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JOYY Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results: Total Revenues up 3.3% Year Over Year, BIGO Achieves Fourth Consecutive Quarter of Growth

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SINGAPORE, Aug. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — JOYY Inc. (NASDAQ: YY) (“JOYY” or the “Company”), a global leading technology company, announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter of 2024.

During the second quarter, JOYY’s revenue came in at US$565.1 million, a year-over-year increase of 3.3%. The Company’s core business segment BIGO continued its topline recovery trend for the fourth consecutive quarter, generating revenues of US$507.2 million, a year-over-year increase of 7.7%. JOYY recorded net profit and non-GAAP net profit[1] of US$52.1 million and US$74.0 million, representing sequential increases of 15.0% and 10.2%, respectively. The Company sustained its positive operating cash flows, generating US$71.1 million in the second quarter.

JOYY continued to advance shareholder returns in the second quarter by repurchasing an additional 2.3 million ADS for a total consideration of US$71.4 million.

Ms. Ting Li, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of JOYY, commented, “In the second quarter, we continued to build on our growth momentum, delivering solid results. BIGO revenue reached US$507.2 million, a 7.7% year-over-year increase, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of recovery. By consistently expanding and diversifying our revenue streams, BIGO’s advertising business maintained rapid growth, emerging as a key driver behind our topline recovery. Our focus on operational refinements and cost optimizations across our business has led to improved efficiency, driving quarter-over-quarter increases in both GAAP and non-GAAP net profits[1]. Globalization through localization remains a strategic priority, and we believe there is still ample room for expansion. Looking ahead, we will continue to innovate product features, enhance user experiences, and drive operational efficiencies to generate sustainable and profitable growth for our global business.”

Second Quarter 2024 Financial Highlights

Net revenues increased by 3.3% to US$565.1 million in the second quarter of 2024, compared to US$547.3 million in the corresponding period of 2023.Net income attributable to controlling interest of JOYY was US$52.1 million in the second quarter.Non-GAAP net income[1] attributable to controlling interest and common shareholders of JOYY was US$74.0 million in the second quarter.

Second Quarter 2024 Business Highlights

In the second quarter, Bigo Live’s MAUs increased by 1.6% quarter over quarter, reaching 37.7 million. Bigo Live’s targeted strategy of reallocating advertising budgets and operational resources to regions with high-monetization potential yielded positive results, particularly in developed countries. In these markets, Bigo Live achieved 9.4% year-over-year growth in MAUs, 20.3% in paying users, and 11.0% in revenue. Bigo Live further enhanced its operational efficiency with the launch of an advanced management system for streamers and agencies. This innovative system has automated the streamer contracting process, significantly improving talent discovery and management capabilities.

During the second quarter, Bigo Live launched a series of innovative marketing initiatives tailored to local customs and user preferences, which brought fresh, diverse content to the platform and injected new energy into its user community. A standout example was Bigo Live’s partnership with the Esports World Cup (EWC) from June to July. Bigo Live broadcast all Free Fire, MLBB, and PUBG Mobile events, offering users an immersive gaming experience and unique opportunities to interact directly with professional e-sports players. In June, Bigo Live also participated in the 13th VidCon, held in the United States. This event showcased Bigo Live’s vibrant creator ecosystem and cutting-edge livestreaming features to top American content creators, laying the groundwork for Bigo Live to expand its reach and boost its performance in key markets.

Bigo Live’s Real Match feature, launched last year, creates a space for users to meet new people. After several rounds of optimization, Real Match’s DAU penetration rate has nearly doubled in the past six months, now exceeding 20%. This success has had a ripple effect, boosting Bigo Live’s user registration, payment conversion, and overall ROI. Bigo Live further optimized its Real Match feature by upgrading its sorting algorithm and integrating Bigo Live Wealth points into users’ profile pages, which improved matchmaking efficiency and enhanced overall user engagement. In the second quarter, the total number of Real Match connections increased by 14.9% sequentially, and the number of direct chat messages between matched users rose by 9.4% over the same period. Bigo Live further elevated its livestreaming experience with a suite of upgrades including more dynamic emoji interactions, seamless cross-room engagement features, and improved functionality for the Match feature. These enhancements drove sequential increases of 4.2% in the number of streamers, 4.8% in the number of streamers in multi-guest rooms, and 6.5% in the number of users going live.

In the second quarter, Likee remained profitable. Sequential DAU growth in Europe and advertising inventory optimization contributed to a 34.7% year-over-year increase in Likee’s advertising revenue. Likee launched a series of creator-centric events and interactive features, helping content creators deepen their connections with their core fan base. This strategic approach is yielding positive results, with strengthened community ties and enhanced user retention. In June, Likee hosted its first fantasy music festival, Likee Fantasy Fest, where outstanding regional creators took the stage and interacted with fans. Held in Europe, the event provided local users with an electrifying live experience centered around their love of animation, film, music, and gaming. These initiatives underscore its commitment to evolving Likee into a deeply engaging platform.

In the second quarter, Likee introduced significant upgrades to its video toolkit by adding advanced AI-powered filters and effects. These enhancements have enabled the creation of higher-quality videos, leading to more diverse content and driving a 1.3% sequential increase in average DAU time spent.

In the second quarter, Hago sustained its positive operating cash flow. Hago launched a zodiac-themed activity that featured customized visual gifts, along with collection and ranking features. The campaign was a major hit, engaging more than 60% of total paying users. In the Middle East, Hago integrated local traditions to create exclusive interactive features, virtual gifts, and visual effects for Eid celebration. These initiatives successfully enhanced user activity in Hago’s live rooms.

Hago continued to enhance its user engagement with new interactive features, including live bullet screen games in voice rooms and tools to quickly summon Family members into live sessions. Average time spent per user in Hago’s social channels increased sequentially to 103 minutes, accompanied by steady improvements in the product’s next-day retention rate.

[1]. For details of the non-GAAP measures, including the reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures, please refer to the press release titled “JOYY Reports Second Quarter 2024 Unaudited Financial Results” issued by the Company on August 28, 2024.

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Huawei Launches Over 20 All-New Xinghe Intelligent Network Offerings to Amplify Industrial Intelligence

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2024 /CNW/ — During HUAWEI CONNECT 2024, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, announced more than 20 all-new Xinghe Intelligent Network offerings globally at the summit themed “Xinghe Intelligent Network, Amplify Industrial Intelligence”. These purpose-built offerings contribute to an AI network ecosystem and help customers seize opportunities for intelligent development and maximize intelligent productivity.

With the development of AI technologies, the world is advancing from digital transformation to intelligent transformation. All industries are quickly adopting AI technologies to create new use cases, for example, self-driving cars, intelligent diagnosis and treatment, and intelligent train inspection. All of these are significantly improving the efficiency and experience of our work and daily lives.

The advent of the intelligent era is driving networks into intelligent ones. Huawei has been making joint efforts with partners to lead research and practices of intelligent networks. That’s why Huawei constantly upgrades its Xinghe Intelligent Network offerings to help customers grasp opportunities for intelligent development, build new intelligent network infrastructure, and maximize intelligent productivity in the intelligent era. Key highlights include the following:

Xinghe Intelligent Campus focuses on AI-enabled, experience-centric campus network construction, ensuring zero freezing for audio and video applications, zero degradation on services, and zero waiting for interactions.Xinghe Intelligent WAN introduces a wide range of intelligent technologies to intelligently schedule millions of flows and precisely optimize service experience.Xinghe Intelligent Fabric adopts the AI Turbo engine to improve network throughput, enhancing foundation model training efficiency.Xinghe Intelligent Network Security integrates AI technologies into network security detection, accurately and rapidly identifying threats.

To support network solutions in various scenarios, Huawei released more than 20 featured offerings globally. Examples include the industry’s first 100 Tbps fixed-form Ethernet data center switch, the industry’s first 51.2 Tbps liquid-cooled fixed-form data center switch, the industry’s first AI router, high-quality 10 Gbps campus switches and Wi-Fi 7 APs, Intelligent SASE Branch Security Solution, and the industry’s first IP Autonomous Driving Network Solution. All these offerings are designed to help customers with greater business returns.

As the intelligent era calls for intelligent networks, Huawei will continue to drive the development of intelligent networks and upgrade its Xinghe Intelligent Network products and solutions, ultimately helping global customers to stride towards the intelligent era and reap more benefits.

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HUAWEI CONNECT 2024 | Huawei Unveils the Brand-New Xinghe Intelligent Fabric Solution, Powering the AI Era

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — At HUAWEI CONNECT 2024, over 300 industry leaders, experts, and scholars gathered for the data center network session themed “Xinghe Intelligent Fabric, Powering the AI Era.” The event featured discussions on the evolution and technological advancements of data center networks. During the session, Arthur Wang, President of Data Center Network Domain at Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, introduced the newly upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Fabric solution. This cutting-edge solution aims to establish a data center network characterized by one map for intelligent operations and maintenance (O&M), one network for diverse computing, and one platform for simplified deployment, providing a robust network infrastructure to support enterprises’ digital and intelligent transformations.

In his keynote speech, Arthur Wang outlined the emerging trends in data center network development. He emphasized that in the AI era, data center networks require both a “brilliant brain” and “resilient bones.” The newly launched Xinghe Intelligent Fabric solution is designed to deliver a powerful network infrastructure tailored for the AI era, featuring:

One Map for Intelligent O&M: Zero Management Concerns

Huawei’s exclusive network digital map enables rapid cross-data center and cross-vendor fault identification within minutes. Additionally, the NetMaster network large model facilitates AI-driven O&M, eliminating manual intervention and ensuring zero management concerns.

One Network for Diverse Computing: Zero Service Interruptions

The Xinghe Intelligent Fabric supports various application scenarios, including intelligent computing, general-purpose computing, and storage. The innovative Network Scale Load Balancing (NSLB) algorithm increases network throughput to 95% and boosts AI training efficiency by over 10%. With the exclusive iReliable three-level fast switchover capability, it achieves sub-millisecond switchover, guaranteeing zero service interruptions.

One Platform for Simplified Deployment: Zero Configuration Errors

By employing digital twins to simulate networks in advance and verify configurations post-deployment, the solution ensures 100% accuracy in network changes. By harnessing network-security convergence capabilities, AI creates an intelligent security matrix to analyze millions of security policies, achieving zero configuration errors.

Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to collaborate with industry partners to enhance research and innovation in data center networks, promote intelligent upgrades, and create greater value for the industry.

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Cultivating a Culture of Peace: International Day of Peace Statement by Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif

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NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2024 /CNW/ — The longing for peace transcends time, geography and religion. Based on justice, human rights and universal values outlined in the UN Charter, a culture of peace brings us all together in our common agenda for humanity. We can only co-exist by aligning ourselves with such a world order.

On today’s International Day of Peace, we call on world leaders to end conflict and embrace a culture of peace as enshrined in the UN Charter and related international law.

As the UN General Assembly outlined in the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace  a quarter of a century ago, this must include: “Respect for life, human rights and fundamental freedoms; the promotion of non-violence through education, dialogue and cooperation; commitment to peaceful settlement of conflicts; and adherence to freedom, justice, democracy, tolerance, solidarity, cooperation, pluralism, cultural diversity, dialogue and understanding at all levels of society and among nations.”

Educating for peace starts at home and continues in school through years of education. This takes place during the most formative years of a child learning about their identity, ethics, values, conscience, courage and compassion. Wherever there has been a failure in imparting on children the imperative for peace, the world is turned upside down. This is a global failure with no geographical boundaries.

Today, we live in a world of unprecedented violence, armed conflict and chaos. All the genuine and heartfelt commitments made in 1945 in the UN Charter seem to be fading away. Children and adolescents are the most vulnerable, the least protected, and the most impacted. They bear the brunt. 

Global conflicts killed three times as many children in 2023 than in the previous year, according to the United Nations. The number of forcibly displaced people reached an unprecedented 120 million in May 2024.

“In 2023, the United Nations verified a record 32,990 grave violations against 22,557 children in 26 conflict zones, a 35% increase from the previous year,” according to recent analysis by the UN.

We can end these violations and invest in a constructive co-existence globally. We can use our resources for education, rather than for wars. In classrooms around the world, girls and boys who have withstood the wrath of war can rebuild their hopes and their lives. Cultivating a culture of peace is possible. The financial resources exist. The choice as to how we use them is ours.

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