Node Worthy 21: Content rectification
This week we talk about the recent moves against content and video apps. Links China is serious about cleaning up Jinri Toutiao and Kuaishou …
Tag: Toutiao
Watermelon Video halts uploads and comments
Chinese entertainment app Watermelon Video (西瓜视频) has barred new mobile video uploads, live streams, and live comments, saying it is cleaning up the pl…
Kuaishou is hiring more people to filter content after crackdown on “vulgar” content
Kuaishou hiring thousands of content patrols amid government constrains
Bytedance will have more than half of its users from overseas by 2020: CEO Zhang Yiming
Zhang Yiming—CEO of Bytedance an AI-powered content platform and parent to Toutiao—said that the company's 2018 keyword is globalization at the sixth a…
Video streaming site Youku sues Toutiao for illegally distributing Wolf Warriors 2
Youku, a leading video streaming service owned by Alibaba, is suing online content aggregator Toutiao (in Chinese) and video platform Yuncheng Sunshine…
2017 vs 2016: Breakdown of top 10 new unicorns reveal shifts in China’s tech sector
The number of Chinese unicorns—startups with more than a $1 billion valuation—are growing so fast that later we might have to change the term into "dra…
The numbers behind China’s mobile quiz game craze: Jiguang report
While app-based live game show HQ Trivia took the US by storm in 2017, app-based quiz shows are also gaining popularity in China with more and more app…
A year in constant review: China’s surveillance breakthroughs in 2017
Developments in hardware, software, AI, and networking in China have allowed the country to make huge leaps in security. As AI and networking allow the…
Local authority says Meituan not yet authorized to offer ride-hailing services
A week after China’s leading O2O and e-commerce platform Meituan announced that "Meituan Dache (美团打车)" will be launching in Beijing on January 12, Muni…
Toutiao moves into payments with purchase of payment agency Ulpay
Toutiao has quietly acquired its own online payment license meaning that China’s most popular news aggregation app may go after a chunk of the mobile p…
Toutiao hiring Party members to comb content, number of censors to reach 10,000
No rest for the wicked (or the lustful) in the Middle Kingdom. News aggregation platform Jinri Toutiao is hiring 2000 content review editors to comb it…
TechNode’s top 8 China AI stories of 2017
One day, when humanity has been conquered by the robot armies, the year 2017 will be remembered as the year of AI ascendance. In China, the year began …