Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-01-30

Taipei is set to become home to Google’s largest research center in the Asia-Pacific region on Tuesday. The tech giant announced Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of the smartphone assets of Taiwan’s HTC for US$1.1 billion.

Google is entering its third year in the hardware business. It hopes to work with HTC to combine the best of its artificial intelligence, software and hardware resources.

Google said it hopes to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific by closing the deal with HTC. Google said Taiwan is a key innovation and engineering hub for the company. It said Taipei will become the largest engineering site for the company in the region.
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