Just as the Chinese duo of Jack Ma and Pony Ma have carved up major chunks of their country’s Internet businesses, the battle for control of 1.3 billion Indians’ data could become a two-horse race.
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India has banned another set of 118 apps from China’s technology giants, including Tencent’s wildly popular game PUBG Mobile Lite and online payments platform Alipay, as tensions escalated between the countries.
The Trump administration said on Wednesday it was stepping up efforts to purge “untrusted” Chinese apps from US digital networks and called TikTok and WeChat “significant threats”.
Zhang Yiming is the little-known Chinese entrepreneur who built TikTok into one of the most promising franchises on the Internet. Now the brainy, combative founder is under pressure to save the business.
A $20-billion fund-raising spree may take India’s Reliance closer to its dream of becoming a digital giant, further threatening the plans of US companies such as Amazon.com, Walmart and Zoom.
Alibaba Group co-founder Jack Ma has cut his stake in the company over the past year to 4.8% from 6.4%, cashing out around $9.6-billion at its current share price.
China over the past decade built an alternate online reality where Google and Facebook barely exist. Now its own largest tech corporations are getting a taste of what a shutout feels like.
The US senate overwhelmingly approved legislation on Wednesday that could lead to Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group and Baidu being barred from listing on US stock exchanges.
ByteDance’s valuation has risen at least a third to more than $100-billion in recent private share transactions, people familiar with the matter said.
The Covid-19 pandemic likely barely dented Tencent Holdings’ growth. The bigger long-term threat may be the growing posse of challengers to its Internet leadership.