will grow faster than anywhere else in the world, according to beancounters working at ABI Research.

Samsung wants huge sales in batteries
Juicing up the bottom line
Samsung has just built a battery plant in China as part of its cunning plan to add a billion onto its sales figures to make up for falling smartphone sales.

Intel gets into Memory
Converts its China plant
Intel wants to step up its involvement in the memory market by converting one of its Chinese plants to make memory chips.

Outlook still bleak for Biggish Blue
Still not making money
IBM has been selling the family silver but still can’t buy itself out of trouble as its cloud business has not picked up yet.

IBM allowing Chinese government to look at source code
Nothing to hide
Biggish Blue is hoping to get the Chinese government onside by showing it its source code.

Huawei developing Windows 10 hybrids
Price war expected
Two-for-One hybrid computers are about the only bright point in an otherwise gloomy PC maker, and now it appears that Huawei wants a piece of that action.

Chinese government might buy SanDisk and Toshiba
All your NAND flash are belong to us
SanDisk and Toshiba, which jointly develop NAND flash technology, are being targeted for acquisition by China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup.