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Google’s AlphaGo wins big
Jun 2, 2017 (WiC 368)

“Last year, it was still quite humanlike when it played,” Ke Jie, the world’s number one (human) Go player said of his opponent, the Google-built AlphaGo. “But this year, it became like a god of Go,” the 19 year-old remarked after ...

Why internet titans are throwing their weight behind eSports
Jun 2, 2017 (WiC 368)

A common debate played out in bars – and even on the links courses themselves – is whether golf is a sport or simply a game. Members of the “sport” camp received a major concession last year when golf was welcomed back to the Olympics ...

How Tencent has become one of the world’s most valuable companies
May 26, 2017 (WiC 367)

For the better part of the twentieth century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was the world’s most valuable firm. Its grip on the telephone market was so tight that at one point AT&T owned all the wires and all the telephones ...

Lenovo hires Liu Jun – for the third time
May 26, 2017 (WiC 367)

China’s foremost computer company has always liked to cloak itself in myth and symbolism. It called itself Legend when it was founded in 1984 and became Lenovo (‘new legend’) in 2002 when it started to expand internationally. So it was ...

Microsoft releases special OS edition for China
May 26, 2017 (WiC 367)

Much like retailers might hire “secret shoppers” to measure the quality of sales staff in network, technology companies sometimes invite hackers to uncover flaws in their products. In 2013, Microsoft offered a “bug bounty” for the first ...

China’s new online encyclopaedia wants to dethrone Wikipedia
May 19, 2017 (WiC 366)

Starting out in Edinburgh in 1768, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is the world’s oldest English-language encyclopaedia still in production. But there hasn’t been a new print version of the 38-volume tome since 2010, and in 2014 the company ...

Will shared phone chargers be the next big thing in China?
May 19, 2017 (WiC 366)

It’s hard to predict which new products will take off and which will flop. The Segway was launched in 2001 to much media interest, but quickly became the subject of ridicule and fell into obscurity. Fifteen years later, the “hoverboard” – ...

How Tencent and Apple have squared off in mobile payments spat
May 5, 2017 (WiC 364)

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad in 2010, the device was initially ridiculed online. Catty observers suggested Jobs had run out of ideas and was just pitching six iPhones stuck together. But it was a pitch that resonated with both book and news ...

LeEco juggles its businesses and acquires LeYoung
Apr 28, 2017 (WiC 363)

Jia Yueting met his wife back in 2004. Then 31, Jia had just founded an internet video firm called Leshi while Gan Wei was a student at the PLA Academy of Art (where China’s first lady Peng Liyuan serves as president). The first time the two ...

Will Apple support Hon Hai’s bid for Toshiba’s semiconductor business?
Apr 21, 2017 (WiC 362)

The Japanese tradition of hanami (flower viewing) reaches its peak in April when the population holds parties under the cherry blossom (sakura). For the Japanese, the short-lived but beautiful blossom symbolises life’s ...

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