Acadine Technologies Holdings Limited
was a systems software company specializing in mobile operating systems for mobile, wearable, and
Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Its core product is H5OS, a web-centric operating system that is primarily based on the open web standard
HTML5
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. It is derived from
Firefox OS
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, whose development company founder
Li Gong had overseen as president of
Mozilla Corporation
The Mozilla Corporation (stylized as moz://a) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Firefox web browser, by a global community of ope ...
.
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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, 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
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, former Mozilla CTO
Andreas Gal
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and employees of
Mozilla Taiwan
The Mozilla Corporation (stylized as moz://a) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Firefox web browser, by a global community of open- ...
. 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
Acadine Technologies Holdings Limited was a systems software company specializing in mobile operating systems for mobile, wearable, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Its core product is H5OS, a web-centric operating system that is primarily b ...
on 17th Feb 2016.
It was announced on July 15, 2015 that Acadine Technologies would receive $100M in first-round funding from
Tsinghua Unigroup
Tsinghua Unigroup is a Chinese technology and semiconductor manufacturer that also supplies digital infrastructure and services to domestic and global markets. Based in Beijing, it is among the country’s largest technology conglomerates; subsid ...
International, a Hong Kong entity controlled by
Tsinghua University
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The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...
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