Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo are reportedly collaborating on an app platform for overseas markets, potentially competing with Google’s Play store.
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Tiktok pulled from India stores in ban on 59 Chinese apps
India’s government has banned Tiktok, Wechat, and 57 other Chinese apps in seeming retaliation for border clashes in the Himalayas.
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Xpeng, next up in wave of US IPOs, attracts big-name investors
Xpeng Motors is priming for a public listing in New York where it could raise up to $1.1 billion from high-profile backers including Alibaba and Xiaomi.
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India bans 118 Chinese apps including PUBG, Alipay as tensions rise
India banned another 118 Chinese-made apps, including Tencent’s popular video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, as border tensions escalated.
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Xpeng shares soar 41% in US debut, market cap nears Chinese auto giants
Six-year-old Xpeng Motors now has a market capitalization of nearly $15 billion, nearing the size of a number of giant Chinese automakers.
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Bytedance ups Baidu rivalry with new search app
Bytedance is expanding beyond its core businesses in news aggregation and short video into e-commerce, gaming, and search.
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Tesla denied access to grand jury materials for ex-Xpeng engineer
Tesla requested access to Xpeng’s entire repository of autonomous-driving source code and clones of its executives’ hard drives.
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Huawei launches XS foldable handset with self-developed ecosystem
In launching its proprietary app ecosystem to users outside of China, the tech giant is ratcheting up its competition with Google.
