20 May 2025

Shipments of Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones made in China to the United States dived to their lowest levels since 2011 in April, underscoring how the threat of US tariffs choked off the flow of big-ticket goods between the world’s two largest economies. Smartphone exports slid 72 per cent to just under US$700 million last […]

US buyer activity on Alibaba Group Holding’s wholesale marketplace surged the week after Washington and Beijing agreed to a 90-day pause on new tariffs, according to people familiar with the matter. From May 12 to May 18, the number of inquiries from US-based buyers to sellers on Alibaba.com, the e-commerce giant’s business-to-business shopping platform, surged

Xiaomi has begun mass production of its 3-nanometre XRing O1 system-on-a-chip (SoC), which will power the firm’s latest smartphone and tablet devices, ahead of Thursday’s new product launch in Beijing, according to company founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun. In a Tuesday post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, Lei confirmed local media reports that

The Taiwan-based company, known internationally as Foxconn, said in an exchange filing on Monday that it had made the investment through its Singaporean subsidiary. Hon Hai, which is building new plants and adding production capacity in southern India, did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Apple is looking to import most of