Huawei announces MatePad 11 with prices starting at about $386

Chinese tech giant Huawei on July 6 unveiled the Huawei MatePad 11 tablet powered by HarmonyOS 2. Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB configurations and priced at RMB 2,499 ($386), RMB 2,799 and RMB 3,299 respectively, the MatePad 11 is already available for pre-order and will go on sale at 00:00 on July 15. The…

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Didi's mini-program removed in WeChat, Alipay

The mini-programs in WeChat and Alipay provided users with access to services without having to download Apps. Under normal circumstances, this would be convenient for both users and service providers, but when these mini-programs are not available, it can also have an impact on the operators' business. The mini-program of Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride-hailing…

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Chinese wearables maker Zepp Health to release next-gen chip and operating system

Chinese smart wearables maker Zepp Health announced Monday that it will release its next-generation Huangshan chip and develop its own operating system on July 13. Zepp Health says its OS is more user-friendly, better suited for watches and better able to leverage the value of wearable devices. The OS will focus on sleep, heart rate,…

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Chinese market regulator unconditionally approves Tencent's acquisition of Sogou stake

Tencent's acquisition of the stake in Sogou has been unconditionally approved, according to the information posted Tuesday on the official website of the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR). Last September, Sogou announced that it had signed a definitive merger agreement with Tencent's subsidiaries THL A21 Limited and TitanSupernova Limited, as…

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Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com unveils operating system for cloud servers

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com unveiled Yunjian, an operating system for cloud servers, at the JD.com Cloud Summit 2021 on July 13, which the company says is the first of its kind in the industry. JD.com said the system enables hybrid cloud management at the operating system level for the first time, enabling the most comprehensive,…

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Zepp Health unveils in-house developed wearable operating system and new chip

Chinese smart wearables maker Zepp Health announced its wearable operating system Zepp OS at a launch event on July 13, and it will be available in the fourth quarter of this year. Zepp OS is based on the FreeRTOS microkernel open source code and is compatible with different specifications, although the system package is only…

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China's cell phone shipments down 10% year-over-year to 25.7 million units in June

China shipped 25.66 million cell phones in June, down 10.4 percent year-over-year and up 11.7 percent from May, according to data released Tuesday by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a government think tank. Overall cell phone shipments in China were 174 million units in the first half of the year, up…

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Meituan raises nearly $400 million from Tencent through share offering

Chinese life service app Meituan has raised nearly $400 million from Tencent in a stock offering to further fuel its business expansion. Meituan has issued 11.353 million shares to Tencent, equivalent to 0.2 percent of its enlarged issued share capital, the company said in an announcement on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday. Tencent's…

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China issues three-year action plan for new data center development

China has outlined new goals to accelerate the digital transformation of society. The country plans to spend three years to basically form a new data center development pattern with a reasonable layout, advanced technology, green and low-carbon to match the growth of the digital economy, according to a notice issued by the Ministry of Industry…

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Xiaomi smart factory Phase II construction began, expected to produce 10 million phones per year

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi Smart Factory Phase II officially started construction today in Beijing's Changping District, its latest effort to automate production since its "Black Light Factory" debut last August. Covering an area of 58,300 square meters, the factory will include the second generation of cell phone intelligent production line with SMT placement, board testing,…

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Huawei P50 Pro will reportedly be powered by Kirin 9000 at launch, and will switch to Qualcomm chips in few months

Restrictions on access to chips have made the launch of Huawei's P50 series of smartphones difficult. Now, the company seems to have found a compromise. To solve the chip supply problem, the standard version of the P50 will be powered by Qualcomm chips, and the higher-spec version will initially be powered by Huawei's own Kirin…

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China's civil airliners will all be equipped with BeiDou devices by 2024

China's civil aircraft, of which there are roughly 3,800, will all be equipped with BeiDou equipment by 2024, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said Wednesday. An A321 airliner equipped with BeiDou equipment developed by CASC's Aerospace Stellar Navigation Division landed at Beijing Capital International Airport recently. The measured data showed that the data…

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TikTok becomes first app not owned by Facebook to reach 3 billion downloads

TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin reached 65 million downloads in June, bringing its cumulative downloads to 3 billion, making it the first non-Facebook app to reach this milestone, according to a report by mobile app data analytics firm Sensor Tower. Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data shows that TikTok was the world's most downloaded and…

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China's express business volume exceeds 50 billion pieces in H1, close to full year 2018

The rapid growth of online shopping in China means continued growth in the volume of the express delivery business. China's express delivery business volume surpassed 50 billion pieces in the first half of the year, close to the full-year level of 2018, data released by the country's National Bureau of Statistics showed Thursday. China's online…

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One of China's most influential cryptocurrency media reportedly to stop operations

Chinese cryptocurrency media outlet Bishijie.com has announced it is ceasing operations of its app and website as of July 15, according to local media outlet Jiemian.com. The report didn't give further details, but a screenshot of a WeChat chat shows that Bishijie.com abruptly informed its employees and shareholders of the news on Thursday, citing a…

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ByteDance reportedly enters takeaway space to take on Meituan

Douyin, the Chinese version of Byte Dance's TikTok, has recently set up a takeaway business team and has been testing it recently, tech media Tech Planet reported Wednesday. The business is called "Xindong Waimai" (literally means heartbeat takeaway) and will likely invite food and beverage vendors from within Douyin, the report said, citing people familiar…

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Top Chinese universities set up IC schools

The Integrated Circuit schools at China's top universities Peking University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology were established on Thursday and Wednesday, respectively, the third and fourth Chinese universities to set up the schools within six months. Peking University said the establishment of the IC school can promote the development of China's IC disciplines,…

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Tencent hiring for its entry into chip design

After Baidu and Alibaba, Chinese tech giant Tencent is also starting to enter the chip design field. Tencent is hiring chip architects, chip verification engineers, chip design engineers, and other positions. In the chip architect position released on July 9, the responsibilities are responsible for AI chip and general processor requirements analysis, responsible for processor…

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Xiaomi ranks second in global smartphone market for first time

For an already saturated global smartphone market, Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi's share is still growing. In the second quarter, Xiaomi reached a global market share of 17 percent, ahead of Apple's 14 percent, to rank second for the first time, according to a report released by market research firm Canalys Research on July 15. Samsung…

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Huawei releases HMS Core 6.0

Chinese technology giant Huawei announced the global launch of HMS Core 6.0 on July 15, bringing a number of open capabilities to application developers and upgrading existing features and services. HMS Core 6.0 opens up Huawei's technologies in several areas, including media applications, graphics rendering, and network acceleration. In the media area, it adds a…

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Honor to hold global launch event for Magic 3 series on August 12

The Magic series, the high-end flagship line of Chinese smartphone maker Honor, is about to get a new member. Honor will hold a global launch event for the Magic 3 series of phones on Aug. 12, the company announced on Twitter on Thursday. It didn't provide any more information, but according to a digital blogger,…

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