Tag: Consumer

Techpoint Africa

BNPL drives Valu’s $53 million in gross revenue

The news BNPL accounted for 60% of Valu’s gross merchandise value (GMV). The fintech recorded EGP 2.6 billion ($53.7 million) in gross revenue in H1 2025. […]
August 14th, 2025
Rest of World

China falls back on gasoline to drive its global EV conquest

China’s electric-vehicle revolution just engaged reverse gear. The world’s largest EV producer is flooding international markets with plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that run both on batteries […]
August 14th, 2025
Technode

Flash sale platforms see 300% surge in smartphone sales in China

Meituan paid $11.3 billion to millions of delivery riders in 2023, averaging less than $0.52 per order. Credit: Meituan China’s instant retail sector is booming with […]
August 14th, 2025
Technode

INSIDER | Takeaways from our first ShanghA.I. Expedition

Note: The article was first published on LinkedIn written by Patrice Nordey. We also engaged with founders and CEOs of rising AI-powered startups and unicorns such as Versa […]
August 13th, 2025
Technode

Xiaohongshu’s REDLAND turns a shipyard island into a 2.5D theme park for China’s gaming generation

On August 8th, under the weight of Shanghai’s summer heat, a shipyard-turned-park became what its visitors called, a “Ita-island.”(derived from ACGN fandom term “Ita-bag”). Xiaohongshu – […]
August 12th, 2025
Rest of World

China’s vision for a driverless future is miles ahead of everyone else’s

At the glitzy Auto Shanghai show in April this year, the message was clear: China is making the cars of the future, and that future will […]
August 12th, 2025
Technode

Can a reborn CreateAI leap into a high-quality wuxia epic game with Heroes of Jin Yong?

Credit: CreateAI Last December, TuSimple, a Chinese company once well known for its autonomous driving technology, made a bold move into the gaming industry. After facing […]
August 12th, 2025
Trending Topics

AI Talk 38: Wir zerlegen GPT-5

Eh klar: Die Podcast-Hosts Jakob Steinschaden (Trending Topics, newsrooms.ai) und Clemens Wasner (Enlite AI, AI Austria) können in dieser Folge gar nicht anders, als eingehend über GPT-5, […]
August 12th, 2025
Techpoint Africa

5 questions about Egypt’s new FRA sandbox answered  

On Wednesday, July 23, 2025, the Financial Regulatory Authority of Egypt (FRA) introduced the FRA sandbox, the country’s first regulatory sandbox for non-banking financial services (NBFS), […]
August 12th, 2025
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