China Cashing Out As Mobile Payment Soars
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China Orders Tech Firms To Ramp Up Censorship
China has ordered the country's biggest technology firms to immediately "rectify" violations and shut accounts that publish "bad information", in ...
Chinese Bike-Sharing Startup Now Eyeing the US and Europe
Rapidly growing bike-sharing startup Mobike already has 100 million users in China. And it's now looking to the US and ...
Alibaba Reveals Echo-Like Smart Speaker
Alibaba is the latest technology giant to unveil a smart speaker. The voice-controlled Tmall Genie can be used to play ...
China’s Young Gamers Face ‘King of Glory’ Playing Time Limits
All-night gaming marathons will soon end for some Chinese kids: internet giant Tencent began limiting daily playing times on its ...
Pound Struggles To Rebound In After Shock British Vote
The pound struggled on Monday to recover from last week's sharp losses that came in the wake of a shock ...
China Cracks Down On Online Peddlers of Celebrity Gossip
Online peddlers of celebrity gossip have fallen foul of China's new cybersecurity law, with officials ordering internet companies to stop ...
Android Creator Launches Own Smartphone
Andy Rubin, one the creators of Google’s Android software, has launched his own high-end smartphone. Mr Rubin left Google in ...
Chinese Tech Firm LeEco Reverses Course In US, Cuts 325 Jobs
Cash-strapped Chinese tech firm LeEco on Wednesday confirmed that it is throttling back plans to invade the US market, cutting ...
Russia Blocks China’s Biggest Messaging App
Moscow's communications regulator has added WeChat to its list of prohibited websites, according to Russian state news agency TASS. The ...
China’s Tencent ‘deeply Sorry’ For Russia WeChat Block
Chinese internet giant Tencent said Saturday it was "deeply sorry" its messaging app WeChat was blocked in Russia, adding it ...
China Basketball Fans Bid Fond Farewell To Stephon Marbury
Chinese fans penned hundreds of heartfelt social media messages of support on Monday for Stephon Marbury after learning the ex-NBA ...
Amazon Aims For India As Flipkart Holds On To Market Top Spot For Now
With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in ...
Amazon, Flipkart Battle In India For E-Commerce’s ‘last Frontier’
With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in ...
Chinese Tech Firm LeEco Ends Bid To Buy TV Maker Vizio
Cash-strapped Chinese tech firm LeEco on Monday abandoned its effort to buy US television maker Vizio, citing "regulatory headwinds." Tech ...
India’s Flipkart Raises $1.4 Bn From Microsoft, EBay, Tencent
India's top e-commerce company Flipkart announced Monday it had raised $1.4 billion in a record funding round that shores up ...
China’s Tencent Buys 5% Stake In Tesla
Chinese tech giant Tencent has spent $1.78bn (£1.4bn) on buying a 5% stake in electric carmaker Tesla. Tencent, best known ...
The Illegal Deliveryman Who Became One of China’s Richest Men
From making illegal cross-border deliveries to China in a minivan to buying a fleet of Boeing aircraft, the boss of ...
China’s Tencent Takes 5% Stake In Tesla
China's giant Tencent Holdings has taken a five percent stake in the Tesla electric car company as it moves to ...
‘Global Startup’ Vows Autonomous Car By 2020 In US
A 'global startup' which makes electric racing vehicles unveiled plans Friday to sell a fully autonomous electric car in the ...