President Trump has cast a formidable shadow in the days leading to Apple’s big iPhone event on Wednesday. Over the weekend, he suggested in a tweet that Apple move its manufacturing plants to the U.S. to avoid tariffs in the simmering trade war between the U.S. and China. It’s a recurring threat Apple Chief Executive […]
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Earlier this month, Chinese technology company ByteDance, the owner of the hugely popular short video app TikTok (known as Douyin in China), made headlines with the launch of a search engine to rival Baidu. The search engine, called Toutiao Search, primarily draws its results from ByteDance’s own apps such as Douyin and Jinri Toutiao, one
Some 210 YouTube accounts were just disabled by Google LLC for involvement in a coordinated effort to spread disinformation relating to the Hong Kong protests. Google said Thursday it has identified threats after sharing information with industry partners and law enforcement, following an internal investigation found a propaganda campaign on YouTube similar to the campaigns recently
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“Hopefully, we as a nation can have a clear-eyed focus on what really matters,” says Andy Purdy, the Chief Security Officer of Huawei Technologies USA. “As a senior Qualcomm executive said the other day, you can talk about Huawei but we’ve got to make sure our communication networks are safe. The bad guys can implant
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“Mr. Wonderful” Kevin O’Leary of SharkTank got some high praise for his comments in support of the Trump Administration’s trade actions in pursuit of a free trade agreement with China. President Trump tweeted. “Thank you Mr. Wonderful, I like you too!” Kevin O’Leary of SharkTank on Trump’s trade policy: It’s starting to work. O’Leary later
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“Attention shoppers: there’s a sale happening right now — on your phone.” Live stream shopping (or simply live shopping) has taken over the e-commerce airwaves in China, fusing established shopping models like the Home Shopping Network or QVC with live video, content marketing, influencer marketing and entertainment value. In other words: entertainmerce. According to Kleiner Perkins’
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Welcome back to our monthly round-up of the biggest and most interesting digital marketing stories in China. This month, we take a look at some of the biggest trends in the ecommerce industry – from social commerce to the increasing popularity of Chinese homegrown brands and the SCMP’s 2019 China Internet Report. We also take
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“We got our virtual banking license in April,” says WeLab CEO Simon Loong. “These are very exciting times. We’re busy building a bank, hiring, recruitment, that’s our core focus. What we’re working on right now is rebuilding the core functions of the bank but with a more innovative and more tech-driven approach. Traditional banks have
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“The pace of digitalization in China is much faster than anywhere in the world and in a sense, it’s much deeper than anywhere else,” says AXA China CEO Xavier Veyry. “In China we really see an acceleration in the way companies leverage digital tools. I think in China digitalization is accelerating and I believe that
WeChat is no longer the only super app ecosystem available to Chinese internet users. In her recent Internet Trends 2019 report, Mary Meeker highlighted the growing trend of super apps both within and outside of China. This briefing examines the companies moving into this space, and what this growing trend means for both businesses and
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