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How Spamouflage Dragon, China's largest disinformation campaign per Google and Meta, infiltrates platforms to promote Chinese policies and criticize dissidents

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How Spamouflage Dragon, China's largest disinformation campaign per Google and Meta, infiltrates platforms to promote Chinese policies and criticize dissidents

‘Mold of the internet’ has appeared on 50 platforms, researchers say  —  When a Twitter account for Utah business coach Spencer …

Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3,000 km network that they claim is the world's first internet network to achieve a “stable and reliable” 1.2Tbps bandwidth

European Commission  —  China Claims World's Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit-Per-Second Network https://lnkd.in/dfGSzFC8 Nigel Green : Who said the World isn't changing fast?  — ...

Foxconn offers ~$1,400 payouts to newly recruited Chinese workers who opt to leave its iPhone factory, aiming to quell unrest after violent clashes with police

Apple supplier apologises for ‘technical error’ after violent clashes between workers and police

Many China-based sellers who were kicked off Amazon for rule violations have turned to Walmart's online marketplace to reach US consumers

Many China-based sellers who were kicked off Amazon for rule violations have turned to Walmart's online marketplace to reach US consumers

Ever since Amazon.com Inc. began kicking tens of thousands of Chinese merchants off its platform last April for faking customer reviews …

Didi Global reports Q3 revenue of $6.6B, down 13%+ QoQ, and a net loss of $4.7B, as China's cybersecurity probe forced it to take down many of its apps

Didi Global reports Q3 revenue of $6.6B, down 13%+ QoQ, and a net loss of $4.7B, as China's cybersecurity probe forced it to take down many of its apps

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At China's annual World Internet Conference, executives from Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Tesla, Qualcomm, and others praised Xi's “common prosperity” policy

- CEOs praise Chinese president's new rules, ‘common prosperity’  — Pandemic controls curb international in-person attendance

Chinese regulators rejected Tencent-led merger of Huya and DouYu, which together have 80%+ share of the Chinese game live streaming market based on active users

- Regulators reject Huya-DouYu merger as scrutiny grows  — Tencent had been counting on the merger to solidify its lead

Sources: weeks before Didi's US IPO, the Chinese regulator that eventually ordered Didi's app banned had suggested to the company that it delay the listing

Ride-hailing giant, under pressure to reward shareholders, pushed ahead with NYSE listing despite concerns of China's cybersecurity watchdog

Just days after Didi's NYSE debut, Chinese regulators mandate app stores ban Didi Chuxing app, alleging violations in its collection and usage of personal info

- Internet watchdog asks operators to remove ride-hailing app  — The surprise ban comes days after Didi's New York debut

Sources: amid escalating rivalry, neither Google nor Microsoft are keen to renew a recently-expired truce to not use their lobbying firepower against each other

A non-aggression pact forged by their CEOs expired in April, threatening to add fuel to industry's antitrust battles

China says 33 apps, including apps made by Baidu and Tencent, violate rules in gathering personal information, which must be rectified within 10 working days

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Facebook says it has planned two new undersea cables in a project with Google and local telcos to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America

Bilibili drops more than 6% in its Hong Kong debut early Monday after raising $2.6B

Bloomberg :

JD.com plans to list its shipping business in Hong Kong through an IPO that sources say could raise approximately $5B and value JD Logistics at about $40B

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Sources: Kuaishou, ByteDance's main rival in China, has raised $5.4B in its Hong Kong IPO, valuing the short video startup at $61B

Alibaba reports $23.4B in revenue, up 30% YoY, its slowest Q2 growth on record, as profit fell 60% to $4.3B, and revenue for cloud division jumped 60%

Coco Liu / Bloomberg :

US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday

one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Stree...