On the morning of April 18, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, together with Xiaomi co-founder Liu De, senior vice president Wang Xiang, general manager of Xiaomi India Manu Jain and local Indian colleagues, inaugurated Xiaomi India’s new headquarters in a southern city of India.
On April 18th, The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Ant Financial Services Group signed a Joint Declaration of Intent to explore ways to contribute to economic development in rural areas and to reduce rural poverty in China and other developing countries.
In 2014, Microsoft announced the opening of its Office 365 cloud service in China with the help of local partners. Office 365 became the only international cloud productivity platform in China, as well as the first cross-platform and cross-device productivity tool in China. Prior to this, Microsoft’s Azure cloud service had also entered the Chinese…
On April 16, Liu Qiangdong, Chairman and CEO of Jingdong Group, or better known as JD.com, came to Madrid, Spain, to attend the World Retail Conference (WRC). He is also publicizing JD’s Spanish website Joybuy.es that was just released for public testing on April 12.
On April 9, Xiaomi announced today that it will open three new mobile phone factories in India. At the same time, the power bank factory Xiaomi operates with another company have also begun to produce mobile phones. So far, Xiaomi has set up altogether six mobile phone factories in India.
The 2018 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) opened today in Boao, Hainan. It will last four days and host around 2,000 guests from over 60 countries and regions around the world.
On March 21, Ubisoft and Tencent have reached a strategic agreement in which Tencent will operate, release and promote Ubisoft’s most successful PC and mobile communications products in the Chinese market. The deal reinforces the link between the world’s leading video game developers and China’s largest online gaming and social networking operators.
Alibaba Group announced today that it will invest another $2 billion in Lazada Group in an effort to accelerate its growth and deepen its integration with the Alibaba ecosystem. Lazada is the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia.
Chinese mobile payments have made new moves in going abroad. On March 15, Ant Financial’s Alipay platform entered the markets in Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Burma to serve Chinese tourists.
At Tencent AI Lab’s second academic forum on March 15, Tencent AI Lab announced a strategic cooperation with Springer Nature’s Nature Research. The partnership will promote the interdisciplinary research of AI in the medical care field and the integration of AI in learning and research.
