U.S.-based tech giant Google unveiled the Google Pixel 8a, the latest flagship smartphone model, in Taiwan on Wednesday and announced that preorder sales had begun.

Yageo Corp., the world's third largest multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) maker, on average paid its board members more than any other listed company on the main board in 2022, ahead of contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), according to the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE).

Taiwan-based smartphone brand HTC Corp. said on Tuesday that it will consider all options to seek relief after a jury in a U.S. court ruled against it in a patent infringement case and it was ordered to pay US$8.9 million in damages.

Taiwan-based smartphone brand HTC Corp. unveiled the HTC U23 series Thursday, marking the first time the company has introduced new smartphone models with metaverse features since the HTC Desire 22 Pro hit the market in late June 2022.

Taiwan-based smartphone brand HTC Corp. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with DeepSig Inc., an American wireless communications and artificial intelligence company, to team up on 5G solutions and smart manufacturing and smart city development.

U.S.-based smartphone IC designer Qualcomm Inc. on Friday opened a manufacturing engineering and testing center in Hsinchu, expanding its presence in Taiwan.

Taiwan-based smartphone brand HTC Corp. posted net losses for the fourth consecutive year in 2022 amid weakening global demand for consumer electronics and faltering efforts to penetrate the virtual reality market.

Google Taiwan is reducing its workforce in the local market after Alphabet Inc., the parent company of the American search engine, announced in January that it would lay off 6 percent or 12,000 of its employees globally, as the international tech industry faces market uncertainty.

Taiwan-based smartphone brand HTC Corp., which has intensified efforts to penetrate the global virtual reality market, launched its latest VR headset -- the Vive XR Elite -- on the opening day of the CES trade show in Las Vegas on Thursday.

Shares in Taiwan closed relatively flat Monday after tech stocks gave up early gains following a downturn in the sector on American markets at the end of last week, dealers said.