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Avid Bilibili fans known as ‘uploaders’ remain dedicated to the platform for its supportive community, turning it into China’s YouTube as Tencent Video, iQiyi and Youku chase exclusive films and TV shows.
February 23, 2021 When Beijing blocked Clubhouse this month, the app’s users in China mourned the end of the brief period of free speech they had experienced on the audio chat app. But the move is also an opportunity for Chinese tech firms to develop their own version of the tool—and already a handful of Chinese counterparts exist. Overall, there are more than 100 teams (link in Chinese) in China exploring products in the area of audio-based social media, according to the CEO of iiMedia Research, a Chinese consultancy. The invite-only US audio app attracted heightened interest in China af...
April 16, 2021 last updated 13:2 ET Residents taking the ferry stand near a Chinese national flag in Wuhan, China, Jan. 15, 2021 (AP photo by Ng Han Guan). ‘Watching People Become Citizens’: Clubhouse’s Brief Run in China Sometimes springtime comes and goes in a flash. That’s the way things felt early this month, when people who follow China were left agog at the extraordinary flourishing of discussion on Clubhouse, the young but fast-growing app that combines social media with audio chat. Though available in China since last spring, Clubhouse saw a spik...
Simulators that realistically recreate the driving experience can save operators rental, labour and equipment costs – but the livelihoods of real instructors are at stake.
The dispute between Tencent and ByteDance is a dynamic in which there is a danger of a flare-up whenever an emerging power seeks to displace an established one. Although the world has no mediator to settle disputes between established and rising powers, China has and will enact more anti-monopoly laws and regulations.