Reserve Bank of India India aims to catch up with China in mobile paymentsabacusnews.com - Bloomberg The playing field in India’s rapidly expanding market for digital payments is poised to get more crowded as the country races to catch up with China …
Shenzhen Facial recognition is enforcing traffic laws in Shenzhenabacusnews.com - South China Morning Post China’s traffic police are pushing ahead with a nationwide network of facial recognition surveillance cameras to deal with rule violations despite …
Mulan Twitter users call for Mulan boycott over actress’s anti-Hong Kong protest memeabacusnews.com - Xinmei Shen It seems every day there’s a new call from patriotic Weibo users to boycott a brand or product that’s seemingly not conforming to the Chinese …
Technology (China) Kai-Fu Lee thinks AInnovation could be worth $1 billion in China IPOabacusnews.com - Bloomberg The promise of artificial intelligence has yet to translate into big business. Now Kai-Fu Lee, a prominent venture capitalist in China and founder of …
Online Life Ace Force is basically Overwatch for mobileabacusnews.com - Josh Ye Tencent’s newest first-person shooter game Ace Force is basically Overwatch lite for mobile. But on closer inspection, it’s also reminiscent of both …
Lootboxes China wants to limit the number of loot boxes players can buyabacusnews.com - Josh Ye Countries are debating whether buying a random selection of virtual items in video games is like gambling. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo have all …
Meituan-Dianping Delivery company Meituan will soon have its own mapping serviceabacusnews.com - Reuters Meituan Dianping , a Chinese online food delivery-to-ticketing firm, has started building a mapping service, aiming to enter an area currently …
Technology (China) Baidu no longer among China's top 5 most valuable tech companiesabacusnews.com - South China Morning Post Baidu Inc. has fallen out of the top five most valuable publicly traded Chinese internet companies after its market capitalisation slid below that of …
Lenovo Lenovo PCs getting more expensive thanks to tariffsabacusnews.com - Reuters China’s Lenovo Group, the world’s largest PC maker, warned it will have to raise product prices if U.S. tariffs increase, sending its shares tumbling …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWeChat TikTok's creator has a search engine, but the real challenge isn't Baiduabacusnews.com - Xinmei Shen Baidu has been China’s king of search since Google pulled out of the country in 2010. Now it’s facing a new challenger, TikTok creator ByteDance, …
Weibo Apple and other tech titans in hot water again in Chinaabacusnews.com - Masha Borak If content on microblogging platform Weibo this week could be summed up in a single meme, it would probably be this one: No one: Weibo: Checks all …
Online Life China's mobile payments are raising privacy concerns in Shenzhenabacusnews.com - South China Morning Post Frustrated and hungry, Wang Xiaoxu finally gave up on a meal with her friends at a local restaurant one night, after the ordering system blocked her …
Apple Watch Apple's AirPods no longer protected from US-China trade war tariffsabacusnews.com - Reuters Apple Inc’s AirPods, Apple Watch and HomePod, which have helped the company offset waning sales of its bestselling iPhone this year, are not included …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSocial Media Companies TikTok is one of the coolest apps in Vietnamabacusnews.com - KrASIA For 20-year-old Nguyen Ngoc Anh, a third-year student at the Da Nang University of Economics, the coolest trends among hip, young people in Vietnam …
Online Life F.I.S.T. could be the gritty 3D Metroidvania game you didn’t know you wantedabacusnews.com - Josh Ye Imagine Old Man Logan but with a rabbit. Instead of lacerating gunmen with adamantium claws, a grizzled bunny faces off against an army of robots by …
Online Life Are smart locks safe? A Chinese report says not reallyabacusnews.com - Masha Borak Smart locks have been promising a future of convenience for years now. But if you’ve recently decided you’re ready to go keyless, you might want to …
Online Life This online celebrity says a company trademarked his nameabacusnews.com - Masha Borak It’s not often someone wakes up to find out that the name given to them by their parents now belongs to a company. That’s now a reality for Jing …
Ren Zhengfei Huawei founder wants an "iron army" to protect itself from the USabacusnews.com - Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co.’s billionaire founder intends to kick off a three- to five-year overhaul of the networking giant, creating an “iron army” …
Online Life This airline uses AI to monitor customer complaintsabacusnews.com - South China Morning Post In a business that receives around one million complaints a year, the ability to handle large amounts of information is critical. That is why …
China Nezha’s huge success masks challenges facing China’s animation industryabacusnews.com - Josh Ye China’s latest animated film Nezha has been all the rage in China this summer, beating out Zootopia as the most popular animated movie in the …
Technology (China) Chinese tech startups are targeting emerging markets to make their markabacusnews.com - Masha Borak China is home to the world’s largest online population, with about 829 million internet users. This has been a boon for the numerous tech giants that …
Huawei Chinese netizens have mixed feelings about Huawei’s homegrown HarmonyOSabacusnews.com - Xinmei Shen Huawei has finally revealed its homegrown operating system dubbed HarmonyOS, or Hongmeng as it’s known in China. For many social media users in the …
Online Life China's Twitch pays millions of dollars to keep its top streamer exclusiveabacusnews.com - Bloomberg Cameras flashed and fans screamed, as Liu Mou stepped into the spotlight on a sweltering summer evening. In the industrial heartland city of Wuhan, …
Online Life Chinese fans review bomb Total War after NetEase becomes publisherabacusnews.com - Josh Ye Total War: Three Kingdoms is extremely popular in China, so it made sense when NetEase announced that it would become the official publisher of Total …
Xiaomi Xiaomi shuns Sony for Samsung camera sensorsabacusnews.com - Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. scored a victory over Sony Corp. after a major Chinese customer declared it was going with the Korean company’s camera …
Huawei Huawei debuts Android alternative HarmonyOSabacusnews.com - Karen Chiu Huawei has taken the wraps off its first self-developed operating system. Huawei says HarmonyOS, dubbed Hongmeng in Chinese, can run seamlessly across …
Cockroach Cockroaches inspire tiny search and rescue robotsabacusnews.com - South China Morning Post Cockroaches are near-indestructible little creatures. These hardy insects have existed since at least 320 million years ago, outliving dinosaurs. A …
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 probably won’t stop Samsung’s downward spiral in Chinaabacusnews.com - Karen Chiu Last quarter, the world’s biggest smartphone brand sold about 700,000 smartphones in the world’s largest smartphone market. That gave Samsung a …
Batteries The Chinese billionaire keeping batteries from exploding in your smartphones and electric carsabacusnews.com - Karen Chiu An engineer by training, Cao Ji is the founder of Zhejiang Hangke Technology -- a company specializing in making production equipment for lithium-ion …
