Say goodbye to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and welcome your new favorite apps. Here is everything you will need to navigate your China life. 1. Communication: WeChat (微信) The app to rule them all, WeChat is the very definition of indispensable in China. This is where you will connect with your friends, communicate with your […]
Search results
Posted inNews
Are China’s bike-sharing platforms really part of the sharing economy?
China’s O2O market has seen quite a few companies doing interesting things, some succeeding, some failing. The latest hot vertical is bike-sharing. According to the China’s bike sharing industry mini-report by China Channel, Mobike (backed by Tencent and Foxconn) and Ofo (backed by Didi and Xiaomi) are clear market leaders amongst growing competitors. Founded in January 2015, the […]
Posted inNews
TechNode’s Top Sharing Economy Stories of 2016
The sharing economy is exploding in China. Worth about 299 billion USD in 2015, the market is expected to surge by 40 percent over the next five years, China’s National Information Center reported earlier this year. While the sharing economy is relatively a broad term referring to businesses that are based on peer-to-peer sharing of […]
Posted inNews
8 questions about Chinese tech we will see answered in 2017
In the tech industry, new innovations are constantly supplanting old ideas and seemingly stable companies can find themselves facing unexpected challenges. However, the trends we saw started in 2016 posed questions that have yet to be answered. Here are eight of them we think will be answered in 2017. 1. Can Alipay effectively deter the aggressive rise […]
Posted inNews
Didi May Be Ready For Bike Sharing, But What About The Rest Of The Nation?
Didi-Uber, China’s newly minted transportation tycoon, has revealed intentions to append a bike sharing service to its hefty platform, as it pours tens of millions of U.S dollars in strategic investment into dockless smart bike company Ofo. The ride sharing company has no trouble divining a future where bike sharing becomes the latest installment on […]
