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When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

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What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

Spirit AI is playing to win in China’s embodied AI race.

Entrepreneurship is like “playing a game,” says Spirit AI co-founder Gao Yang

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How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

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What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

What sets the world’s soundtrack? Follow streaming royalties, label strategies, and genre shifts guiding the global music industry’s rhythm.

Music

With fans showing up in all weather and at any price, the concert economy is taking center stage in China.

Three hours onstage, and an economy moves: Inside China’s concert boom

Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

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Targeting 600 Billion Square Meters of Farmland, MCFLY Uses AI to Offer Disease & Pest Monitoring and Control

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

Alibaba and Tencent utilize troves of data to offer fresh lending.

China's mobile banks offer 1-second loan decisions in farmland

China&#8217;s mobile banks offer 1-second loan decisions in farmland

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How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

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Tencent’s cloud gaming could go on TV boxes, beating Google Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud to Asia.

Tencent eyes Southeast Asia, not China, for cloud gaming platform

Kuaishou, best known for its short video platform, drives user-generated content, influencer marketing, and community engagement through shareable clips.

Kuaishou

Can brief clips hold lasting impact? Analyze short-form content trends, creator communities, and platform strategies for rapid viewer engagement.

Short Video

At the moment, ByteDance's Douyin is still the most popular app of its kind.

Tencent will invest up to USD 1.5 billion in short video app Kuaishou, putting pressure on ByteDance

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ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

ByteDance is now directly challenging two of China's most powerful internet giants.

ByteDance to launch its first heavy game early next year, challenging one of Tencent's core businesses

ByteDance to launch its first heavy game early next year, challenging one of Tencent&#8217;s core businesses

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WeChat, Tencent’s superapp, combines messaging, social media, mobile payments, and mini-programs, streamlining daily tasks for over a billion users.

WeChat

Tencent and ByteDance are locking horns on multiple fronts.

Kuaishou becomes stickier in WeChat, tapping the social media giant's 1.1 billion users

Kuaishou becomes stickier in WeChat, tapping the social media giant&#8217;s 1.1 billion users

The company says it has zero tolerance for such mini programs

Tencent clamps down on pornographic content punishing more than 1,800 mini programs

The top dog in the gaming industry worldwide booked a year-on-year decline in mobile gaming revenue in the first quarter.

Tencent links with Qualcomm to sharpen its gaming weapons

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

Chinese giants Tencent and Baidu have started offering VOD services in Vietnam.

Tencent and Baidu start offering video streaming services in Vietnam

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Thu Huong Le

Cheap rent, plentiful graduates spur gaming industry in Chengdu and Wuhan

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China’s mobile banks offer 1-second loan decisions in farmland

Tencent eyes Southeast Asia, not China, for cloud gaming platform

Tencent will invest up to USD 1.5 billion in short video app Kuaishou, putting pressure on ByteDance

ByteDance to launch its first heavy game early next year, challenging one of Tencent’s core businesses

Kuaishou becomes stickier in WeChat, tapping the social media giant’s 1.1 billion users