Eva Yoo
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Chinese millennial founders challenge the status quo by making companies for their generation ·
Post-90s generation, under active and changing circumstances in China and government's imposing of one-child policy, developed a open-minded personality → Read More
Meme of old man’s “sluggish sales” goes viral on China’s online marketplaces ·
The phrase “Sluggish sales of…(滞销)” and a picture of an unfortunate old man making poor sales (滞销大爷) of its local produce have gone viral. The Beijing Youth Daily claims that a handful of online marketplace merchants are abusing his dramatic face expression that arouse people’s empathy in an attempt to increase sales. Recently, a statement … → Read More
Luckin Coffee exits soft launch, trying to poach top Starbucks staff ·
Luckin Coffee (瑞幸咖啡), a new coffee brand the “new retail professional coffeeshop operator”, has announced that it now opened in 13 cities, 400 stores, served 1.3 million customers with 5 million cups of coffee after 4 months of soft launch, TMT Post is reporting. The CEO of Luckin Coffee, Qian Zhiya (钱治亚), is the former COO … → Read More
Facial recognition at Jacky Cheung's concerts used to capture two fugitives ·
Chinese police have used facial recognition to identify and capture two fugitives at two different Jacky Cheung (张学友) performances (in Chinese), one in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province in May and one in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province in April. Jacky Cheung is a Hong Kong celebrity, once called Hong Kong’s “God of Songs” and grouped with other celebrities such as Andy … → Read More
Bike rental graveyard found in Chengdu ·
Hundreds of unlocked ofo rental bicycles have been found buried under construction waste in Chengdu. The bikes were in miserable conditions with deformed tires, broken chains, and damaged seats, but were fairly new, produced as early as March this year. The incident was reported to Chengdu Wuhou Police and the police is investigating, Tencent News is … → Read More
How to build a successful startup in China? We asked at ChinaBang 2018 ·
TechNode just hosted ChinaBang Awards 2018 in Shanghai and invited the most promising tech startups and investors inside China. (Here’s the full list of award winners.) But how did these companies get to where they are now? We hit up with people from five Chinese companies who won the awards and asked what were their … → Read More
What do you think of Mobike and Ofo expanding to your country? We asked ·
Chinese bike rental companies Mobike and ofo expanded to more than 30 countries last year. While attending the SeedStars Summit 2018 in Lausane, Switzerland, we asked people from 5 different countries what they think about Chinese bike rental startups’ expansion into their home countries. Recent data from Cheetah shows that China’s active users of bike … → Read More
Huoshan latest video platform to clean up vulgar content ·
Huoshan (火山小视频), the short video platform backed by Toutiao, has temporarily shut down the city channel (同城频道) to clean up the vulgar content. It is still unclear how long the channel will be offline, Chinese media TechWeb is reporting. A week ago China’s media regulator, the State Administration of Radio and Television and China Central Television … → Read More
Pony Ma announces medical blockchain project in Guangxi ·
Pony Ma, chairman and founder of Tencent, said that the Tencent Blockchain (腾讯区块链, also called as TrustSQL) will be used in medical treatment so that prescription cannot be tampered with, Chinese media Tencent Technology is reporting. He also said that the internet behemoth has already partnered with Chinese city Liuzhou and Guangxi Province to enable … → Read More
WeChat just optimized video, picture and audio publishing for Public Accounts ·
On the evening of April 12, there was a major revision to the WeChat public account backend. Content editors on the platform can optimize video, audio, photo publishing to improve their followers’ content reading efficiency, Chinese media Sohu is reporting. Currently, in the content management (素材管理) menu on the backend of WeChat public account, WeChat … → Read More
Tencent shows off their vision for the future of unmanned retail ·
Tencent doesn't WeChat want to touch retail directly. → Read More
Alibaba Cloud aims to connect 10 billion devices by 2023 ·
Alibaba Cloud wants to be in everyone's home. → Read More
Short video platforms Douyin, Kuaishou accused of showing counterfeit products ·
Chinese short video platform such as Douyin and Kuaishou are being criticized for featuring video hosts who make and distribute counterfeit products on their videos, Tencent News is reporting. Some video hosts on platforms such as Douyin, and Kuaishou are forming a black industrial chain: They openly demonstrate the process of homemade lipstick and foundation and … → Read More
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 anniversary of Toutiao. In an interview with Tsinghua University professor and Dean, Zhang revealed their goal to achieve globalization and have more than half of its users from overseas in the next three … → Read More
Alibaba doubles down on Lazada with additional $2 billion ·
E-commerce giant Alibaba announced today that it will invest an additional $2 billion in Lazada Group to accelerate the growth plans of Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce platform and deepen its integration into the Alibaba ecosystem. This accumulates Alibaba’s total investment in Lazada to $4 billion. Alibaba acquired 51% stake in Lazada in April 2016 with … → Read More
Didi Bike operation was suspended for one day in Shenzhen ·
Chinese taxi hailing company Didi’s bike rental service, Didi Bike (青桔单车, meaning green tangerine bike in Chinese), was suspended for one day for not obeying the local law, Chinese media Shenzhen News is reporting. Bike rental companies hugely spread out last year, filling the Chinese streets with rental bikes. In order to manage rental bicycles, … → Read More
This app is making reimbursement easier for China's tech employees ·
For many employees in the West, if you want to make a business purchase, you can either just use the corporate credit card or just bring in an invoice and file for reimbursement. However, those who work at company registered in China will have to go through the tedious and long process of printing out … → Read More
Xiaomi jumps on blockchain pet bandwagon with Cryptorabbits ·
Cryptopets are so popular that Xiaomi just couldn't resist putting their mascot on the blockchain. → Read More
WeChat is testing search function that displays results from inside mini programs ·
170 million people use WeChat’s mini program every day, and WeChat is pushing efforts to upgrade mini program and mini game features to help businesses utilizing mini program actually monetize. As users pull down their chat list, they can see recently used mini program and mini games. Recently, WeChat was found to be experimenting a … → Read More
Ant Financial announces RMB 500 million in ecological investment in 2018 ·
To celebrate National Tree Planting Day (植树节) on March 12, Ant Financial CEO Jing Xiandong said on March 11 that Ant Forest will invest RMB 500 million ($79 million) in ecological protection by the end of 2018, Chinese media TechWeb is reporting. At present, there are more than 300 million Ant Forest users. If more than … → Read More