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China's “mini-drama” industry grew 35% YoY to ~$6.91B in 2024, surpassing the country's box office and forcing iQiyi and Tencent to embrace short-form dramas (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-7 China Tencent

China's mini-drama industry grew 35% YoY to ~$6.91B in 2024, surpassing the country's box office and forcing iQiyi and Tencent to embrace short-form dramas (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-6 China Tencent

Donald Trump's EO imposing levies on China says the “de minimis” exemption for items under $800 no longer applies, which could affect Alibaba, Shein, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-2 Trump China Alibaba

India removes import duties on some components for making smartphones, in a boost for local production efforts and benefiting companies like Apple and Xiaomi (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-2 India Apple Xiaomi

Source: Anton Levy is stepping down as General Atlantic's co-president and chairman of global technology; Levy led investments in Alibaba, Facebook, and more (www.axios.com)
2025-2-1 Facebook Alibaba

After DeepSeek Shock, Alibaba Unveils Rival AI Model That Uses Less Computing Power (slashdot.org)
2025-1-30 Alibaba AI

Alibaba releases AI model it claims surpasses DeepSeek-V3 (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-29 Alibaba AI

Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model which the company claims “outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B” (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-29 Alibaba AI

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen2.5-VL, a new series of AI models that can control PCs and phones, as well as perform a number of text and image analysis tasks (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Alibaba AI

Chinese esports companies, including Tencent and Huya, face growth challenges in China, the world's biggest esports market; the industry earned ~$3.8B in 2024 (t.co)
2025-1-27 China Tencent

Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation (opentelemetry.io)
2025-1-25 Alibaba

Google signs an agreement to acquire a part of the HTC VIVE engineering team in Taiwan for $250M in cash, aiming to “accelerate” Android XR development (9to5google.com)
2025-1-23 Android Taiwan Google HTC

Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, an AI system that turns single images or text prompts into 3D models in seconds, and open sources it on HuggingFace and GitHub (venturebeat.com)
2025-1-22 AI Tencent GitHub

Want a new laptop? This open-box 2024 Lenovo IdeaPad is almost half off (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-1-22 Lenovo

Lenovo acquires enterprise storage startup Infinidat and plans to turn it into its Israel development center; Infinidat raised $350M from TPG and others (en.globes.co.il)
2025-1-18 Israel Startup Lenovo

The US Commerce Department adds 25 China-based companies, including Alibaba-backed LLM developer Zhipu AI and chip designer Sophgo, to its restricted trade list (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-16 China Alibaba AI

NOYB files complaints against AliExpress, Shein, TikTok, Xiaomi, Temu, and WeChat over claims they are unlawfully sending EU user data to China (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-16 China WeChat Xiaomi

Living with Xiaomi Pad 7: An iPad user switches to Android tablet (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-13 Android Xiaomi iPad

Global smartphone shipments grew 4% YoY in 2024 after a decade-low in 2023; top two brands, Samsung and Apple, were mostly flat, while Xiaomi grew 12% YoY (www.counterpointresearch.com)
2025-1-13 Samsung Apple Xiaomi

Sources: Rumble, Quora, and WeChat are among 15 companies from which Texas has demanded answers about their collection and use of data of under-18-year-olds (www.wired.com)
2025-1-11 WeChat Texas

Akamai plans to end its CDN services in China on June 30, 2026, saying customers can move to an Akamai CDN outside China or use local providers like Tencent (www.theregister.com)
2025-1-8 China Tencent

CES 2025: This Lenovo laptop's rollable OLED screen can ‘grow' (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-8 Lenovo

Tencent repurchased 3.93M Hong Kong shares worth $193M on January 7, its largest buyback since April 2006, following its addition to a US blacklist (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-8 Hong Kong Tencent

Lenovo Officially Announces the Legion Go S Handheld With SteamOS (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-1-8 Lenovo

Lenovo's Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-1-8 Lenovo

Lenovo announces the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC, a laptop featuring a 14-inch screen that can extend vertically to 16.7 inches, coming in Q1 for $3,499 (www.wired.com)
2025-1-8 AI Lenovo

Lenovo unveils the $499 Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, weighing 1.6 pounds and ditching the previous gen's detachable gamepads (www.theverge.com)
2025-1-8 Lenovo

Lenovo announces the Yoga Slim 9i, the first Windows laptop with a camera hidden under the display panel, coming in February and starting at $1,849 (9to5google.com)
2025-1-8 Lenovo

US Adds Tencent, CATL To List of Chinese Firms Aiding Beijing's Military (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-1-7 China Tencent

Tencent's stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China's military; it may face delisting or index removals (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-7 China Tencent

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