A code of conduct for China’s booming live-streaming e-commerce industry is the first step towards regulating a new marketing tool widely adopted by offline merchants

With Washington shutting the door on foreign chip suppliers who use US technology to produce semiconductors for Huawei, can domestic Chinese firms meet its needs?

Huawei’s public opinion campaign comes amid a fresh review of the Chinese company’s role in Britain’s 5G networks launched by the UK National Cyber Security Centre

As more fans like Beijing resident Maggie Li lavish spending on products promoted by their live streaming idols, it is clear that online shopping is no longer just e-commerce

The Trump administration’s move reflects how US companies needed to stay engaged in global 5G standard development with Huawei, which is ahead in drawing up the specifications.

China’s State Grid, the world’s largest utility, to invest $3.48 billion in digital infrastructure in partnership with tech giants Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu

Live streaming has boomed in China as Covid-19 and related lockdowns dealt a further blow to offline shopping.

Tmall live-streaming e-commerce promotion for iPhones generated gross merchandise volume (GMV) of more than US$70 million within the first five hours

The five-year plan will have Tencent focus on fields that include cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and the Internet of Things, as well as the infrastructure to support them like advanced servers, supercomputers, data centres and 5G mobile networks.

Shenzhen-based Huawei saw its tablet shipments grow 4.3 per cent year on year in the first quarter, the only major tablet maker in the market to achieve positive growth

Survival is the keyword for Huawei right now, rotating chairman Guo Ping says in response to the Trump administration’s announcement of new restrictions on the Chinese telecoms giant’s ability to develop semiconductors using American technologies.

Oppo’s cooperation with Vodafone signals global ambitions to promote the Chinese brand in mature overseas markets at a time when rival Huawei is facing headwinds

Internet giant Tencent, which runs the world’s biggest video games business and China’s largest social media operation, reported a 6 per cent increase in net profit to US$4.1 billion in the March quarter.

China’s Xiaomi accounts for 10 per cent of the market in western Europe after its smartphone shipments grew 79 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter

Huawei was the only major smartphone vendor to achieve positive year-on-year growth in the first quarter, with sales dragged down by the coronavirus pandemic, according to Hong Kong-based research firm Counterpoint.

The urgent challenge for Huawei is how it continues to navigate the US decision to add it to a trade blacklist last year – which has meant re-engineering its supply chains.

Alibaba investigation found that Jiang Fan’s actions had not resulted in a conflict of interest but triggered public debate which damaged company’s reputation.

Besides gaming and social media, Tencent’s investments now cover artificial intelligence, consumer retail, education, financial technology and more.

The coronavirus pandemic has seen a boom in online food deliveries but China’s platform operators have had to evolve and innovate to deal with the health crisis.

Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications equipment vendor, recorded first quarter revenue growth of 1.4 per cent to US$25.7 billion amid a challenging business environment

Oppo’s global marketing president Brian Shen Yiren has resigned for health reasons at a time when sales are being hurt by the impact of Covid-19 and competition from bigger rival Huawei

In the middle of a spectacular boom in China’s live-streaming video market, a number of tech industry chieftains have become its new stars, eager to cater to the vigorous appetite for online shopping in the world’s second largest economy.

Ren Zhengfei has been described as the ‘spiritual leader’ of Huawei, but he says he would rather be forgotten.

The coronavirus outbreak has already spurred a boom in online entertainment, online learning and work-from-home technology.

Yu warned about more potential risks if the US imposes further restrictions on Huawei in 2020.

DJI says it is ‘busy with new projects’ and does to have time for ‘absurd and false speculation’

More private data is being collected to help contain the spread of Covid-19, with young people in the west willing to sacrifice privacy for public safety

Alipay and WeChat Pay see slower growth as Chinese cut offline consumption during the coronavirus outbreak although rebound expected in second quarter.

Huawei reported robust growth in group sales last year to US$121 billion driven by a jump in domestic smartphone shipments, though sees difficult year ahead

Huawei and Tencent will set up a game development lab exploring the use of cutting-edge technologies such as cloud gaming, AI, VR and AR in the game industry.