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are increasingly going global, but recent regulatory crackdowns in China , which instructed local K-12 tutoring startups to go nonprofit, have led to a chill among check-writers looking at the country. When I first started reporting on edtech over a year ago, U.S.-based Edtech investors based in the U.S.
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15, marking its entry into a major Asian market and the start of competition with Hyundai on its home turf, Korea JoongAng Daily reported. Chinas largest EV maker expects sales to grow by 40% to 4.25 Chinas largest EV maker expects sales to grow by 40% to 4.25 increase in annual global sales to 4.24
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