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Pandaily is a tech media company founded in 2017 by seasoned journalist Kevin Zhou. With the slogan "Everything about China's innovation", Pandaily currently runs three product lines – Online English Content, Community Connection and Data Service, focusing on Chinese technology and business.

History
According to Kevin Zhou, Pandaily was founded after he felt a huge information gap between China and the US, aimed at bringing a clearer picture of innovation and business development taking place in China to the world.

At its oneset, Pandaily was focused only on translating news from Chinese to English and later began to produce original content. With more and more investors and business pioneers looking to learn from the development taking place in China's internet services and e-commerce industries, Pandaily received funding from a series of private investors and its editorial team was born. It now publishes related original news articles on a weekly basis.

Coverage
Regarding its website, Pandaily concentrates on technology and business. What's more, it has a special preference to stories at the intersection between tech and culture. Its news has been cited by many other news media.

In 2018, Pandaily reported a green movement launched by Ant Financial through Ant Forest on its prominent domestic mobile payment platform Alipay and this report was cited by Forbes. Pandaily also covered the new moves by Alipay to expand its operations abroad, XPeng Motors' response to its emplyoees stealing trade secrets from ex-employer Apple, and the plan to go to public in the US of China's Netflix iQIYI. When video sharing platform Kuaishou became popular among Chinese consumers, Pandaily wrote an article entitled "Kuaishou: the Lens to a Different China" to help introduce the app to foreign readers,

In 2019, Pandaily reported that UK regulators were conducting an investigation into ByteDance's short video application TikTok regarding the safety and privacy of underage users on the platform. When Chinese autonomous driving company Roadstar.ai fired one of its co-founders Zhou Guang, Pandaily published an article discussing this surprising dismissal. Yahoo!finance cited a report by Pandaily, which stated that PBOC would be first to roll out digital currency.

In 2020, in the midst of the original COVID-19 outbreak, Pandaily reported that Douyin, the mainland Chinese version of TikTok, launched an "anti-pneumonia" channel to help users aggregate the latest progress in epidemic prevention and relevant scientific knowledge. When Huawei released its half-year report stating slowdown of H1 revenue growth before UK government decided Huawei's right to participant in the country's 5G networks, Pandaily publish news taking the event as a subject, which was listed under a piece of relevant news by Techmeme.

In 2021, Pandaily reported that key suppliers of Apple and Tesla stoped power production in Jiangsu Province in estern China because of power restriction. In October, Pandaily covered that community group-buying platforms like Chengxin youxuan owned by Didi Chuxing and Jingxin pinpin owned by JD.com suspended their business, the era of fast-growth cash-burning came to its end.

In 2022, Pandaily covered reports that Taobao, an online shopping platform owned by Chinese internet giant Alibaba, had launched an interest-oriented app called "Yousha" and Toutiao, a news content platform operated by ByteDance, tested an intelligent reading dapp called "Shiqu". It also reported a scoop that the global marketing head of TikTok owned by Beijing-based internet giant ByteDance was fired, possibly resulting from a campagin named "TikTok kitchen" he launched.