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Weibo Ranks on Hurun List for First Time

Hurun Institute released its 2017 brand list, on which Weibo ranked first among newly-ranking brands and sixth among technology brands, on December 7. Weibo’s brand value was estimated at 29.5 billion yuan.

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 […]

Lei Jun says Xiaomi’s monthly smartphone shipment in Q4 will exceed 10 million

Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s founder and CEO, said in Weibo that the global shipment of Xiaomi’s smartphones exceeded 10 million and that the company aims at 10 million-odd smartphones shipment each month in the fourth quarter. “It is the first time Xiaomi shipped over 10 million smartphones in a month, which is a milestone for our […]

Landlord Leased Wedding House in Mayi.com but All Was Stolen by Habitual Theif

On the theft case a Hangzhou landlord encountered which was reported by media, Mayi.com said in a statement that, in July, after receiving the landlord feedback, it set up a working group on track. At present, the case is still under investigation and Mayi.com will continue to cooperate with public security for investigation. Some media […]

Shared Phone Charger Startups Closed Down One after Another

Shared phone chargers have attracted attention from the market, especially after Leo Chen, CEO of Jvyoumei（聚美优品）, invested 300 million yuan into AnkerBox (Anker街电), an enterprise that produces shared phone chargers. Also, “National Husband”—billionaire investor Wang Sicong’s bold statement that he would eat shit if shared phone chargers can succeed made this industry known to more […]

Alipay is now available at all Chinese Starbucks stores

On September 25, Starbucks and Alipay announced cooperation. Finally, the Starbucks will accept the payment system at over 2,800 of its cafes across China. “The days that we receive complaints from customers at Starbucks are over.” Alipay declared in its official weibo account. Alipay is available at over 3,200 Starbucks stores worldwide “Do you accept […]

Apple will stop taxing in-app tipping, but how much content deserves customer’s tips?

Apple does give in on its tipping tax policy. On April 19th, wx-pai, Tencent’s official WeChat account, posted two notices in succession saying that the tip function of iOS’s WeChat platform will be closed. This news led to public guesses about the reason behind Tencent’s action. The widely acknowledged one is WeChat’s official explanation: According […]

Weibo will livestream League of Legends 2017 Global Finals

On September 13, Weibo announced that it became the official strategic cooperation partner of the League of Legends in China. Weibo will broadcast live coverage of the 2017 League of Legends world finals, which will be held from September 23 to November 4. At present, eight platforms will live broadcast 2017 League of Legends global […]

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, […]

An Accessory Company Sued Apple and Suspect its MFi Certification is “Monopoly”

The war between Apple and “monopoly” has not ended. For increasing companies, this giant company has affected their growth prospects, and thus they walk on the opposite path of Apple. On August 28, Pisen, a domestic digital accessories factory, claimed on its official Weibo account that it had formally charged Apple for its MFi certification […]

MIX 2 with Edge-to-Edge Screen and Possibly Facial Recognition will be Released on September 11

After a round of preheating, MI release posted a microblog today that it will host a conference on September 11 to promote its all-new edge-to-edge MIX 2. MI Mobile: edge-to-edge screen 2.0 is coming! Evolution, a perfect evolution. 309 days ago, the MIX edge-to-edge screen mobile came out. Today, we move further to the future. […]

Baidu Sued fenbi.com and Related We-media

According to Netease Technology on August 22, Baidu has formally initiated law proceedings in Beijing Haidian District People’s Court against Xiaolong Zhang, the CEO of Fenbilantian technology co., LTD. (fenbi.com) as well as we-media Coollabs for their serious violation against Baidu‘s reputation. Baidu demanded them to immediately delete infringing contents in their Weibo, WeChat official […]

Beijing Metro Fully Supports Scanning Code

Alipay’s official account on Weibo announced that Beijing Yitongxing APP was officially launched, and users could buy tickets in the APP and collect tickets from the ticket machine in the subway station. Besides, after September 20, users can directly use the NFC function in the mobile to pass the gate machine. Before, the Beijing metro […]

Will the short Music Video be a flash in the pan?

In 2016, the most powerful social platform in China was undoubtedly the live broadcasting platform, but in 2017, it is short MV which has more trills and is thus more magical that plays the key role. In march of this year, Tik Tok, an UGC short video platform subordinated to Headline Today, suddenly became quite […]

Entrepreneur Bashed by Industry for Receiving Financing by Hacking

On August 15th, an article titled, “Receive Financing from Angel Investor Charles Xue after Hacking into his Accounts, Creating Fair Trade for 1.5 Million Gamers Online” was published on Pencilnews.cn, sparking extensive discussions across the industry. Pencilnews disclosed in the article how Zhu Pan, the founder of the online trading platform for gamers—4931.com, was able […]

Wolf Warriors II Lists Top 100 Global Box Office and this ‘Story about China’ Stroke a Chord

By 21:00 UTC+8 on August 14th, the box office of Wolf Warriors II had reached 649 billion RMB (or 697 million US dollars). Thus, it surpassed Mission Impossible, whose box office ranked 99th in the world, and has listed the top 100 global box offices. It is the first time for Asian movies to list […]

3-Hour-Line To Get Chinese Tea: Insanely Popular, or Marketing Stunt?

At 10:30am on August 12th, it was just around half an hour later than Heytea opened its shop in Joy City in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Customers queued a line dozens of 50 to 60 meters long in this Internet popular tea store, totally blocking the door of a neighboring Starbucks. Heavy rain fell on and […]

Xiaomi Strikes Again With Mi Band

Few days ago, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun, posted on his Weibo account thrice in a row, celebrating the successful return of Xiaomi among the top 5 bestselling mobile phones globally. This was evident from 2 out of 3 different global sales statistics reports, marking a notable reprise of comeback from Xiaomi mobile. Today, Strategy Analytics, […]

Freestylers on Rap of China Go Viral

Rap Battles! Young folks showing others how it’s done If you’re looking for how freestyling is done, your best bet is by watching the TV series, the Rap of China. The iQiyi produced network variety show not only went viral on WeChat and Weibo, it even became the new hot topic among those in the […]

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