WhatsApp keeps banning Taliban officials' accounts due to US sanctions, causing disruptions at the nascent government, which relies on the app for communication
The Taliban administration is stuck in a cat-and-mouse game with WhatsApp, which is off-limits to the nascent government because of U.S. sanctions. Twitter: @nytimes , @pstasiatech , @oviosu , @waheed...
A look at livestream shopping in China, where an estimated $500B in goods were sold on apps like Douyin in 2022, an 8x jump since 2019, amid regulatory scrutiny
who at first had kept a Mandarin dictionary just offscreen — became confident and unflappable. He heartily gnawed his jerky on camera” Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono : China's story of livestreamin...
A look at livestream shopping in China, where an estimated $500B in goods were sold on apps like Douyin in 2022, an 8x jump since 2019, amid regulatory scrutiny
Star sellers can amass huge followings and eye-popping fortunes, through a format that mixes consumerism and entertainment. Tweets: @andreasharsono , @david_mulroney , and @alexludoboyd Tweets: Andrea...
Seeking to reduce their reliance on China, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others are increasingly producing devices elsewhere, such as India and Vietnam
New York Times : Tweets: @andreasharsono and @daiwaka Tweets: Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono : Apple is producing iPads in Vietnam. Microsoft has shipped Xbox game consoles from Ho Chi Minh City. ...
China opened corruption probes in July 2022 into some top executives in its semiconductor industry, as it rethinks its gold rush approach to chip self-reliance
Wearing a laboratory coat, China's top leader, Xi Jinping, inspected a subsidiary of Yangtze Memory Technologies Company, a national semiconductor company based in Wuhan. Tweets: @brianmannadk , @liyu...