{"id":12751,"date":"2016-09-30T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T10:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=12751"},"modified":"2016-09-30T10:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T10:48:05","slug":"apple-building-45-million-research-center-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/innovation\/apple-building-45-million-research-center-in-beijing.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple building $45 million research center in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Apple building $45 million research center in Beijing to develop new hardware<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Apple building $45 million research center in Beijing to develop new hardware<\/strong> : Apple is building a $45 million research facility in Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reports, focusing on the creation of new hardware. The company&#8217;s first Chinese research center will employ 500 people and will develop computer hardware, communications, audio, and visual equipment, the Zhongguancun Science Park Administrative Committee said in a post on social media, shedding more light on Chinese expansion plans that CEO Tim Cook first detailed last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tim Cook promised to invest more in China during a visit to the country in August, pledging to open such a research and development facility in the country in 2016. Apple declined to comment to the Wall Street Journal about the planned facility, which is reportedly set to be placed in a new science park in Beijing&#8217;s Wangjing district, but it would be the latest in a string of investments the company has made in the country in an effort to shore up sliding sales, including $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, a ride-hailing app seen as China&#8217;s Uber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">China has been both a base of manufacture for Apple&#8217;s devices and an important market for their sale, but Apple has faced a turbulent time in the country lately. Chinese authorities shut down the iBooks and iTunes Movies services earlier this year \u2014 a move that reportedly prompted Tim Cook&#8217;s first of two visits to the country in one year to smooth over relations with government officials. Despite these issues, Cook said in August that Apple remained &#8220;very optimistic about the long-term opportunities in Greater China,&#8221; and that it would continue to invest there. This new R&amp;D facility certainly seems to be proof of that plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\"><strong>Source<\/strong> : http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/9\/30\/13118548\/apple-research-center-china-beijing-hardware<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/innovation\/apple-building-45-million-research-center-in-beijing.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple building $45 million research center in Beijing to develop new hardware Apple building $45 million research center in Beijing to develop new hardware : Apple is building a $45 million research facility in Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reports, focusing on the creation of new hardware. The company&#8217;s first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975],"tags":[7780,469,7777,7778,7776,7779],"class_list":["post-12751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","tag-administrative-committee","tag-apple","tag-beijings-wangjing","tag-visual-equipment","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-zhongguancun-science-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}