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News on the Internet & Tech Industry in China

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Withdrawing its chips

Micron’s China exit renews broader debate about semiconductor sector
Feb 11, 2022 (WiC 572)

For one way of getting a sense of how a nation views itself at a particular point in time, a look at its favourite TV programmes can be a very good bet. Back in 1961, the most-watched television show in the United States was Wagon Train, ...

Petal to the metal

Huawei hesitates over search engine launch
Jan 28, 2022 (WiC 571)

In 2019 US President Donald Trump placed Huawei on various American blacklists. The sanctions have stopped the Chinese telecom giant from using Google products such as the Android operating system, Gmail, Google Maps or Chrome. In response ...

Back in the fold

Samsung wants to reclaim China phone crown
Jan 21, 2022 (WiC 570)

If a story begins with the opening line “once upon a time”, most readers make a couple of early assumptions. One: that the events being depicted happened in the days of yore. And two: that the tale is going to be make-believe. In South ...

After 32 years Japanese icon shutters Zhuhai camera plant
Jan 21, 2022 (WiC 570)

Photography once seemed to be a dying art, especially among the generation born from the mid-1990s. Generation Zs have only known the digital world and the instant gratification of much of its technology. Smartphones shoot streams of ...

Metaversatile Jay

Mandopop icon blazes trail with popular NFTs
Jan 14, 2022 (WiC 569)

All kinds of celebrities are getting into the business of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs – tokens that take the form of digital assets like cartoons (or pieces of art, as admirers prefer to describe them). Professional footballers in England ...

Making more sense

SenseTime stock spikes higher after Hong Kong IPO, despite US sanctions
Jan 7, 2022 (WiC 568)

The 1956 novel Minority Report, which was turned into a blockbuster film of the same name by Steven Spielberg in 2002, underlined the Cold War anxieties of its author Philip Dick. It also questioned whether technological breakthroughs ...

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 ...

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