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Anker, Romoss recall over 1.2 million power banks amid fire risks
Anker has stopped selling the affected portable chargers, and is urging customers to return them for a refund or replacement.
23 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
ByteDance
ByteDance founder plays critical role in firm’s AI push despite low profile
23 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM
Alibaba
Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group
23 Jun 2025 - 5:56PM
US-China tech war
How Huawei’s silicon strategy defies US sanctions, advances China’s AI ambitions
Huawei is expected to ship about 700,000 Ascend AI processors in 2025, according to Mizuho estimates.
23 Jun 2025 - 11:57AM
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Huawei
Huawei opens HarmonyOS 6 to developers, prepares AI features for public launch
The tech giant did not give a public launch date for the latest version of the operating system, but said it will be more intelligent and open.
21 Jun 2025 - 7:17AM
TikTok
TikTok ‘continues to work with’ Vance on deal as its US fate remains uncertain
TikTok said it was ‘grateful’ for Trump’s deadline extension to September 17, which would allow it to keep serving its 170 million US users.
20 Jun 2025 - 9:30PM
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Robotics
Unitree Robotics now a unicorn with ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent funding
The Chinese humanoid and robot dog maker is valued at US$1.3 billion in its latest financing round.
20 Jun 2025 - 9:39PM
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Crowds look at a Unitree robot during the Shanghai edition of the Mobile World Congress on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence
A sun-baked ‘Shenzhen’? SoftBank pitches TSMC on US$1 trillion AI hub in Arizona
Son envisions a version of China’s manufacturing hub of Shenzhen that would bring high-tech manufacturing to the US, sources told Bloomberg.
20 Jun 2025 - 4:29PM
Mobile payments
Ant Group pushes wider adoption of AI-enabled smart glasses for mobile payments
The first such payment outside mainland China was recently completed in Hong Kong, using the AlipayHK app and Meizu’s StarV smart glasses.
20 Jun 2025 - 7:08AM
E-commerce
China subsidies give Alibaba, JD.com sales lift during 618 shopping festival
The Chinese e-commerce giants again withheld total gross merchandise value figures, continuing a trend in recent years amid a maturing market.
19 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
Semiconductors
How Huawei’s AI chips outperform Nvidia’s in running DeepSeek’s R1 model
Performance of Huawei’s AI data centre architecture, CloudMatrix 384, illustrates the firm’s progress in overcoming US tech control measures.
19 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM
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Huawei’s Ascend-based AI data centre architecture now rivals Nvidia’s own SGLang fast-serving framework. Photo: Shutterstock
E-commerce
Meituan keeps tight grip on 70% of food delivery market in China, report says
Citing internal data, Leiphone.com reported that Meituan’s daily food delivery orders reached 90 million this month.
19 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba, Tencent-backed AI unicorn MiniMax eyes Hong Kong listing, report says
MiniMax, a unicorn valued at US$2.5 billion, was in the ‘early stage’ of preparations for the listing, according to news outlet The Paper.
19 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
Alibaba
Alibaba Cloud expands in South Korea with second data centre
The company’s AI service clients in South Korea include Naver-backed messaging app Snow and AI solutions provider Univa.
19 Jun 2025 - 5:00PM
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Artificial intelligence
Microsoft plans thousands of job cuts in July, targeting sales teams
The terminations would follow a previous round of lay-offs in May that hit 6,000 people, mostly product and engineering positions.
19 Jun 2025 - 12:35PM
Microsoft’s offices near Paris, France. Photo: Reuters
Mergers & Acquisitions
Billionaire Dai to reap US$237 million windfall from Qualcomm deal
Dai Weili holds 96.3 million shares of London-listed semiconductor firm Alphawave IP Group, making her its second-largest shareholder.
19 Jun 2025 - 12:13PM
Huawei
Huawei defends role as AI, 5G infrastructure supplier at Shanghai MWC
Huawei deputy chairman says the telecoms industry is facing stagnant growth, while touting AI-driven solutions.
19 Jun 2025 - 9:00AM
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E-commerce
JD.com takes its Meituan rivalry to Saudi Arabia with express delivery service
JoyExpress is a business-to-consumer express delivery service that covers most of the 13 provinces in the Middle Eastern country.
19 Jun 2025 - 8:00AM
Workers sort packages for delivery at a JD.com warehouse in Beijing on November 11, 2024. Photo: AFP
Smartphones
Where is Trump’s ‘all-American’ phone made? Analysts point to Asia
China, the world’s largest smartphone market since 2011, is also the hub of global manufacturing, accounting for anything from 60 to 80 per cent of production.
19 Jun 2025 - 11:21AM
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TikTok
TikTok’s fate still in limbo as Trump extends deadline to sell its US operations
Analyst assessments reflect the uncertainty on whether Trump can – or will – keep extending the TikTok ban.
18 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
JD.com
JD.com founder bets on stablecoins to cut cross-border e-commerce payment costs
‘JD.com intends to secure stablecoin licences across key currency markets globally,’ founder and chairman Richard Liu says.
18 Jun 2025 - 7:30PM
DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model matches Google, Anthropic in coding benchmark
The updated reasoning model, released in May, performed well against leading US models in the real-time WebDev Arena tests.
18 Jun 2025 - 6:03PM
A DeepSeek poster seen during the 2025 Global Developer Conference on February 22 in Shanghai. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
Alibaba
Alibaba recruits top Chinese AI scientist to lead speech-recognition push
Li, who holds a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences, has taken a pivotal role leading speech AI research at the e-commerce giant.
18 Jun 2025 - 5:03PM
Business of climate change
Could old coal mines help ease China’s solar-panel overcapacity?
The country leads the world in converting old coal mining sites into solar-power projects, according to Global Energy Monitor.
18 Jun 2025 - 8:36AM
US-China relations
Trump to extend TikTok deadline again, giving ByteDance 90 days to find buyer
The US president ‘does not want TikTok to go dark’, the White House says, as Trump prepares to put off a threatened ban for the third time.
18 Jun 2025 - 6:35AM
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22 Jun 2025 - 3:38PM
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