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TikTok is set to be banned in US app stores on Sunday, barring a last-minute reprieve. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

Tech War

TikTok prepares to shut down app in US on Sunday, sources say

Shutting down TikTok in the US could make it unavailable for users in many other countries, the company has said.

2 hours ago

US blacklists company that ordered TSMC chip found in Huawei processor

16 Jan 2025 - 3:15AMvideocam

Chinese AI start-up MiniMax intensifies competition with new open-source models

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Big Tech

UBTech Robotics aims to revolutionise Foxconn’s iPhone factories in China

UBTech and Foxconn have signed a ‘comprehensive long-term partnership’ to deploy more robots in the iPhone maker’s factories.

16 Jan 2025 - 1:39AM

A humanoid robot developed by UBTech moves a heavy load onto an automated guided vehicle at Zeekr’s smart factory in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

Big Tech

Greater Bay Area’s next-gen chipmakers find ready buyers in Chinese EV industry

Guangzhou’s Nansha district is attracting companies specialising in silicon carbide semiconductors, as they look to capitalise on regional integration.

15 Jan 2025 - 8:04PM

Tech Trends

Cambricon, China’s answer to Nvidia, predicts first quarterly profit

The Chinese investors’ darling of 2024 is one of the nation’s best hopes in developing home-grown advanced graphics processors.

15 Jan 2025 - 6:30PM

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Blockchain

BitMEX fined US$100 million for violating anti-money-laundering laws

Prosecutors accuse BitMEX and its founders of failing to adopt anti-money-laundering and “know your customer” programmes.

2 hours ago

BitMEX has been fined US$100 million for anti-money-laundering violations. Photo: SCMP

Big Tech

Tencent, Guillemot family consider creating new venture involving Ubisoft assets

Tencent and the Guillemot family are evaluating which assets to include in the new entity.

15 Jan 2025 - 6:16PM

Tech Trends

Hong Kong can help turn the Greater Bay Area into a biomedical hub, experts say

To advance innovation, however, the GBA needs to better integrate its medical data, panellists say.

15 Jan 2025 - 6:00PM

China

Trending off TikTok? US users going to RedNote face challenges, analysts say

Different content regulations and lack of English support could mean short-lived American-fuelled growth for suddenly popular alternative platform.

16 Jan 2025 - 2:23AMvideocam

A download screen for the social media app Rednote, also known as Xiaohongshu, which has had an influx of US users fleeing TikTok in recent days. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

Meta Platforms to cut roughly 5 per cent of staff, targeting lowest performers

As of September, Meta employed about 72,000 people, so a 5 per cent reduction could affect roughly 3,600 jobs.

15 Jan 2025 - 11:40AM

The Meta logo is seen in this illustration picture taken, August 22, 2022. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

Elon Musk sued by US SEC over delayed Twitter stake disclosure

The SEC said Musk bought more than US$500 million of Twitter shares at artificially low prices at the expense of unsuspecting investors.

15 Jan 2025 - 10:38AM

Big Tech

ByteDance to invest US$614 million in new China computing centre amid AI demand

The TikTok owner is building a site covering more than 200,000 square metres in Shanxi province as it expands aggressively in the AI sector.

15 Jan 2025 - 7:00AMvideocam

Tech War

China’s TikTok sellers eye Amazon and Shein as US ban looms

Cross-border merchants in China are bracing for an impending ban on TikTok in the US.

14 Jan 2025 - 9:00PM

Big Tech

Apple leads smartphone market in fourth quarter, overcoming China decline

iPhone shipments surged to grab 23 per cent of the market in the final quarter of 2024, as a rebounding market saw growth start to slow.

14 Jan 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

Women check out the iPhone 16 at an Apple Store in London on October 6, 2024. Sales of the company’s latest handset helped push to the top of the market in the fourth quarter. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

Tencent CEO praises China’s economic ‘resilience’, overseas gaming revenues

CEO Pony Ma spoke of China’s economic resilience and the entrepreneurship of local businesses, echoing praise he gave Beijing last month.

14 Jan 2025 - 5:32PM

China Business

China’s WeRide starts third European self-driving trial in Switzerland

Company is stepping up efforts in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Japan and South Korea, CEO Tony Han says.

14 Jan 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

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Big Tech

Tech war takes a new turn as Huawei pushes 5G smartphones with mystery chip

Huawei’s return to the 5G smartphone market and the controversy over its advanced, made-in-China processor reflect the lengths taken by the company to build up its operations, following years of struggles on account of US trade sanctions.

3 Oct 2023 - 2:26PM

Illustration: Davies Christian Surya

Big Tech

ChatGPT sparks investment frenzy and soul searching in China

While China had declared AI strategically important as early as 2018, ChatGPT has shattered illusions about the country’s technological prowess.

1 Apr 2023 - 11:13PMvideocam

Policy

China’s e-CNY blues: major test bed shows sluggish adoption

More than three years after China’s central bank started digital currency trials, adoption in one of the initial test beds, Suzhou, remains lethargic.

13 Mar 2023 - 7:36PM

Tech

Can Huawei’s 5G-powered Tianjin Port redefine its enterprise business?

Tianjin Port is the latest technological showpiece of Huawei Technologies, as the world’s largest provider of phone network equipment reinvents itself after nearly four years of crushing US sanctions.

11 Feb 2023 - 12:11PMvideocam

illustration by Lau Ka-kuen

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