A month after Apple revealed its plan to open its first China-based data center in Guizhou, the Guizhou provincial government announced today (in Chinese) that it is setting up a “leading small group” dedicated to advancing Apple’s iCloud project. This marks another step forward for the Apple-Guizhou data collaboration run by Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry, a data management […]
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This Chinese film studio is showing the potential of VR content
China saw explosive growth in the VR sector last year, but by the end of 2016 people in the industry were saying that the sector had “frozen”. Despite some noise surrounding the future of China’s VR development, this Beijing-based VR film startup last month made its way to the Venice International Film Festival. Selected as […]
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Analyse Asia 200: Analyse Asia with Bernard Leong
Editor’s note: This originally appeared on Analyse Asia, a weekly podcast hosted by Bernard Leong, dedicated to dissecting the pulse of business, technology, and media in Asia. The podcast features guests from Asia’s vibrant tech community. Our host, Bernard Leong is on the hot seat for this special 200th episode to be interviewed by Charles Reed […]
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Chinese social fitness app Keep reaches 100 million users
If you have a few young, big-city Chinese friends on social media, it’s hard to miss their triumphant workout photos on your news feed these days. One of these photos probably come from Keep, who announces today it has reached 100 million registered users and claims it’s the first Chinese fitness app to achieve this milestone. Launched in February 2015, Keep is […]
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Behind the scenes of Tmall’s brand flagship stores and the Taobao Partner program
With surging demand for foreign products from Chinese consumers, China is projected to become the world’s largest cross-border e-commerce market by 2020, according to China Internet Watch. Over the last decade, Alibaba created not only an e-commerce ecosystem on their own but also an ecosystem of business solution providers for foreign brands that want to tap into […]
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Alibaba’s AI-powered speaker hits the shelves
Alibaba’s first consumer targeted artificial intelligence speaker Tmall Genie X1 was unveiled on August 8th, the same day as the “88 Member Day” (and WeChat’s Cashless day) where Alibaba invited its dedicated 10,000 shoppers to a music concert hall in Shanghai. Pictures of Tmall Genie X1 were shown on the giant screen and the MC […]
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Toutiao said to raise $2 billion in new funding round
Jinri Toutiao (今日头条, literally translated as “today’s headlines”) is set to score $2 billion at a valuation of over $20 billion in a new round of funding, according to unnamed sources quoted by Reuters. The report stated that China’s leading news aggregation app may get a new investor to lead the round—US private equity firm […]
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NetEase Q2 games revenue hits RMB 9.4 billion in preparation for foreign expansion
Although China’s domestic mobile games market is set to slow down during this year, NetEase’s (网易) overseas strategy is on its way up boosted by great revenue results in the second quarter of 2017, Caixin reports (in Chinese) NetEase’s latest earnings report show that the company had a net income of RMB 13.37 billion, an […]
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China Tech Talk 16: ICO madness and China’s bitcoin fever with Neil Woodfine
This week Matt and John talk with Neil Woodfine, former COO at Remitsy about: What bitcoin and blockchain are What Ethereum might be Why ICOs don’t make sense How bitcoin is going to play a bigger part in decentralized transactions Why bitcoin is so big in China and should we be worried Download this episode. […]
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JD and Baidu partner to offer AI-driven advertising and app integration
Big data and AI algorithms are in the center of a new deal between China’s largest retailer JD and leading search engine provider Baidu. JD will provide its wealth of consumer data while Baidu will use their AI skills to help advertisers understand their users better. The partnership will enable advertisers to target users directly […]