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It’s been a record year for China’s Internet moguls, but not in the way most would have hoped.

ByteDance Ltd (字節跳動) ordered its employees to end their day by 7pm, becoming one of the first tech companies in China to officially mandate shorter working hours, according to an internal document. Staff in China should only work from 10am to 7pm on Mondays to Fridays and would need to seek permission to stay beyond those hours at least one day in advance, the document showed. A representative for the TikTok and Douyin (抖音) owner declined to comment. The country’s grueling work pace — known as “996” because employees often labor from 9am to 9pm six days per week — was lon...

Bottled water, vaccine development, short-video platform TikTok and electric vehicle technology propelled the big earners on China’s rich list this year, as embattled property moguls and others facing regulatory scrutiny slipped down the rankings. Zhong Shanshan (鍾睒睒) was No. 1 on the Hurun China Rich List 2021 published yesterday, with personal wealth of US$60.6 billion, thanks to a surge in the value of his listed companies, Nongfu Spring Co (農夫山泉) and Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise Co (萬泰生物). ByteDance Ltd (字節跳動) founder Zhang Yiming (張一鳴...

The US$1bil (RM4.1bil) will be the initial funding for Project AsiaForward, which aims to nurture 100, 000 developers and tech startups over the next three years, Alibaba said in a statement yesterday. HONG KONG: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s cloud division has pledged US$1bil (RM4.1bil) to support startups in Asia, marking one of its largest outlays since the tech giant pledged to boost spending and move past a bruising antitrust investigation at home. The US$1bil (RM4.1bil) will be the initial funding for Project AsiaForward, which aims to nurture 100, 000 developers and tech startups over ...

BEIJING (AP) — The founder of TikTok’s Chinese owner said Thursday he will give up his job as CEO to focus on longer-term initiatives, a step that comes amid uncertainty over whether the Biden administration will force the sale of the popular short video service’s U.S. arm.