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Sources: China's President Xi will chair a symposium on February 17 to boost private sector sentiment, with Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other tech execs attending (www.reuters.com)
2025-2-15 China Tencent

Sources: Apple plans to launch its AI features in China as early as May 2024, using its own on-device models with Alibaba software to censor or filter AI output (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-14 China Alibaba AI Apple

Alibaba to partner with Apple on AI features, sending shares to 3-year high (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-14 Alibaba AI Apple

Sources: Apple continues to work with Baidu to develop AI search and Siri features for iPhone users in China even after onboarding new partner Alibaba (www.theinformation.com)
2025-2-14 China iPhone Alibaba AI Apple

At the World Government Summit in Dubai, Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai said Apple will use the Chinese tech giant's AI technology on iPhones sold in China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-13 China Alibaba AI Apple Dubai

Source: Apple and Alibaba submitted their co-developed AI features for approval by China's cyberspace regulator; Apple considered but rejected Deepseek's models (www.theinformation.com)
2025-2-12 China Alibaba AI Apple

Tencent's Supercell reports 2024 revenue up 77% YoY to almost $3B from its six titles and EBITDA up ~77% to $900M+; Squad Busters made $100M+ in revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-11 Tencent

Worldwide tablet shipments grew 9.2% YoY in 2024 to 147.6M units, after three consecutive years of decline; Xiaomi grew 51.4% and Apple grew 13.8% (www.canalys.com)
2025-2-7 Apple Xiaomi

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

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