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BeyondSoft acquired silicon valley based iphone android consulting company ExtendLogic

startupchina01 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:34:22 +0000

Beijing, China, April 20, 2010, China leading IT outsourcing company Beyondsoft Group and US based Smartphone application developmentconsulting firm ExtendLogic (parent company ofKnowledgeSurf Technologies) of have signed investment agreement recently. The agreement is about the acquisition of ExtendLogic’sexisting consulting businesses of Smartphone (iphone, Android, Blackberry) application development, mobile embedded softwaredevelopment, back-end platform development, and mobile relatedtesting.

Founded in 2005, ExtendLogic has mobile application development consulting office in California and R&D center in China which is one of the pioneers providing Smartphone application development outsourcing services to worldwide clients. With its core competitive advantages in areas of iPhone & Android, ExtendLogic will continue on Smartphone application development after being a part of Beyondsoft Group. By taking advantage of Beyondsoft Group’s strong marketingnetwork, capital, technology and back office support, ExtendLogic aims to strengthen its international competitiveness and further expand its business scope for obtaining greater market share.

Through this acquisition, Beyondsoft will enhance its ability to accessthe business opportunities from the vertical industries. As a leading Smartphone application development outsourcing company, ExtendLogic has extensive experience in quality assurance and process control. Based on the resource integration, Beyondsoft will be able to provide more professional high quality services to clients from vertical industry, which will help Beyondsoft Group to establish its leading position in Smartphone industry in the near future.

“ExtendLogic’s professionalism and mature project management experience in area of Smartphone application development outsourcing are great supplements to Beyondsoft. The successful acquisition notonly expands our delivery capability, but also completes its reform of our own product chain. It is a very important step taken by Beyondsoft to improve its business structure and global strategy.” said by Bin Wang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Beyondsoft Groups.

About Beyondsoft Groups:

Beyondsoft is a leading IT outsourcing company with Global Delivery Centers. Beyondsoft offers IT consulting, Application Development and Maintenance (ADM), ERP and BPO services to the clients across the globe. Headquartered in Beijing, Beyondsoft has development centers in the major cities in China, as well as operations/centers in the U.S., Japan, Singapore and India. The global delivery centers enable Beyondsoft to offer high-quality and cost effective services to its clients by adopting the right mix of onsite, near-site and multi-tier offshore delivery centers. It also allows Beyondsoft to share and grow its offerings, knowledge and process maturity. Beyondsoft is an ISO27001 certified company and the security systems at Beyondsoft meet world’s most strict standards.

http://www.beyondsoft.com

About ExtendLogic:

Founded in 2005 in California, US, ExtendLogic provides Smartphone application development consulting and outsourcing services by its onshore consulting office in California and offshore R&D center, Xi’anKnowledgesurf Technologies, in Xi’an of China. Having skilled iPhone, Android, Blackberry developers in-house makes ExtendLogic able to provide high quality services to global clients over the past several years. Since 2005, ExtendLogic’s subsidiary, Xi’an KnowledgeSurf has received a number of awards recognizing its service capabilities and growth potential, including 2008 Xi’an Software Park Great Contribution Awards, 2008 ChinaSourcing – Top 50 Service Providers in China 2008 Certificate.

China Will Lead In Mobile Outsourcing after 30 Billion Investment in 3G Infrastructure

DavidCao01 — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:36:48 +0000

Santa Clara. The new wave of SmartPhones lead by Android and iPhone combines with the evolving of 3G network, give China, the world’s largest mobile market, a great opportunity to lead in mobile outsourcing.

China had been seen as a follower of India in outsourcing industry for decades. It will still take years for China to even build the infrature to support large scale collaboration with US enterprises. Most of large US companies chose India as their primary global R&D center out side of US, like Oracle, Intel, and so on. However, with world’s largest mobile operator jumped into 3G network and Android powered smart phone, followed by China Unicom’s deal with Apple for its iPhone 3.0, things are changing

China is far ahead of Indina for 3G infrastrcuture. The three operators in China annouced more than 30 billion USD combined investment plan on its 3G infrastrcuture. The plan is bigger than most of the developed countries. With world’s largest mobile subsriber base, China indeed will be able to produce large numbers of software companies just for its domestic 3G and SmartPhone development needs. Late last year, China exceeded US became world’s No.1 for internet users. However, it is just a beginning. With the deployment of 3G network this year and smartphones, China willdefinitely have world’s largest Mobile Internet community.

Your may want to ask, what does this to do with mobile outsourcing? It is clear that, its hard for team of developers who cannot use 3G network with a smartphone at their daily life to compete with another team of developers in China who uses them at their daily life. With the infrastruture, the market, the user experiences, China’s outsourcing developers soon will have some thing they had dreamed for decade: advantages.

I don’t have the numbers to show you how soon, but I knew, its coming, no late then 2010.

China Operator’s investment in 3G (Source: Sohu.com):

	China Mobile	China Telecom	China Unicom
Plan of 2009	Invest 58.8 billion to establish about 60,000 new TD base stations, Make the network cover the business hotspots of 238 prefecture-level cities.	80 billion investment in three years to upgrade and transform, and optimize the CDMA networks, to strengthen the network signal coverage.	60 billion investment (make 3G services cover 282 cities within the year of 2009, 55 of these cities should be done in the first half year).

Google Android’s Biggest Hope – China

DavidCao01 — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:10:42 +0000

ExtendLogic – Google’s Android 1.5 is facing a tough competition in catching up with iPhone 3.0 in US, but not everywhere else. China absolutely is Google’s biggest hope.

China’s mobile released its version of mobile operation sytem recently, which is based on Google’s Android platform. With more than 400M subscribers, China Mobile failed to made agreement with Apple for its iPhone. As the result, China Mobile might be the largest operator for Android soon.

Besides OMS, several manufactors had reported plans to release Anroid based phone in China, of cause, not only for China Mobile. This makes China the biggest potential market for Android and most likely will not face the same level of competition it faced in US with Apple.

With a large resources pool of expereinces Java developers, Android platform is far more popular than iPhone in the development communities. Not only that, the Chinese operators and government all like the open source nature of the platform, so they can take over the control. I met lots of developers who are excited with Android development while I was in China one month ago. All of them were Java developers.

Break down of subscriber data in Jan (sohu.com)

	China Mobile	China Telecom	China Unicom
The total number ofusers (by January 31, 2009)	463，920，000	28,930,000	134,000,000
Number of new users in January 2009	6,670,000	1,020,000	839,000
Number of new users in December 2008	7，070，000	-6 0，000	424，000