How PDD's Temu, the world's biggest online dollar store, got sucked into President Trump's trade war; eMarketer expects Temu to have $30B in US sales in 2025
along with a 72-hour workweek regime on the side https://www.bloomberg.com/... Zheping Huang / @pingroma : Together, @spencersoper, @ClaireYChe & I take you to the Chinese factory producing random ite...
Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese tech giants struck a truce with the government, accepting slower growth and stricter controls as China eases its crackdown
Bloomberg : Tweets: @pingroma and @pingroma Tweets: Zheping Huang / @pingroma : China Tech Inc. has struck an ugly truce with Xi Jinping. Beijing has let go of its campaign of sudden, severe crackdow...
China's XD, which offers an app store for games with no commissions on in-app sales, plans to expand globally, as Apple and Google's commissions draw criticism
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg : Tweets: @pingroma Tweets: Zheping Huang / @pingroma : China's biggest indie game distributor XD aims to introduce its novel zero-commission app store model to global users...
Alibaba tells investors that years-long government tax breaks for the internet industry, sources say amounting to a preferential 10% rate, are coming to an end
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg : Tweets: @oceanialeader and @pingroma Tweets: Andrew Bodrov / @oceanialeader : https://www.bloomberg.com/... China started from tutoring sector and online games. Tobacco, l...
Sources: China is considering turning online tutoring companies into non-profits, unable to raise capital or go public, clamping down on the $100B industry
- Edtech firms to be banned from going public, foreign capital — Vacation, weekend tutoring for school subjects will be banned Tweets: @pingroma , @haidilun , and @mbrookerhk Tweets: Zheping Huang ...
Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, and other Chinese companies are testing audio-only chats in their platforms, looking to emulate Clubhouse, which is banned in China
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg : Tweets: @rushiv , @pingroma , and @business Tweets: Rushi Vishavadia / @rushiv : It's almost like China allows outsides apps to get started, then band them for any odd rea...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
or even favoring the latter — is not going to age well. And this isn't a defense of Facebook. April Glaser / @aprilaser : remembering Facebook's previous posture towards China and that if FB was actua...
Sources: China orders ByteDance to temporarily remove its Slack-style office app Feishu, after discovering content from banned sites like Facebook and Twitter
a mash-up of Slack, Skype and Google Docs — competes in China against similar offerings from other Chinese companies https://www.livemint.com/... Zheping Huang / @pingroma : Scoop: Chinese regulators ...
ByteDance launches Toutiao Search, a mobile-optimized search engine in China, setting it up as a competitor to Baidu
Data Sheet Zheping Huang / Bloomberg : ByteDance Brings Google-Like Search to China — With Censorship Matt Southern / Search Engine Journal : TikTok's Parent Company ByteDance is Launching a Search En...
China has set up the Online Games Ethics Committee, which has reviewed a first batch of 20 games and rejected 9 of them, according to the state broadcaster CCTV
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