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Twitter are reportedly set to accept Tesla owner Elon Musk’s $43bn cash offer for the social media giant
Operations at the plants located in Dianfa and Fuhong in northern Kunshan have been halted since last Wednesday
Toyota-backed tech firm gets a licence to operate 100 vehicles in Guangzhou's Nansha district. Rival groups are also testing self-driving cars in Shenzhen, Changsha and California.
The company offers delivery to several inland destinations, including Chengdu, Chongqing, Linyi, Yiwu, Shengyang, Suzhou and Shijiazhuang
The penalty is Australia's fourth-largest payout for breaching consumer law, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said in a statement
Musk said he has lined up $46.5 billion in debt and equity financing to buy Twitter and was considering taking his offer directly to shareholders.
Pentagon officials were impressed by SpaceX's swift effort to block an electro-magnetic attack by Russia that aimed to jam its Starlink satellite internet service for people in Ukraine
Xiaohongshu, which is backed by Tencent, Alibaba and Singapore's Temasek, joins other internet firms cutting staff numbers despite $500m funding round last year
The company launched its DiDi Food services in April 2020 in Osaka and later expanded to nine prefectures, according to its website
In 2021, China implemented legislation requiring international and domestic companies to re-evaluate how they handle Chinese personal data
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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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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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