Internet & Tech « Week In China - Part 9

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Is too much investor capital pouring into China’s ‘sharing economy’ apps?
Feb 2, 2018 (WiC 396)

Communism is about sharing. So no wonder that the concept of a ‘sharing economy’ has caught on in China so quickly. In fact Chinese media described 2017 as the booming sector’s “epoch year”. Private equity investors seem more than ...

JD.com creates its own brand of household goods
Jan 26, 2018 (WiC 395)

Why did the chicken cross the road? It is one of the best-known jokes in the English language and even small children can readily provide the answer: because it wanted to get to the other side. But where did the chicken come from? Where is it ...

Who are China’s new internet trio and can they best BAT?
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

When Amazon started life as an online bookseller in 1994 few envisaged it would become the world’s biggest retailer and its founder Jeff Bezos the richest man ever (Bloomberg reported this month that he was worth $105 billion after Amazon’s ...

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 ...

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