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What makes WeChat so much better than other messaging apps?

Jan 30, 2024

It's almost as hard for Chinese companies to break out of the country as it is for Western companies to...

Alibaba wants to bring e-commerce to rural areas

Jan 30, 2024

Somewhere around 600 million people live in the Chinese countryside, and Alibaba has spent years trying to turn them into customers....

Chinese consumers are tired of all these iPhone clones

Jan 30, 2024

Chinese companies used to be able to make some serious cash by creating a decent iPhone clone and then selling...

Xiaomi is considering going public

Jan 30, 2024

Xiaomi is second only to Uber in terms of how much people are anticipating its IPO, and although CEO Lei Jun...

A company you’ve never heard of may be the next smartphone giant

Jan 30, 2024

The seemingly unstoppable Xiaomi just had a pretty rough year, having failed to achieve even the lowest sales goal that...

China is developing its own version of Bitcoin

Jan 30, 2024

China is actually more accepting of Bitcoin than most people would expect. While financial institutions aren't allowed to hold or...

Baidu could be ready to sell self-driving cars in just three years

Jan 30, 2024

Chinese companies are just as interested in autonomous vehicle technology as their American counterparts, and as the Google of China,...

Xiaomi has admitted that it couldn’t even reach its lowest sales goal

Jan 30, 2024

The fact that 70 million smartphone sales is considered lackluster for Xiaomi is a testament to how ridiculously successful the company has...

Fresh Meat is an online dating service that’s only for attractive people

Jan 30, 2024

Building a new social network is incredibly difficult, even for the largest of companies, and it's next to impossible for the smaller...

Faraday Future’s first vehicle might actually be a game-changer

Jan 30, 2024

Last night, after months of hints and teasers meant to build up our anticipation, Faraday Future unveiled its first concept vehicle....

Facebook’s free Internet initiative is exploitation disguised as charity

Jan 30, 2024

For those of you who have been living under a rock over the past few weeks, Facebook has been trying...

China manufactured more than 1.6 billion smartphones this year

Jan 30, 2024

If you're not buying your smartphone from any of the increasingly-popular Chinese smartphone makers like Huawei or Xiaomi, then odds...