China's Surging Third-Party Payments Market Is in Trouble

Digital Natives, Undefined

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Is Amazon a retailer?  E-commerce giant?  Cloud-computing service provider?  Logistics king?  Fulfillment behemoth?

Organizations such as these [see below]—digital natives that are not defined or constrained by any one industry—may seem like outliers.

Focusing on other companies such as Rakuten Ichiba (Japan) and Tencent (China), it becomes tough to categorize the industries these firms are operating in.  Why should we?

It's clear that digitization is shifting industry boundaries.

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Chinese Companies to Watch: Tencent, Huawei and Xiaomi

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Step aside Alibaba. There's bigger fish to fry in 2015 when it comes to Chinese companies looking to become as big or bigger than Alibaba and known worldwide.

Chinese tech companies are poised to make a huge splash this year as they push beyond their borders and invest heavily in international expansion.  

Here are three Chinese tech companies to watch in 2015.