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News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

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Internet-of-stings

Tuya lists in Hong Kong on fears about US exit
Jul 15, 2022 (WiC 593)

British drama The Undeclared War fictionalises what might happen when an unfriendly nation – in this case Russia – launches a cyber attack on the country’s infrastructure. In episode one, a rogue hacker called the Jolly Roger ...

A toddler versus giants

Closure of Mia app rattles investors in baby sector
Jul 15, 2022 (WiC 593)

When stay-at-home mom Liu Nan decided to start her own business in 2011 – the year her daughter was born – she chose an area she was starting to get to know: baby care products. The journey wasn’t straightforward. She tried to negotiate ...

Artificial sell-off?

China’s AI giant SenseTime in share price dive
Jul 8, 2022 (WiC 592)

One of the more questionable applications of artificial intelligence is as a way of monitoring how students concentrate in class. That technique is said to have been deployed in a number of Chinese schools as teachers try to keep their students ...

Shenzhen decision marks new chapter in China for Arm
Jul 8, 2022 (WiC 592)

The forced departure of the chief executive and chairman of Arm Technology (China), following a two-year tussle with the rest of the company’s board, seems to have turned the page on a particularly tortured chapter in the company’s ...

Chinese foundries bound up the global sales rankings
Jul 8, 2022 (WiC 592)

In his State of the Union speech in March, American president Joe Biden waxed lyrical about a “thousand empty acres of land” 20 miles east of Columbus, Ohio. Biden said the vacant real estate represented a “field of dreams” for the United ...

Talent from Tokyo

Japanese expert drafted for Chinese DRAM push
Jun 30, 2022 (WiC 591)

Who wants to finish their career in failure? Certainly not Sakamoto Yukio, the 75 year-old memory chip expert from Japan, who has just become chief strategy officer at a business that the Shenzhen government wants to challenge Samsung ...

Getting its slice

Wingtech want bigger role in Apple’s supply chain
Jun 24, 2022 (WiC 590)

The Malus spectabilis, or Chinese flowering apple, is a tree that grows in a number of provinces in China. Each spring it produces spectacular blossoms. However, the apples that ripen later each summer are far too bitter for most people’s ...

Bytedance firm takes on Zuckerberg in the metaverse
Jun 24, 2022 (WiC 590)

When the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson came up with the term metaverse in 1982, he envisaged a virtual world where multitudes of people could interact with each other in digital form. Four decades later and the metaverse is going ...

Charisma bypass

The 618 shopping festival has suffered from an influencer deficit
Jun 17, 2022 (WiC 589)

Even though 618, China’s mid-year online shopping festival, is set to peak this Saturday, the country’s e-commerce giants aren’t expecting a season of bumper sales. Held in the period running up to June 18, the festival is China's ...

Is regulatory pain over for Didi and Full Truck?
Jun 10, 2022 (WiC 588)

Just a few years ago private equity investors were scrambling for the chance to take stakes in China’s fastest-growing internet firms. The potential returns were huge. At one point Alibaba’s fintech arm Ant Group was the world’s most ...

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