TikTok Rival Kuaishou Builds $1.4bn Data Center In China

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Chinese video sharing app Kuaishou will spend about 10 billion yuan ($1.41 billion) to build its largest data center, as the company looks to support a user base poised for continued growth in a post-coronavirus market. Read More

Kuaishou Sues Rival Douyin for ‘Piggybacking’ on Its Name

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China’s second-largest video platform claims top competitor infringed its trademark to gain more users. Read More

Brand Film Pick: Kuaishou’s Supporting Role in Coronavirus Documentary

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The short video platform Kuaishou’s rise to mainstream prominence has coincided with the coronavirus outbreak, which has created new opportunities for it to emerge stronger from the crisis Read More

Life in Kuaishou’s Watery Margins

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Streamers on China’s coarse TikTok rival drift between the alieantion of the ‘jianghu’ and dreams of mainstream success. Read More

Kuaishou Earned Revenue of $7.2 Billion in 2019: report

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Chinese video-sharing app Kuaishou generated RMB 50 billion (around $7.2 billion) in revenue in 2019, with live-streaming revenue accounting for the largest share. Read More

Short-Video App Kuaishou Takes on China’s Tech Giants for the Lunar New Year

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Over the past five years, China’s Spring Festival holiday has become a battleground among the country’s biggest internet companies, and as new technologies such as short video become increasingly popular, the fronts are shifting. Read More

Kuaishou Announces Plans for 2020 Spring Festival Gala

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Short video app Kuaishou will give away a total of RMB 1.1 billion for the show. Read More

Kuaishou Launches Curated Short Video App Taizan

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In addition to boosting daily active users (DAUs) of its main app, Kuaishou has been actively building out its content ecosystem to compete with Bytedance. Read More

Headlines from China: Short-video Company Kuaishou Invests in China’s Quora

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Zhihu, a Chinese online Q&A service similar to Quora, raised $434 million from its F round of financing led by Tencent backed short-video company Kuaishou and Baidu. Tencent and Bytedance, two existing investors of Zhihu, invested in this round as well. Read More

Tencent Aims to Challenge Douyin with $1.5 Billion Investment in Kuaishou

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Tencent is in talks with short video app Kuaishou, known as Kwai in English, about investing between $1 billion and $1.5 billion in the platform. Details of a potential deal have already emerged on Chinese financial blog IPO Zaozhidao. Read More

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