Huawei Technologies Co unveiled a string of new products including a brand-new high-end smartphone brand Ultimate Design on Monday, as the Chinese tech giant further revives its consumer device busine.
Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma (File photo)
BEIJING: Jack Ma was conspicuously absent from a list of China’s entrepreneurial greats published by state media on Tuesday, underscoring how the the iconic Alibaba co-founder has run afoul of Beijing.
Ma, lionized at home for creating some of his country’s largest corporations, didn’t make the cut in a Shanghai Securities News front-page commentary lauding the leading lights of technology. Instead, the official Chinese paper held up archrival Pony Ma as “rewriting the mobile age” with Tencent Holdings Ltd. Also on its list were BYD Co Chairman Wang Chuanfu, Xiaomi Corp co-founder Lei Jun and Huawei Technologies Co’s Ren Zhengfei.