Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This will likely be the Xiaomi 15, which has already launched in China, but it's possible that we see a more powerful variant, too. Xiaomi 15 (pictured) is already out in China, and now it's probably going global. TCL TCL's NXTPAPER phones are due for an upgrade. Now that's something we could put to good use. MWC 2025: Anything else?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. Buildots went after new funding once it was able to show product market fit and was expanding into other countries. The platform is being utilized on major building projects in countries like the U.S.,

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

The footage depicts the Shiguai coal mine in Inner Mongolia, China, and it’s used in a montage about how solar panels and wind turbines are made. In the context of the film, it seems to be used more as stock footage than an active commentary on Rare Earthenware , which could undermine Planet of the Humans ’ case for fair use.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. First, investors in Asia flock to hype. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The disclosure comes just one day after a Faraday Future said during an investor presentation that it plans to open a factory in China as early as 2025. Faraday said it’s “in the process of responding to, and intends to fully cooperate with, such request.”. Shares of Faraday Future stock are down 1.4% at 5:43 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Those include CPE, OrbiMed, Mirae Asset Capital, B Capital Group, Deerfield Management, Maison Capital, Lake Bleu Capital, President International Development Corporation, Sequoia Capital China and Sage Partners. . The whole field of AI-based novel targets has been experiencing significant hype.

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TechNode

APRIL 23, 2024

Although the virtual Lius nearly 40-minute-long slot made for only a short section of the 11-hour-long e-commerce event, its appearance still suggests that the company sees use of the avatar as a headline- and hype-generating strategy as it looks to boost consumption on its platforms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The hype and speculation that has been rampant for weeks drove up the stock price of Churchill Capital IV Corp. The Air will come to Europe in 2022, followed by China in 2023. Several EV infrastructure companies including EVgo and ChargePoint have also become public companies via SPAC mergers.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The date marks the anniversary of the return to China of Sabrina Meng (Meng Wanzhou), Huaweis chief financial officer, who was under house arrest in Canada for three years due to an extradition request from the US, where she faced fraud charges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Pour some extra coffee, and get hype. A French hosting company is going public , an Indian used-car marketplace raised a boatload of cash , and Amazon is investigating a bribe. And we are expecting IPOs from both Freshworks and Toast this week. It’s going to be a very busy few days. Equity drops every Monday at 7:00 a.m.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

In happier and better news, TechCrunch Early Stage is coming up in just a few months and not only am I hype about it, I’ll hopefully be there IRL. It’s worth noting that China’s central government is working to retool where its tech investment dollars flow. See you soon! The TechCrunch Top 3. Big Tech Inc.

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The Verge

MARCH 25, 2021

Vivo previously launched the X60 series in China but with substantially different specs to these new global models. These kinds of collaborations tend to be more marketing hype than genuine selling points, but the X60 Pro Plus’ formidable camera bump at least looks the part. Vivo’s main focus with the X60 series is the cameras.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The company generated a lot of hype after it announced in 2016 that it had developed a lidar that cost $250 or less (for reference, around the same time Velodyne was selling a lidar sensor for $75,000). Historically, lidar sensors involved moving parts — generally some mechanism to rotate the laser so it can scan the surrounding area.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Developers, developers, developers: He Rose to the occasion : Kevin Rose is a partner at the VC firm True Ventures, but his latest project is an NFT startup called Proof Collective, which recently launched a much-hyped 10,000 NFT collection of pixelated owls. Lucas ’ interview with the startup veteran is fascinating.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This is a monumental moment for the Times , for sure, but also for the much-hyped and growing podcasting industry. In 2012, Ira Glass’ team at This American Life retracted its most popular episode at the time about a man visiting Apple’s manufacturing plant in China. But apparently, many details in that show were made up.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Chinas Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on Monday its plans to establish industry standards for the metaverse sector, according to Reuters. The proposal emphasized that the metaverse is one of nine emerging technology sectors for which China aims to develop comprehensive standards.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

We have a packed newsletter today, so get hype for a news digest. and China, TechCrunch writes , just saw its valuation climb to $8.5 To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, March 7, 2022!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since graphene was discovered in 2004 , the material has generated a lot of hype — it was supposed to be the next silicon , though that hasn’t quite happened yet. . China and the EU are investing heavily in production of graphene at an industrial scale. Still, the U.K.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2021

OnePlus made its name with rebellious marketing and hype-driven online retail strategies, portraying itself as a smarter alternative to bigger smartphone brands. More recently, OnePlus announced that it’d start using Oppo’s ColorOS for its phones in China. It was always clear that OnePlus had ties to Oppo.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

attempts to gain an upper hand against threats from adversaries, including China and Russia. ” Parsing the hype, investors are enthusiastic about Mythic’s new defense-forward direction — at least for now. In 2022, there was $7 billion invested in VC-backed U.S. Time will tell whether it was the right one.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Yahaha styles itself as a dual-headquartered company, but its investors in this latest raise are all out of China and greater Asia. LinkedIn, which shut down operations in China last year, notes that about half of the company’s employees registered on its platform identify as based out of Shanghai.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

” India has banned hundreds of apps besides TikTok, including PUBG Mobile, Battlegrounds Mobile India and UC Browser, with ties to China amid skirmishes at the border of the two neighboring nations. In recent remarks, FCC commissioner Brendan Carr said that the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The metaverse cometh for us : The TechCrunch crew has been chewing on the metaverse for a while now, trying to tease out substance from hype, and real possibility from rank speculation. And, to close out our startup coverage, China-born audio networking application Tiya is building out its footprint in Singapore. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

“Gogoro will use the fresh funds from its IPO to continue to expand in Taiwan as it branches outward to larger markets like China, India and Indonesia,” writes transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2014

I haven’t seen anything like it since the Women’s World Cup Finals in 1999, when the US beat China in penalty kicks and my parents’ living room erupted with the screams of 20+ miniature, wannabe Mia Hamms and Brandi Chastains. Maybe it was the hype ads or maybe we all just love rooting for the underdog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

He also noted that, while he believed in the underpinnings of Web3 and crypto, he saw too much hype, people losing money, and people manipulating the consumer. After all, China doesn’t allow our social networks, like Facebook and Instagram. “I think that’s why tech gets a bad rap,” he said.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I spend a lot of time thinking about the 5G hype cycle, and how it didn’t pan out, and I was made to believe that there was some sort of race to 5G that was important. But what struck me about it was, we did hear all of this hype about 5G, specifically as it related to self-driving cars. You see what China is doing.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

And, of course, I had to push on the hype around the Aokiverse — Steve calls it a social club that will combine Web3, Web2, and IRL experiences. I think I did 14 tours in China in two or three years, so every other month I was in China, then I was in Ibiza, then I was across Europe, then back to America, Central America, South America, Asia.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The key investors to keep tabs on are, for the most part, concentrated in four primary markets: China. With the strengthening Yuan , China is a great place to look for funding right now. Therefore, the big players in the market are being more inquisitive than normal and are now actually taking serious looks outside of China as well.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

.” A flurry of new S-1s in a single week forced me to rearrange our editorial calendar, but I didn’t mind; our 360-degree coverage let some of the air out of various hype balloons and uncovered several unique angles. What China’s fintech can teach the world. Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images).

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

SoftBank’s Pepper robot is dead , and The Wall Street Journal is dancing upon its grave with a thorough account of how the “ emotional robot ” failed to live up to the hype. It reminded me of a military parade in North Korea or China,” Mr. Miyato said. “It . | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge. He wasn’t inspired to cheer along. “It

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TechNode

JUNE 18, 2024

Chinese developer Game Science last week invited a group of domestic gaming media outlets and veteran gamers to attend an offline demo event of its upcoming game Black Myth: Wukong, a highly-anticipated self-developed AAA game which has captured widespread attention in China this summer even before its launched.

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TechNode

JUNE 12, 2024

However, many AI application companies are currently being overvalued amid the hype, which was the consensus among guests at the Summit. Theres no doubt that geopolitical tensions are exacerbating the technology decoupling between China and the US markets. De-risking or global collaboration?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Part 1: How StockX became the stock market of hype. Last year could well have been the dawn of alternative protein in China. Of these, Starfield, Hey Maet, Vesta and Haofood have been around for about a year; ZhenMeat was founded three years ago; and Green Monday is a nine-year-old Hong Kong firm pushing into mainland China.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The trend is mirrored in China. Despite the hype surrounding AIs transformative potential across multiple industries, a significant gap remains between expected revenues from AI infrastructure investments and the actual growth of AI-driven ecosystems. In China alone, the eyewear market is expanding rapidly. Why AI glasses?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

I wrote about hype recently as it pertains to ChatGPT and its ilk. As I mentioned at the time, I had a front-row seat to the original 3D printing gold rush that has colored my view of subsequent hype cycles, including things like blockchain/web3. The proximate cause was the trade war with China. What happened with Rethink ?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

He found some, sort of — it appears that the startup was founded, and perhaps funded, by the same person (or people behind) another EV startup called Neuron, which had ties to China but disappeared from the US startup scene as quickly as it arrived. Alpha Motor says there’s no relationship.) Like nothing we’ve done.

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