New cyber security law prompts Amazon to sell part of its China cloud services
Beijing Sinnet Technology (光环新网) announced that will offer not more than 2 billion yuan to buy specific operating assets of Amazon Web Services (AWS) i…
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China’s tech giants are increasingly blurring the boundaries between sectors: McKinsey report
“Ecosystem” is a word that gets thrown a lot in the tech industry but there is a definition of this buzzword which is actually worth your attention. Di…
China’s e-commerce giants deliver new market cap highs
China’s two e-commerce majors announced impressive news on the same day: Alibaba Holding Group’s market cap broke the $400 billion mark for the first t…
Baidu buys Kitt.ai and other news from its first AI conference
"Our rivals don't buy technology companies. They buy products, but not companies," claims Baidu CEO Robin Li as his company announces its acquisition o…
Alibaba launches voice assistant Tmall Genie
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba launched the smart speaker Tmall Genie X1 today, elbowing its way into the crowded digital voice assistant market wher…
Chinese digital consumers: 5 trends and 5 profiles to watch out for in 2017
After 6 years of explosive growth, China’s e-commerce is slowing down with saturation seemingly the main culprit: from an impressive growth rate of 74%…
[Podcast] China Tech Talk 05: Steve Hoffman – From the Valley to China, Shifting Gears
John and Matthew talk with Steve Hoffman, Founder and Captain of Founders Space. Steve has tons of experience in the Valley and has been spending more …
[Podcast] Analyse Asia 160: CES 2017 Part 1 with Ben Bajarin
Editor's note: This originally appeared on Analyse Asia, a weekly podcast hosted by Bernard Leong, dedicated to dissecting the pulse of business, techn…
Alibaba, Amazon, Snapdeal Named In Indian Illegal Wildlife Trade List
Asia has an illegal wildlife trading problem, and some of the world's largest e-commerce platforms are at the center of it. The Indian government ha…
Analyse Asia Podcast: JD.com With Boyuan Wang
Wang Boyuan from Technode and TechCrunch China joined us for a conversation on Jingdong or JD.com. We discussed the backstory behind the company an…
This Startup Is Using WeChat Chatbots To Scale English Learning
Whether it's a MOOC or a live-streamed tutoring session, the bottleneck for most edutech startups is usually the same: teachers. "Chat [is] this two…
GOME, Amazon Enter Strategic Partnership To Push O2O Shopping
China's electronics appliance maker GOME and Amazon have entered a strategic partnership, they announced last week. As a top home appliance retailer…