A collection of China-focused tech news headlines, articles, reports and downloads from August 2021
Technology news from China in August 2021 spanned applications and developments including: concerns over gaming’s influence on children; China’s electric vehicles growth; major developments in mobile payments; government concerns over big tech’s user data security; China’s semiconductor and chip industry space; and many more.
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- China: Beijing Ubox reportedly mulling Hong Kong IPO, targeting up to $500M, with smart retail devices using facial recognition and artificial intelligence
- e-news, latest issue: China’s smart retail, Indian student fund, Philippines’ vegan leather…
- China: 3-year plan unveiled by 10 gov’t bodies, outlining goal of 560M 5G mobile subscribers by end of 2023, alongside wireless tech boost in industrial enterprises
- China: Ju short-video ‘content incubation’ platform raises near $1.5M backing, using blockchain to verify content as authentic intellectual property
- Huawei to invest $100M in Asia Pacific region via Spark Program over 3 years, adding four new startup hubs in Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
- China: Tencent tightens gaming controls for children after state media takes a swipe, labelling gaming as ‘electronic drugs’
- China: “Despite the trials, lotteries, and promotional campaigns by government and banks for China’s digital currency, few people see a reason to jump on board.”
- e-news, latest issue: China’s digital yuan, NFTs for India, SPACs, ed-tech in Singapore…
- China: Anxinsec Technology network security firm raises $15 Series A, benefiting from gov’t tightening of data security and 3-year action plan to build cybersecurity industry
- China: A video look at the publicly-available, fully-driverless AutoX RoboTaxi Service in action on the streets of Shenzhen
- China: Didi ride-hailing giant reportedly in talks with state-owned infosec firm Westone to handle data management and monitoring in bid to appease regulators
- China: Xi’an city orders Didi Chuxing to ban unlicensed vehicles, affecting more than half its fleet and with just 30% of vehicles on the platform meeting regulatory requirements
- Download: Cryptocurrency and China – Analyzing China’s Historic Cryptocurrency Activity Amidst Government Crackdowns, from Chainalysis (pdf)
- China: A brief overview of the state of play in the country’s microprocessor space, as China’s startups race to gain an advantage in the artificial intelligence chip market
- China: Shanghai Pateo raises over $128M with focus on intelligent vehicle service systems, providing vehicle networking products and services to automakers
- China: Alipay, country’s second-most popular payments app, moves to limit speculation with NFTs, adding mandatory 180-day no-trade period after purchase
- China’s semiconductor supply: “Some small chip distributors are ‘holding back inventories’ which ‘gives another layer of complexity to the supply chain'”
- China: A look at the rise of social media influencers in the country’s electric vehicles marketing space
- China: A brief look at Baidu search giant’s moves into autonomous vehicles, following recent glimpse of 2-seater ‘robocar’ produced in partnership with Geely
- China: Shenzhen offers cross-border e-commerce merchants $300K subsidy to move activities from Amazon as e-commerce giant cracks down on review fraud
- China: Tencent’s QQ Music streaming arm steps into non-fungible tokens, selling out of its first NFT featuring singer Tiger Hu
- China: TikTok partners Audius, a blockchain-based music streaming protocol, potentially resulting in better royalties for artists with Audius’ user-centric model
- e-news, latest issue: Music NFTs in China, Korean food-tech, India’s 19min deliveries, Facebook’s NOVI digital wallet…
- China: Dao Foods Incubator unveils 2nd cohort of 5 Chinese and China-focused alt-protein startups
- e-news, latest issue: China’s alt-protein space, Indonesia’s Digital LookBook, Filipino startups, artificial intelligence in India…
- China: Hozon Auto’s Neta EV startup to use Huawei IoT, cloud computing, lidar and big data technologies to develop smart vehicles
- e-news, latest issue: Huawei EVs, Korean gaming curfew, blockchain in Indian finance, Thailand’s digital asset news…
- China: WeChat and UnionPay to recognize each other’s QR codes, marking a major step in continuing consolidation of the country’s mobile payments industry
- e-news, latest issue: Singapore’s restaurants, China’s digital payment QR codes, India’s deep-tech initiative, Australia’s AI Action Plan…
- China: Xiaomi smartphone giant to acquire Deepmotion, absorbing digital mapping technology for autonomous vehicles
- China: New rules proposed to ban companies with large amounts of consumer data from listing overseas, with internet, telecoms and education seen as political or national-security risks
- e-newsletter, latest issue: Korea & cybersec, Visa India’s offline payments, China’s datasec moves, Xiaomi and autonomous vehicles…
- China to limit the amount of time online gaming will be available to minors to just 3 hours most weeks, from 8-9 pm on Fridays, weekends and public holidays
- e-news, latest issue: India’s e-RUPI, AliPay and NFTs, Indonesia’s insurtech, the micropayments myth…
- Singapore’s Plano partners Huawei to boost myopia prevention, with addition of Plano app to Huawei apps gallery on devices
- Singapore-based Chope partners Alipay to accelerate digitisation of F&B businesses across Asia
- e-news, latest issue: Healthtech in Taiwan, open banking, Baidu’s robocar, AI artists…
- e-news, latest issue: Indian fintech, China’s ride-hailing, Australia’s Cyber Ambassador, Indonesian giant IPO…
- e-news, latest issue: Vietnam e-commerce, Singapore blockchain, gaming in China…
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