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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

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Semiconductors

The Chinese tech company is spending billions, snapping up talent in its battle against the US crackdown.

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Huawei building vast chip equipment R&#038;D center in Shanghai

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ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Douyin

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

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Grocery Delivery

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Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

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E-commerce

quick commerce

Meituan Shangou, its quick commerce business, could play a significant role in its strategy to counter competition from main rival Douyin.

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With Douyin looming, Meituan shifts focus back to its core business

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology.

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Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

pinduoduo

Taobao

Budget-savvy shoppers are also the ones who helped newcomer Pinduoduo grow into China's third largest e-commerce company

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Taobao introduces new &#8216;value for money&#8217; promotion area to take on Pinduoduo

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Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

Tencent

Among the most popular workplaces in China are also EV makes Nio and Tesla

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LinkedIn data shows Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance are China&#8217;s top 3 companies to work for in 2019

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

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Smart speakers

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Xiaomi says it has sold over 10 million units of its flagship Xiao AI smart speaker since July 2017. The Xiao AI Speaker is China's second-best selling

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Xiaomi catching up with Alibaba as smart speaker sales top 10 million units

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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

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Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

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MediaTek

Huawei's semiconductor subsidiary is proving to be a strong competitor to Taiwan's MediaTek.

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Huawei&#8217;s HiSilicon may soon topple MediaTek to become Asia&#8217;s leading chip designer

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Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Aibaba

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China's three tech giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent all made "major announcements" on April 1st.

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Which Chinese April Fools&#8217; joke got you best?

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Alibaba is building its own live-broadcasting e-commerce empire, while simultaneously also being a backer behind Ruhnn, a platform that identifies and cultivates key opinion leaders.

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Taobao&#8217;s &#8216;e-commerce via live broadcast&#8217; empire aims higher as annual turnover exceeds USD 15b

Retail entrepreneurs in their twenties are capitalizing on the mobile internet.

Alibaba-driven e-commerce created over 40 million jobs in China in 2018 | KrASIA

Alibaba-driven e-commerce created over 40 million jobs in China in 2018

Tmall

And they will make faster deliveries too.

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Alibaba&#8217;s Tmall online supermarket aims to cover almost all Chinese households

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

Infinity Augmented Reality

The startup says it "trusts Alibaba's expertise in turning technologies into next-generation products"

Alibaba

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LinkedIn data shows Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance are China’s top 3 companies to work for in 2019

Xiaomi catching up with Alibaba as smart speaker sales top 10 million units

Huawei’s HiSilicon may soon topple MediaTek to become Asia’s leading chip designer

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Taobao’s ‘e-commerce via live broadcast’ empire aims higher as annual turnover exceeds USD 15b

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