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

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Mobility

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xiaomi

The smartphone maker hopes to turn the 'Apple Car' idea into reality.

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China&#8217;s Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto

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Chery

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The Chinese automaker is banking on the new brand to change its fortunes in the NEV market.

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Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end

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The short video app had 188 million downloads in Q1 2019, slightly ahead of Facebook.

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TikTok pips Facebook in India and becomes world’s most downloaded social app in Q1 2019

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This is Facebook's latest effort to prevent false news circulation on its platform

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Ahead of Indonesian election, Facebook attempts to launch useful features for voters

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WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

The Chinese messaging service already has many of the features discussed by Zuckerberg.

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Zuck says he regrets not learning from WeChat earlier

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WhatsApp in India

WhatsApp in Indonesia

Among the studies funded are 3 based in Indonesia and 7 in India, both countries where WhatsApp is the dominant messenger.

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Responding to global backlash, WhatsApp funds research on misinformation

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Indonesia is facing a hoax crisis on WhatsApp.

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WhatsApp&#8217;s newfound challenges in Indonesia: Hoax news

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Facebook in Southeast Asia

FAcevook startup accelerator

"Startup Station Singapore" and is currently accepting applications from interested startups until December 7.

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Facebook launches free 6-month training programme for Southeast Asian startups

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Hawking wares on social networks like Facebook and Instagram isn't going away.

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Social commerce still massive and growing across Southeast Asia: report

Data centre

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Located in the west of Singapore, the building itself will span 170,000 sqm.

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(Updated) Facebook&#8217;s $1b data centre in Singapore to open in 2022

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TikTok pips Facebook in India and becomes world’s most downloaded social app in Q1 2019

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Zuck says he regrets not learning from WeChat earlier

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WhatsApp’s newfound challenges in Indonesia: Hoax news

Facebook launches free 6-month training programme for Southeast Asian startups

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