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News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

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Tencent’s key division makes swift recovery
Aug 23, 2019 (WiC 463)

More than half of Chinese children and teenagers struggle with nearsightedness, Xinhua declared last year. This problem, it added, relates to the amount of time spent playing video games. “The vision health of our country’s young people has ...

Going pro at 15

Meet the kid who dropped out of school to become an eSports star in China
Jul 26, 2019 (WiC 461)

What would you say if your 15 year-old son told you he wanted to drop out of school and become a professional video gamer? This was the dilemma that Ming Han Gao offered his mainland Chinese parents. Ming dropped out of a prestigious school in ...

Let the (online) games begin

DouYu goes public in the US – but Tencent is the real winner
Jul 19, 2019 (WiC 460)

To those Westerners who grew up watching the Omen movies the three digits ‘666’ denote the mark of the Antichrist. But to Chinese gamers and eSports stars the number has a more congratulatory meaning. Fans type it into a streaming ...

Mastering the cultural divide

Early challenges for Germany’s robot maker Kuka under Midea’s ownership
Jul 12, 2019 (WiC 459)

Last November – two years after its $5 billion takeover by Chinese electrical appliance maker Midea – Kuka’s chief executive told reporters in Shanghai that the German robotics firm was well positioned to become the leading player in ...

The predator – or the prey?

Dronemaker DJI in new bid to win over government clients in the US
Jul 5, 2019 (WiC 458)

DJI, the world’s top drone brand, grabbed headlines this week when a man filming his family at the beach in Florida suddenly realised that a shark was circling his kids. The footage shows them splashing frantically out of the water, with the ...

Making a meal of it

A Chinese currency king makes a record bid for lunch with Warren Buffett
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

For some of the whizz kids in the world of ‘cryptoculture’, the key to standing out from the crowd is performing stunts that raise your profile. The problem: sometimes they backfire badly. Take the efforts of a 25 year-old crypto ...

Strong as ‘Oak’?

Huawei goes on the 5G offensive after US ban, readying new OS for launch
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

Since Washington announced that it was banning US companies from selling software and components to Huawei last month, the Chinese telecom giant has been scrambling for alternative options. According to Bloomberg, the firm has as many as ...

Second half substitutes

Huawei’s 5G supply chain still depends on US tech
Jun 14, 2019 (WiC 456)

Not so long ago, the idea that China was in any way challenging the US in the technology stakes would have belonged to a parallel universe. And if Donald Trump has his way, it will do so again in the race to commercialise 5G. This week Trump ...

Plotting for profit

‘Free’ versus ‘paid’ battle it out as models for China’s online literature
Jun 7, 2019 (WiC 455)

JK Rowling tries not to talk about her wealth but its immensity made headlines in 2003 when the Edinburgh-based writer was described as richer than the Queen, thanks to the royalties generated by the Harry Potter series. Last year her ...

The heart of the matter

SMIC’s delisting in New York is yet another milestone in the Sino-US tech war
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

The Chinese name of SMIC is Zhongxin Guoji. The first two Chinese characters are a pun on ‘China’s heart’ while the latter two mean ‘international”. The name sums up the patriotic mission that the state-backed foundry has struggled with ...

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