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Tencent implements a major business reshuffle
Oct 5, 2018 (WiC 427)

Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. Not last weekend for Tencent, when it announced its first major restructuring for six years. Maybe the idea was to show a sense of urgency. Part of the plan is a regrouping of some of its existing ...

Chinese tech guru talks about where China stands in the AI race
Sep 28, 2018 (WiC 426)

Another week and another worsening seven days of Sino-US relations, after Donald Trump triggered tariffs on $200 billion more Chinese goods and then accused China of trying to influence the US mid-term elections with the aim of damaging his ...

2018 is proving a pivotal year for the TMD – as they take on the BAT
Sep 21, 2018 (WiC 425)

Throughout Chinese history, checks and balances have always been at play in the royal court. Just tune in to an episode of any imperial drama: the plot invariably develops around how the concubines in the palace fight amongst themselves, ...

Two internet tycoons make headlines on leadership grounds
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

The three most prominent tycoons in their respective home markets of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are CK Hutchison’s Li Ka-shing, casino magnate Stanley Ho and Morris Chang of semiconductor heavyweight TSMC. Notably they all stepped down this ...

Will a US lawsuit filed by Shenzhen drone rival clip DJI’s wings?
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

Chinese tech firms are now all too familiar with being blocked in the US on national security concerns. Articles on this topic – particularly those involving the telecoms equipment makers Huawei and ZTE – have received so many newspaper ...

iQiyi ditches view counts
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

Last week The Story of Yanxi Palace, the biggest hit show this summer, finally concluded. The 70-episode costume drama – about scheming concubines in the Qing Dynasty (see WiC422) – had racked up 15.9 billion views on the online ...

How AI backfires on Bytedance’s Q&A app
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

Turf wars among tech firms are nothing new. Apple was engaged in a seven year-long legal battle with Samsung over smartphone patents. More recently, Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous car unit, sued Uber for appropriation of trade secrets and patent ...

Huawei claims series of ‘firsts’ for new microchip
Sep 7, 2018 (WiC 423)

In ancient times, the appearance of a Kirin, or Qilin in other parlance, was deemed a rare and auspicious event that heralded an era of peace and prosperity. The mythical animal, a cross between a unicorn and a dragon, was seen as symbol of ...

Didi in crisis after another of its customers is raped and killed by a driver
Aug 31, 2018 (WiC 422)

Chinese ride hailing app Didi Chuxing has at least 450 million users and arranges 30 million journeys a day. But the rape and murder of a female passenger by a driver working on its Hitch platform – which pairs drivers and passengers travelling ...

A rare profit decline stokes questions on Tencent’s growth prospects
Aug 24, 2018 (WiC 421)

The cast of characters from nearly a decade of Week in China reporting has changed as time has progressed. Early headlines tended to feature companies in steel, coal and iron ore, buoyed by the massive stimulus campaign that followed the global ...

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