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While the mobile games business in China is booming, and looks set to continue as more people gets access to smartphones, Zynga reportedly has closed down its Beijing office. The office opened in the May of 2010, following the purchase of a local company known as XPD Media. Do note that the closure has yet to be officially announced by Zynga, only “leaked” by some employees.
Zynga China did had some successes, launching “Draw Something” on Sina Weibo, working with Tencent to launch CityVille, and more. Tencent has it's own HappyFarm. The overseas offices were all unstable once the main headquarters in North America began serious restructuring, including the closure of the Japan office back in 2013.
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China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is taking a $590 million stake in an obscure domestic smartphone maker as the e-commerce giant tests ways to expand its mobile operating system in a shrinking, cut-throat handset market.
Extending a previously muted push into hardware, Alibaba said on Monday it will buy an unspecified minority stake in smartphone maker Meizu Technology Co. Dwarfed by rivals like Xiaomi Inc, privately owned Meizu's slice of China's smartphone market is estimated by analysts at below 2 percent.
Read more: Alibaba invests USD 590 million in Meizu for Smartphone Business
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Qualcomm Inc in China 2008
Qualcomm Inc is likely to pay China a record fine of around $1 billion, ending a 14-month government investigation into anti-competitive practices, after the U.S. chipmaker and the regulator made significant progress during talks last week.
The deal, which may also see Qualcomm lower its royalty rates by around a third on patents used in China, could be announced as soon as Monday, a source said.
Read more: Qualcomm nears $1 billion deal resolving China antitrust dispute
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iSuppli Corp. released IHS 2014 China's smart phone sales list via Weibo. With no doubt, Xiaomi gain the top one by selling 60,800,000 smart phones in China in 2014.
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MIUI6
MIUI6 is a tailor-made system based on Android OS by Xiaomi, the Top5 smartphone brand according to Gartner.
Xiaomi descreetly started to develop its own linux-core OS - MIOS - back to April 2013. MIOS is an embedded Operating System which allow users to execute apps via browser. So we consider MIOS is a highly custom-tailored OS based on Firefox OS.
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