China's Internet companies swarm into India | Struggling to kill the Internet
On May 29th, the pharmaceutical company announced that in addition to killing domestic Internet companies, in the global context, especially in neighboring China, Southeast Asia and India, where the population is similarly intensive, have begun to increase their efforts to deploy in the ultimate Internet 'fighting war'. Made its own place in China.
Tencent Captures Indian Content Market
In China, Tencent’s battle against today’s headlines has been very laborious. However, Tencent has taken precautions and has already set its sights on a broader market. They have established a 'base' in India.
NewsDog, India’s news app, is China’s current headline imitator. On May 23, the company received 50 million US dollars in Series C financing, and the leader’s head is precisely the head-butt of today’s headline – Tencent.
NewsDog is a news aggregator service that is very similar to today’s headline, allowing consumers to customize their daily content based on their preferences. Currently, it has 50 million users in India, can provide 10 kinds of Indian local languages, and recently it also Established a platform 'WeMedia', users can aggregate by uploading content. The company's founders were founded by Chen Huan, a graduate of Tsinghua University, and Yi Ma, a PhD from Princeton University, who worked at Baidu and Goldman Sachs Group in 2016. .
Interestingly, according to a section of news that the reporter saw from Sohu.com, a headline was released on the headlines today. Today, the headline overseas employee Liang Liang used his position to grasp the company's large amount of raw data, and met with the same group of employees, Li and Huang. However, later, Lee and Huang left the company and joined the competition company Newsdog. On April 12, 2018, the two leaving the company obtained company data from Liang Yi and shared it with Newsdog's internal work group.
Obviously, Tencent and today’s headlines have been quietly competing in the Indian market. Interestingly, in India, Alibaba’s UC has long been the “old aristocrat” of local news distribution in India. According to UC’s data released in February this year , Its monthly active users in India have exceeded 130 million.
Chinese internet companies swarm into India
In fact, in phase with India, a populous country, domestic Internet companies have been placed in India in rotation, and even in specific areas have already picked up their wrists.
In February this year, it was reported that Alibaba was investing 100 million U.S. dollars in Indian logistics company XpressBees. This will also become the sixth investment in Alibaba's Indian market. Prior to this, Ali Baba paid Alipay Paytm separately to India, Indian version of Tmall. Paytm Mall, India's online trading platform, Snapdeal, India's BigBasket, and India's online ticketing platform, TicketNew, have tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.
In March last year, India's e-commerce giant Flipkart completed a round of one billion US dollars in financing, investors include Tencent. Tencent has invested in a number of areas in India. In addition, Tencent also invested in Indian network car company Ola last year. Uber's strongest competitor in India. In addition, Tencent also invested in India’s “WeChat” Hike Messenger, which invested US$90 million in digital numbers. health Platform Practo Technologies.
Xiaomi and his brother company Shun Capital have already invested in six Internet companies in India, including Hungama, India’s online provider of music and video, and KrazyBee, an Indian university graduate staging platform.
In early December of last year, ofo announced the launch of the first shared bicycles in Chennai, the capital of India's state of Tamil. Currently, theo yellow vehicles have entered pilot projects in New Delhi, Indore, Bangalore, and other seven cities. There was an action. This month, Mobike entered Pune, a city in western India, and officially launched a smart shared bicycle service in India.
Fight the internet medical field
If we say that Internet companies are located in India because India and China have similar Internet conditions more than a decade ago, Chinese Internet companies can easily replicate the old path that China has gone through. If the internet is so buzzing, then it is definitely China’s Internet. Giants show ambitions for the future blue ocean market.
Recently, Tencent released its latest medical AI engine, Tencent Ruizhi, from the pre-clinic link to introduce smart guidance, the purpose of which is to use big data and artificial intelligence to solve the problem of misallocation of medical resources. Since 2014, Tencent has altogether Invested in Lilac Garden, Good Doctor Online, Micro-medical (registered website), Doctors of Medicine, Dr. Penguin and many other Internet medical companies, accumulating more than US$500 million. May 23, at the 2018 Tencent 'Cloud + Future' Summit , Tencent’s Super Matrix (TI Matrix), which is positioned as the digital world's 'Smart Operating System', is officially released. In the social and medical field, which is highly concerned by society and industry, the medical super brain will input AI capabilities to medicine R&D, genome data analysis, consultation, disease Screening, auxiliary diagnosis and treatment, medical management and other links.
Through the medical super-brain, AI brings innovation momentum to the medical field: AI Pharmaceutical R&D company Jingtai Technology uses medical super brain to create a new high-throughput drug development engine, achieving more than 10 times improvement in the prediction efficiency of drug crystals. Up to 98%; A well-known genomics research institute under the support of the medical super-brain reduced the time for human genome-wide sequencing of second-generation sequencing data from 30 hours to 2.8 hours with an accuracy of 99.52%.
Tencent's first product, “Tenxun Yingying”, which applies artificial intelligence technology to the medical field, realized the use of AI medical image analysis to assist doctors in the screening of diseases such as esophageal cancer, pulmonary nodules, and diabetic retinopathy, and was assisted by clinical case analysis. Doctors identify and predict more than 500 disease risks.
Tencent is so active in Internet health care, and old rival Ali naturally lags behind. In fact, Alibaba has invested heavily in researching Alibaba Cloud’s medical brain. According to reports, the ET medical brain is an artificial intelligence for the medical field launched by Alibaba Cloud. Previously, major breakthroughs have been achieved in lung cancer, cervical cancer, thyroid cancer, etc. Not long ago, a breakthrough in the prediction of gestational diabetes was achieved, the accuracy of prediction was increased to 83%, and the incidence rate was reduced by 65%. In recent days, 450 orthopedic surgeons and Alibaba Cloud’s medical brain had a medical discussion. This is a special PK occurred at the annual meeting of the Orthopedic Physician Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. The final ET medical brain scored 90 points on the intelligent reading, slightly higher than the doctor’s composite score. Winning results.
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New forces are hard to stop challenging old aristocrats
When will the challenges of the “new aristocrats” come to an end when the new forces of the Internet end? The chairman of Ai Media Consulting told reporters that it is still difficult to end in the short term. Zhang Yi said that from a technical point of view, Moore’s Law promoting technology upgrading is still in effect, and the 5G craze Just started, Internet technology still has a lot of room for development. As a result of uninterrupted technological upgrading, it must be a new business model. enterprise The constant launch.
On the other hand, Zhang Yi told reporters that domestic consumer upgrades are still continuing and consumers need better products and business experience. In the global market, as operators continue to improve the network, more and more people use it. From the Internet, there is bound to be tremendous potential for development of various Internet products from social networks to e-commerce. 'This will inevitably allow more and more new noblemen, unicorns, to constantly challenge the old nobles.'
In addition to the global need to promote more and more unicorns to challenge the 'old aristocracy', some insiders believe that Internet companies frequently challenge the original industry leader, even at the cross-border 'sports field', behind or otherwise. Cao Lei, director of the China e-Commerce Research Center, observed several recent Internet domain disputes and analyzed with reporters that several internet companies that had entered the 'spoiler' were recently reported to be listed, so their purpose of entry or 'drunk Weng Zhiyi is not a wine', which aims at stock market IPO.
Chen Liteng, an assistant analyst at the China Electronic Commerce Research Center, believes that Didi recently actively strengthens its external extension business, or is related to the recent divergence of listed rumors. The recent US group taxis frequently exert power, and their actions in the takeout market are beneficial to both. To resist the 'challenge' of competitors, we also hope to increase investor confidence through a sound system and help us obtain better valuations.