Internet & Tech « Week In China - Part 8

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China flexes muscles at world’s premier product innovation show
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

The 1937 International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life held in Paris was a highly-charged event. Dazzling pavilions devoted to the scientific wonders of the time – from cinema and radio to refrigeration and flight – were all ...

Online world proves tough nut for Wanda to crack
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

Wang Jianlin became China’s richest man by riding the country’s property boom. But his decision to try and replicate that success across any number of other sectors came progressively unstuck in 2017 after the government asked banks to ...

LeEco’s founder ordered back to China (and declines)
Jan 5, 2018 (WiC 392)

“I will shoulder all the responsibility for the challenges LeEco is facing now, and will stay accountable for the company’s employees, users, clients and investors,” Jia Yueting, LeEco’s founder, said on his weibo in July last year, when ...

Is Xiaomi boss set to win bet?
Jan 5, 2018 (WiC 392)

Business school students from the 1980s should still remember the “H-Y war”, a popular case study of the bitter rivalry between Honda and Yamaha in the motorcycle market. Such intense domestic competition, however, helped propel Japanese ...

As 2017 ends, which of China’s tech titans Tencent and Alibaba is ahead?
Dec 8, 2017 (WiC 391)

We all know that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. But for the South Koreans, Samsung is the third inescapable element of their everyday existence. Indeed, some South Koreans call their country “the Republic of Samsung” ...

New exchange allows fans to trade celebrities’ private time
Dec 8, 2017 (WiC 391)

Each year there is an auction for the chance to sit down for lunch with Warren Buffett. The proceeds go to charity but the bidders are hardly selfless, hoping for a flash or two of insight from the Sage of Omaha. Since 2009 at least three of the ...

Gamer’s death puts Tencent in the spotlight
Dec 1, 2017 (WiC 390)

“So luminous is the moonlight by the floor of my bed,” wrote Tang Dynasty poet, Li Bai. It is the first line of his most famous poem, Thoughts on a Still Night and a similar sentiment may have flitted through the mind of a 20 ...

Sogou heats up competition with Baidu after New York listing
Nov 24, 2017 (WiC 389)

One of the first people to introduce a Pekingese to America was John Pierpont Morgan. The famed banker received a pair of the lap dogs as a gift from Empress Dowager Cixi during a visit to China in the early 1900s. Recently the investment bank ...

Amazon sells part of its cloud business to meet new rules on ownership
Nov 24, 2017 (WiC 389)

In an interview with NPR this month, the CIA’s former station chief in Beijing warned, “Chinese firms can utilise the open systems of the US and the EU and elsewhere, whereas getting the access here to do the same is… for all intents and ...

Singles’ Day is a good example of how China is moving ahead in AI usage
Nov 17, 2017 (WiC 388)

China’s Singles’ Day – on November 11, every year – is a favourite for shoppers and journalists alike. Consumers search for bargains amid the commercial chaos, while journalists like to ponder the bigger picture, searching for insights ...

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