So it's official, Huawei will also show up at the upcoming IFA 2018 event in Germany and while we're not expecting any new devices from them, it pretty much hints that they will showcase their latest processor - the Hisilicon Kirin 980. Why do we say so? Because they did the same thing at last year's IFA event with the Kirin 970.

This year has been quite a ride for Huawei, not only have they released a few successful sold-out smartphones from three different lineups, but YouGov BrandIndex, an authoritative measure of brand perception has placed Huawei as one of the top 10 of Malaysia's 2017 Top 10 Brand Advocacy Ranking, which got a score of 68.2 points. Along with Apple, both are the only two smartphone brands that made it to the top 10.

Today, Huawei Consumer Business Group has released its Q2 financial results of 2017. According to the report, the sales revenue for the first six months of 2017 increased by 36.2% year-on-year to CNY105.4 billion. Smartphone shipments also rose to 73.01 million, a year-on-year increase of 20.6%.

What do art and technology have in common? Nothing really, but today the National Opera of Paris and Huawei France have announced the foundation of the Digital Academy. The Academy functions as a unique online platform that puts digital technology, art, and education together.

Just earlier this week, Huawei Mobile has announced that their collaboration with mm2 Entertainment Pte Ltd, Astro and StarHub will commence The Voice 决战好声 production. The popular singing contest show will premiere on 17 September in both Singapore and Malaysia, with first-over official coaches - Tan Hanjin 陈奂仁, Della Ding 丁当, Gary Chaw 曹格 and Sky Wu 伍思凯.

As we enter the second quarter of the year, Huawei Consumer Business Group has released their Q1 2017 Business Performace report. According to IDC, they have managed to shipped an astounding 34.55 million smartphones. Resulting the company’s global smartphone market share to further increased to 9.8%, consolidating its position in the top three smartphone vendors in the world.

As reported in the Huawei Global Connectivity Index (GCI) 2017, the fourth annual study shows in the 50 countries that were analyzed, Malaysia climbed five positions in the ranks due to the government’s aggressive investment to improve its international bandwidth, 4G coverage and Cloud over the past three years.

During the Huawei Global Analyst Conference on 12 April 2017, Huawei Consumer BG presented their attendees of analysts and media organizations on an ecosystem building on the basis of Huawei Consumer Cloud Services, and also on its device strategies for the coming "+intelligence" era. 

During the Global Analyst Summit 2017 that was held in Shenzhen, China, Huawei presented their carrier services business performance for 2016 and reported to have a revenue of USD13.32 billion. Because of Huawei’s goal to address carriers’ business problems, this has led to an increased growtH in improving carriers’  network value, operation efficiency, and digital transformation.

During the CeBIT 2017 exhibition that was held in Germany from 20 - 24 March 2017, Huawei and 100 partners came together and demonstrated advanced ICT and solutions across business, technology, and ecosystem exhibition areas, and is sharing digital transformation best practices and methodologies to help global customers and partners advance their digital businesses.