CHINA VOICES | Can Mafengwo turn reviews into profit?
Screenshots of Mafengwo app (Image credit: TechNode) This week, Technode's translation column takes on a deep dive into…
Why the Chinese internet has a hate speech problem
(Image credit: BigStock/ Kagenmi ) After the heart-rending tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand, I found the incident…
Eight years later, Google Search won't beat Baidu
Since Google Search’s exit from China in 2010, homegrown tech giant Baidu has absorbed most of the Chinese search…
How Luckin Coffee is reforming China’s coffee culture
A former tech executive who drinks three to five cups of coffee each day — perhaps at least two of them from Starbucks…
Opinion: We need to stop equating WeChat with the Chinese internet
What if, in the future not far away, there will be no other Chinese app besides WeChat? As China’s provincial…
Why QR codes trump NFC in China
Editor's note: This was contributed by Tianyu M. Fang, a Boston-based freelance writer on Chinese tech and culture, and…