A character dressed in chainmail was pinned on the pebble-paved ground. To pass, it must avoid shells from left and right and outrun the monsters from behind. This is near the final level of the video game CodeCombat (极客战记 in Chinese). Jun Pan, a 12-year-old boy, was staring at the scene on a computer screen […]
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Enjoy being slow: Why Chinese tech companies are embracing a slower culture
In a movie with Chinese kungfu star Jet Li, Alibaba Group co-founder and executive chairman Jack Ma defeats eight celebrity martial artists in just 20 minutes. Not only does the mini-film try to portray Jack Ma’s unbeatable position in China’s tech industry, it also references the most commonly cited similarity between the tech industry and China’s ancient […]
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VR eye-tracking, blockchain money remittance, conversational AI startups win K-Global Demo Day
The three winners of K-Global Demo Day were VR eye-tracking startup Visual Camp, conversational AI startup MrS.ai and blockchain money remittance startup Moin. K-Global demo day is part of the South Korean government’s effort to foster interaction between South Korean startups and Chinese startups. On the day itself, December 12, five Chinese startups and 10 Korean startups climbed […]
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Judging Chinese tech companies by their Glassdoor reviews, part 1
Editor’s note: This was contributed by Elliott Zaagman a trainer, coach, and change management consultant who specializes in aiding Chinese companies as they globalize. To contact him, check him out on LinkedIn, or add ezaagman on WeChat. This is the first part in a two-part series measuring how Chinese companies perform on Western HR website, Glassdoor. The first […]
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Judging Chinese tech companies by their Glassdoor reviews, part 2
Editor’s note: This was contributed by Elliott Zaagman a trainer, coach, and change management consultant who specializes in aiding Chinese companies as they globalize. To contact him, check him out on LinkedIn, or add ezaagman on WeChat. This is the second in a two-part series measuring how Chinese companies perform on Western HR website, Glassdoor. The first part looks […]
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WeWork is going to move even faster in China in 2018: Q&A with WeWork Asia Managing Director
It’s no secret that WeWork, the world’s largest community company, has been aggressive in its China push. After the initial effort to launch its first space in Shanghai in June last year, the company is getting more serious and dedicated to its China expansion. What the company has accomplished so far is pretty impressive. “We have been […]
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China’s top social apps all owe thanks to live streaming
2016 was the year of live streaming and it played a crucial role in driving growth. All of the top 6 social apps, except WeChat, have added live streaming services, according to the report jointly published by Cheetah Global Lab, Cheetah’s big data platform libra and 36kr. As WeChat is maturing as a user acquisition platform, […]
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This Shanghai startup is making it easier to brew beer at home
We have seen a lot of connected coffee machines last year, from Auroma Brewing Company to Smarter Coffee. This year in CES 2017, iGulu, the company behind an automated home beer brewing machine, won CES 2017 Innovation Awards honoree in the Smart Home product category. This is not the first time for this Shanghai-based startup […]
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Meituan-Dianping CEO On How To Win Battle In “Second Half”
The agenda-setting effect has been widely talked in political setting, but it fits equally well in the business world through creating prevailing commercial thoughts that could inspire new business trends. Since 2015, Jack Ma has been touting the idea that China is progressing from an information technology era to data technology era, which underlines Alibaba’s […]
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This startup wants to bring classifieds to all of China’s expats
Given the China’s market size, it’s obvious why we see so many foreign startups and expats in China. However, it still might sound a little silly if a business targets non-Chinese in China given the the relatively small population. But if you’re also a non-Chinese living in China, focusing on expat market can actually serve […]
