China Tech

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

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon X Platform, a chip to bring AI features to PCs starting at $600, with laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and others coming “early 2025” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-7 AI Lenovo

Alibaba Cloud partners with 01.AI, the Beijing-based AI unicorn founded by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee, to set up an “industrial large model laboratory” (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-4 China Google Alibaba AI

Drastically Reduced Xiaomi Bootloader Unlock Policy Raises Questions Over Device Ownership (slashdot.org)
2025-1-3 Xiaomi

Alibaba cuts pricing of its vision-language AI model by 85% amid fierce competition in China (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-2 China Alibaba AI

Alibaba cuts pricing of its vision-language model by 85% amid fierce competition in China (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-2 China Alibaba

China's Wingtech, supplier to Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, and others, plans to sell its contract manufacturing business to Luxshare after being sanctioned by the US (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-2 China Samsung Apple Xiaomi Manufacturing

Alibaba sells Sun Art Retail stake to PE firm DCP for ~$1.6B, after paying ~$3.6B in 2020 to double the stake to 70%+, as it focuses on its core online business (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-1 Retail Alibaba

Report: users on Douyin, WeChat, and other short video apps in China dropped for the first time, reaching 1.05B in June 2024, ~300M fewer than in December 2023 (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-1 China WeChat

Alibaba Slashes Prices On LLMs By Up To 85% As China AI Rivalry Heats Up (slashdot.org)
2025-1-1 China Alibaba AI

Ant Group's payment app Alipay adds an AI-powered image search feature as it tries to become a super app like rival Tencent's WeChat (www.scmp.com)
2025-1-1 AI WeChat Tencent Alipay

Alibaba cuts prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL by up to 85%, after cutting Qwen prices by as much as 97% in May, amid growing AI competition in China (www.cnbc.com)
2025-1-1 China Alibaba AI

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