Acadine Technologies Holdings Limited was a systems software company specializing in mobile operating systems for mobile, wearable, and

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(IoT) devices. Its core product is H5OS, a web-centric operating system that is primarily based on the open web standard

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. It is derived from

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, whose development company founder

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had overseen as president of

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. Acadine Technologies was founded on March 25, 2015, and was based in Hong Kong with operations in

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, and

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. Initially started under the name "Gone Fishing", the startup recruited various staff from Mozilla apart from Gong, including James Ho, former Mozilla CTO

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and employees of Mozilla Taiwan. When Mozilla announced in December 2015 that it would cease its efforts to partner with mobile carriers to use Firefox OS on smartphones, it was reported that Acadine would take over this mission with H5OS. It released the first version of H5OS on 17th Feb 2016. It was announced on July 15, 2015 that Acadine Technologies would receive $100M in first-round funding from

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International, a Hong Kong entity controlled by

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and the Chinese government. In the same year, Li Gong stated that the company was already seeking a second round of funding from international investors, a main rationale being "to dispel very early the incorrect perception that we are somehow a China-backed company. We are really a pure Silicon Valley-style startup". On April 27, 2016, it was reported that the funds from Tsinghua Unigroup were not being transferred and Acadine started a reorganization. H5OS was discontinued in May 2016, and was never publicly released.

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External links

Acadine Official Website
Web service providers Software companies of Hong Kong Software companies established in 2015 2015 establishments in Hong Kong