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News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

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Ride-hailing giant Didi set to reverse course and delist from US bourse
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

Call it ‘China speed’. Luckin Coffee was founded in October 2017 as a challenger to Starbucks. By the time it went public in New York less than two years later, it had expanded into a chain of 3,600 stores, with a valuation of nearly $4 ...

The writing’s on the wall

Tencent opens up its walled ecosystem further to rivals
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

Most parents with young kids experience non-stop bickering over who gets which toy or which TV show to watch. More often than not, adults have to intervene and impose a solution. Last week, the Chinese government stepped into the role of ...

Midea to take Kuka private
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

The German playwright Bertolt Brecht was always very keen to strip away theatrical artifice so that his audiences remained alert to the deeper meaning of his plays. The avowed Marxist was celebrated for breaking down “the fourth wall” between ...

Seoul searching

Korean chip giant faces a China quandary
Dec 3, 2021 (WiC 566)

Much has changed since 2006 when the former chief executive of SK Hynix said that the opening of the company’s first semiconductor foundry in Wuxi in China marked the “establishment of a global network linking South Korea, the US and ...

Chips on the table

A former AMD partner in China is set for a blockbuster Shanghai listing
Nov 26, 2021 (WiC 565)

What does it mean to achieve enlightenment? Mahayana Buddhism claims it’s a state that already exists inside each of us. However, few have been awakened to it because our brains are clouded by the three poisons of anger, greed and ...

How is Tencent faring in the new regulatory era?
Nov 19, 2021 (WiC 564)

A ‘Sweeping Black Storm’ has gripped China’s entertainment world in recent weeks. It might sound like another chapter of climate crisis but it’s actually the literal English translation of the country’s most-watched TV drama of the ...

Zhou’s latest IPO

Kuaishou’s smaller rival seeks Hong Kong listing
Nov 5, 2021 (WiC 562)

While property brokerage platforms like Beike are laying off staff amid slowing home sales (see last week’s Talking Point China’s plans to introduce a property tax), Kuaishou is charging headlong into the real estate brokerage ...

Who is making Alibaba’s cutting edge new chip?
Oct 29, 2021 (WiC 561)

Put two monsters from the movie world together and you get Godzilla vs Kong, a Hollywood blockbuster that hit cinema screen in March. But over in the tech world, is there a similar monster slugfest going on involving the ‘Chipzilla’ of the ...

Network reduction

Microsoft’s LinkedIn is leaving China too
Oct 22, 2021 (WiC 560)

Like many of the world’s top social media brands, LinkedIn has a noble vision. In its case the commitment is to creating economic opportunity for ‘everyone’ in the global workforce. That looked like a tougher task when it announced it was ...

Not our best choice:

Tunghsu Optoelectronics A few of the 30 companies in our index failed to meet expectations, none more so than Li…
Sep 24, 2021 (WiC 560)

“The biggest test for a budding entrepreneur isn’t overcoming technological difficulties or sleepless nights but distrust from all corners of society,” Tunghsu group founder Li Zhaoting told the China Daily back in 2015. Li’s critics ...

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