688 million people used WeChat hongbao on Chinese New Year’s Eve
688 million people used WeChat hongbao on February 15 (Chinese New Year's Eve) with Chengdu, Chongqing, and Beijing with the fastest hands according to…
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3 new trends in KOL marketing in China: Interview with Elijah Whaley, CMO of PARKLU
Just as small startups are disrupting traditional companies, individual online celebrities are changing the advertising market. It's not dominated by a…
Alibaba’s Koubei app invests RMB 100 million in “shout red envelopes” game to compete Meituan
Spring Festival is approaching and the annual hongbao war is on. Alibaba's lifestyle app Koubei invested 100 million yuan on the "shout red envelopes" …
Chinese laptops market share drop, while US players rise in H2 2017
In the second half 2017, Chinese laptop maker Lenovo showed 20.2% market share, a year-on-year drop of 4.9%, while the market leader HP showed consider…
WeChat Pay announces “Spring Festival Shake” to win hongbao war
Spring Festival (春节 chunjie) is just 2 days away, and WeChat just announced the launch of "Spring Festival Shake (新春摇摇乐)" promotion. The forthcoming "…
China’s answer to Amazon Go aims to conquer the unmanned frontier with facial recognition
Long-waited Amazon Go opened its door to the public in Seattle last week and there has been overall positive feedback. However, unmanned stores are def…
CCtalk’s live streaming platform is using AI to help learn new language: Interview with Dr. Lu Jian, CEO at CCtalk
Editor's note: This article was supported by Hujiang Education Technologies. We believe in transparency in our publishing and monetization model. Read …
2017 vs 2016: Breakdown of top 10 new unicorns reveal shifts in China’s tech sector
The number of Chinese unicorns—startups with more than a $1 billion valuation—are growing so fast that later we might have to change the term into "dra…
Swiss Davos to launch Alipay for Chinese visitors
Ant Financial Services Group today announced that Alipay is soon to be made available to most local businesses in the Swiss town of Davos, thanks to a …
OnePlus denies sending users’ clipboard data to China
A Twitter post claims that an app on Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus's phones is identifying and uploading bank account numbers to a Chinese se…
Alibaba Cloud launches Malaysia City Brain
The cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud, today announced the launch of its Malaysia City Brain initiative, the first of its kind to be …
WeChat says it will remove any Official Account “distorting party and national history”
WeChat announced that their media platform will regulate user's information dissemination behavior and those trying to conduct marketing activities by …