Individual Stock News:
1. Meituan: Plans to acquire Dingdong Maicai (DDL.N) for $717 million.
2. Bilibili (BILI.O) announced a renewed partnership with CCTV's 2026 Spring Festival Gala, becoming the exclusive bullet-screen video platform for the Year of the Horse Gala.
3. Qualcomm (QCOM.O) reported a 5% year-over-year increase in revenue to a record $12.3 billion in its first fiscal quarter, with adjusted earnings per share of $3.50, both exceeding analyst expectations.
4. Alphabet (GOOG.O) CEO: Will collaborate with Apple on the development of the next-generation Apple base model based on Gemini technology.
5. Sony (SONY.N): In talks with suppliers to increase memory supply. Sony added that it has secured dedicated PS5 memory for this year's holiday sales season.
6. Faraday Future (FF) held the final launch event for its "EAI Human-Car+" embodied intelligent robot product, announcing the establishment of EAI Robotics Company and the launch of three series of EAI robots. 7. Amazon (AMZN.O) was fined $70 million by the German antitrust authority for violating fair competition rules regarding pricing controls.
8. NIO (NIO.N): The company expects to record adjusted operating profit of approximately RMB 700 million (approximately US$100 million) to RMB 1.2 billion (approximately US$172 million) in the fourth quarter of 2025, marking the company's first quarterly adjusted operating profit.
9. TSMC (TSM.N) will upgrade the main process technology of its second wafer fab at its Japanese subsidiary JASM from the originally planned 6nm to 3nm, increasing the total investment to US$17 billion.
