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Business Briefs
STAFF WRITER, WITH AGENCIES
Tuesday, Jul 24, 2007, Page 11
Citi sells off last Fubon stake
Citigroup has divested its remaining holdings in Fubon Financial Holding Co (碔ü北), the nation's fourth-biggest financial group said yesterday.
Fubon president Victor Kung (徘ぱ︽) said that since the two groups called off their strategic alliance in June 2004, Citigroup has gradually offloaded its stockholding in Fubon.
On July 12, the US bank sold 118 million common shares to foreign institutional investors, followed by its final move last Thursday to sell more than 99 million global depositary shares, reducing its holding in the Taiwanese rival to zero.
Acer chief pans Windows Vista
The head of Taiwan-based PC maker Acer, Gianfranco Lanci, hit out at Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, calling it a big disappointment.
"The entire industry is disappointed by Windows Vista," the head of the world's fourth-biggest PC maker told the Financial Times Deutschland in its online edition yesterday.
Never before had a new version of Windows done so little to boost PC sales.
"And that's not going to change in the second half of this year," Lanci said.
"I really don't think that someone has bought a new PC specifically for Vista," he said.
While the industry had waited years for Vista, the software was not really ready when it was launched to great pomp at the start of this year, Lanci said.
"Stability is certainly a problem," he said.
ASE, NXP team up in China
Global IC testing and packaging giant Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE, らる旧砰) and NXP Semiconductors of the Netherlands will invest an initial US$36 million in a joint venture in China, the Taiwanese company said yesterday.
ASE will take a 60 percent stake in the project in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, while NXP will hold the remaining 40 percent, it said.
The joint venture, expected to begin operations later this year, is to provide packaging and testing services, the spokesman said.
"The US$36 million will be an initial investment. We are expecting to put more funds into the project but the amount will depend on market conditions," he said.
HTC joining top brands list
High Tech Computer Corp (HTC, Щ笷筿), the world's largest maker of handsets using Windows operating system, is joining the nation's list of top 20 brands.
HTC, which recently ventured into the own-brand business with the launch of "HTC Touch,"a touchscreen phone, is one of the newcomers in the roster of top local brands that offer the most value.
The top companies will be formally announced on Thursday by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Taiwan External Trade Development Council (禩穦).
Other names in the top 20 list include Acer Inc, Advantech Co (地), Asustek Computer Inc (地河筿福), BenQ Corp (膀), D-Link Corp (ね癟м), Depo Auto Parts Industrial Co (腳穨) and Giant Manufacturing Co (エ诀瘪)
Biotech begins on Thursday
Bio Taiwan, an exhibition showcasing the latest biotech innovations and products, will start its four-day run on Thursday at Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall I.
More than 300 exhibitors from the public and private sectors occupying more than 700 booths will display medical equipment, health food, skincare products, including an expensive golden facial mask priced at NT$8,000 each, and other biotech applications, organizer Taiwan Bio Industry Organization (い地チ瓣ネ玻穨祇甶穦) said at a press conference yesterday.
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