A month-end snapshot of China’s technology news headlines, articles, reports and downloads from March 2022
The China tech news headlines featured were drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily tech news feeds, which go out on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, and via mobile app. Less frequently, we post digests via Medium, e-newsletter and on YouTube.
And don’t forget: Wild3 metaverse-themed conference, April 12-13, and the Wild Digital SEA Conference in July 2022.
- China: A look at SpaceTai, using 3D printing to develop engines and rockets for the commercial space industry, potentially lowering costs to below one-fifth the current average
- China’s crypto mining crackdown mis-step: “…the ‘great mining migration,’ as Chinese mining operations big and small unplug and shift westward.”
- China: AIForceTech gains $15M in fresh funding with smart farm equipment and management, including unmanned farm equipment and farmworker services
- China’s Pacific Networks Corp and ComNet ejected and barred from US markets by Federal Comm’s Commission, citing espionage and data theft concerns around state-owned firms
- China: Asia Digital Bank, subsidiary of state-run Asia Pacific Investment Bank, unveils A-Bank Super Wallet app combining fiat and cryptocurrency services
ASPI: Understanding Global Disinformation and Information Operations
- China’s Twitter clone, Weibo, faces US market delisting risk as regulators tighten accounting standards on foreign companies; Alibaba and Baidu likely to face the same in future
- China: Zongmu raised over $157M in new funding from state-owned funds with autonomous driving systems, with sights on new production plant
- China: Alibaba recently led $60M investment in AR glasses maker Nreal, home-grown Magic Leap competitor founded by former ML engineer
- AsiaForward Startup Day set for March 24th, looking at cross-border knowledge exchange for business and investment leaders in SE Asia and China, from KrASIA and Alibaba Cloud
- Malaysia: NFT Pangolin marketplace launches with Zetrix tie-in, allowing access to China’s ‘no trading’ version of the non-fungible token space
- Cambodia Internet Startup Assoc’n partners Cambodia Assoc’n of Finance Technology to push cooperation around China’s Belt and Road Initiative
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