Slow approval from China is dragging out big technology deals, costing U.S. tech companies time and money. ( read original story …)
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Beijing to push tech giants to share consumer credit data: sources
China plans to push tech giants including Ant Group, Tencent and JD.com to share consumer loan data to prevent excess borrowing and fraud, two people with knowledge of the … ( read original story …)
Keep Says It Has No IPO Plans as New Funding Round Lifts Chinese Fitness App’s Value to USD2 Billion
Beijing Calories Technology has refuted a report that the operator of China’s most popular workout app Keep is preparing to go public after its latest funding round boosted the firm’s value to USD2 … (…
Smartphone shipments in China fell 20.4% in 2020: government data
Domestic smartphone shipments in China in 2020 fell 20.4% from the previous year, government data released on Monday showed, … ( read original story …)
Exclusive: Chinese regulators to push tech giants to share consumer credit data – sources
China plans to push tech giants including Ant Group, Tencent and JD.com to share consumer loan data to prevent excess borrowing and fraud, two people with knowledge of the matter said, in Beijing’s … (…
OPINION – Blockchain-based trade finance platforms offer many opportunities to Mainland China and HK
Practically unfalsifiable and impossible to change once a record has been added, blockchain is a distributed database stored on multiple computers as a massive number of identical copies … ( read original story …)
China’s Economic Autocracy
China’s economic “miracle” wasn’t that miraculous. The country’s high-octane ascent over the past 40 years is, in reality, a triumph of basic economic principles: As the state gave way to the market, … ( read…
China is doubling down on non-green energy
This organization’s mission is to “advance policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability across the globe.” The GDPC has developed an interactive … ( read original story …)
Exclusive | Want to de-link from China, be a global brand: boAt Lifestyle CEO Sameer Mehta
In an interview with Moneycontrol, Sameer Mehta, CEO of boAt Lifestyle- the headphones and audio brand talks about the importance of local manufacturing, what makes boAt different, and provides insigh … ( read original story…
China to improve business environment in next five years
China’s business environment has upgraded remarkably in the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), as can be mirrored in the fact that the average time to start a business shrank from more than 30 … (…
China Won. Trump Lost. Now, It’s Biden’s Turn To Trade
The problem in transition is that American retail is saddled with an invoice for the Trumpian tariff exercise – a bill that the industry never requested and clearly never wanted. ( read original story …)
Bilibili and Kuaishou’s Hong Kong listings will showcase the e-commerce prowess of China’s video-sharing giants
Kuaishou Technology and Bilibili executives will become the internet stars of their own online videos when they digitally market their video-sharing apps’ Hong Kong share sales in the coming months. ( read original story …)
Taiwan manufacturers quit China over trade tensions and rising costs
Having based most of its production in China for more than two decades, Hwa Meei is now expanding at home. A new plant in Taiwan, opened earlier this year, will create 180 jobs and is…
