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Wednesday 3 June 2015
CMC Magnetics lands orders for 100GB BD discs from Facebook
Blank optical disc maker CMC Magnetics has obtained orders for 100GB Blu-ray Disc (BD) discs from Facebook and expects other providers of Internet services to follow suit, according...
Monday 2 February 2015
Facebook planning to give network switch orders to Taiwan ODMs
Optimistic about software defined network (SDN) development, Facebook is planning to shift its network switch orders from existing brand partners to Taiwan's white-box suppliers in...
Friday 30 January 2015
Facebook opens Taiwan office
Facebook has an office in Taiwan mainly for educating local enterprises on how to use Facebook to attain commercial goals and training local Facebook advertising agents, according...
Monday 15 December 2014
Commentary: Internet service providers still vying for smartphone market
Despite the lackluster performance of initial sales of their own brand smartphones, Internet service providers including Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba and Baidu, have not yet given up...
Wednesday 3 September 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan smartphone makers see dropping orders from Amazon, Microsoft Mobile and Facebook in 2014
Taiwan handset makers originally expected to continue receiving orders for Lumia series products from Microsoft Mobile and also acquire new orders from Amazon and Facebook in 2014,...
Friday 29 August 2014
Sales of branded smartphones from service providers such as Amazon, Facebook, and Alibaba lower than expected
Sales of own-brand smartphones launched by online retailers or social networking service companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent have been lower than expected,...
Thursday 3 April 2014
Taiwan ODMs seeing increased direct-account orders for data center servers
Quanta Computer and Wiwynn have seen large increases in direct-account orders for data center servers from Facebook and Microsoft, with production capacities already fully utilized,...
Tuesday 28 January 2014
Quanta to showcase battery backup system at Facebook OCP Summit
Quanta Computer and Wiwynn, Wistron's subsidiary provider of cloud computing system integration services, will participate in Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit to take...
Friday 11 October 2013
Internet firms diversify server supplies
Google and Facebook have started dividing their server orders between different ODMs to avoid placing all their eggs in one basket. Inventec will start supplying servers to Google...
Wednesday 25 September 2013
Taiwan ODMs expected to benefit from new data centers in Northern Europe
Quanta Computer and Wiwynn, a subsidiary of Wistron, are expected to benefit from Microsoft and Facebook's new data center establishments in Northern Europe in 2014, according to...
Thursday 22 August 2013
Facebook launches bid to make Internet access available to all
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has announced the launch of internet.org, a global partnership with the goal of making Internet access available to the next five billion...
Monday 24 June 2013
Smartphone brands reluctant to develop Facebook Home-enabled models
A number of branded smartphone vendors, including Samsung Electronics, Sony Mobile Communications, Lenovo, ZTE and Huawei are now reluctant to cooperate with Facebook for the joint...
Monday 27 May 2013
Facebook OCP creating competition for Taiwan hardware makers
Although Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP) is expected to benefit Taiwan-based ODMs in terms of shipping servers directly to Internet players, sources from the server industry...
Friday 24 May 2013
Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
Facebook on May 23 established Open Compute Project (OCP) Taiwan in a bid to attract Taiwan-based hardware makers and promote industry standards for cloud computing data center equipment,...
Wednesday 2 January 2013
ODMs reportedly to receive storage product orders from Facebook
Facebook reportedly plans to outsource new storage product orders to Taiwan-based ODMs with both Quanta Computer and Wistron having a chance to land the orders, according to sources...