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Former Huawei Consumer Business CMO may join Honor
After resigning from the post of Huawei Consumer Business CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), Guo Rui could join Honor and will work outside the China market, says a report.
After about four years of serving inside Huawei, Guo Rui contract with Huawei has been expired. He joined the company in October 2017 and worked on the following positions:
- General Manager of Digital Marketing at Mengniun Dairy Group
- Marketing Director at Mengniun Dairy Group
- Senior Product Manager at Procter and Gamble
- Product Research Scientist at Procter and Gamble
- Project Leader at IBM CRL
Meanwhile, He already have a successor in the form of Chen Zhihui, who is the present CMO of Huawei Consumer Business in the Middle East and Africa.
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In case Guo Rui joined Honor, there is a high possibility for him to work in the overseas markets of Honor. On this matter, Honor CEO Zhao Ming stated after the post-launch interview of Honor Magic 3.
According to CEO Ming, the Honor global business isn’t on good terms, however, the company is working in more than 50 countries. Currently, our main task is to sequentially resume the business in more regions.
(Via- Ithome)
Huawei AppGallery is a new generation of an app distribution platform for Huawei devices and the Chinese tech maker is working on improving its productivity for smartphone owners. However, recently a severe issue has been reported on Huawei AppGallery that allows downloading paid apps for free of cost.
According to the input coming from 9to5Google, an Android developer has found an issue in Huawei AppGallery that doesn’t have any special protection feature for the paid applications. This could lead to easy exploitation and enables to obtain the download link for premium apps without even paying for them.
In simple words, it could cause a loss to the developer but the report also mentions that this issue has been reported to Huawei. However, there’s no clear guideline or response that has been received on this matter.
Huawei AppGallery:
Huawei AppGallery is a smart solution that allows developers to create a new user experience for the consumers. The platform is supported by Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core, which enables various APIs in applications.
Huawei AppGallery serves under the top three app marketplace globally and brings a whole range of global and local apps including navigation & transport, news, social media, and more.
AppGallery is available in more than 170 countries and regions with over 580 million monthly active users globally. Huawei partnered with 5.4 million developers across the globe, and in 2021 the total app distributions from AppGallery reached 432 billion times.
On May 18, 2022, Huawei unveiled its new activity tracker – Huawei S-Tag in the global market. The tracker comes with a professional motion sensor that detects perfect motion while being connected to your smart devices such as a smartwatch or smartphone.
The S-Tag comes with up to 14 running form metrics, it provides guidance for running, has a super compatible split design that weighs only 7.5 grams, and can drown into 50meter of water.
The S-Tag also has cycling metrics as well as fast charging support for better and faster connection with support devices. Huawei S-Tag availability may vary depending on the market.
Huawei is preparing to present itself during the Nordic Game, an expo, and conference dedicated to the Nordic and Central Eastern Europe gaming industry. The event will take place at the Slagthuset venue in Malmo, Sweden, from May 17 to May 2.
The core idea behind Huawei’s participation at the event is to showcase how AppGallery and Huawei’s growing gaming hub – GameCenter can deliver a new opportunity to expand game developers’ user base. The event will also be a platform for experts to discuss from simple integration processes to how to promote your game on Huawei platforms with accurate listings.
Since Gaming has been one of the rapidly growing areas and one of the most successful categories on AppGallery, with some of the world’s leading content developers in the sector now reaching the platform’s 580 million global monthly active users (45 million in Europe, + 7% year over year growth) with new and existing gaming apps.
Activities:
- Dr. Jaime Gonzalo, VP of Consumer Mobile Services at Huawei will be part of the conference roster, providing a presentation on effective ways to market games on AppGallery, featuring some real success cases of popular game companies.
- Huawei will also welcome on stage Outfit7, a global game developer behind the award-winning series of Talking Tom & Friends and its much anticipated RPG Mythic Legends, to outline their experiences of working with AppGallery since joining the platform.
- At its booth (10B) Huawei’s dedicated team will provide visiting developers with insight into growth opportunities, the benefits of the Huawei Ads scheme for gaming, and details on how Huawei facilitates straightforward technical integration for developers.
- Huawei is also the sponsor of the Best Nordic Game of the Year – Small Screen award category as part of the Nordic Game Awards (19 May at 18:00 CEST).
“We are very excited to be part of the Nordic Game community once again. We understand how developers, caught up in their passion for their art, can sometimes get a reality check when it proves difficult to acquire and retain gaming customers. We listened to them, and provided an easy, reasonably low effort solution which capitalizes in a new untapped channel to reach a tens-of-millions high-value active user market,” said Dr. Jaime Gonzalo, VP of Consumer Mobile Services Europe at Huawei.
“We have prepared this event with those game developers in mind and we, therefore, invite and welcome new and existing developer partners to talk to our experts and get a deeper understanding of how we can work together to grow their businesses,” he added.