By: iPadfanzz staff on April 22, 2013
Samsung and Apple are among the tech companies to provide over $32 million in donations following an earthquake in Sichuan, China.
Samsung, the world's largest smartphone maker, has donated 60 million yuan (HK$75.4 million) to help relief efforts in Yaan. Similarly, Apple would also donate 50 million yuan to help with relief efforts.
Earlier, China search engine Baidu, launched an online application to offer information about survivors and missing people. The company said the app reunited six survivors with their family members after their details were posted on the platform. Social network Renren and Web browser Qihoo 360 Technologies also launched similar services.
China's largest navigation provider by market share, AutoNavi, said it was providing services to rescue teams in Sichuan, and also pledged to offer free downloads of its offline navigation app to the public.
A deadly earthquake struck rural hills of China's Sichuan province – killing at least 188 people and injured more than 11,000. The quake was among the deadliest China has seen in the past three years. More than 2,000 aftershocks have rattled the area since the quake.
Samsung recently topped China’s smartphone market for the first time, according to a Strategy Analytics report from March which found that its sales had tripled in 2012. Apple’s revenues in China from its fiscal Q1 2013 jumping 67 percent to $6.8 billion as iPhone sales doubled year-on-year during the period.
