Tech Titans of China Quotes

“commercial drone market, which accounts for about 60 percent of total worldwide sales, used for such purposes as crop spraying,”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“all global automakers in China to make 10 percent of their vehicles electric models by 2022”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“Pinduoduo makes money primarily from collecting fees for marketing services such as pay-for-search keywords and ad placement, Pinduoduo relies on artificial intelligence and big data analysis”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“SenseTime for facial recognition and iFlytek for speech recognition”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“Ministry of Science and Technology in China has earmarked specialties for each of these Chinese tech titans in its master plan for AI global dominance: Baidu for autonomous driving, Alibaba for smart-city initiatives, and Tencent for computer vision in medical diagnoses.”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“food services segment of the e-commerce market is growing by nearly 20 percent yearly”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“on-demand food delivery in China, which he says isn’t an alternative to restaurant dining or preparing food at home, but a way of life.”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“A core of Tencent’s corporate culture is rapid-fire acquisitions and investments, a quicker way to realize results than internal innovation, which can take years to develop with an uncertain payoff—with some exceptions, like WeChat.”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“Walmart launched its own scan-and-pay app within WeChat mini-programs”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“Tesla has used mini-programs (of wechat) for users to schedule a test drive, find a charging station, and share their experience”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global

“China’s mobile, savvy millennials and Gen Z youngsters mostly in their teens, twenties and thirties, who make up more than half of China’s population compared to one-third in the United State”
― Rebecca Fannin, Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector is challenging the world by innovating faster, working harder, and going global