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What makes WeChat so much better than other messaging apps?

It's almost as hard for Chinese companies to break out of the country as it is for Western companies to break into it, which is why there are so many...

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Alibaba wants to bring e-commerce to rural areas

Somewhere around 600 million people live in the Chinese countryside, and Alibaba has spent years trying to turn them into customers. The problem is, while e-commerce has been exploding in China's...

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Chinese consumers are tired of all these iPhone clones

Chinese companies used to be able to make some serious cash by creating a decent iPhone clone and then selling it at a price that most people could afford, but...

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Xiaomi is considering going public

Xiaomi is second only to Uber in terms of how much people are anticipating its IPO, and although CEO Lei Jun has made it abundantly clear that his company isn't preparing...

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

The seemingly unstoppable Xiaomi just had a pretty rough year, having failed to achieve even the lowest sales goal that it set for itself, thanks to intense competition from Apple and...

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China is developing its own version of Bitcoin

China is actually more accepting of Bitcoin than most people would expect. While financial institutions aren't allowed to hold or trade the digital currency, private parties are. In fact, the country...

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

Chinese companies are just as interested in autonomous vehicle technology as their American counterparts, and as the Google of China, it's only natural that Baidu be the company leading the charge for...

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

The fact that 70 million smartphone sales is considered lackluster for Xiaomi is a testament to how ridiculously successful the company has been over the past few years, but that doesn't change...

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

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

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

Last night, after months of hints and teasers meant to build up our anticipation, Faraday Future unveiled its first concept vehicle. Known as the FFZERO1, the vehicle looks like something out of...

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Facebook’s free Internet initiative is exploitation disguised as charity

For those of you who have been living under a rock over the past few weeks, Facebook has been trying to spread its free Internet initiative across the developing world,...

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China manufactured more than 1.6 billion smartphones this year

If you're not buying your smartphone from any of the increasingly-popular Chinese smartphone makers like Huawei or Xiaomi, then odds are you're still buying a smartphone that was manufactured in...

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