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- ↑ Ho, Victoria (23 November 2016). "China jumps in the digital home assistant game with LingLong's DingDongs". Mashable .
- ↑ Thurston, Anthony (24 November 2016). "China takes on Amazon's Echo with the LingLong DingDong smart home device". Digital Trends . Retrieved 25 November 2017.
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