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Startup Digest

China Tech

September 02, 2016

Weekly news and insights about startups and innovations happening in China.

China Tech Startup Digest is curated by:
Xu Tao

Xu Tao - Senior writer of CBNweekly

Contact Xu Tao at xu.tao@startupdigestmail.com

Edith Yeung

Edith Yeung - Partner at 500 Mobile Collective Fund

Contact Edith Yeung at edith.yeung@startupdigestmail.com

AI is shaping the future of commerce

Braintree’s GM of Mobile, Aunkur Arya, sat down with Pinterest’s Head of Commerce, Michael Yamartino, to talk about how Pinterest is using AI technologies to advance the buying experience. Read about their talk, and watch a short clip, by clicking here.

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China’s tech trailblazers

The Economist

No other place will reveal more about the advantages and drawbacks of winner-takes-all digital markets.

Live-streaming in China

Khaled "Tito" Hamze - TechCrunch

Live-streaming apps like Huajiao and Inke are very popular in China. But making money live-streaming your daily life to viewers? Why are so many people watching and why are they paying? 

China Gears Up in Artificial-Intelligence Race

Li Yuan - WSJ

Chinese technology companies, including Baidu, invest heavily in AI efforts. Enthusiasts of the technology in China say those resources, along with some particular advantages in China, such as the sheer volume of data generated by its enormous population of internet users, makes this an area where China can excel.

China’s antitrust launches inquiry into Didi-Uber deal

Don Weinland - FT

China’s antitrust regulator said on Friday it had opened an investigation into the $35bn merger of Chinese car-hailing app Didi Chuxing with US rival Uber, and also planned to probe the $3.8bn takeover of DreamWorks Animation by Comcast’s NBCUniversal.

Huawei Aims to Be World’s Second-Biggest Smartphone Maker by 2018

ARCHIBALD PREUSCHAT - WSJ

Huawei is now third, behind Samsung and Apple.

Personal-Privacy Concerns Grip China

Li Yuan - WSJ

Technology has given new tools to thieves world-wide. In China, security experts and lawyers say the sheer number of personal-data-theft cases in a society that traditionally doesn’t value privacy makes personal-information protection a serious challenge. And, as online users become more sophisticated about their privacy and rights, they are demanding, often via social media, better protection.

Primavera, Alibaba’s Ant Financial dunk $460M into KFC owner’s spinout Yum China

Ingrid Lunden - TechCrunch

This is a strategic investment for Ant Financial, as part of its bigger “online to offline” strategy. OTO is a catchphrase that is used a lot in Asia and refers to the plethora of opportunities in the market to apply tech solutions to non-tech businesses, providing growth opportunities for both.

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