Tag: china

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

    John Gruber wrote on Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling for Bloomberg to retract its Chinese spy chip story. Read their statement closely — they’re not saying their story is true or that Apple and Tim Cook are wrong. All they say is they spent a year on the story and spoke to 17 sources…

  • JD.com launches express delivery service with WeChat mini-program

    TechNode reported that JD.com launches express delivery service with WeChat mini-program. The e-commerce platform’s logistics subsidiary has offered supply chain and logistics services for retailers since launching in 2017. However, the latest news marks the company’s first foray into the field of express delivery in China. The service is currently available for individual customers in…

  • Sorry Apple, your “most advanced” features are already commonplace in China

    Gang Lu wrote that Apple’s “most advanced” features are already commonplace in China. The title is a perfect clickbait. After he goes on about how he has been a loyal Apple fan, he then laid into Apple for the disappointing new iPhone. Those who praise iPhones’ borderless screens, they should take a look at Find…

  • Ant Financial rolls out China’s first blockchain-powered electronic medical prescription service

    TechNode reported that Ant Financial has rolled out China’s first blockchain-powered electronic medical prescription service. Ant Financial and Huashan Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai, have launched what is said to be the first blockchain-powered electronic medical prescription service in China, local media is reporting (in Chinese). The new medical prescription platform, which can…

  • Market cap of Pinduoduo surpasses NetEase

    TechNode reported that the market cap of Pinduoduo surpassed NetEase. Shares of Chinese newly listed e-commerce platform Pinduoduo have jumped more than 40 percent in the last three days. The market value of the company reached $33.2 billion, more than that of NetEase. The net worth of Huang Zheng, founder and CEO of the company,…

  • Google employees are organising to protest the company’s secret, censored search engine for China

    BuzzFeed News reported that Google employees are organising to protest the company’s secret, censored search engine for China. Google employees are demanding greater transparency from their employer and confronting management with their ethical concerns about a project named Dragonfly, a controversial censored search app for the Chinese market. Instead of looking at this from their…

  • How big is China’s tech industry?

    Tech in Asia shared an infographic showing the scale of China’s tech industry.. This infographic will help you to visualise how staggering the tech industry is in China. A lot of friends often ask me but are unable to wrap their heads around the scale that China operates in. This might help.

  • China’s mobile payment platforms are transforming online marketing

    Masha Borak wrote on TechNode about China’s mobile payment platforms transforming online marketing. “The most basic type of interaction is to invite customers to follow the brand’s official WeChat account to get notifications for their order,” Graziani told TechNode. Another is to automatically enroll customers in a group purchase, he added. Users share their purchase…

  • Mobike does away with deposits in China

    Christopher Udemans reported for TechNode that Mobike has removed deposits for all users in China. Deposit-free rides will now be standard across the country. Existing users can apply to have their deposits refunded. According to a Mobike representative, if a warning appears in the app when you try to use the platform after being refunded,…

  • JD.com grossed RMB 160 billion in its mid-year sale with the help of physical stores

    TechNode reported that JD.com grossed RMB 160 billion in its mid-year sale. China’s e-commerce platform JD.com reached RMB 159.2 billion in sales during its annual 618 Shopping Festival, which occurred between June 1 and June 18. The company said transactions were up 37% compared with the same period last year, and more than 90% of…