Acadine Technologies Holdings Limited
was a systems software company specializing in mobile operating systems for mobile, wearable, and
Internet of Things
Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks. The IoT encompasse ...
(IoT) devices. Its core product was H5OS, a web-centric operating system that was primarily based on the open web standard
HTML5
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. It was derived from
Firefox OS, whose development company founder
Li Gong had overseen as president of
Mozilla Corporation.
Acadine Technologies was founded on March 25, 2015,
and was based in Hong Kong with operations in
Beijing
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,
Taipei
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,
Palo Alto
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Th ...
, and
London
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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
Andreas Gal 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
Tsinghua Unigroup International, a Hong Kong entity controlled by
Tsinghua University 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.
References
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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