Steven Crook

Three of Taiwan’s biggest electronics firms, together with insurer Mercuries and Associates, have established a new Internet stock brokering venture dubbed Innovation Network Securities Co. The technology companies behind the new brokerage, which has a capitalization of NT$300 million (US$9.46 million), are Acer, United Microelectronics Corp and Microelectronics Technology. Innovation Network Securities is aiming to […]

Taiwan’s government is endeavoring to make full use of the Internet to boost its efficiency and enhance the island’s competitive edge, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported this week. The government has been promoting computerization of its services for eight years, Wei Chi-ling, chairman of Research, Development and Evaluation Commission of the Executive Yuan, told […]

Officials belonging to Taiwan’s ministry of economic affairs this week said they expect up to 50,000 local companies to be conducting commercial transactions on the Internet by the end of 2001, by which time the island’s annual e-commerce turnover is projected to exceed NT$500 billion (US$15.76 billion). The officials were reporting on the progress of […]

[TAIPEI] Microsoft Corp. is in talks to invest up to $31.5 million in Hoshin Gigamedia Center Inc., a Taiwanese broadband cable Internet access provider. A link with Microsoft would make it easier for Gigamedia to raise funds from other investors, commentators have remarked. Microsoft could also provide technology and software support. Gigamedia executive vice president […]

The United Daily News, a major Taiwan newspaper, has launched its online news service. Planning for udnnews.com began toward the end of 1997, and construction of the Web site commenced on October 16, 1998. Much of the content of the Web site will be drawn from the eight newspapers which the United Daily News Group […]

Three of Taiwan’s largest IT companies have announced a joint venture which aims to become a leading supplier of e-commerce services and software solutions to companies in Taiwan and throughout East Asia. Operations are scheduled to commence next month. Systex Corp., one of Taiwan’s leading software companies, Microsoft Taiwan Corp., and Compaq Computer Taiwan Corp. […]

As Taiwan’s Internet market shows signs of maturing, Net firms on the island are considering stock exchange listings and setting their sights on rapidly-growing mainland Chinese market. The PRC is estimated to have just four million Net users — a tiny proportion of the country’s vast population. However, the number of mainland Chinese connected to […]

In an annual government and tech industry meeting, Taiwan government officials and local Internet specialists called for an acceleration in efforts to make the island’s infrastructure, laws and regulations more conducive to the growth of e-commerce. At the ninth annual Strategic Review Board (SRB) meeting on Electronics, Information and Telecommunications, commentators and industry figures agreed […]