As “second landlord” platform Danke Apartment teeters, tens of thousands of its tenants are facing eviction.
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Huawei helps bring 5G to Mount Everest summit
Huawei helped China Mobile with its 5G base station on Mount Everest at an altitude of 5,300 meters, which has download speeds of 1.66 Gbps.
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Covid-19 squeezes Trip.com in Q2 as global travel stalls
Trip.com continued to grapple in the second quarter from stifling effects from the pandemic, and it expects the fallout to extend into the third quarter.
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TechNode’s top 10 articles of 2020 + membership 20% off
We hope the attached articles—our top 10 from the last year of our coverage—will help shed some light on this remarkable year.
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Indian court summons Jack Ma, Alibaba in worker lawsuit
The employee said that he was fired for his objections to media manipulation practices at Alibaba-owned UC Web amid tense diplomatic relations.
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Singles Day from the trenches: the king of pre-sales
A TechNode reporter takes on 30 million Singles Day livestreaming shoppers in a race to buy discount hand cream from the Lipstick King.
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Taobao removes Animal Crossing listings from its marketplace
The removal of Animal Crossing came just days after reports that Hong Kong protestors posted anti-government posters on the game’s simulator.
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Alibaba joins peers in offering small business support
Alibaba follows Meituan and Pinduoduo in releasing a slew of supportive measures for small businesses as the economic impact of the coronavirus takes hold.
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Meituan is shuttering its cloud business
Chinese food delivery and services platform Meituan Dianping is shutting down its public cloud service in order to retain focus on its core businesses. Why it matters: Halting its cloud computing services is a major pullback in Meituan’s expansion into enterprise tech, a trend which has formed the basis of many recent moves by competitors including […]
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VC Roundup | Foodtech in China is not just about grocery delivery
Foodtech is gaining traction in China’s VC world. So far, grocery delivery has garnered the most attention, thanks to the pandemic-induced demand on e-commerce platforms.
