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The funding puts the industry in the tricky position of pushing for grants but facing headwinds to investment in Chinese factories and financial backing of Chinese startups
Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings, Meituan and TikTok owner ByteDance have been invited to a government-sponsored symposium
Tightness in semiconductor supplies over the past two years have in some cases caused automotive and consumer appliance production lines to shut down
Washington and Beijing need to upgrade human-to-human co-operation to avoid AI errors in a high-pressure, low-information military environment
A law imposing value-added tax and income tax on crypto-asset trade transactions take effect from May 1 in the Southeast Asian country
Arm unveiled its latest micro controller design and two new systems to help reduce development time of the so-called "Internet of Things" of connected devices.
“No further TSLA sales planned after today," Musk wrote on Twitter after the US Securities and Exchange Commission filings became public on Thursday evening
The RBNZ said feedback from the public had helped affirm the importance of privacy and autonomy and that this would be a focus of further policy work
Luca Maestri, the tech company's financial chief, told analysts that supply-chain issues would hurt sales in the quarter by $4 billion to $8 billion
The diamond and gold-rich African nation joins El Salvador in recognising bitcoin as an official currency
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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PaymentsCan China Take Place of SWIFT System? Analysts Say ‘No’There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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Market InsightsHere’s How China Can Win the Tech War With USAThe Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
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Fintech InsightsAsia Becomes the Epicentre of Global NFTsAsia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade
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