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Iris Deng
Senior Reporter, Technology
Iris is a technology reporter at the Post.
WeChat Palm Pay lets mainland tourists pay by scanning their hand in shops located in hotels under the Galaxy Entertainment Group.
The Mate XT will officially go on sale on September 20, the same day that Apple kicks off its iPhone 16 retail sales on the mainland.
The Chinese language version of Apple Intelligence will only become available in 2025, with no words on whether it will land on the mainland.
Around 3.04 million people have made online reservations to buy Huawei’s new 5G Mate XT as of Monday afternoon.
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The cloud unit, which develops AI solutions and infrastructure, has been a main growth driver for Huawei.
The tech giant sees growing demand from both Chinese and foreign clients to use its services abroad, Tencent Cloud CEO Dowson Tong says
Huawei has announced a launch event for September 10, pitting its anticipated dual-hinged Mate XT handset against Apple’s AI-equipped iPhone 16.
The Huawei spin-off took that crown for the first time in western Europe, the second-largest foldable handset market after China.
While China’s first AAA video game has bolstered industry confidence, Tencent backing and government favour are not accessible to everyone.
The Chinese tech giant reported a 34 per cent jump in revenue to US$58.6 billion for the first half, as the company rebounds in the face of US sanctions.
The Oppo spin-off is using limited AI features in affordable smartphones to target young consumers, according to CEO Sky Li.
A conference next month by Huawei’s secretive chip design unit HiSilicon has fanned speculation that a sanctions-busting breakthrough may be announced.
Local authorities have granted 25 construction approvals for the project’s initial phase, covering a development area of at least 800,000 square metres.
The Chinese tech giant aims to push comprehensive AI solutions in the region, where it has achieved 20-fold growth in public cloud services over the past four years.
Tencent’s profit grew to US$6.6 billion in the second quarter, while revenue rose 8 per cent to US$22.5 billion.
Shenzhen’s AI industry accounts for more than 40 per cent of Guangdong’s output, but Beijing still reigns with AI output worth US$34.9 billion.
With more than 1.3 billion monthly active users, WeChat’s every technical update and policy change are closely scrutinised on the mainland.
The new facility on Hetao zone’s Shenzhen side will help foreigners expedite the process of obtaining their work and residence permits on the mainland.
Semiconductor imports totalled 308.1 billion units, worth about US$212 billion, in the first seven months of 2024, according to customs data.
The new feature has been made available for testing to a small number of users after a recent system update.
Apple’s China sales fell in the June quarter, and mainland Chinese sales will not get a boost from Apple Intelligence, which is not being rolled out to local users yet.
Chinese firm 360 Security Technology has helped Beijing uncover 54 hacking groups, including operatives from the CIA and NSA, its founder Zhou Hongyi said.
The exclusion of the much-anticipated Apple Intelligence suite of AI features from the mainland China market could weigh on iPhone sales in the country, analysts said.
Hundreds of Chinese suppliers on Temu, the overseas shopping app run by PDD Holdings, staged a protest at the e-commerce giant’s office in Guangzhou over alleged unreasonable platform policies.
Supercomputing technology that China has developed over the past two decades could help break the stranglehold of US restrictions on the mainland’s artificial intelligence industry.
Taobao will reward merchants with good track record on the platform more autonomy in handling refund requests from customers.
Dong Yuhui said his namesake venture, Time with Yuhui, will soon start to operate as an independent business.
China’s AI industry is entering a rapid period of consolidation after large language model development mushroomed last year, experts said at the Future Tech Summit 2024 in Shenzhen on Thursday.
Apple is reportedly working on a clamshell-style foldable smartphone for release as soon as 2026, while Huawei prepares a dual-hinged foldable for production.
The National Press and Publication Administration granted licences to Tencent’s Arena Breakout: Infinite and miHoYo’s Xingbu Gudi, about which little is known.
