Chinese millennial founders challenge the status quo by making companies for their generation
The decade from 1990 to 1999 marks an important part in China's history. China's "Open-door policy" from 1986 to 1990 brought a market economy and the …
Author: Eva Yoo
Meme of old man’s “sluggish sales” goes viral on China’s online marketplaces
The phrase "Sluggish sales of...(滞销)" and a picture of an unfortunate old man making poor sales (滞销大爷) of its local produce have gone viral. The Beijin…
Luckin Coffee exits soft launch, trying to poach top Starbucks staff
Luckin Coffee (瑞幸咖啡), a new coffee brand the “new retail professional coffeeshop operator”, has announced that it now opened in 13 cities, 400 stores, …
Facial recognition at Jacky Cheung’s concerts used to capture two fugitives
Chinese police have used facial recognition to identify and capture two fugitives at two different Jacky Cheung (张学友) performances (in Chinese), one in…
Bike rental graveyard found in Chengdu
Hundreds of unlocked ofo rental bicycles have been found buried under construction waste in Chengdu. The bikes were in miserable conditions with deform…
How to build a successful startup in China? We asked at ChinaBang 2018
TechNode just hosted ChinaBang Awards 2018 in Shanghai and invited the most promising tech startups and investors inside China. (Here's the full list o…
What do you think of Mobike and Ofo expanding to your country? We asked
Chinese bike rental companies Mobike and ofo expanded to more than 30 countries last year. While attending the SeedStars Summit 2018 in Lausane, Switze…
Huoshan latest video platform to clean up vulgar content
Huoshan (火山小视频), the short video platform backed by Toutiao, has temporarily shut down the city channel (同城频道) to clean up the vulgar content. It is st…
Pony Ma announces medical blockchain project in Guangxi
Pony Ma, chairman and founder of Tencent, said that the Tencent Blockchain (腾讯区块链, also called as TrustSQL) will be used in medical treatment so that p…
WeChat just optimized video, picture and audio publishing for Public Accounts
On the evening of April 12, there was a major revision to the WeChat public account backend. Content editors on the platform can optimize video, audio,…
Tencent shows off their vision for the future of unmanned retail
As "new retail" changes from jargon to oft-used phrase, Tencent has thrown their hat into the ring. However, they don't plan on opening their own store…
Alibaba Cloud aims to connect 10 billion devices by 2023
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, announced that it aims to build an IoT network with 10 billion connected devices within the ne…