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...to spend $960mn to boost computing power for generative AI (Nikkei Asia) Chinese flying taxi sector claims global lead thanks to regulatory support (FT) Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from China store...
...future in its largest market was plunged into doubt after the US House of Representatives approved a bill to force TikTok to be sold to a non-Chinese company within six months or be banned from US app stores...
...steep price increases of the RTX 4090, and several retailers say the buyers are snapping them up to resell in China and Hong Kong, according to an investigation by Nikkei Asia’s Pak Yiu, Lauly Li, Cheng Ting-Fang...
...In Singapore, one computer parts merchant told Nikkei Asia that buyers from mainland China had caused a shortage of the RTX 4090 in the store....
...The strategy involves everything from theme parks to convenience store snacks. One sign of success is “The Super Mario Bros....
...Chief executive Ting-Kuan Chen told Nikkei that his outfit currently derives more than 40 per cent of its revenue from Asean markets, serving over 5,000 merchants....
...It recently launched a GPT Store to its subscribers, who can build apps on top of OpenAI’s software, in a similar way to Apple’s iOS App Store — although there is no way yet to make money from it....
...BYD is preparing to open 22 sales outlets in Japan beginning in January, with the goal of having more than 100 stores by the end of 2025....
...Tomoyuki Mochizuki, vice-president of ecommerce consultancy Itsumo, believes that “the role of physical stores will expand”....
...A department store I went to over the weekend was packed with crowds, and I even had to wait in line to get a table at a coffee shop....
...Chinese regulator scrutiny (FT) Singapore’s Grab takes on Google in digital mapping (Nikkei Asia) Toshiba agrees ceasefire with investors but fight is far from over (FT) Amazon to close China Kindle Store...
...Meanwhile, the steady flow of customers into the first UK store of Swapfiets in Shoreditch, east London, illustrated the growth of services offering longer-term micromobility....
...Tesla has already promised to store information collected in China in local data centres — a significant blow to the global data gathering efforts that are critical to the company’s research and development...
...“After Covid, we forecast that the tourist armies will return, with a bounceback in ‘revenge spending’,” said Ting Zhou, founder of Yaok Group. “But in the long run, it will not go back to 70-30....
...“Benefits of this 48-hour mandate might be limited as the infectious Omicron is unlikely to be fully stamped out and cities might still be faced with frequent partial or even full lockdowns,” said Ting Lu...
...These are big semiconductor companies that operate like department stores, supplying all types of high-quality peripheral chips, from power management chips and microcontrollers to sensors serving different...
...Now the development of at least one of this year’s new iPhones is falling behind schedule, according to an exclusive report by Nikkei Asia’s Lauly Li and Cheng Ting-Fang....
...“The levels of inventory [in warehouses] and in-store stocks of AirPods are currently high . . . and demand is not as strong as expected.”...
...“This is the most significant example to date of China going after Taiwanese companies with mainland operations,” said Chen Kuan-ting, head of the DPP-linked think-tank NextGen....
...“As evidence of a growth slowdown increases, we think Beijing is inching closer towards stepping up policy support,” said Lu Ting, chief economist at Nomura in Hong Kong....
...Ting Lu, chief China economist at Nomura, has highlighted the global implications of the power shortages in China....
...“The idea is that if the real demand is only 100 units per month, it would order 150 units and store them....
...SMIC is even working with other Chinese chipmakers to create a shared reserve of such parts, sources said, adding that a central warehouse has been set up to store these items....
...He is focused on digitising Alibaba’s bricks-and-mortar stores and expanding its cloud computing unit, which hosts vast amounts of data on behalf of other companies....
...Another favourite is Gelateria Zampolli, where you find clusters of people eating gelato late into the night, and the beautiful design store, Vud, owned by a couple who make wooden chopping boards and objects...
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