China Digital Trends

Jun 22 2020 4
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China Digital Trends podcast by Rocky Fu covers the latest digital landscape in China including the popular applications, technology updates, social media, etc.

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#65: Alibaba & JD saw combined GMV of over $136 billion in mid-year shopping event

Jun 22 2020 7 mins  
Baidu to build 5 million intelligent cloud servers by 2030, China has seen fast growth in its livestreaming industry over the past years, ByteDance made $5.6 billion in Q1, Alibaba Pictures to delist from Singapore Exchange, Huawei to get green light for $500m R&D center in UK, China’s TZTEK Technology to buy German chip tester for USD20.4 million

#64: China’s largest mid-year shopping festival; first day performance of Taobao and JD

Jun 04 2020 14 mins  
A quick introduction to 618 and first day sales

#63: TikTok user spending exceeds YouTube, Tencent in talks to buy Warner Music stake

Jun 02 2020 5 mins  
Xpeng files for US IPO, online marketplace for artists and collectors filed for IPO, Netease aims to raise $2-$3 billion in Hong Kong listing, Alibaba's online market to sponsor 100,000 influencers worldwide, TikTok user spending hits USD 78 million in April, Amazon unveils its first solar power project in China

#62: WeChat helped create 29 million jobs, Weibo MAU grew to 550 million

May 20 2020 6 mins  
NASDAQ to delist China's biggest Starbucks rival Luckin Coffee, Bytedance is forming a car infotainment team, Zoom suspends new free user registrations in China, Ant Financial’s MYbank to extend USD1.4 billion in interest-free loans to small businesses

#61: Q1 highlights for Baidu, Bilibili, Sogou

May 19 2020 10 mins  
Business operation highlights for Baidu and Bilibili in Q1 2020

#60: Baidu to Empower Content Creators, Pinduoduo overtaken JD, WeChat MAU exceeded 1.2 billion

May 14 2020 8 mins  
Chinese e-commerce upstart Pinduoduo has overtaken rival JD.com to become China’s second most valuable online retailer after Alibaba, following a 5.26% rise in its shares on Tuesday

#59: Alibaba.com launches global online trade show; SF Express enters food delivery sector

May 12 2020 8 mins  
ChinaJoy Game Anime Expo to Go Ahead, BMW to invest $620M in Shenyang, cloud computing company Kingsoft surges 40% on IPO day, Dior unveils AI skin-testing tool, China to Give Foreign Banks’ Local Branches Access to Fund Custody Licenses

#58: China tourism income down 60%, China’s e-sports market tops US$16.6 bn in 2019

May 07 2020 9 mins  
Alibaba's Double Five shopping festival in Shanghai, grocery e-retail brand Hema Fresh, U.S. drafts rule to allow Huawei and U.S. firms to work together, Bilibili’s market capital increased USD 480 million in one day, Inspur wades into Japan’s USD 5 billion market

#57: China has 560M live streaming users, 768M Online Payment Users as of Q1

May 05 2020 5 mins  
China has overtaken Japan to emerge as the second-largest wealth market, with an estimated 2.3 million high net worth individuals

#56: JD.com and Cloudflare join forces, TikTok surpasses 2 billion downloads

May 04 2020 8 mins  
Huawei's Hisilicon chip unit overtook U.S. semiconductor giant Qualcomm to be the biggest mobile phone chip supplier in China for the first time, Chinese brands accounted for about 61% of global 5G smartphone shipments in Q1, Tencent buys 5% stake in Australian buy-now-pay-later firm Afterpay, Chinese mobile games accounted for 19 of the top 100 highest-grossing games in the US, Di