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Didi in crisis after another of its customers is raped and killed by a driver
Aug 31, 2018 (WiC 422)

Chinese ride hailing app Didi Chuxing has at least 450 million users and arranges 30 million journeys a day. But the rape and murder of a female passenger by a driver working on its Hitch platform – which pairs drivers and passengers travelling ...

A rare profit decline stokes questions on Tencent’s growth prospects
Aug 24, 2018 (WiC 421)

The cast of characters from nearly a decade of Week in China reporting has changed as time has progressed. Early headlines tended to feature companies in steel, coal and iron ore, buoyed by the massive stimulus campaign that followed the global ...

Pinduoduo has been hit by a wave of bad publicity since listing in the US
Aug 24, 2018 (WiC 421)

Over the last month, one of the most widely circulated posts on Chinese social media goes something like this: in the 1990s, when Nike tried to figure out how many fake Nike shoes there were in the China market, it sent an executive to Yiwu, the ...

Google set to return to China with smartphone search – that’s censored
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

The saying that ‘the past is a foreign country, where things are done differently’, explains much in the dynamic internet world, where new ideas grab hold at breathtaking speed and reset business priorities. When WiC first reported on ...

Tencent Music joins IPO rush by Chinese tech unicorns
Jul 20, 2018 (WiC 418)

At first glance, Chinese consumers appear to love music – an estimated 72% of the population listens to it, and they do so for an average of 16 hours per week. What they don’t like is having to pay for the pleasure. According to Peng ...

Alibaba’s mapping service joins long list of Didi challengers
Jul 20, 2018 (WiC 418)

When Didi Chuxing bought out Uber’s China operations in 2016 many observers thought it was the end of competition in the country’s ride-sharing industry (see WiC336). However, there have always been smaller players in the field and recently ...

How smartphone apps may infringe privacy
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

When Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture in 2016 to celebrate the growing user base of Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, internet users noticed that Zuckerberg had taped up his laptop’s camera and microphone jack. The reason: possibly to ...

Bytedance and Tencent accuse each other of smear campaigns
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

The notion of “dark public relations” gained prominence following Edward Snowden’s revelations about the global surveillance programmes used by the US government in 2013. It describes the tactics used to “destroy, deny, degrade [and] ...

Google invests in Chinese e-commerce giant alongside Tencent and Walmart
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

Forget about Alibaba and Tencent. The most dominant internet combo of recent times is Google and Facebook. Combined, the two firms account for more than 80% of global digital advertising spend and their market value is almost as big as the ...

‘Staffless shelves’ get a makeover as retail revolution continues
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

China’s tech sector is intent on finding ways to do without human labour. One of the latest trends – staffless shelves – are one such solution. Staffless shelves are a stripped-down version of the automated convenience stores that began ...

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