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News broke yesterday that Chinese Internet behemoth Tencent took a 5% stake in U.S.-based Tesla. Though the stake is small, the impression was large...

In December 2015, Alibaba's Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai informed the world that Alibaba was going to take control of South China Morning Post...

State-sponsored hacking is a hot topic, and security experts point to a few global actors as sources of the intrigue and exploits. But how do...

Mark Zuckerberg, the American founder of Facebook, jogged in Beijing this week. And it caught everybody's attention. Chinese social media was ablaze in amazement that...

Hacking happens all over the world, but cybersecurity issues in China have special significance because the agents of the attack are often hard to...

Chinese e-commerce boss Jack Ma is emulating America's Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos, who recently purchased The Washington Post, by purchasing his own media empire...

VTech Holdings Limited, the Hong Kong maker of baby monitors and electronic toys, announced that its customer database was hacked two weeks ago. The company...

The e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is reportedly planning a newspaper investment in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, according to multiple reports in Chinese...

A number of Chinese Apple iOS apps this week were found infected with XcodeGhost malware. This makes both Apple and the technology companies who...

Hospitality exchange service Airbnb announced this week a deal with China Broadband Capital and Sequoia China to elevate the American Internet company's brand to...

The news in recent days of China's "Great Cannon" and a related research report from Canada has cast a spotlight from outside China on...

Hong Kong's geographic proximity to mainland China belies the gulf in business practices, Internet laws, and access that Twitter will find between the refined...

On Valentine's Day, two of China's taxi-hailing apps agreed to merge. But is this a good business decision and does it benefit consumers in...

The leaders of Facebook and Apple were in China this past week on separate missions with the same goal: gain better transparency and more...

China's Alibaba starts selling stakes in its Cayman Island company Alibaba Group Holding Limited today in the United States. In a "Letter From Jack...

After years of smartphone rumors compounded by false starts and technology gossip, Apple finally seems to have found a friend in China Mobile. During Apple's...

By merging their Chinese online video businesses, the leaders of Youku and Tudou have done something their comrades at other Chinese Internet companies...

There's been much news over the past few days about Microsoft Bing's English-language integration with Baidu.com's Chinese search engine. This story has risen to the...

Youku.com and Tudou.com, along with about a dozen competitors, are known as the Chinese versions of YouTube. But beyond the common ability for users...

News from many outlets the past week is that Google is planning to announce a withdrawal from China today. Google's departure will boost rivals...

Another Chinese New Year is upon us, and this year we transition into the Year of the Tiger. As Chinese businesses begin to shut...