The most powerful woman in tech made a fortune manufacturing phones and gadgets sold under other companies' brands; now she is getting even richer by marketing them under her own HTC. Sales at the Taipei company, run by her and her husband Wenchi Chen, nearly doubled last year to $9.6 billion and net profit rose by three-quarters to $1.4 billion. Moving beyond hardware, the firm bought Saffron Digital of London, a mobile content provider, in February and said it would invest in U.S.-based gaming company OnLive. Wang, a daughter of the late Taiwan billionaire Y.C. Wang, was a member of a group that bought 26% of Hong Kong's biggest television production company, TVB, in January. more »
Chinese and Taiwanese women have made the cut on Forbes magazine's list. See who made the list. Cher Wang (???), 52 (#20), co-founder and chair of HTC and Via Technologies and Chan Laiwa, 70 (#33), chair of Fu Wah International Group made the list. Zhang Xin [...] read »
-- Cher Wang, co-founder and chairwoman of Taiwan-based smart phone maker HTC Corp., ranks 20th on Forbes magazine's newly released list of world's 100 most powerful women. Wang is the only Taiwanese woman to make the list. In March this year, the magazine [...] read »
— As cofounder of Taiwan-based HTC, Cher has grown the company to be the maker of more than out of every five smartphones. 37. Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo! — As CEO of the Internet search engine, Carol has made Yahoo! into a leading digital media group with an [...] read »
Fernandez, President Argentina 18. Beyoncé Knowles, entertainer 19. Georgina Rinehart, Australian mining tycoon 20. Cher Wang, Cofounder/Chair, HTC - Taiwan's VIA Technologies Of the 100 on the list, 26 are first-timers, including new heads of state including [...] read »
age of 54 and collectively control US$30 trillion. Twenty-two are single. Wang is the only Taiwanese woman to make the list. Cher Wang, co-founder and chairwoman of Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC Corp., ranks 20th on Forbes magazine's newly released list [...] read »
lots of business leaders too: women from Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Main Street; entrepreneurs of import, like HTC's Cher Wang (No. 20) and media marquise Arianna Huffington (No.31). The women on the list include many newsmakers, yes, but some are custodians [...] read »
of business leaders too: women from Silicon Valley and Wall Street and Main Street; entrepreneurs of import, like HTC’s Cher Wang (No. 20), Zhang Xin (No. 48), billionaire cofounder of real-estate empire SOHO China, and media marquise Arianna Huffington (No.31). [...] read »
of business leaders too: women from Silicon Valley and Wall Street and Main Street; entrepreneurs of import, like HTC's Cher Wang (No. 20), Zhang Xin (No. 48), billionaire cofounder of real-estate empire SOHO China, and media marquise Arianna Huffington (No.31). The [...] read »
