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| Jul 2, 2026 | Xiaohongshu reportedly launches internal Darwin project to develop new products | Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu has launched an internal startup incubation program, codenamed Darwin, aimed at developing new products beyond its flagship app, according to Sina Tech. The initiative, which recently opened applica... |
| Apr 10, 2026 | JD.com plans to launch ride-hailing service in mobility push, sources say | JD.com is reportedly set to launch a ride-hailing service, according to Sina Tech, marking a potential move into the mobility sector. A source familiar with the matter said the service, internally referred to as “Open Ride Service,” is expe... |
| Mar 18, 2026 | ByteDance issues internal OpenClaw security rules, launches ByteClaw | ByteDance’s security team has issued internal security guidelines for OpenClaw and launched an enterprise service called ByteClaw for employees, according to Sina Tech. Built on Volcano Engine’s ArkClaw enterprise version, ByteClaw supports... |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Tencent’s TiMi denies reports of mass layoffs, says around 100 staff affected by project adjustment | Recently, users on social media platforms such as Xiaohongshu alleged that Tencent’s TiMi Studio is planning to lay off several hundred employees, possibly related to the Shanhai Xunling project team. In response, a source close to TiMi tol... |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Alibaba’s mapping unit Amap reportedly to enter global robotaxi market | Alibaba-owned Amap is preparing to enter the robotaxi sector with plans to expand globally, according to a report by Sina Tech, a Chinese technology media outlet. The initiative is described internally as a strategic-level business that wil... |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Alibaba’s DingTalk, Tongyi Lab Unveil Next-Gen AI Speech Recognition Model, Report Says | (Yicai) Aug. 22 -- Alibaba Group Holding's workplace messaging app DingTalk and the voice team of the Chinese tech giant's artificial intelligence research and development unit Tongyi Lab have launched a next-generation speech recognition l... |
| Aug 4, 2022 | China launches secretive reusable test spacecraft | HELSINKI — China sent a highly-classified reusable experimental spacecraft into orbit Thursday, two years after a similarly clandestine mission. A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert A... |
| Jan 4, 2022 | Kindle’s China future in doubt after disappearing from online shelves | Since Kindle began shipping in China nearly nine years ago, the e-book giant has garnered a loyal following in the country. The journey has never been easy, thanks to regulatory hurdles around digital content. Recently, there are signs that... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Bike sharing’s not dead: Alibaba-backed firm files for U.S. IPO | |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Boss of Chinese gaming titan NetEase calls for shared parental leave | China’s relaxation of its one-child restriction has not delivered the population targets set by its policy planners. In 2019, the birth rate in China slumped to a seven-decade low, which experts attribute to changes in social attitudes, sky... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | Clubhouse blocked in China after uncensored chats attract thousands — everything you need to know | |
| Dec 8, 2020 | The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men | (Yicai Global) Dec. 8 -- On a frigid winter’s night, Ming Xuan stood on the roof of a high-rise apartment building near his home. He leaned over the ledge, peering down at the street below. His mind began picturing what would happen if he j... |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Китайский «Uber для грузовиков» Manbang привлёк $1,7 млрд | Китайский «Uber для грузовиков» Manbang привлёк $1,7 млрд в последнем раунде финансирования от SoftBank Group, венчурного фонда CapitalG, принадлежащего Alphabet, и других инвесторов. В 2018 году компания привлекла $1,9 млрд. Новость о прив... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Google-backed Chinese truck-hailing firm Manbang raises $1.7 billion | The Chinese Uber for trucks Manbang announced Tuesday that it has raised $1.7 billion in its latest funding round, two years after it hauled in $1.9 billion from investors including SoftBank Group and Alphabet Inc.’s venture capital fund Ca... |
| Oct 27, 2020 | China’s Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Blockchain Adoption for Charity | Tens of millions of dollars have been reportedly raised to help Wuhan, a city in central China with 11 million people, to recover from its coronavirus outbreak earlier this year. However, charities in China are not widely trusted. Now, Chin... |
| Sep 8, 2020 | Viral article puts the brakes on China’s food delivery frenzy | For China’s food delivery workers, life can feel like a constant battle with algorithms, traffic police and disgruntled customers. An essay detailing the hazardous work conditions of China’s food delivery drivers went viral on the internet ... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | PopID’s face-based payments pose privacy and security risks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Risk of infection during the pandemic motivated b... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | PopID’s face-based payments pose privacy and security risks | Risk of infection during the pandemic motivated brick-and-mortar businesses to explore alternatives to traditional point-of-sale (PoS) terminals, like QR codes pointing to online checkouts. Most rely on familiar, existing platforms and tech... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | KEY STAT | TikTok discloses US and global user numbers for the first time | In documents ByteDance filed with the US federal court suing US government over the TikTok ban, the Chinese tech giant disclosed monthly active users (MAUs) breakdown of TikTok for the US and global market for the first time, Chinese media ... |
| Aug 17, 2020 | Dispute between Tesla and Pinduoduo intensifies as car maker refuses to deliver vehicles to platform’s customers | Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) announced last Friday that a customer who purchased a discounted Tesla Model 3 on popular group-buying platform Pinduoduo will not have his order fulfilled by the carmaker, which has claimed the purchase violated its te... |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Chinese-American lawyers plan to sue US government on behalf of WeChat users | A group of Chinese-American lawyers have formed an alliance to represent WeChat users in the United States, and plan to file a lawsuit to challenge one of US president Donald Trump’s executive orders that seek to ban transactions with WeCha... |
| Aug 3, 2020 | Zhang Yiming says ByteDance’s goal of becoming a trustworthy global company remains unchanged | With momentum building towards TikTok’s sale to Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), ByteDance’s ambitions of global superstardom are dimming by the day. However, Zhang Yiming has released an internal letter stressing ByteDance remains faithful to... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Chinese battery maker CATL to make unmanned electric mining technology | Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL) (300750:SZ) on Thursday announced a joint venture with Henan Yuexin Intelligent Machinery Co., Ltd. to develop and promote unmanned electric mining technology. According to the company’s calc... |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Luckin chairman Charles Lu Zhengyao voted off board but retains control in firm | Luckin shareholders have ousted Charles Lu Zhengyao, the firm’s controversial chairman, from the board along with three other directors during an extraordinary shareholder meeting in Beijing on Sunday afternoon, local media outlet Sina News... |
| Jun 14, 2020 | China Roundup: Alibaba to add 5,000 staff to cloud unit | Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we have updates from Alibaba’s rapidly growing cloud comput... |
| Jun 2, 2020 | CHINA BRIEF | NetEase launches secondary Hong Kong IPO to raise USD 2.8 billion | On Monday, Nasdaq-listed Chinese gaming company NetEase (Nasdaq: NTES) announced the launch of its second offering in Hong Kong, in which it plans to sell 171 million new shares to raise up to USD 2.8 billion. According to the company’s fil... |
| May 24, 2020 | Work collaboration unicorn Notion is blocked in China [Update: It’s back] | Notion, the fast-growing work collaboration tool that recently hit a $2 billion valuation, said on Twitter Monday that its service was blocked in China. The productivity app has attracted waves of startups and tech workers around the world ... |
| May 9, 2020 | Kingsoft Cloud makes solid Nasdaq debut after wave of scandals involving US-listed Chinese companies | Shares of Beijing-based cloud service provider Kingsoft Cloud Holdings (NASDAQ: KC) closed at USD 23.8 on its first trading day on the Nasdaq, 40.2% up from its initial public offering price of USD 17 apiece, during the first Chinese compan... |
| May 7, 2020 | Embattled education startup GSX posts staggering Q1 growth amid fraud allegations and trade secrets lawsuit | Online tutoring service provider GXS Techedu (NYSE: GSX) reported on Wednesday hyper-growth in both net revenues and net income for the first quarter of 2020, while affected from a raft of fraud allegations from short-sellers and a trade se... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | Dangdang’s divorce saga continues as co-founder Li Guoqing steals company seals | |
| Apr 21, 2020 | Xiaomi suspende venda de carregador rápido por falha de segurança | A Xiaomi retirou de circulação seu carregador rápido de 65 watts com nitreto de gálio (GaN). As vendas foram suspensas devido a uma falha de segurança no acessório, cujo funcionamento pode ser alterado por pessoas mal intencionadas para cau... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Amid increased financial scrutiny, US-listed Chinese online education firm GSX Techedu also hit with fraud allegations | In a wave of fraud allegations in recent weeks—involving Luckin Coffee, online streaming service iQiyi, and Tal Education—another US-listed Chinese company has been accused of fabricating revenue figures. Short-seller Citron Research issued... |
| Apr 2, 2020 | Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 Can't Compete With Kirin 820: HONOR President | Huawei announced its first mid-range 5G mobile SoC, the Kirin 820 5G, earlier this week. The chipset made its debut on the HONOR 30S and will power the upcoming crop of affordable 5G phones from Huawei and its sub-brand HONOR. While the Kir... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | Tencent’s QQ Music to release standalone music livestreaming app | QQ Music, owned by Tencent’s music arm Tencent Music Entertainment (TME), is poised to launch a music-focused livestreaming app, local media outlet TechPlanet reported Tuesday. While the Chinese entertainment giant first started developing ... |
| Mar 30, 2020 | Weibo opens e-commerce management tool to over 500 million users | Chinese social media platform Weibo has launched a tool called Weibo Xiaodian, allowing all its users to engage in e-commerce, reported online news portal Sina Tech on Saturday. Sina is Weibo’s parent company. Weibo Xiaodian enables the mic... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | CHINA BRIEF | Meituan to terminate its public cloud service in May | Meituan Open Services, the cloud computing arm of China’s on-demand service giant Meituan Dianping, announced on March 12 that it will terminate the service and user support for its public cloud service from May 31, local media Sina Tech Ne... |
| Mar 20, 2020 | Xiaomi supera Huawei em vendas de celular; volume total cai 38% | A venda de smartphones despencou quase 40% no mês de fevereiro, se comparada ao mesmo período de 2019: esta é a maior queda global de todos os tempos no mercado de celulares inteligentes. O motivo, claro, é a pandemia do COVID-19, causado p... |
| Mar 18, 2020 | Alibaba to launch ‘university’ to help on-demand workers learn digital skills | Alibaba’s local consumer service arm, Alibaba Local Services, has plans to launch an education platform, Alibaba Local Service University, to provide those working in the on-demand industry with training in digital skills, local media outle... |
| Mar 17, 2020 | CHINA BRIEF | Xiaomi users to control Nio’s cars from their smartwatches | Chinese electric vehicle startup Nio has established a partnership with electronics manufacturer Xiaomi to launch an exclusive app on Xiaomi’s smartwatches, which allows these devices to control Nio’s vehicles remotely, local media 36Kr rep... |
| Mar 16, 2020 | Baidu sets up new medical subsidiary amid coronavirus crisis | China’s largest search engine, Baidu, launched a subsidiary called Baidu Health on March 12, online news portal Sina.com reported, citing corporate registration information detected by intelligence provider Tianyancha. Baidu Health, with a ... |
| Mar 12, 2020 | CHINA BRIEF | Tencent’s WeChat quietly bans but then reintegrates QQ’s mini program | Tencent’s QQ mini program, which was removed from WeChat on Wednesday for violating the latter’s regulation, is back on the platform from today, KrASIA found. QQ messaging software service was the most popular messaging tool in China before... |
| Mar 6, 2020 | CHINA BRIEF | Douyin starts testing audio live broadcasting feature | ByteDance’s short-video app Douyin, known internationally as TikTok, has been testing an audio broadcasting function since March 2, local media outlet 36Kr reported. The feature allows a host to set up a public live voice chatroom, where up... |
| Mar 3, 2020 | CHINA BRIEF | Sichuan doctors use 5G technology to perform remote coronavirus diagnosis in Hubei | West China Hospital in Sichuan province has applied 5G technology to conduct remote CT scans on COVID-19 cases in Huangzhou General Hospital in Huanggang, Hubei province on Monday, local media outlet Communication Information News reported.... |
| Mar 2, 2020 | Coronavirus forces suspensions and salary cuts at China’s largest used car marketplace | Uxin Ltd., one of the largest players in China for buying and selling used cars, has started suspending employees and cutting salaries to cope with operational issues stemming from the coronavirus crisis, local media outlet The Paper report... |
| Feb 28, 2020 | CHINA BRIEF | Jia Jiaya, CUHK professor and former Tencent exec, launches AI company | Jia Jiaya, former executive director of Tencent YouTu X-Lab and a tenured professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has founded a new AI startup, local media outlet Latepost reported on Thursday. The new company, named SmartMore, fo... |
| Feb 23, 2020 | China Roundup: Amid coronavirus, tech firms offer ways to maintain China’s lifeblood | Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The coronavirus outbreak is posing a devastating impact on people’s li... |
| Feb 17, 2020 | Alibaba says its AI-powered algorithm can identify coronavirus infections with 96% accuracy | A new AI-powered diagnosis system promises to detect new coronavirus cases with an accuracy rate of up to 96% via computerized tomography (CT) scans, local tech outlet Sina Tech News reported on Saturday. The diagnosis algorithm was develop... |
| Feb 13, 2020 | Huawei to enter display market in second quarter of 2020 | Seeking to expand beyond telecom infrastructure and smartphones, Chinese electronics giant Huawei will enter the display market in the second quarter of this year, local media outlet 21jingji.com reported, citing industry sources. Huawei is... |
| Dec 31, 2019 | Even with over 100 million paying subscribers, Chinese Netflix-style providers are facing a tough time | With over 100 million paying subscribers, China’s iQiyi and Tencent Video have secretly grown to become the world’s second- and third-major video streaming services providers by paying user base, only after international streaming top dog N... |
| Dec 27, 2019 | Shenzhen to tighten regulation of parcel and food delivery couriers to reduce traffic | Shenzhen, the coastal city in China’s southern Guangdong province, will apply its current rules regulating drivers and automobiles to parcel and food delivery couriers to reduce traffic accidents, China’s state media CCTV reported. The new ... |
| Dec 22, 2019 | China Roundup: Ant Financial’s new boss and Tencent’s army of new apps | Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are looking at what Ant Financial’s executive shakeup co... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | Baidu’s video streaming service iQiyi announces major support to educational short-video creators | Chinese top video streaming site iQiyi has rolled out a new plan to support educational short-video creators with more exposure and cash rewards, in an effort to speed up the commercialization of the money-losing platform by leveraging paid... |
| Dec 15, 2019 | China Roundup: GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes | Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are looking at how WeWork’s largest rival in China — UCo... |
| Dec 13, 2019 | Tencent Video and Baidu’s iQiyi face backlash after hiking prices for trending TV show | Two of the most popular Netflix-like platforms in China, Tencent Video and Baidu’s iQiyi, are in the middle of the storm after unveiling this Wednesday a premium VIP plan for its paying users, charging additional RMB 50 (USD 7) for access t... |
| Nov 21, 2019 | It’s official, Chinese minors now can only play online games 1.5 hours a day | Sad news for kids who are looking forward to binging on Honor of Kings in the coming winter break: users under 18 can only play online games for no more than 90 minutes a day from this November on, except for public holidays, during which t... |
| Nov 17, 2019 | China Roundup: Alibaba’s Hong Kong listing and Tencent’s new fuel | Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The earnings season is here. This week, long-time archrivals in the Ch... |
| Nov 6, 2019 | Alibaba’s Tmall slapped with another lawsuit over abuse of market power on the eve of “Double 11” | Chinese home electronics manufacturer Galanz is suing Alibaba’s online marketplace Tmall for the latter’s alleged abuse of market dominant position. Galanz joins JD.com, Vipshop, and Pinduoduo to legally challenge the e-commerce titan’s den... |
| Oct 27, 2019 | China Roundup: Xi’s power on bitcoin, the rise of Alibaba’s new rival | Welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of the latest events that happened at major Chinese tech companies and what they mean to tech founders and executives around the world. Alibaba’s nemesis Alibaba’s new rival is shaking up... |
| Oct 17, 2019 | Tesla gets green light to start producing EVs in China | China’s industry ministry has added Tesla to a government list of approved automotive manufacturers, a designation that allows the electric automaker to begin producing vehicles in the country. Tesla’s inclusion on the list published by the... |
| Oct 14, 2019 | WeChat takes fight against fake GPS location services used for fraud | Tencent’s social instant messaging app WeChat is attracting attention for all the wrong reasons, following incidents of fraud involving fake GPS location in WeChat’s Moments, a feature that allows WeChat’s 1.1 billion users to share snippet... |
| Oct 11, 2019 | Alipay, WeChat Pay say ‘no’ to cryptocurrency transactions | Chinese mobile-payment giants Alipay and WeChat Pay have both reiterated their stance on banning crypto-assets trading, after news broke that crypto exchange Binance has enabled peer-to-peer trading against the Chinese yuan. Binance, one of... |
| Sep 25, 2019 | Alibaba launches its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800 | Alibaba has unveiled its first artificial intelligence inference chip, which is also a neural processing unit and is called Hanguang 800, according to a press release. The piece of hardware accelerates machine learning tasks. It was develop... |
| Sep 18, 2019 | Alibaba’s Taobao implements hot topic live ranking to boost sales | Alibaba’s C2C online marketplace Taobao recently implemented on its app a live ranking function based on hot-searched topics among Chinese internet users to boost sales of related goods, according to Chinese online news portal Sina. For ins... |
| Sep 2, 2019 | Chinese face-swap app Zao faces backlash over user data protection | Despite going viral and topping the download charts within two days of its debut, a Chinese face-swap app has courted controversy over its potential violations of user data protection. Zao uses deepfake-like artificial intelligence technolo... |
| Aug 27, 2019 | Meituan to make a comeback to shared power bank business | Meituan Dianping, China’s largest on-demand services provider, is poised for a comeback to the power bank sharing business, as it looks to expand its revenue sources and enhance user stickiness, LatePost reported on Monday. The move comes a... |
| Aug 19, 2019 | ByteDance buys stake in online encyclopedia Baike.com to open new front in competition with Baidu | ByteDance, the company behind viral apps including TikTok and Jinri Toutiao, has bought a 22.2% stake in online encyclopedia Baike.com, corporate registry records show. The acquisition makes ByteDance the largest shareholder of Baike.com. B... |
| Aug 19, 2019 | Huawei plans to triple headcount in new Russia R&D centers within 5 years | Huawei is reportedly planning to open three new research centers in Russia and employ 500 people by the end of this year, as reported by the Sina Tech news portal. The Shenzhen-based telecom giant will open its new centers in Russia in addi... |
| Aug 13, 2019 | Huawei demonstra painel LCD com leitor de digitais sob a tela | A Huawei apresentou diversas novidades em sua Developer Conference, incluindo o sistema operacional HarmonyOS e uma TV com câmera retrátil; ela também demonstrou uma tela LCD com leitor de digitais embutido. Normalmente, essa tecnologia par... |
| Aug 12, 2019 | Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent’s war on corruption | China’s big tech firms have a pressing corruption problem, one that the country’s powerful anti-corruption watchdog, CCDI, is now taking an interest in. CCDI published a video yesterday that listed some of the high-profile internal corrupti... |
| Jul 22, 2019 | Tencent’s game studio to develop new game with the company that owns the Pokémon brand | Timi Studio Group, the game publisher owned by Chinese tech behemoth Tencent, could be working on bringing a new Pokémon game to China. In a brief statement on its Weibo account, the Chengdu-based game publisher which is behind Tencent’s ph... |
| Jul 8, 2019 | Huawei founder says his new OS is faster than Android, but that’s still not good enough | Huawei is readying its own operating system that could launch as soon as October alongside the Mate 30 Pro flagship smartphone, according to recent reports. Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said in an interview that the new operating system, whi... |
| Jun 28, 2019 | China is expecting a five-year boom in e-sports players | Future job seekers with interests in video gaming may want to look at China’s fast-expanding e-sports sector. A new report by China’s Ministry of Human Resource and Social Security points to a scarcity in the country’s e-sports workforce, i... |
| Jun 21, 2019 | Tencent to launch professional teams and tournaments for Game for Peace | Tencent, the world’s largest gaming company, recently launched an esports development scheme for its popular title Game for Peace. The scheme will seek to set up professional teams and host different tournaments. Tencent plans to work with ... |
| Jun 18, 2019 | The death of a Chinese crypto founder | Premium Content It takes our newsroom weeks - if not months - to investigate and produce stories for our premium content. You can’t find them anywhere else. C. Custer · 20 Jun 2019 · 4 min readThe death of a Chinese crypto founder This is a... |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Suning.com might be the first to sell Huawei’s smart TV | Suning.com, one of China’s major retailers with both online and offline presences, confirmed with Chinese online news portal Sina that it’s discussing a collaboration with Huawei, which would include selling Huawei’s brand new smart TVs. Hu... |
| May 29, 2019 | With a gloomy outlook, Nio is laying off 3% of its staff | The founder of Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio, Li Bin, confirmed during an earnings call on Wednesday that his company is carrying out a downsizing plan that was first rolled out in March, under which 3% of its 9,800 global employees wi... |
| May 29, 2019 | OYO follows Ctrip partnership with Meituan tie-up | Hotel chain OYO has partnered with Meituan Hotels, the hospitality service housed under the eponymous Meituan platform, reports Sina Tech. The cooperation will see enhanced integration of OYO hotels on Meituan’s platform, with the latter al... |
| May 27, 2019 | Luckin Coffee vs Starbucks: a tale of asymmetrical warfare | Premium Content It takes our newsroom weeks - if not months - to investigate and produce stories for our premium content. You can’t find them anywhere else. C. Custer · 27 May 2019 · 5 min readLuckin Coffee vs Starbucks: a tale of asymmetri... |
| May 21, 2019 | Facing slowing growth, WeChat wants some TikTok energy | Premium Content It takes our newsroom weeks - if not months - to investigate and produce stories for our premium content. You can’t find them anywhere else. C. Custer · 21 May 2019 · 5 min readFacing slowing growth, WeChat wants some TikTok... |
| May 21, 2019 | Samsung’s Galaxy S11 won’t have the crazy new feature we’re waiting for | The Galaxy S10 was released just a few months ago and it turned out to be a success for Samsung, unlike its predecessor. In about three more months, the Galaxy Note 10 will come out with an updated design as well as several new features, ac... |
| May 13, 2019 | Beijing launches new campaign to reign in chaotic shared-bike parking | Fed up with shared-bikes piling up on pavements and blocking traffic, Beijing’s local transportation authority launched a campaign today to regulate chaotic shared bike parking. Non-compliant companies will be named and shamed, it says. Bei... |
| May 6, 2019 | Luckin Coffee’s blitz strategy | Premium Content It takes our newsroom weeks - if not months - to investigate and produce stories for our premium content. You can’t find them anywhere else. C. Custer · 6 May 2019 · 7 min readLuckin Coffee’s blitz strategy The following is ... |
| May 3, 2019 | Oyo’s China challenges | Premium Content It takes our newsroom weeks - if not months - to investigate and produce stories for our premium content. You can’t find them anywhere else. C. Custer · 3 May 2019 · 6 min readOyo’s China challenges This is an adapted transl... |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Why it’s smart for Amazon to quit China | Premium Content It takes our newsroom weeks - if not months - to investigate and produce stories for our premium content. You can’t find them anywhere else. C. Custer · 30 Apr 2019 · 7 min readWhy it’s smart for Amazon to quit China This is... |
| Apr 30, 2019 | Tencent may enter ride-hailing business, its trademark registration information shows | China’s Tencent, with its strong grip on the global gaming industry and its messaging app WeChat, may start its own ride-hailing business. The firm applied to Chinese authorities to register a number of mobility-related trademarks, Chinese ... |
| Apr 29, 2019 | Didi enters Colombia and Chile as it steps up Latin American expansion | Didi Chuxing has begun recruiting drivers in Colombia and Chile, company president Liu Qing revealed, adding that the ride-hailing giant now serves 20 million people and has a team of 1,200 people in the region, according to Sina Tech. The ... |
| Apr 5, 2019 | TikTok’s next ambitious goal is to discover future music stars | TikTok needs a lot of music. A lot. The short-form video service began life as a lip-synching app in China, where it’s called Douyin, and although other categories of content, like skits and life hacks, later took off, music remains a key e... |
| Mar 27, 2019 | Ofo outsources bikes maintenance in smaller cities | Chinese bike sharing company Ofo has been shifting to third-party agents to maintain and repair its bicycles in a move to cut costs and revitalize its business, online news portal Sina reported on Tuesday. Ofo’s domestic operations general ... |
| Mar 26, 2019 | Alibaba-driven e-commerce created over 40 million jobs in China in 2018 | New research from Renmin University shows that Alibaba created more than 40 million jobs in the Chinese economy, from supply chains to retail, Sina Technology reports. Those capitalizing on the booming e-commerce sector are mostly millennia... |
| Mar 22, 2019 | Social commerce platform Yunji to go public on Nasdaq | Social commerce platform Yunji, which was fined by Chinese authorities in 2017 for running an online pyramid scheme, just filed a US stock market initial public offering on Thursday. With Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, and CICC as... |
| Mar 18, 2019 | Chinese social commerce app Peanut Diary fined for alleged pyramid scheme | A local market regulator in China has recently ordered Guangzhou-based social commerce portal Peanut Diary to pay RMB 74.5 million (about US$11 million) in fines for its alleged involvement in an online pyramid scheme. In the penalty decisi... |
| Mar 15, 2019 | Ant Financial-backed Hello Chuxing says its user credit system led to significant decrease in damaged bicycles | Hello Chuxing, previously known as HelloBike, has seen a 37% year-on-year drop in damaged bicycles as a result of its credit scoring system, Sina Tech reports. Backed by Ant Financial, Hello Chuxing is China’s third-largest player in China’... |
| Mar 12, 2019 | China’s Qutoutiao is burning millions of dollars to take on TikTok parent | Chinese startup ByteDance is finding itself surrounded by challengers as its empire of new media products, including global video app TikTok and Chinese news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, gather steam. Tencent tried to play catch-up with a hand... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Food delivered to the doorstep is not so cheap in China anymore | A big selling point of ordering food to the doorstep in China is price, which, in the early years, could be much cheaper than eating in-house. That’s arguably indulged a demographic of lazy, indoorsy eaters, but that may not last for much l... |
| Mar 1, 2019 | 5G signal expected to cover major parts of Beijing by the end of this year | Beijing Mobile, the Beijing branch of China Mobile, the country’s largest telecommunication operator, said that it aims to offer 5G signal to customers living within Beijing’s fifth ring road by the end of this year. This should be good new... |
| Feb 12, 2019 | Even blocked there, Facebook grabs 10% of its revenue from China | To gain customers globally, Chinese advertisers spent about US$5 billion on Facebook in 2018, making up about 10% of the social media giant’s annual revenue, which stood at $55.84 billion . Advertisers contributed $55.01 billion to the Menl... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | China’s Youzan under investigation for overtime labor demands | Local governmental authorities confirmed that they are investigating Hangzhou-based Youzan, which helps online merchants establish, operate, manage, and promote their WeChat stores. The probe was launched after the company drew harsh critic... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Apple loses lawsuit against Chinese writer, paying $34k for copyright infringement | Yang Zhi, who writes Chinese literature under the pseudonym Jiangnan, revealed that he has been paid RMB 230,000 (roughly US$ 34,000) from Apple as compensation for copyright infringement. He sued Apple’s US legal entity in 2015 after findi... |
| Jan 23, 2019 | Chinese KOL proclaims the death of Baidu as search engine | “Baidu as a search engine is dead,” a Chinese key opinion leader proclaimed online in harsh criticism of the largest Chinese search service’s practice of directing a bunch of search results back to its own products, including Baijiahao, a c... |
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