Hon Hai shares Shapson, Microsoft's lower price competition route

Consumer Electronics Important News Review: Motorola layoffs, electric dealer price war overall upgrade, HTC difficult to escape the fate of the acquisition, the new Apple model is ready, Hon Hai shares Shapson, Microsoft lower price competition route.

Motorola layoffs: Beijing workers protest

At 11 o'clock in the morning today, Motorola Mobile employees in Beijing pulled banners near the company to protest against tough layoffs. Banner book: "With our patent, kill my brother!" "The goal is to August 15, 2001 12.5 billion dollars to acquire Motorola's Google." Recently, Motorola Nanjing Software Center about 100 employees, has played "against Google illegal layoffs, to defend the South home" banner protest staff layoffs. In Sunday, Motorola Mobile announced that the company would lay off about 4000 people and close 1/3 of the world's offices, with thousands of people being cut in China.

The electric dealer price war comprehensively upgrades Jing Dong encounters the strongest "anti-encirclement"

Yesterday, Jing Dong Liu and suning easy to buy Weimin Weibo caused by the major media and netizens attention. Because, Jing Dong CEO Liu in micro-blog said, Jingdong big home appliances prices will be more than 10% cheaper than the price of the Soviet chain. and Suning weimin response, said Suning easy to buy products is necessarily lower than jingdong. Jingdong and suning two big guys at the same time Micro Bo put words, said 15th nine o'clock in the morning to start promotion, to ensure that their goods will be lower than each other. Then yesterday evening 10 o'clock Xu, the country laudatory name, "Gome Electric network Mall line commodity price will be 5% lower than Jingdong mall." "For Gome's move, Dangdang CEO Guoqing Weibo response:" Support Gome online. Dangdang and Gome online in everyone's strategic cooperation has been achieved phased success, we fight side by shoulder! ”

At this point, a Chinese electric business history of the largest, most tragic, the most comprehensive price war.

HTC encounters an unprecedented dilemma and is doomed to takeover

Faced with fierce competition from Apple and Samsung, HTC has continued to suffer setbacks in the European and American markets. In view of this, HTC is in mainland China to enrich the engineering team, expand sales channels, with a view to a piece of the mainland market. But who would have thought that the development of mainland China is also facing many difficulties, analysts believe that HTC difficult to escape the fate of the acquisition.

For HTC, it seems logical to increase investment in the mainland market, after all, the company has many employees whose native language is Chinese. However, at the end of the 2000, HTC, at its peak, focused on the US and Europe, led the Android camp to siege and launched the first touch-screen handset to compete with the Apple iphone. However, it is an unexpected challenge for HTC to catch up in the US market as it blocks its share decline.

Apple quietly discounts sales of new iphone models

August 13, according to foreign media reports, the iphone 5 is expected to be launched soon, Apple has quietly decided to offer preferential prices in line with the retailer for the old model of the iphone offers a discount price.

With Apple's iphone 5 release time approaching, Apple has taken steps to provide prices consistent with the discounts offered by retailers for older iphones such as the iphone 4 and iphone 4S. Although Apple has not officially acknowledged the deal, two people familiar with the matter said Apple would offer the same lower price as the retailer, including Best Buy, Target and Sprint.

Hon Hai's stake in Sharp revival will be to talk about investment

August 13 News, according to foreign media reports, a few days ago, Sharp announced that due to the fall in share prices, the Hon Hai Group is being renegotiated to allow the previous cooperation agreement to continue to carry out.

Is。 After Sharp's share price tumbled, two companies were strategically divided. Sharp said it was conducting an asset assessment of the factories and plans to draw conclusions in September.

Microsoft's lower price competition route surface only 199 dollars

According to foreign media reports, according to the Engadget website, citing unnamed sources, said that when Microsoft's Surface Tablet PC with Windows RT operating system was launched on October 26, the tablet was priced at $199.

At this price, Microsoft is sure to sell the product at below-cost prices, analysts said. However, Microsoft hopes to make up for its losses by using the tablet's apps and media sales revenue.