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What did Toutiao’s Buy with its $1B Purchase of Musical.ly?

“I regret not having entered into China’s market earlier. Now, I can hear vibrating sounds everywhere making me uncomfortable,” said Louis Yang, founder of Musical.ly, a social network with short-form videos, on October 10 at the GGV Evolving Lifestyle Conference.

Lanxiang Vocational School Opens E-Sports Major: 3-Year Program Begins with League of Legends

Lanxiang, famous for its vocational training in excavator operation, vehicle repair and culinary arts, has added a new major: e-sports. The three-year program is designed to foster interdisciplinary talent in online sports at Lanxing’s campus in Shandong province.

Jack Ma: They Have Gone, but They Left Us an Era!

Lu Guanqiu, a famous Zhejiang Province businessman and Chairman of Wanxiang Group, passed away. Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, wrote memorial essay in his business trip and we shared the article in the first time.

‘Arena of Valor’ Opens for Pre-Registration in North America

After nationwide success in China, Arena of Valor is battling its way into overseas markets. The game, which has 200 million Chinese players, is entering the North America market. Supporting both iOS and Android, Arena of Valor is open for pre-registration and will be available in November.

It Seems Sure that Tesla Will Establish Factory in China

On October 16, 2017, Tesla unprecedentedly released Model S/X for a country and offered charging adapter in line with China’s new national standard, which is a rare case.

Jack Ma Says in Weibo There is an “Arty Youth” in His Heart

Jack Ma just sang a song with famous Chinese singer Li Jian in Yunqi Computing Conference (云栖大会）. He texted on Weibo today claiming that deep inside, there was an “arty youth” in his heart. He decided to have this youth to play his role and also to find another job direction for the rest of […]

Sogou Files IPO in U.S and What’s the New Story to Tell

Sogou will go public in the U.S. and take a big step forward. Yesterday, Sogou formally submitted its prospectus to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Sogou plans to raise up to 600M dollars through IPO. If all goes well, Sogou will be another eye-catching listed company this year after Snap, MuleSoft, Yext, Carvana, Cloudera […]

Didi’s Challenges

Didi Chuxing is the largest unicorn company in China valued at 50 billion USD. Over the past three years, not only did the company’s valuation grow in double digits, its investors also witnessed the highest rate of return ever of over ten thousand folds. However, despite the rapid expansion growth Didi is experiencing, the company […]

Chinese Pop Star Lu han Announced his Relationship Which Brought Weibo Down

At 12:32 p.m on October 8, official customer service account of Sina Weibo stated, at that time, the client App can’t refresh, comment and many pages cannot display normally. And engineers were working on these problems. It is widely believed that this may have something to do with that the singer Lu Han officially announced […]

Writing Software Floods the China’s Internet

Yesterday, People’s Daily reported that plagiarism prevails in online novels and that a writer who suspected of plagiarism was found to have used material in writing software. According investigation, there are numerous stores selling writing software in Taobao. And many software storekeepers say that such software is used to assist novel writing but mainly, the […]

“Shared Girlfriends” are NOT part of the Sharing Economy

A few days ago Taqu launched a “shared girlfriends” project that attracted lots of attention, but was eventually fined and forced into suspension. Although we are in fact witnessing the dawn of the sharing economy era, it doesn’t mean that the concept applies to everything. Many are jumping on the bandwagon and slapping on the […]

The patent disputes won’t trouble Mobike too much

On September 14, 2017, Shanghai Intellectual Property Court issued the first instance judgement on Hu Tao’s prosecution on Mobike (Beijing) Information Technology co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as the Mobike) for its infringement of the invention patents. Mobike’s bike lock control system is out of the scope of patent protection and thus it doesn’t infringe […]

Beijing Tobacco Control Association Applauded Weibo’s Withdrawal of Smoking Emoji

Weibo withdrew the emoji that represents “cool” from the emoji stickers of its international version, indicating the phase-out of “smoking emoji” from Weibo’s mobile client and PC client. Beijing Tobacco Control Association (BTCA) applauded this act and urged Tencent to follow suit as soon as possible. “Ku” originated from “cool” of foreign culture, meaning “awesome, […]

Chinese Street Culture in Fashion Brand Business

Abstract: For Chinese fashion brands and young people, it takes more time to develop from business to hip-hop and street culture driven by strong culture. Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, Brooklyn in New York and Harajuku in Tokyo are all local landmarks, birthing fashion brand business worth billions of dollars. In China, there is place […]

China’s 2017 Future Science Prize announced in Beijing

On September 9, the recipients of Future Science Prize, known as China’s version of Nobel Prize, were announced in Beijing. This is the second session of the conference. Shi Yigong— professor and structural biologist from Tsinghua University, Pan Jianwei—professor and chief scientist for Mozi quantum communications satellite from University of Science and Technology of China, […]

How can takeout delivery riders slow down?

Recently, a figure shows that in Shanghai 76 traffic accidents related with takeout delivery happened in the first half of 2017, with one food-delivery rider injured or dead per 2.5 days on average. Riders involved in such accidents from Ele.me and Meituan both account for 26%. After the media reported this news, safety of food-delivery […]

Rap of China Brings About Marriage Between Culture and Capital

The average seasonal production cost for a network variety show in China is between 20 and 60 million yuan under the current market conditions. By investing 200 million yuan into a music talent show, iQiyi is taking quite a gamble. Why exactly did iQiyi set its eyes on such a non-mainstream reality show? A guitar […]

Shared commute again was under the spotlight in China

In early August, a batch of brand new BMW 1-series sedans showed on the streets of Shenyang. These luxury vehicles, equipped with Wifi connection, facial recognition, smart voice assistant, are shared cars which cost users only 1.5RMB per kilometer. Though it turned out that BMW Brilliance Automobile or BMW China were not behind this, luxury […]

Tencent will get rid of the tag as a “game company” by 2020

Abstract: Though Tencent has never been more successful under the glamor of Honor of Kings’ stellar performance, its dependence on gaming industry dropped. The revenue from games to total revenue ratio decreased to 42% in this quarter, while the ratio of the same period last year was 47.9% and the ratio of last quarter 46%. […]

China’s Pop-up shop has become brand marketing’s new favorite

On April 28th, a pop-up shop called Orz Cha which only opened for four days debuted in Shanghai. Because of its ultimate “demotivation” culture, it matches daily sadness white-collar workers. Pop-up shop triggered a long queues at the scene and numerous sharing in moments of WeChat. Pop-up shop has no intention to open for long […]

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