Juro Osawa Reporter
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Juro Osawa is a reporter for The Information based in Hong Kong. Previously, he was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he wrote about China’s technology giants -- such as Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei -- as well as the country’s booming startup scene.

103 Articles
about 2 months ago
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China’s Government Takes Stake in a Tencent Domestic Unit

China’s government has taken a stake in a domestic subsidiary of Tencent, the operator of WeChat, China’s biggest mes...

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about 2 months ago
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Baidu Seeks Edge in China’s Crowded Race for AI Dominance

In the U.S., all eyes are on OpenAI and Google’s battle for supremacy in generative artificial intelligence. In China...

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about 2 months ago
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China’s Venture Firms Reckon With a Power Shift to LPs

In mid-September, dozens of global investors, including U.S. endowments, foundations and family offices, descended on...

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2 months ago
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Data Show TikTok Shop Relies on Indonesia, Where Business Is Threatened

TikTok just cannot escape government scrutiny. Even as the hugely popular ByteDance-owned app expands in the U.S. des...

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2 months ago
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Sequoia Capital China Buys Discounted Stake in Prominent E-Commerce App

Sequoia Capital China recently acquired a stake in Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu from existing investors ...

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3 months ago
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Another Major Venture Firm to Separate China Investment Partners Following U.S. Pressure

GGV Capital, a prominent venture capital firm managing $9.2 billion in assets, plans to separate its China and U.S. t...

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4 months ago
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Biden Order Could Hit Chinese VC Firms Run by Americans

Some of China’s most prominent venture capitalists are U.S. citizens or green-card holders. That could soon become a ...

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4 months ago
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Venture Capital Firms Struggle to Raise Funds in China

When CMC Capital, a Shanghai-based venture capital and private equity firm, started raising a new fund from global in...

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4 months ago
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ByteDance’s China Business Is Slowing, Putting Spotlight on TikTok

ByteDance might be best known globally as the parent company of TikTok, but the bulk of its money comes from its home...

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4 months ago
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Inside TikTok CEO’s Plan to Play Offense

When the public face of TikTok’s management in the U.S.—V Pappas, TikTok’s chief operating officer—announced their de...

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5 months ago
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Sequoia Capital China in Talks for New $2.8 Billion Fund, Defying Malaise

Sequoia Capital’s Chinese affiliate, which is preparing to split from the Silicon Valley venture firm, is in talks to...

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5 months ago
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For Early ByteDance Investor and China Venture Star, the Returns Are a Paper Tiger

In some ways, Source Code Capital is China’s version of Andreessen Horowitz—it’s a relative newbie to venture investi...

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