Following the exile of Jack Ma, shares of BABA tumbled down from all-time highs a year ago. No company has incurred more of a loss in market capitalization than Alibaba in the last year. None have come close to the large figure. Ever since Ma publicly expressed forthright discontent with the financial system of China, investor sentiment around the successful...
Volkswagen's EVs Are Taking Off in China, May Soon Surpass NIO's Market Share On October 22, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 was launched in the country at CNY 159,888 to CNY 173,888 per vehicle. Volkswagen China achieved a milestone of 10,000 EV sales in September 2021. We dissect Volkswagen's EV sales through three perspectives: product, production and marketing. A...
Tencent is looking to prepare for the next stage of internet games with a new studio that focuses on metaverse. Tencent Holdings is assembling an international team for its new gaming studio that will be under TiMi Studio Group, a subsidiary of Tencent. Rumor has it that the company sent out an internal letter indicating the establishment of new 'F1'. According...
An exciting day arrived for Alibaba Cloud as the company unveiled its new meeting assistant AI and announced the launch of a new data center planned for next year in South Korea. The company is trying to end the year strong as it continues to roll out more innovations and future plans. Alibaba Cloud announced the launch of its first data center in South Korea in...
Alibaba’s Premium DingTalk aims to help athletes, volunteers and organizers efficiently communicate at the upcoming 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. On October 20, Alibaba Cloud unveiled the Premium DingTalk for sports games at the Apsara Conference 2021. The newly released DingTalk will provide a digital solution for organizing communications for large-scale...
Baidu Apollo and WM Motor officially released two new cars on October 19, both of which are based on the WM Motor W6 SUV. One is a new generation of the unmanned vehicle Apollo Moon mass production model equipped with LiDAR (Apollo Moon WM Motor version), and the other is a mass-production model equipped with Baidu Apollo Navigation Pilot (ANP) assisted driving...
This is the largest single round of financing to date for a company in the low-altitude manned vehicle sector in Asia, with HT Aero's pre-investment valuation exceeding USD 1 billion. HT Aero (Xiaopeng Huitian), a technology unit majority-owned by XPeng Motors and CEO He Xiaopeng, announced today that it has closed a Series A round of funding in excess of USD 500...
The NIO ES8, introduced in Norway on September 30, recently underwent a 1000km test resulting in an average performance. The journey resulted in an 11hour, 25-minute journey. The car stopped to charge 5 times and sustained an average driving speed of 87.6km/h. This ES8 utilized a 100kwh lithium-ion battery and besides its high energy consumption, the car did not...
"We are sincerely sorry, and we humbly accept all criticism and advice. We will make relevant improvements immediately." Future founder Leaf Hua Li publicly apologizes for the interruption of the morning of October 9, 2021. "We are sincerely sorry, and we humbly accept all criticism and advice. We will make relevant improvements immediately." Future founder Leaf...
The vehicle, which is based on XPeng's Edward platform like the P7 sedan, could be available in the fourth quarter of 2022. After spy photos of XPeng Motors' new mid-size SUV were revealed in late July and late August, new photos as well as specs have been revealed showing more details of the model. According to Weibo user, the car, which is based on XPeng's...
The company's widening losses come along with the user base expansion. Waterdrop Inc. (WDH:NYSE), a Tencent-backed Chinese online Insurtech company, as well as a crowdfunding platform, released its Q2 2021 financial report on September 8. It has consistently attracted international attention since going public this May. One of the leading insurers in sales...
The tech-powered coffee chain may soon be ready for another public listing. The Chinese coffee pioneer went on to achieve positive revenue growth despite the expected surge in its settlement fees and continued operating losses. More financial data from Luckin will be worth paying attention to in the near future. Unexpected revenue improvement On September...
Due to the recent introduction of the 'double reduction' policy by the state to regulate the country's expensive private education industry, Gaotu is looking to adjust its focus. The Chinese edtech firm Gaotu released its Q2 earnings report for the period ended June 30, 2021, on September 23 2021. - Net revenue was CNY 2.23 billion, a 35.3% year-over-year...
The Chinese edtech firm’s K-12 tutoring service contributes 98.7% of its revenue 17EdTech released its Q2 earnings report for the period ended June 30, 2021, on September 23. - Net revenue was CNY 671 million, a 147.2% year-over-year increase. - Net revenues of K-12 tutoring service increased 163.9% year-over-year to CNY 662 million. - Paid courses enrollment...
According to the latest regulatory developments, it plans to shut down a certain number of learning centers in the fiscal year 2022. The Chinese edtech giant released the audited performance report for the fiscal year 2021 on September 24 Revenue was USD 4.27 billion, a year-on-year increase of 19.5%. The net profit was USD 230 million, a year-on-year...
The company also has 341 supercharging stations with 2,176 supercharging piles, 515 destination charging stations with 2,878 piles and access to more than 400,000+ third-party charging piles. The Chinese Lunar New Year holiday is a peak travel time for the public, and NIO wants to significantly expand its battery swap stations' coverage along highways before then...
The company said that 54 percent of those orders were for the LiDAR-equipped models. XPeng Motors said Friday that it accumulated 6,159 orders for its new sedan, the P5, in the first 24 hours of its official launch. The company announced Wednesday evening Beijing time that the P5 became available for order in China in six configurations with a subsidized price...
Creating extra value for JD.com's 530 million active users will be the company's next strategic endeavor. With the tumultuous unfolding around China's major New York-listed tech companies, plenty of mid-cap stocks have been affected as well, losing their market value in 2021. In some cases, however, investors' fear has little to nothing to do with the firms' real...