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Chinese brands
- TikTokByteDance launched Douyin on the 20th of September 2016, a mobile app designed to host user-submitted videos ranging from three seconds to 60 minutes.
- Alibaba GroupOn the 28th of June 1999, Jack Ma stood in a small apartment in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, with seventeen friends and students to launch Alibaba.com.
- TencentIn November 1998, five men gathered in a small office in Shenzhen to launch a company they named Tencent. The name came from the Chinese characters for…
- HisenseQingdao Number 2 Radio Factory opened its doors in September 1969. The small facility produced a radio under the brand name Red Lantern as its first product.
- BaiduRobin Li developed RankDex in 1996 while working at IDD Information Services. This search engine used hyperlinks to measure website quality, a technique…
- LenovoOn the 1st of November 1984, eleven engineers from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy Sciences gathered in Beijing to establish a…
- Mengniu DairyNiu Gensheng stood at the helm of a new venture in 1999. He had previously worked for Yili, an Inner Mongolian dairy giant that would later become Mengniu's…