India has become the battleground for Chinese internet companies’ proxy war. Fake news is their chief weapon.
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10 e-commerce trends that will shape Southeast Asia in 2018 (Part 1)
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a post on Southeast Asian e-commerce by Sheji Ho, for the second part click here. Sheji Ho is the Group Chief Marketing Officer at aCommerce, an end-to-end e-commerce enabler in Southeast Asia. Currently based in Bangkok but having previously worked in China, Sheji writes about e-commerce, tech, the […]
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What you missed at TechCrunch Shanghai 2017
This week saw TechCrunch land in Shanghai for yet another great event. While Shenzhen might be the hardware capital, Shanghai has a potent mix of hungry entrepreneurs from all over the world. We were delighted to welcome back for the 7th time more than 8000 people including 600 for the hackathons, 300 investors, 200 startups […]
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Bytedance’s teen protection problem
How and when are content platforms like Bytedance’s responsible for protecting their underage users?
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We need a Toutiao for podcasts
Last month, I wrote an op-ed taking a critical eye to the globalization strategy of Bytedance, the Beijing-based parent company of ultra-popular Chinese news aggregation platform Jinri Toutiao. Riding a soaring valuation, Bytedance has stated its ambitions to apply their sophisticated AI-based recommendation engine to platforms aimed at overseas markets. In an ideal situation, this […]
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10 e-commerce trends that will shape Southeast Asia in 2018 (Part 2)
Editor’s note: This is the second part of a post on Southeast Asian e-commerce by Sheji Ho, for the first part click here. Sheji Ho is the Group Chief Marketing Officer at aCommerce, an end-to-end e-commerce enabler in Southeast Asia. Currently based in Bangkok but having previously worked in China, Sheji writes about e-commerce, tech, the […]
