Tag Archives: China

Apple fined by China court for copyright violation

By | December 28, 2012

A court in China has ordered Apple to pay compensation to eight Chinese writers and two companies for violating their copyrights. They had claimed that unlicensed electronic versions of their books had been sold on Apple’s online store. The court ordered Apple to pay them 1.03m yuan ($165,000; £100,000) in compensation, according to the official… Read More »

Apple late in China – Samsung already has almost triple share.

By | March 12, 2012

Apple Inc. (AAPL) got a partner to sell the iPhone in the world’s biggest mobile-phone market, China. The may be too late to catch Samsung with a market share that’s three times larger and growing. Samsung controlled 24.3 percent of the market for phones in China. “I don’t expect Apple to replace Samsung any time… Read More »