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Chinese censors extend their reach to Tencent’s video games
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

PUBG – or PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – was one of China’s most popular online video games. In the 15 months since it was released by Tencent it accrued 400 million players worldwide – 150 million more than Fortnite, ...

Oracle shuts R&D unit in China, shedding 900 staff as the tech war escalates
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

What do you get if you tip some dried fish into a pot of gently boiling frogs? In China, the answer is an unappetising dish of late 30-something ex-Oracle employees – according to the firm’s former Chinese engineers. “We were like warm ...

How a dance app is targeting China’s ‘damas’
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

Salsa, Hip hop and Revolutionary: these are just three of the genres available on Tangdou – a mobile app for middle-aged Chinese women who like to dance. The app – launched in 2015 – offers instructional videos to break down the trickier ...

Qualcomm shutters JV in Guizhou
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

In mid-April, Apple and Qualcomm called a halt on their lengthy wrangle over patent royalties. The knock-on effects have been felt in China, where the government has been trying to loosen the US semiconductor giant’s grip on mobile chip ...

Foxconn boss Terry Gou is running for president in Taiwan
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

The Financial Times described him last week as “Taiwan’s disrupter-in-chief”, while the Wall Street Journal went with “a brash billionaire” that’s in the same mould as Donald Trump. The man in question is Terry Gou, the tycoon from ...

Tech tycoons under fire for trumpeting a ‘996’ work culture for their staff
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

After a lengthy wait Japan has introduced new laws to tackle one of the most notorious aspects of the country’s work culture: punitively long hours. Starting from April 1 overtime permitted has been capped at 45 hours a month and 360 hours a ...

How automation and artificial intelligence are reinventing the workplace
Apr 18, 2019 (WiC 449)

WiC’s first references to China’s robot revolution featured people like Wu Yulu, a farmer-turned-inventor who merited mention in our fourth issue for his brood of machines. “Each one is like my child so they all have my surname,” he ...

China’s e-commerce sector is increasingly being driven by KOL ‘influencers’
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

In the true-story movie Joy, an inventor-housewife played by Jennifer Lawrence goes on a television-shopping network to peddle her Miracle Mop. After she nervously wields her invention, demonstrating how it self-wrings and how its head ...

After WeChat’s setback, Bytedance and Bigo are making inroads in India
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

Soon after clocking off work as a kitchen hand in Delhi, 20 year-old Chote Paswan grabs his mobile phone and starts to broadcast social media updates to friends and family back home in his village in eastern India. But his go-to apps are not ...

Social seller Yunji on the verge of a Nasdaq IPO
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma once compared his company to a crocodile in the Yangtze River. He wanted to distinguish it from Ebay, which he had likened to a shark in the ocean. The predatory implications were clear. But the Yangtze is the third ...

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