TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

This week also brought a lackluster float for Chinese grocery-delivery company DingDong, which cut its IPO raise but only managed a flat American debut. Another China-based online grocery delivery service that went public domestically last week, Missfresh, is doing even worse. As we previously calculated, with around $6.5

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Last year, the company raised €50 million ($55.3 In addition, Geely entered into a joint venture with Volocopter to bring the startup’s aircraft to China. Flying requires an incredible amount of energy, and present battery technology just doesn’t offer the power-to-weight ratio needed to achieve liftoff.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

The company announced today that it has raised a $70 million Series C led by Gobi Partners and SPIL Ventures, with participation from returning investor Inspire Ventures. This brings the company’s total raised so far to $109 million since it was founded in 2015. If you buy those same Nike shoes in China, the answer is about 15%.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Several more Chinese tech companies round out the top slots: Baidu , which runs Chinas top search engine, started offering driverless taxi services last summer in select cities and is already outperforming Googles Waymo robotaxis where it operates. A handful of 2025 honorees focus on ecological innovations. Apollo Go provided approximately 1.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

“With over 40 million users across Brazil, as well as Mexico and Colombia,” the fintech company’s LTV/CAC ratio is central to its success, they found. As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits. As of today, TechCrunch is no longer available to readers inside China. Is China building the metaverse?

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

One place where Cook was let off the hook almost entirely: there were very few questions about the company’s reliance on China as a supplier or a market for its products. 1, also requires the social media companies to store user data inside Turkey, raising privacy concerns. Was it to eliminate a competitor? Some need to be broken up.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Meanwhile, on Twitter , Zeynep Tufekci raises the larger point always lurking in the background of these discussions. China emphasized its power in the TikTok sale, saying it has the right to approve or block the sale of technology abroad. By the time the new restrictions kick in, mail-in voting will have been underway for weeks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

After producing the videos with Clipchamp, creators can choose between different output styles and aspect ratios for popular social media networks, making it a popular tool for online marketers. Microsoft didn’t disclose the acquisition price, but Clipchamp had raised over $15 million in funding according to Crunchbase.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Of even greater concern, though, is the speed and scale at which the attack unfolded — and the national security concerns it raises, which are profound. TikTok has hired a small army of more than 35 lobbyists to convince lawmakers that its allegiance lies with the United States — not China. And at press time, we don’t know. Industry.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

He has raised prices, but his profit margins have shriveled. Again, this is where it is worth taking China seriously: the Party has shown through its actions, particularly building and maintaining the Great Firewall at tremendous expense, that it believes in the power of information and ideas.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

According to Romm, American Edge is set up to ”navigate a thicket of tax laws in such a way that it can raise money, and blitz the airwaves with ads, without the obligation of disclosing all of its donors.”. Itch.io’s games bundle, which offers more than 1,000 games for a minimum contribution of $5, has already raised more than $3 million.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Because it’s going to be worse – we’re going to have to give China billions of dollars for the privilege of having TikTok operate on US soil.”. As long as the Chinese government can put pressure on TikTok through its ownership, there will be ways to snoop on users without raising alarms. billion to fight California’s housing crisis.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

It also raised some provocative questions. Apple will start removing thousands of mobile games that lack government approval from its App Store in China next month. mother’s day posts are like “she gave up everything to raise us. One, the people in my feeds mostly like to see the president made to look foolish.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The fact that ByteDance is making profit, if true, and sitting on a $6 billion cash pile means that it is not in a rush at all to come to market to raise capital. “None of the Chinese tech companies has achieved this level of success in the global market before ByteDance,” he said, adding neither social media company harbors much debt.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

This suggests that just when citizens needed credible health information the most, and while Facebook was trying to proactively raise the profile of authoritative health institutions on the platform, its algorithm was potentially undermining these efforts,” the report said. So this feels like useful context to share. Debby Wu / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We remain opposed to any deal that would allow China-based or controlled entities to retain, control or modify the code or algorithms that operate any U.S.-based The letter, also signed by Senators Thom Tillis, Rick Scott, John Cornyn, Roger Wicker and Dan Sullivan, is part of a growing chorus of lawmakers raising questions about the deal.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When harmful content surfaces on them, it raises complex moderation questions for domain hosts and web infrastructure providers — a separate set of powerful companies that have completely different business models from Facebook. Not every issue raised by an employee will get immediate attention. Georgia Wells, Aaron Tilley and John D.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

US companies operating in China say Trump’s WeChat ban could hurt their ability to effectively communicate with staff and local authorities. More than a dozen firms, including Apple , Walmart , and Ford , have approached the White House in recent weeks to voice their concerns that the order could extend into China. General Electric Co.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

On the other hand, if ByteDance is forced to give up control, China seems likely to block the deal. Last week, I wrote that TikTok’s deal with Oracle was a bet that Trump would cave on concerns over China. I am famously bad at making predictions about TikTok, but I’ll tempt fate and tell you how I’m thinking here.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

India and China are in a conflict over a disputed border in the Himalayas that recently resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers. The longer it went on, the more it began to raise questions about the memeification of social movements. It also raised a fresh $100 million. prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The board named its members in May, raising hopes that it would be hearing cases by now. The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. But in July, the board said it would not be operational before the election.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic raised the prospect that any antitrust action could see a further delay. Mark Zuckerberg said he is “worried” that other countries may be trying to imitate China’s approach to regulating the internet. But on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a lawsuit may be arriving shortly.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

The main reason it has not been public to date, I’m told, is that it could raise privacy concerns — you don’t want CrowdTangle making public how many people saw your birthday fundraiser post, probably. US officials accused China of sponsoring criminal hackers who are targeting biotech firms around the world working on coronavirus vaccines.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

The platforms will be much more aggressive in their automated filtering to go after content that could raise their legal liability.”. ByteDance is shifting TikTok ’s power out of China amid ongoing regulatory scrutiny. Kuaishou , the second-largest social video app in China, is launching an app in the US to challenge TikTok.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Some attorneys working on that aspect of the probe aren’t ready to move forward because they are still untangling the new and complex issues raised by that part of Google’s business and how it affects the many companies in the digital ecosystem, the people said. But the platforms’ actions on Tuesday showed us that progress is possible.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

One part of the agency, the Office of Policy Planning, wants to evaluate Facebook’s market dominance through the question of whether it has raised prices for consumers. As for China? Experts on China say that while concerns over TikTok’s national security risks should not be dismissed, blocking the app would be a drastic measure.

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