China’s startup news
February 2020’s tech, startup and funding news from China.
Each link below leads to the original online news source for each item, and each item is drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feed:
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- China: “…creating an elaborate, digital system of governance since Xi Jinping came to power. This year, the social credit system is set to cover all corners of China.”
- China: A brief intro to WiFi Master’s LinkSure app, providing users with user-submitted WiFi connections
- Download: Tracking Operation Wocao, one of China’s state-run hacking groups tasked with obtaining information for espionage purposes
- China: “Apple’s transparency report really ends up creating more questions than providing answers”
- China: TCL loses all rights to design, manufacture, trademark and sale of new Blackberry brand mobile devices
- German news report alleges gov’t has ‘smoking gun’ evidence that Huawei cooperated with China’s state intelligence, proving the firm an unsafe 5G partner
- A look at the central role of Huawei in the growing tech collaboration between China and Russia
- China: Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo partnering on platform for developers outside China to upload apps onto all of their app stores simultaneously
- China: Pinduoduo group-buying platform launches test for Duoduo Video, incentivising shoppers to watch videos to collect virtual coins
- China’s Shaanxi Heavy Duty Automobile Co partners Israel’s Innoviz Technologies LiDAR startup to deploy up to 600 autonomous trucks in one of China’s biggest ports
- In the WSJ: “We have evidence that Huawei has the capability secretly to access sensitive and personal information in systems it maintains and sells around the world”
- US Dep’t of Justice adds racketeering charges against Huawei and its CFO, accusing the company of conspiring to steal trade secrets from 6 tech firms
- Webinar: Digital Marketing in China – The Power of Key Opinion Leaders set for February 18th at 7pm, Beijing time
- People’s Bank of China has filed more than 80 patents related to plans to launch a digital currency, giving an outline to Beijing’s ambitions
- US considering changing regulations to allow blocking of chip shipments to Huawei from companies including Taiwan’s TSMC, world’s largest contract chipmaker
- Huawei…is not a normal business that has broken the law; it’s an organized criminal enterprise. They’re right, and unprecedented misbehavior calls for an unprecedented response
- A brief intro to 5 of China’s women entrepreneurs
- According to 2018 Internet Development Statistics, China’s cybercrime underground was worth more than $15BN, nearly twice the size of its information security industry
- China: As the CCP continues suppressing coronavirus reporting, online tools turn to new methods to help social media users get around automated censorship
- China’s WeChat Pay gains UAE growth with agreement between Tencent and UAE’s Network International providing access to merchant network
- China: Laiye raises $42M with robotic process automation services, allowing companies to assign repetitive tasks to computer-managed systems
- Apple may be made to reveal censorship requests from China, as 2 major shareholder groups back proposal to force company to make human rights commitments
- ICYMI: Apple shareholders to vote on proposal criticising the company’s decision to remove VPN apps from App Store at Chinese government’s request
- China: Kuaishou, second-largest short-video platform after TikTok, announces reaching 300M daily active user mark, now hosting over 20BN videos
- China: A brief overview of the more than 20 firms now identified as part of the country’s central bank digital currency moves
- Tech giants including Google, Facebook seek alternatives to Hong Kong as global data hub due to security concerns around China partner firm
- Huawei launches Y7P device in Sri Lanka, the first to be launched with Huawei AppGallery, the company’s application store replacement for Google services
- Silicon Valley Bank releases 11th edition of Startup Outlook Report, based on survey of 1100 founders and executives in the US, UK, China, and Canada
- US Gov’t steps up effort to develop 5G alternative to Huawei, with Dell, Microsoft, AT&T and others joining effort to create 5G architecture and infrastructure
- Hong Kong: 5 winners unveiled from the recent Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund/HSBC Jumpstarter 2020 pitch competition
- Peter Thiel-backed Layer1 Technologies begins bitcoin mining in Texas, aiming to secure 30% of global hash rate and offset China’s current dominance in Bitcoin mining
- Taiwan: An intro to BaconTok, app allowing users to share photos, voice, documents and calls without having to cross the Great Firewall or rely on a VPN in China
- Forbes unveils 2nd annual Blockchain 50 List, compiling the top 50 companies and organizations adapting decentralized ledgers to operating needs
- ICYMI: Members of China’s People’s Liberation Army charged over hacking campaign to steal sensitive personal information of near 150M Americans
Other news in February 2020
Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in February 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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