Category: Law & Policy
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Iqiyi’s Taiwanese Agent To Stop Customer Service From October 2020
OTT Entertainment, Iqiyi’s agent in Taiwan, recently announced that it will fully stop providing customer service to its local users…
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America Builds Wall Against TikTok And WeChat
American President Donald Trump’s administration announced that both ByteDance’s TikTok and Tencent’s WeChat apps would be prohibited from being downloaded…
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Stung By TikTok, Vindictive Trump Shows He’s a Chump As He Attacks ByteDance
At a moment in an election year where he is seen trailing in most national polls to rival Joe Biden,…
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Hong Kong’s Tech Companies Gain Financial Reprieve
With rumors of technology companies feeling the financial sting of the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, one key government landlord…
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Ofo’s License Revoked In Singapore
According to reports in Singapore’s local media, due to unable to remove all bikes within a prescribed period, Chinese bike-sharing…
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Huawei Plans USA Splash In Early 2018
With technology security rumblings in the United States surrounding China’s Huawei, the Chinese firm is forging ahead in establishing a…
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Countdown Looms For BTCC’s Bitcoin Trading End
As BTCC enters its final week of Bitcoin trading operations, all eyes are on how the impact of the shutdown…
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Truly International Sues Letv Zhixin To Get Back CNY240 Million Investment
Truly International Holdings Limited is using the courts to go after a subsidiary of embattled Chinese tech firm LeEco. …
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ICOs Are Dead In China As Chinese Government Nixes Cryptocurrencies
Seven Chinese regulatory bodies issued initial coin offering rules that totally ban the practice by cryptocurrency and Bitcoin wannabes. …
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Alibaba To Build Northwestern Headquarters In Xi’an
To better support the development of China’s western region and China’s ambitious One Belt, One Road inititiative, Alibaba Group’s chairman…
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Alibaba Gambles On Smart City Development In Macau
Alibaba and the government of Macau Special Administrative Region signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement for the construction of smart…
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Chinese Telecom Operators To Cancel Long-distance Call, Roaming Fees
China’s three major telecom operators, China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, announced plans to cancel long-distance call fee and…
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Is There Anything To Fear About Apple’s China Data Center?
News broke yesterday that Facebook-owned Whatsapp was partially filtered and blocked in China. This action comes a week after Apple…
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Mobile Programmatic Ad Fraud Is Big With Entertainment And Education Apps
Many Chinese companies have risen on the back of mobile advertising, but a new report says fraud is rampant in…
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Hong Kong Loses Tech Business Champion
Mark O. Clift, the chief operating officer of Hong Kong’s technology hub, passed away this week. …
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Xiaomi Reaches Patent Deal With Nokia
Xiaomi and Nokia have signed a business cooperation agreement and a multi-year patent licensing agreement covering cross-licensing of standard essential…
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Chinese Government Demands Weibo Cease Streaming Video Services
The Chinese adage that the tall blade of grass gets cut first is definitely true this week, as China’s top…
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LeEco To Close Cloud Disk Personal Services At End Of June 2017
The Chinese government’s tightening noose on illegal Internet content has found its latest victim: LeEco. …
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China’s Bitcoin Trading Value Soars In May 2017
In May 2017, the Bitcoin trading value in China reached CNY21.708 billion, four times that of April 2017. And the…
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China’s New Cybersecurity Law Carries Death Penalty For Some Offenses
China’s latest cybersecurity law came into force last week and the sky did not fall and companies have not shuttered. …
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Tencent May Have Just Defeated Baidu At Its Own Game In China
Baidu is a poorly-executed search engine. But with both government regulations handcuffing its development and lack of competition in China,…
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Alipay’s Travel Tax Refund Service Arrives In Ten European Countries
Chinese Internet payment platform Alipay will launch a travel value-added tax refund service in ten countries in Europe to allow…
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Tencent’s Silicon Valley Data Center Opens While Foreign Firms Lack China Access
Tencent’s Silicon Valley data center, which is the company’s first data center in the U.S., has commenced operations. …
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Huawei’s Data Center And Innovation Labs Bring Investment To New Zealand
New Zealand’s government revealed that Chinese telecom device maker Huawei will invest NZD400 million, which is about CNY1.938 billion, in…
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U.S. Government Penalty Impacts ZTE’s Results For 2016
2016 was not a great year for Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE. The company says it had total losses of CNY767…
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Alibaba Reaches “Happy” Strategic Deal With Denmark
On the heels of Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma’s overtures to American President Trump and to the Australian government with a…
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Skytech, Ant Financial Sign Cooperation Framework Agreement
Chinese software, integrated system, and technical services provider Skytech announced that the group has signed a cooperation framework agreement with…
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U.S. Government Extends ZTE’s Temporary Export License
The United States Department of Commerce has reportedly agreed to extend ZTE’s temporary export license to March 29, 2017, allowing…
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Nothing Artificial About Baidu’s AI Approval In China
The China National Development and Reform Commission has granted Baidu regulatory approval to launch an artificial intelligence research center. …
