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The social media sensation in China over the last week was a face-swapping app called Zao. Similar services have been available in the past but Zao has been a breakaway success, winning fans from across the country. Developed by ...
When senior executives are selling down stakes in their firm, it’s often a signal for stockmarket investors to consider their exit strategy: particularly if the person in question is one of the company’s founders. And sure enough, Xiaomi ...
Didi Chuxing had a dreadful 2018, after two high-profile murders of passengers by its drivers. Since then China’s leading ride-hailing service has been engulfed in a regulatory storm. At one point in late 2018 inspectors from more than 10 ...
“Competition is a click away” was Google’s response in the early days of the European Commission’s investigation into possible antitrust behaviour. Its argument was based on the assumption that Google can’t technically force any of its ...
More than half of Chinese children and teenagers struggle with nearsightedness, Xinhua declared last year. This problem, it added, relates to the amount of time spent playing video games. “The vision health of our country’s young people has ...
What would you say if your 15 year-old son told you he wanted to drop out of school and become a professional video gamer? This was the dilemma that Ming Han Gao offered his mainland Chinese parents. Ming dropped out of a prestigious school in ...
To those Westerners who grew up watching the Omen movies the three digits ‘666’ denote the mark of the Antichrist. But to Chinese gamers and eSports stars the number has a more congratulatory meaning. Fans type it into a streaming ...
Last November – two years after its $5 billion takeover by Chinese electrical appliance maker Midea – Kuka’s chief executive told reporters in Shanghai that the German robotics firm was well positioned to become the leading player in ...
DJI, the world’s top drone brand, grabbed headlines this week when a man filming his family at the beach in Florida suddenly realised that a shark was circling his kids. The footage shows them splashing frantically out of the water, with the ...
For some of the whizz kids in the world of ‘cryptoculture’, the key to standing out from the crowd is performing stunts that raise your profile. The problem: sometimes they backfire badly. Take the efforts of a 25 year-old crypto ...
