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Chinese brands
- TikTokTikTok reached a billion active users within four years, faster than Facebook, Instagram or YouTube.
- Alibaba GroupAlibaba began in a Hangzhou apartment, where Jack Ma gathered 17 friends and students.
- ByteDanceByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing. Its story begins in early 2012, when two friends rented an apartment in Zhongguancun and put a handful of former colleagues to work on a new app. By…
- TencentTencent's founder once said, "To copy is not evil." The Chinese tech giant began by cloning a messenger.
- HisenseHisense began in 1969 as a small radio factory in Qingdao, China. Its radios were sold under the name Red Lantern.
- BaiduBaidu's name comes from the last line of a Song dynasty poem. It describes finding someone in dim candlelight.
- DeepSeekDeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company based in Hangzhou, helped trigger the largest single-company loss of value in the history of the US stock market. Nvidia, an established leader in AI hardware, saw its share price drop…
- NetEaseNetEase is a Chinese internet company whose web address, 163.com, is a leftover from the dial-up era. Before broadband arrived, Chinese internet users had to dial 163 to get online. The number later became tied to the company's name. Ding…
- XiaomiOn the 30th of December 2014, Xiaomi put its Redmi Note 4G phone on sale through the Indian retailer Flipkart. It sold out in six seconds. The sale came only weeks after a court in Delhi had banned the company's products from India.…
- LenovoIn 2005, Lenovo bought IBM's personal computer division, which had created the ThinkPad laptop.
- Mengniu DairyMengniu Dairy was founded by a man who left Yili, its fiercest rival. Niu Gensheng started the company in 1999.
- BYD AutoBYD Auto once wrote off CN¥100 million of research spending on a car that never reached a showroom. Dealers had rejected the prototype, codenamed 316, because of its poor styling. Wang Chuanfu, founder of the parent company, then destroyed…
- BilibiliBilibili began in 2009 as a fan shrine for the anime character Hatsune Miku. It was first named Mikufans.cn.