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And Then There was One: How Chinese Messaging Apps Tried — and Failed — to Challenge WeChat’s Iron Grip on Social Networking

Xiaomi announced the shutdown of MiTalk last Tuesday, the same day Tencent unveiled an ambitious vision for WeChat. Why couldn't these apps achieve the same success?

Apple Pulls Navigation App Used by Hong Kong Protesters from App Store

HKmap.live, a crowdsourced mapping app used by Hong Kong protesters to navigate the city, avoid the police and keep informed of road closures has been removed from the Apple’s App Store.

Bytedance Apps Prohibited from Sharing WeChat User Info

The competition is heating up between Chinese tech giants Tencent, owner of WeChat, and the world's most valuable startup ByteDance, the company behind TikTok.

TikTok Signed Content Cooperation Agreement with Hansung University to Cultivate New Talents

On October 31, global short video platform TikTok signed a content cooperation agreement with the Design and Arts Institute of Continuing Education of Hansung University.

China’s Popular English Learning Platform LAIX Listed on the NYSE

LAIX Inc., an English learning platform from China driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Sept. 27. It is trading under the ticker symbol LAIX.

Zhang Yiming Says he hopes Toutiao could Become Another Google without Boundaries

On the afternoon of October 10, in GGV2017 Lifestyle Change Conference held by GGV Capital (纪源资本) today, Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of Toutiao.com, said that only after making Douyin APP, which enables many people to display their life ways, did he find that what various lifestyles the society had. “Entrepreneurship enables you to contact […]

Didi’s Challenges

Didi Chuxing is the largest unicorn company in China valued at 50 billion USD. Over the past three years, not only did the company’s valuation grow in double digits, its investors also witnessed the highest rate of return ever of over ten thousand folds. However, despite the rapid expansion growth Didi is experiencing, the company […]

Chinese Pop Star Lu han Announced his Relationship Which Brought Weibo Down

At 12:32 p.m on October 8, official customer service account of Sina Weibo stated, at that time, the client App can’t refresh, comment and many pages cannot display normally. And engineers were working on these problems. It is widely believed that this may have something to do with that the singer Lu Han officially announced […]

Shenzhen will Pilot Smart Bike Dock Lock for Shared Bikes

The reporter learns from Shenzhen Road Management Center that Shenzhen plans pilot smart dock lock of shared bikes. When residents return bikes in demonstration region, lock pile could read label and automatically lock bikes. The demonstration site, located in Yuehai Sub-district, Nanshan District in Shenzhen, will set up 30 parking areas, 2000 lock piles and […]

Chinese Tourists Purchase a Lot with Alipay and 70 Japanese Banks have Decided to Fight Back

Today, China’s National Day golden week has become a global golden week. Data estimate that more than six million Chinese travel overseas during this year’s National Day holiday. With the steps of Chinese tourists, many foreign merchants have started to use China’s advanced mobile payment methods. If there is no Alipay or WeChat payment, the […]

Landlord Leased Wedding House in Mayi.com but All Was Stolen by Habitual Theif

On the theft case a Hangzhou landlord encountered which was reported by media, Mayi.com said in a statement that, in July, after receiving the landlord feedback, it set up a working group on track. At present, the case is still under investigation and Mayi.com will continue to cooperate with public security for investigation. Some media […]

A Chinese Startup Argued Alibaba’s Taobao Plagiarized

On September 29, a netizen called Wu Liang released an article titled In Today’s Version of Alibaba Baba and Forty Thieves, Alibaba itself is Forty Thieves on Zhihu, claiming “Alibaba unexpectedly took our technical proposal in the name of the cooperation and completely copied our app.” According to ‘Wu Liang’, the “smart skin quality measurement”（智能测肤） […]

The Chinese hackers made $3000 by hacking into shared bike accounts

On September 25th, the Shenzhen City Procuratorate arrested two suspects—Yang and Wu—on the suspicion of using third-party software to modify personal accounts on shared bicycles and over 20,000 RMB (around $3000) from 34 different users. It is noticed that shared bicycle companies always launched a variety of promotions and gave out red pockets to users. […]

Mobike Reached Strategic Partnership with Shouqi Limousine & Chauffeur

One account can be used in both Mobike and Shouqi Limousine &Chauffeur and which do you prefer, this combination or Didi +ofo? Today, Mobike announced its cooperation with Shouqi（首汽约车）. They will cooperate in APP docking, service connectivity, user synergizing, brand marketing and technology R&D. If users upgrade to latest version of Mobike APP, they can […]

Chinese Apps Become Popular Overseas

Chinese apps are popular overseas, especially in Russia, America and Japan last quarter. Tool, photography and video apps are the most popular ones. In Russia, the top 250 apps in the two largest stores—— App Store and Google Play enjoy over 222 million downloads, among which about 17.88 million comes from Chinese apps, with a […]

“Shared Girlfriends” are NOT part of the Sharing Economy

A few days ago Taqu launched a “shared girlfriends” project that attracted lots of attention, but was eventually fined and forced into suspension. Although we are in fact witnessing the dawn of the sharing economy era, it doesn’t mean that the concept applies to everything. Many are jumping on the bandwagon and slapping on the […]

JD.com Officially Enters the Real Estate E-Commerce Business

On September 18, Zeng Fuhu, former VP of Sohu net and GM of Sohu Focus, confirmed to All Whether TMT that he officially joined JD.com at the end of July and served as GM of JD.com real estate department. The department, which was recently formed, is now hiring staff. Jd.com will also add a new […]

Apple tax won’t influence live-streaming platforms

Abstract: Apple has canceled the 30% “Apple tax” once attacked by domestic application developers that provide content service. Recently, the updated Apple Store Review Guidelines showed that Apps may enable individual users to give a monetary gift to another individual without using in-app purchase, provided that (a) the gift is a completely optional choice by […]

Apple will stop taxing in-app tipping, but how much content deserves customer’s tips?

Apple does give in on its tipping tax policy. On April 19th, wx-pai, Tencent’s official WeChat account, posted two notices in succession saying that the tip function of iOS’s WeChat platform will be closed. This news led to public guesses about the reason behind Tencent’s action. The widely acknowledged one is WeChat’s official explanation: According […]

Ant Financial will launch Face ID for package pickups

On September 14, Alipay and Cainiao Global held the Global Logistics and Supply Chain Conference (GLSC) in Shanghai, and announced that they will provide services for SMEs form the most basic payment to marketing, credit, and finance businesses. At the same time, the Ant Financial will use face recognition technology in the logistics industry, so […]

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