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News on Internet & Tech Industry in China

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Why did Ding ring Jeff?

NetEase and Amazon in talks to merge cross-border e-commerce units
Mar 1, 2019 (WiC 442)

In a recent episode of his car show The Grand Tour Jeremy Clarkson pointed out that Buckingham Palace was no longer the top UK attraction for Chinese tourists. More popular than the British queen’s main residence, he exclaimed, was ...

Reddit goes red

Tencent buys into US chat site with 330 million active users
Feb 22, 2019 (WiC 441)

Tencent’s grip on WeChat has given it a powerful launchpad into Chinese social media but it now faces a new challenges from its younger rival Bytedance. Starting out with massively popular platforms like Toutiao and Douyin at home, the seven ...

Skin in the game

Why Megvii may be a company to watch over the next decade
Feb 22, 2019 (WiC 441)

Last week a Dutch security researcher discovered that SenseNets, a facial recognition company that worked for the Chinese police, has been monitoring the GPS coordinates of almost 2.6 million people in Xinjiang, the northwestern area of China ...

Around the bend

Xiaomi claims first with foldable phone screen, riling rival Royole
Feb 8, 2019 (WiC 440)

The world’s first mobile receiver with a touchscreen, known as IBM Simon, made its debut in 1992. But it was not until 2007, when Apple revolutionised the touchscreen interface for handsets, that cell phones became ‘smart’ and were ...

Worries in Wisconsin, but Foxconn’s factory in Guangzhou moves forward
Feb 8, 2019 (WiC 440)

“When elephants fight, the grass is trampled. Today, Canada is the grass.” That was the take from the Financial Times last weekend on the plight of the Canadian government, which has been caught in the crossfire of the Sino-US trade and tech ...

Searching high and low

How more bad press for Baidu could have sparked a service stoppage at Bing
Feb 1, 2019 (WiC 439)

The Onion, which labels itself as “America’s finest news source”, once awarded Kim Jong-un the title of “sexiest man alive”. Not known for its sense of satire, the website of the People’s Daily in China republished the parody as a ...

The freeze on Tencent’s gaming business thaws in January
Feb 1, 2019 (WiC 439)

Winter “is coming” for China’s mobile gamers, but there are signs of spring in the air for game developers. After a nine-month regulatory impasse, they have started to get approvals again from a new ministry tasked with implementing more ...

Automatic for the people

Chatbots are starting to take on more customer service roles
Feb 1, 2019 (WiC 439)

Call centres rarely muster much enthusiasm among their customers, but they wouldn’t have been possible without breakthroughs in automatic call distribution and touch-tone dialling in the 196os and 1970s. Now the industry is poised for another ...

A smart way to play 5G?

Xiaomi’s IPO proved disastrous for investors but tycoon remains defiant
Jan 25, 2019 (WiC 438)

Xiaomi CEO and founder Lei Jun was in a combative mood when he launched the company’s new flagship phone, the Redmi Note 7 on January 10. The Chinese tech firm is currently confronting all manner of issues, including a stock price collapse ...

Fifteen seconds of fame

What makes Bytedance’s Douyin so invincible in the short-video market?
Jan 18, 2019 (WiC 437)

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.” The aphorism from Aristophanes’ comedy The Birds throws some light on why Tencent ...

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