And, JD.com and U.S. network service provider Cloudflare joined forces to compete with Alibaba and Tencent for the Chinese cloud computing market; Gojek confirmed the acquisition of mobile terminal sales technology startup Moka.

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Global downloads of Douyin and TikTok exceeded 2 billion times. It is learned that the intelligence data of the Sensor Tower store shows that the total downloads of Douyin and TikTok in the world’s App Store and Google Play have exceeded 2 billion downloads, only 5 of the 1.5 billion downloads from the application. month.

Chinese AI marketing technology platform EternityX entered Singapore and opened an office centered in Southeast Asia. According to e27, the Chinese AI marketing platform EternityX has expanded to Singapore, appointing Richard Andrew as managing director, responsible for Southeast Asia and Australia. Andrew will be responsible for driving business expansion in Southeast Asia and Australia.

JD.com and U.S. network service provider Cloudflare joined forces to compete with Alibaba and Tencent for the Chinese cloud computing market. According to KrASIA reports, according to the joint statement issued by the two companies on Tuesday, Cloudflare will build 150 new data centers in China through cooperation with JD.com to help global companies develop business in China and help domestic companies expand overseas.

Li Ziqi has over 10 million overseas fans. On April 29th, Li Ziqi’s fans on Youtube exceeded 10 million, becoming the first Chinese creator who broke 10 million fans on the platform. Li Ziqi is familiar with everyone because of the spread of food and traditional culture. Since August 2017, he has commissioned overseas qualified operators to release videos. At present, there are more than 14 million overseas fans. Among them, the number of fans on a single platform has exceeded 10 million, and the cumulative number of fans worldwide has exceeded 100 million. Among them, the most broadcasted is the new year snack collection released in the Spring Festival of 2019, with more than 52 million views. (Sina Technology)

India

The Indian Startups Association (SIA) has requested the Indian Ministry of Commerce to exempt foreign direct investment (FDI) from investors from neighboring countries such as Chinasystem. According to DealStreetAsia, SIA stated in a letter to Indian Minister of Commerce Pius Goyal that since 2015, foreign investors have invested approximately US $ 82.1 billion in Indian startups through various financing channels. These include foreign portfolio investments (FPIs), venture capital and alternative investment funds (AIFs). Among them, Chinese investors invested more than 8 billion US dollars. In addition, SIA also asked the government to establish a $ 330 million “India Startup Fund” to help start-up companies affected by the outbreak.

British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline said it plans to sell its US $ 3.9 billion stake in Unilever India Limited (HUL). According to DealStreetAsia, GlaxoSmithKline stated in a statement on April 1 that HUL had paid an additional US $ 400 million to its board of directors to acquire GlaxoSmithKline ’s Horlicks brand. It is reported that GlaxoSmithKline’s health brands Horlicks, Boost and Maltova are now part of HUL’s nutritious food and snack business.

Nine lobbying groups around the world have called on India to postpone the new digital tax. According to ET Tech, nine lobbying groups, including the American Chamber of Commerce, called on India to postpone the new digital tax, or it may be related to the impact of the digital tax on companies such as Facebook and Google. It is reported that from April 1, India will levy a new tax of 2% on transactions made abroad by foreign settlement or digital services provided by companies to India.

Southeast Asia

U.S. browser developer Fulldive announced the establishment of a payment partnership with Gojek ’s digital payment platform GoPay to launch the Fulldive browser in Indonesia. According to e27, according to the agreement, the GoPay payment platform will become the first payment solution provider for the Fulldive Indonesian version of the application. This partnership will enable Fulldive to use GoPay payment technology to provide services to Indonesian users.

Gojek confirms the acquisition of Moka, a mobile terminal sales technology startup. According to KrASIA, Gojek confirmed in a statement on Thursday that it acquired Moka, a mobile terminal sales (POS) technology startup. Gojek said the two companies will integrate their services to provide seamless solutions for merchant partners, including payment, food delivery, growth tools and POSsystem. Gojek provider account services include super application GoBiz, mobile wallet GoPay, online payment portal MidTrans and POS system provider Spot.

Stoqo, an Indonesian online food delivery platform, ceased operations. According to e27, the online food distribution platform Stoqo, headquartered in Jakarta, has been closed due to the impact of the epidemic. Stoqo was founded in 2017 by former McKinsey partner Aswin Andrison and Amazon ’s former software developer Angky William, and aims to simplify the food supply chain by sourcing and delivering ingredients from small restaurants. Just last year, the company also successfully served tens of thousands of food stores in Jakarta, with a sevenfold increase in business.

Africa

DPO Group, an African digital payment company, has partnered with MasterCard to help African companies realize online transactions. According to IT News Africa, the African digital payment company DPO has opened an e-commerce platform powered by MasterCard ’s payment gateway technology. Through this platform, DPO hopes that merchants across Africa will be able to transfer their businesses online and continue to conduct transactions with their customers.

Other

Google Meet video conferencing service is free for all users. Google said on Wednesday that any user will soon be able to host a free video conference on Meet, which will make this tool, which was previously only for corporate use, a powerful competition for Zoom and other similar services to compete for users during the corona virus outbreak opponent. Meet, which has 100 million daily active users, needs a Google business or education account to establish a call. Although Google has long provided free versions of business tools, including Gmail and Google Docs, its newer service Meet launched three years ago There is no similar version. (Tencent Technology)

Softbank: The annual loss will expand to 8.4 billion US dollars, due to WeWork ’s loss of 6.6 billion US dollars. Beijing time, April 30th news, Softbank Group today revised its fiscal year 2019 performance expectations, and now expects a full-year net loss of 8.4 billion US dollars. Softbank said that its non-operating losses in fiscal 2019 were originally expected to be about 800 billion yen, but now it is expected to exceed 9.4 billion US dollars. Among them, the USD 6.6 billion loss came from the investment in WeWork’s joint office space, loan commitments and financial guarantee contracts. (Phoenix Network Technology)

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