The feature is currently available only on iOS.

Factories could be among the first industrial areas to feature fully automated machine-to-machine communication, which enables the network of things to run more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Chinese payment providers joined peers in the UK, South Korea, and other countries in disabling the feature.

Companies in China's bookkeeping tech sector are on the rise as accounting processes are increasingly being shifted online.

Cook assumes a key position at China's top university amid criticism for Apple's role facilitating the country's censorship,

Market and technology development “could not be achieved overnight,” CICC wrote.

The development has laid bare China’s perennial struggle with data faking in social media marketing and has attracted heated debate.