Tech & Startup News
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Each tech startup news headline for China below leads to the online news source for that item, gathered from online tech news coverage in August 2018.
Daily tech startup news headlines:
on LinkedIn / on Twitter / on Facebook / via mobile app
- Wangjiahuan agriculture startup secures $58M, targets blockchain-based food quality control and analytics
- China’s AI startups raised $5BN in funding last year, compared with $4.4BN in the US
- Tianrang AI and big data startup secures $26M, launches ML project focusing on urban development
- ‘Illiberal’ AI tech growth provides a blueprint for autocratic regimes around the world
- Tencent leads $50M pre-A funding in AI chip maker Suiyuan Technology
- Ahi Fintech secures $15M for enterprise AI-powered risk control and anti-fraud services
- Tianrang AI startup secures $26M for enterprise-level data analysis
- Xloong AR glasses enable police to cross-reference against national faces database
- An intro to Xloong, making AR-driven facial recognition glasses for police
- Ximalaya audio streaming platform secures $580M with 470M user base
- ‘Are You China Ready?’ Startup Contest 2018 applications close tomorrow
- An overview of China’s moves towards social credit ratings using AI, surveillance and big data
- China’s Bitmain, world’s largest bitcoin mining firm, sets sights on US$18BN Hong Kong IPO
- China expected to overtake US as leading blockchain developer in 3-5 years
- County in Sichuan set to manage forestry industry using blockchain
- JD retail giant launches blockchain-as-service platform, allowing enterprise customers to build, host and deploy their own solutions
- An intro to China’s StoneTicket, solutions for ticketing using blockchain tech
- Shenzhen restaurant issues China’s first blockchain-based invoice
- Without national regulation standards, local governments compete for blockchain supremacy
- Ultrain blockchain company secures $20M, taking valuation to $200M
- MyDreamPlus coworking space startup secures US$120M
- China shuts down blockchain-related WeChat channels as part of cryptocurrency crackdown
- Bitmain cryptocurrency mining giant reportedly aiming for $18BN IPO in Hong Kong
- imToken launches venture arm, DApp ecosystem and in-house exchange one month after $10M fundraise
- Waymo, former Google self-driving car business, establishes China subsidiary
- An analysis of China’s Pinduoduo e-commerce app with 195M monthly active users
- McDonald’s issues ‘MacCoin’ tokens equivalent to one Big Mac – and now traded online
- Dada-JD Daojia online grocery service backed for $500M in Walmart-led round
- A look at how e-commerce is transforming rural China
- 51zhaoyou B2B oil and hazardous chemicals e-marketplace secures $150M
- China’s digital English education market expected to reach US$1.4BN value by 2022
- New foreigner-focused ‘business startup visa’ piloted in selected districts in Shanghai
- 12 Shanghai fintech startups to watch
- Weidai early-stage personal credit / loan platform files for US$100 IPO
- Regulators freeze game license approvals in state-driven content shake-up
- Tencent pulls top-selling Monster Hunter game in apparent state content crackdown
- China’s mobile game-makers made over $600M in the US market in first half of 2018
- Google employees protest work on unethical censored search engine for China
- An intro to the 10 SE Asian startups competing at Google Demo Day Asia in Shanghai
- The challenges, beyond censorship, for Google and other tech companies in entering China
- 1Yaowang online pharmacy aims for $200M NYSE IPO with sights on $2.5TN in-country market by 2022
- Igengmei consumer medical beauty platform secures $50M
- DingTalk, Alibaba’s workplace communication software used by over 7M employers, creating worker frustration
- China’s JD opens first overseas cashierless store in Indonesia
- Beijing Bytedance Technology news aggregator is equity-fundraising, potentially valuing at $75BN
- Google reportedly also developing AI-powered news app for China, alongside censorship-based search
- China’s Tencent reportedly to JV Korea’s Samsung to develop AI devices
- Medlinker mobile platform for physicians secures $147M
- Pulsion startup lets retailers use ‘virtual fitting room’ tech to boost clothing sales
- A look at how Chongqing and Singapore are linking China to SE Asia
- China’s Ping An Good Doctor partners Singapore’s Grab in mutual benefit JV
- An intro to the Huawei-backed Tianjin Smart City project (pdf)
- Toutiao news app owner, Bytedance, reportedly seeking up to $3BN
- A look at WeChat, China’s most popular mobile app with 1BN monthly active users
- Chinese Cities of Opportunity, a PwC report (pdf)
- Makeblock STEM firm secures $44M with all-in-one solutions package
- SinoSwiss TechnoPark in Chongqing seeks Canton Zurich-based companies and startups for entry to the China market
- China reportedly building a $145M superconducting computer
- Qutoutiao content aggregator files for US IPO, targeting $300M
- WeChat mini programs break the 200M daily-active-users mark
- How Tencent made WeChat the success it is now using ‘micro-innovation’
- Manbang Group ‘truck hailing’ firm aiming for $1BN fundraise, in part focused on autonomous tech
- Google in talks with Tencent and others around launch of cloud services in China
- XPeng electric car startup raises $587M
- An overview of how the US-China trade war will impact the Made in China 2025 initiative
- Rural internet users reportedly reached 209M in the last 12 months
- Y Combinator China to be headed by former Baidu exec
- India: Xiaomi smartphone maker to open thousands of retail outlets in rural India for in-country growth
- China’s tech news website 36Kr to enter Japan, aiming to grow two-way awareness
