High-level officials from the northern Chinese city of Tianjin met with Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang on May 26, expressing a commitment to deepen collaboration in cloud computing infrastructure, industrial internet, and smart city initiatives. The e-commerce giant will provide the northeastern coastal city with computing power services that it says offer higher efficiency and lower […]
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SMIC to invest $7.5 billion in building new 12-inch wafer factory in Tianjin
Major Chinese chip maker SMIC announced on August 26 that it will invest $7.5 billion to build a new 12-inch wafer plant in Tianjin.
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Tianjin asks state-backed firms to ditch private cloud operators
The northern Chinese city of Tianjin has asked state-backed companies to migrate their data from private cloud operators like Huawei, Alibaba, and Tencent to a state-backed cloud system by September, 2022. The city asked all companies to stop signing new contracts with third-party cloud platforms in a document dated Aug. 12. The government-run cloud is operated by a subsidiary of the Tianjin State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, a state-owned asset manager. [Reuters]
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Briefing: Outpaced by Chinese brands, Samsung shutters Tianjin phone plant
Rising manufacturing costs, declining market share push Samsung to close its Tianjin mobile phone manufacturing plant.
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Samsung may suspend operation at Tianjin factory due to slowing sales in China
Samsung has invested more heavily in production facilities in Vietnam and India in recent years.
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SohuTV Headquarter Relocates to Tianjin, Ready for an IPO?
We’ve written that Sohu is planning to spin off its video biz SohuTV before, and its move on video front is striding forward with an announcement of relocating the headquarter of the new SohuTV subsidiary to Tianjin’s Economic-technological Development Area (TEDA). CEO Deng Ye said, “SohuTV has been growing up fast over the past seven […]
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Tianji to Benefit from Viadeo’s Acquisition of Contact Management Provider, Soocial
In China, guanxi (relationships) means everything, especially for climbing your way up the social career ladder. That’s why any service that gives you the extra edge will be super valuable. Back in June, we interviewed Derek Ling, CEO and Founder of one of the leading online professional social networking services in China, Tianji.com. The Chinese […]
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Tianji CEO Says It Is the Best Professional Social Network in China – Interview Part II
In the last part of our interview with Derek Ling, CEO of Tianji, he said professional SNS grows slowly in China because the Linkedin model does not fit China’s environment. In Linkedin, people frequently get requests like ‘I need this and this,” or “I need to hire such and such”. However, in China, it will be […]
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Tianji, the 6 Million-Users Professional Social Network In China – Part I
Founded in 2005, Beijing based Tianji is one of the first to do Linkedin type professional SNS in China. Currently, it has 6 million members in the country and is adding 200,000 more a month. Tianji’s founder and CEO Derek Ling was a former VP in Sina when it had just 20 person in the U.S. He […]
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What? Tianjin Airline Now Gets a Plane Named Sina Weibo
140 millions users by end of April, that’s the latest figure released by Sina weibo. Weibo has become a phenomenon in Chinese web. If you don’t have a weibo account yet, you are out. Tianjin Airline, has just done probably the most interesting marketing campaign with weibo: one of its planes is now named Sina […]