Didi, which grew by moving in regulatory gray zones before the US IPO, became a bellwether for how far China is ready to go in Big Tech crackdowns
Didi pushed the limits and thrived in legal gray areas. Until China cracked down. — China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi … Tweets: @zhonggg and @liyuan6 Tweets: Raymond Zhong / @zhonggg : Did...
Didi, which grew by moving in regulatory gray zones before the US IPO, became a bellwether for how far China is ready to go in Big Tech crackdowns
Didi pushed the limits and thrived in legal gray areas. Until China cracked down. — China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi … Tweets: @zhonggg and @liyuan6 Tweets: Raymond Zhong / @zhonggg : Did...
Leaked docs show how China stage-managed what appeared on its domestic internet to make coronavirus look less severe in the early days of the outbreak
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. Tweets: @paulmozur , @justinhendrix , @camillefrancois , @st...
Lee Kun-hee, who was chairman and chief executive of Samsung Electronics from 1998 to 2008 and its chairman since 2010, has died at age 78
more than a 10-fold rise from 1997, making it among the world's most valuable technology companies https://www.wsj.com/... David Josef Volodzko / @davidvolodzko : Lee Kun-hee, who headed Samsung from ...
How Taiwan's biggest chip maker TSMC is caught in a tough spot, forced to heed the dictates of Trump's tech policy, while trying to keep many customers in China
The island's biggest chip maker has been a coveted partner to both battling giants. But rising nationalism is making it harder to keep the middle ground. Tweets: @gavinsbaker , @nytimesbusiness , @zh...
US delays TikTok ban by a week, as company says Oracle and Walmart may take 20% stake in TikTok Global's pre-IPO round, host US user data and computer systems
or crazy volatile? Or if monetization goes slower than expected? Jason Keath / @jasonkeath : Walmart (and Oracle) still somehow won out as a partial owner ok TikTok (in principle) at 7.5%. Another imp...
A ban on TikTok is overdue as the US confronts China's asymmetrical “net nationalism” and fights for the future of the open internet
the open internet — should be extended only to companies from countries that respect that openness themselves.” Best summary yet on TikTok: https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytopinion : “Behind the TikTok...
How ByteDance tried to cross the US-China internet divide with TikTok, offering appeasements to both sides that were undermined by the geopolitical reality
The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, dreamed of building a global tech company based in China. Then the geopolitical reality set in. Tweets: @zhonggg and @ewong Tweets: Raymond Zhong / @zhonggg : ...
China's COVID-19 outbreak has exposed the country's digital divide in education, as many rural students lack the connections or hardware to learn remotely
Raymond Zhong / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @nanduan , @yuanfenyang , @nytimesbusiness , @mckenziecnn , and @puiwingtam Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : For all of China's economic progress...
Huawei says its overall sales were $86B, up ~25% YoY, as smartphone shipments grew 26% YoY, to 185M+ units between January and September 2019
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