Smartwatches designed for children have typically been used only by China’s concerned middle classes to track their children. But now the authorities in rural Guizhou are giving the devices to thousands of elementary school-aged left-behind children with the hope that they will be safer and the data generated will help them tackle the social issue. […]
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Report shows Tencent is the king of patents
The Internet Technology Innovation Patent Observation Report (in Chinese) shows that Tencent has maintained the biggest number of patent applications in information search, database structure and other areas of research and development. In fact, when it comes to digital information transmission, Tencent’s patents reached 6,285, far more than Baidu’s 903, and Alibaba’s 2,052. From 2012 onwards, […]
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BATX is battling its way into India’s market despite political tensions
China and India have had a fraught relationship since at least the early 20th century. While they may not be able to agree on where their borders lie, it is clear that the two countries are economically important for each other: China has in recent years become one of the fastest-growing sources of foreign direct investment […]
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Self-balancing scooter Ninebot is now working on AI robots that can queue up for you
The original article appeared in Chinese on our sister site TechNode Chinese. China’s smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi released its latest self-balancing scooter, the Ninebot Plus with an RMB 3499 ($514) price tag on June 28th, two years after launching the Ninebot Mini. For the first time, Ninebot is using radio positioning technology for consumer products, with new remote controls that can […]
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Xiaomi is about to be world’s number 1 wearable company
While Xiaomi is suffering from gloomy market predictions due to decline in their core business of smartphones, the Chinese electronics company is now receiving a boost from its wearable product line. Shipping 5.2 million smart wearable gadgets in Q4 2016, Xiaomi was ranked the second largest wearable maker in the world with a market share […]
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As mobile payment grows, this company wants to protect your phone from fake fingerprints
China is heaven for mobile payments. The 84% of Chinese respondents said that they used some form of digital payment systems to pay for online purchases in the past six months, according to Nielsen’s “Global Connected Commerce” report. High mobile payment penetration in China also means that it is a market ripe to be taken […]
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Live from TechCrunch – How Huami is using deep learning to help doctors
Huang Wang, CEO of Huami, partner with Xiaomi and maker of the Mi Band series of wearables, took the stage at Techcrunch Shenzhen 2017 to talk about their latest health band Amazfit’s development and the trend of wearables Huami took the first spot in Worldwide Wearable Device Companies for the first time ahead of Apple […]
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The top 10 Android app stores in China in 2017
We’ve updated for 2018. Check out this year’s list here. While Apple continues to have their struggles in China, Android-powered smartphones are picking up the slack. Unfortunately, Google isn’t doing so well in China either. This means that if Android users want to download applications, they must rely on app stores operated by local players. The app […]
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Xiaomi turns to brick-and-mortar to bolster decreasing market share
Xiaomi, a once red-hot Chinese hardware startup touted as the China’s answer to Apple, is encountering serious challenges from local competitors of Oppo, Vivo, and Huawei in the past year. It’s even been being moved from the first to the fifth spot in the market share list. The reasons behind this disastrous drop were multi-faceted and involve […]
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6 of the world’s top 10 smartphone brands are Chinese
Chinese manufacturers took six of places in the global top ten smartphone manufacturers in the first quarter of 2017 with one in ten phones sold worldwide made by Huawei, according to a report by market research agency IDC. Three of the top five were Chinese, from zero just five years ago. While the global heavyweights […]
