JD Health moves into complex diseases rather than sticking to just sales.
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Boom, bust, and competition: Electric vehicles in China, with Tu Le
In this episode, the guys welcome Tu Le, Managing Director of Sino Auto Insights, to discuss China’s dynamic electric vehicle and automotive industry. Tu explains how an investment bubble and generous government subsidies led to an explosion in EV startups, but how as the money has dried up, these firms are now under intense pressure […]
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Little Red Book shows big user numbers don’t mean big profits
Companies like Little Red Book are finding that it’s hard to profit off content outside a major ecosystem.
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Shenzhen Stock Exchange releases “Blockchain 50 Index”
Shenzhen selected Ping An Bank, S.F. Holding, Visual China Group, and Midea Group to form the sample index, among others.
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Meituan Dianping hires outside leadership to boost growth
Li Shubin will become head of the Meituan app division, a key position for driving growth for the parent company.
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China’s wearable devices market grew 45.2% in the past year
Xiaomi accounts for a quarter of the wearable devices market, but Huawei has seen the most growth in shipments.
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China to take data privacy protection to a ‘new stage’ next year
Businesses hope China’s new data privacy laws will create more certainty.
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Tencent creates dedicated team for digital currency research
An internal notice from Tencent reportedly unveiled its digital currency research plan.
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Didi faces new privacy pressures with mandatory audio recording
Didi claimed all the audio recordings will be encrypted and automatically deleted seven days later.
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China’s imaginary root server to fix imaginary threat
Reports of new root DNS servers run by Chinese organizations are greatly exaggerated—as are the risks they’re said to address.