Rita Liao
Despite the ongoing regulatory crackdown on the crypto industry and the collapse of some of its poster children, the underlying decentralized technology continues to drive internet incumbents into the web3 space.
Telegram and Line, two of the world’s most popular messengers with hundreds of millions of monthly users, have both...
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of business intelligence tools that aim to help companies make critical business decisions based on data analytics. There’s a catch. As data adoption increases at most companies, they are left with growing administration problems, said Logan Havern, co-founder and CEO of...
When it comes to spurring the development of cutting-edge technologies, the Chinese government is rather pragmatic in its policymaking process. In the field of autonomous driving, the country has made some big strides in defining the parameters and limitations for service providers, removing regulatory ambiguity and granting industry players...
After years of aggressive expansion at home, China’s autonomous vehicle upstarts are now setting their gaze on overseas markets. WeRide, in particular, has been on a licensing spree.
On Monday, WeRide announced it has obtained two licenses from Singapore that will allow its robobuses to test on public roads on...
Semiconductors have in recent years become a focal point in the U.S.’s efforts to impede China’s technological advancement. Now Washington has its eye on yet another red-hot tech sector where China is making great strides: batteries for electric vehicles.
Earlier this month, the Departments of Treasury and Energy proposed rules...
Surveys have become an integral part of many aspects of our lives, but most of them are tedious, leading to ineffective responses and actions. Dinghan Shen and Yuan Xue, two software engineers working in Silicon Valley, recognized an opportunity to leverage the breakthroughs brought by large language models to...
Robinhood’s long-awaited international expansion is at full throttle. The consumer trading and investment app tailored to the younger generations is launching its crypto app to all eligible users in the European Union, the company said Thursday.
The announcement comes on the heels of its foray into the U.K. just a...
For those who move abroad from China, one thing they miss dearly is the convenience of food delivery apps. Fantuan, a Vancouver-based company, has been working on replicating the experience of Chinese food delivery platforms in the West for the past nine years. Recently, it raised some fresh capital...
PDD, the firm behind the fast-growing shopping app Temu, is shaking up China’s Big Tech club.
On Thursday, news of Alibaba’s market cap sliding under that of PDD made headlines all over the Chinese internet. This development marked a historic shift in China’s e-commerce space, where for years Alibaba had...
ByteDance’s gaming ambition has been an expensive, short-lived pursuit.
In late 2021, the TikTok parent’s plans for video games came into the spotlight after it became one of the firm’s six core business units, posing a new threat to incumbents such as Tencent and NetEase and rising star MiHoYo. Nonetheless,...
