Pinduoduo is under fire again for deleting pictures from a user’s photo album without consent. Luckin opens up to franchises in lower-tier cities.
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WeChat doubled mini program GMV in 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated consumer adoption of e-commerce on WeChat and powered growth, as confined shoppers spent more time browsing on the app.
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China Tech Investor: From Alibaba & Ant to Xiaomi: Looking back at 2020, forward to 2021
James and Elliott review the winners and losers of 2020, what they got right and what they got wrong, as well as the lessons they learned.
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Ant Group digital yuan tests, Iran’s Chinese miners: Blockheads
Ant Group employees can use the Alipay app for digital yuan transactions in select locations, including the Lujiazui district in Shanghai.
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Thrills, suspense, Flash updates: Dalian railway tech support goes viral
Adobe ended support for its notoriously virus-prone web standard on Jan. 12 and Flash was little missed—except in the Chinese government.
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Chinese investors flocked to cryptocurrencies amid techwar
US-China tensions led Chinese institutional investors to look to cryptocurrencies as a safe haven—and a Bitcoin bull market didn’t hurt.
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US revokes licenses to sell to Huawei, to deny more: report
The US Department of Commerce has told Huawei suppliers that it intents to deny “a significant number of license requests” to Huawei.
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Insights | Why ‘996’ just won’t go away
996 is still a problem in China’s tech industry. It’s brutal to employees, and it’s questionable whether overtime work pays off even for companies.
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A widening technology gap is leaving the elderly behind
The Covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating the technology gap for seniors, including requiring digital health codes to enter public spaces.
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Tesla rivals rev up growth in China’s EV sector
NIO and its peers are prying open a window of opportunity to beat Tesla. But time is limited, and every company is sprinting to catch up.