Tag: china

  • WeChat's dominance

    John Gruber: It’s no coincidence at all that WeChat is the only “everything app” anyone can cite, and it comes from China, an authoritarian regime. In practice, the concept really only makes sense there. It doesn’t benefit users that WeChat dominates all aspects of digital life — it benefits the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party. (And investors in…

  • Mini programs are the new mobile app growth driver

    Emma Lee on TechNode: Monthly active users (MAU) for Wechat mini programs reached 829 million in June, up 11.6% year on year compared with 743 million a year ago, according to a Quest Mobile report published on Tuesday. […] Mini programs offer a lightweight, convenient way to try out a limited version of a service,…

  • The battle for China's community group buying market

    TechNode: In the standard model, consumers from different cities can form a group to purchase goods—it is not restrained by geography. This standard model is often more spontaneous in the way that a shopper can share product links with anyone in their network. But community group buying is more intentional and organized. This model usually…

  • China’s influence in the Indian Smartphone Market

    Shenzhen Blog: China controls at least 73% of Indian Smartphone Market. 4 out of 5 top selling brands in India are Chinese. The only prominent non-Chinese player in Indian Smartphone Market is Samsung. […] 3 out of top 5 Chinese Smartphone brands are owned by BBK electronics. Brands under BBK electronics: Oppo, RealMe, Vivo, Oneplus,…

  • Livestreaming in China: only for sales or is there brand value?

    Ashley Dudarenok on TechNode: A large number of multi-channel networks (MCNs), which are like incubators for new KOLs and online personalities, have appeared and the competition is fierce. There were around 14,500 MCNs in China in 2019. It’s estimated that by the end of 2020, there will be more than 20,000 and might be as…

  • Urbanization is driving a wave of new internet users in China

    Urbanization is driving a wave of new internet users in China: We estimate that 914.1 million people in China will be internet users in 2020, which represents 65.6% of the population. This figure should cross 975 million by 2022, even as growth rates decline from 4.5% this year to 3.1% in 2022. China has rapidly…

  • Kuaishou users don't need to leave the app to buy on JD

    Emma Lee on TechNode: Short video app Kuaishou and e-commerce giant JD announced today a new partnership as the Chinese tech titans are gearing up for China’s biggest mid-year shopping extravaganza 618 on June 18. […] Kuaishou’s closer relationship with JD comes a few months after a hiccup with Taobao Live, the Alibaba-backed livestream major…

  • US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports

    Oliver Milman reported for The Guardian that US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports. Until recently, China had been taking about 40% of US paper, plastics and other recyclables but this trans-Pacific waste route has now ground to a halt. In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to…

  • Western companies build products, while Chinese companies build ecosystems

    TechNode wrote about why WeChat blocks competitors, while Facebook doesn’t. Chinese and Western companies tend to have a dramatically different approach to expansion. In a few words: Western companies build products, while Chinese companies build ecosystems. Nowhere is this trend more obvious than in the investment pattern of Chinese and Western companies. Chinese companies tend…

  • China drove 40% of mobile app spending and nearly half of all downloads in 2018

    Manish Sigh wrote for VentureBeat that China drove 40% of mobile app spending and nearly half of all downloads in 2018. China, which is the world’s largest smartphone market, also accounted for nearly 40 percent of worldwide consumer spend in apps in 2018, App Annie said in its yearly “State of Mobile” report. (Note: Google…