Just a few years ago, billion-level funding would be beyond the imagination of Chinese cloud computing companies. But now it is becoming more and more tangible as the market matures. QingCloud, a leading player in the field, is announcing the largest ever funding in the industry so far. The cloud computing platform made it public […]
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This Startup Lets You Sponsor And Bet On Your Friends
A fitness startup is helping busy people in Shanghai get out of their comfort zone by letting them make and bet on challenges. VIVERE, which means ‘dare to live’ in Italian, allows users to put challenges on the platform, such as “doing sit-ups in front of my boss”. Then other users can sponsor the challenge by […]
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ChinaNetCloud Announces $9 million USD A Series As Cloud Market Heats Up
ChinaNetCloud, one of the burgeoning number of cloud services in China, has announced a $9 million dollar A series, led by Juren Capital and followed by Jolly Capital. Founded in 2008, the startup currently claims to be working with over 300 companies across the e-commerce, mobile, P2P lending and IoT sector. According to the Founder […]
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10 Services Set To Dominate China’s Billion-Dollar Cloud Industry
According to IDC, China’s public cloud service will be a one-billion RMB market by 2016. So who is taking a bite of the pie so far? Predictably, the Baidu-Alibaba-Tencent-Xiaomi squad have been quick to enter with heavily funded projects, but it’s still a diverse market as players edge their way in through partnerships and business model innovation. As the […]
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Tencent To Pump $1.57 Billion USD Into International Cloud Computing Effort
Tencent has revealed it will invest 10 billion yuan ($1.57 billion USD ) over the next five years to boost a multi-national cloud computing operation across North America, Hong Kong and China. The online social and gaming giant is looking to boost its presence in the cloud computing field as other internet giants, Alibaba and […]
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Human Resources Is Still A Challenge For China Startups: ChinaNetCloud CEO
This post is part of our series Say Hello To China’s Expat-preneurs, where we will talk to a mix of foreign founders and tech veterans who have tackled China’s growing tech space and won. Stay tuned over the coming three weeks as we talk to foreign founders from Beijing to Shenzhen about what it takes to thrive in China. You can […]
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UCloud, the First Chinese Cloud Startup to Offer Game Hosting Overseas
UCloud is the first to offer game server hosting service to Chinese online/mobile games with presences outside China. The Chinese cloud startup has opened a data center in Hong Kong, for games with users in East & Southeast Asia, in late 2013 and is considering building another one in the U.S. As a flock of Chinese mobile […]
