IT総合 Following UK expansion, Robinhood brings crypto trading to EU
Robinhood’s long-awaited international expansion is at full throttle. The consumer trading and investment app tail...
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IT総合 IT総合 Vancouver’s Fantuan raises $40M to deliver real Chinese food at your doorstep
For those who move abroad from China, one thing they miss dearly is the convenience of food delivery apps. Fantuan, a Va...
IT総合 As Temu shakes up global ecommerce, PDD nears overtaking Alibaba
PDD, the firm behind the fast-growing shopping app Temu, is shaking up China’s Big Tech club. On Thursday, news of...
IT総合 Nvidia taps China talent for autonomous driving endeavors
Nvidia has long been involved in the development of autonomous vehicle technologies, providing the industry with graphic...
IT総合 After two ambitious years, TikTok parent ByteDance starts mass layoffs in gaming
ByteDance’s gaming ambition has been an expensive, short-lived pursuit. In late 2021, the TikTok parent’s pl...
IT総合 Fate of US venture capital in China teeters on uncertainty
On a weekday afternoon at Red Rock Coffee, the cafe known for spotting venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, one is lik...
IT総合 US chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants yet
Well before Washington banned Nvidia’s exports of high-performance graphic processing units to China, the country&...
IT総合 China’s EV upstart Li Auto hunts for chip talent in Singapore
Li Auto, a electric vehicle maker adored by young Chinese families, is stepping up its endeavors to build in-house autom...
IT総合 China’s tech giants dip their toes into web3, but prospects are limited so far
During the Staking Summit in Istanbul, a conference attended by hundreds of individuals involved in the staking practice...
IT総合 How Jane Street-backed ZetaChain aims to expand Bitcoin’s use cases
Despite its dominant market share in the crypto sphere, Bitcoin has had limited applications compared to other blockchai...
IT総合 Nepal joins a growing list of countries banning TikTok
Another country is banning TikTok, the ByteDance-owned short video behemoth with over one billion active users around th...
IT総合 ByteDance’s Oculus challenger Pico lays off hundreds, halts aggressive expansion
When Pico launched its Oculus Quest challenger in China last year, it did so with great optimism. Light (295 grams) and ...
IT総合 a16z writes first check out of UK to crypto startup Pimlico
Upon opening its first overseas office in London last Thursday, a16z announced today that its first check written from t...
IT総合 Shein reportedly seeks $90 billion valuation in IPO
Shein has seen big swings in its price tag over the last year. The Singapore-headquartered fast fashion platform is targ...
IT総合 Why this autonomous vehicle veteran joined a legged robotics startup
Zhang Li‘s career path has looked like a bellwether for China’s tech trends. When the Cisco veteran joined W...
IT総合 Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model
Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller AI Superpowers and in China for his bets on arti...
IT総合 Chinese EV darling Nio to cut 10% staff amid ‘fierce competition’
Nio, the Chinese carmaker known for its sleek, premium electric SUVs, has started a new round of layoffs as intense comp...
IT総合 SEC subpoenas PayPal over its USD-pegged stablecoin
Just three months after PayPal entered the fray to bring stablecoins to the masses, it’s attracting attention from...
IT総合 China’s tech vice minister calls for ‘equal rights’ at global AI summit in UK
Despite the ongoing technological decoupling between China and the West, both sides are converging to discuss the threat...
IT総合 Shein adds struggling UK brand Missguided to its fashion empire
Shein, the fast fashion giant that has thrived on its nimble supply chain in China, is expanding its product range by sc...
IT総合 Xpeng starts removing HD maps from Tesla FSD-like feature in China
Xpeng is often called the Chinese challenger to Tesla for its efforts to bring advanced driving capabilities to its elec...
IT総合 Coach’s knitwear supplier bets $1M on Jellibeans’ fashion prediction tech
In fashion design, success is often determined by talent, hard work and a sprinkle of luck. In the era of big and artifi...
IT総合 WorkMagic wants to automate all the marketing tasks for Shopify sellers
There’s no shortage of startups trying to automate marketing tasks by using generative AI. For WorkMagic, the targ...
IT総合 Two years after pausing service, Roblox China cuts a small number of staff
Roblox China was once full of promise. Since its localized platform, which is a joint effort with Tencent, abruptly halt...
IT総合 SynFutures raises $22 million Series B, bucking ‘crypto winter’
Amid a global slowdown in venture investments for crypto projects, some companies continue to buck the trend. SynFutures...
IT総合 Biden further chokes off China’s AI chip supply with Nvidia bans
In August last year, a ban on Nvidia’s chip export to China sent the country’s budding artificial intelligen...
IT総合 Asia emerges as a promising haven amid the crypto winter
Walking through Token2049, it was hard to tell that the crypto industry was going through a “winter” phase. ...
IT総合 Account Labs raises $7.7M as FTX’s demise leads to crypto self-custody growth
The collapse of the FTX empire didn’t just set in motion a crypto market downturn. The unraveling of FTX’s m...
IT総合 Didi’s autonomous vehicle arm raises $149M from state investors
When Didi created an autonomous vehicle subsidiary in 2020, the venture was seen as a Chinese counterpart to Uber’...
IT総合 TabbyML, an open source challenger to GitHub Copilot, raises $3.2 million
The race to create AI assistants that help humans write computer code is heating up. TabbyML, built by two ex-Googlers, ...