How China is changing the world – Arnold Ma
2022-05-04
London-based marketer Arnold Ma explains at SXSW how China’s Gen Z has changed the country and is now changing the world.Read More →
What can marketers learn from China – Ashley Dudarenok
2022-04-25
Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains what marketers can learn from China, and how e-commerce in China will change the rest of the world. Read More →
How China’s Tiktok became a global gamechanger – Matthew Brennan
2021-12-15
Bytedance’s Tiktok has become a global gamechanger, and extraordinary achievements from a China-based company, says innovation analyst Matthew Brennan, author of Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance at Spectra 2021.Read More →
Leadership shuffle at Bytedance: a good sign – William Bao Bean
2021-11-03
Bytedance, the mothership of both Douyin and Tiktok, has reorganized its leadership and its internal organization, including founder and CEO Zhang Yiming. A good sign at a maturing giant, says Shanghai-based VC William Bao Bean at the Asia Nikkei.Read More →
Tiktok, Bytedance: the Attention Factory – Matthew Brennan
2021-10-04
Internet watcher Matthew Brennan, author of “Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance,” discusses at BW Dialogue Tiktok and Bytedance, and looks at how much the Covid-19 crisis has changed the industry.Read More →
Low-hanging fruits are gone for China’s tech firms – Matthew Brennan
2021-09-24
Growing and making profits on the internet has been relatively easy for China’s tech firms when the industry took off, says veteran Internet watcher Matthew Brennan to the state-owned CGTN. But those easy gains are over now the government stepped in to regulate the industry and massive growth is harder to get, he adds.Read More →
China’s road to the Personal Information Protection Law – Mark Schaub
2021-09-20
China passed in August 2021 its Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), comparable to Europe’s GDPR. China lawyer Mark Schaub has at his webinar a look back at the road to PIPL. The PIPL will be in force on November 1, 2021.Read More →
How the state moves into tech – Shaun Rein
2021-09-07
China’s booming tech sector was mainly funded by private and sometimes overseas investors. Those days might be over as the state takes over that funding, with ride-hailing company Didi as a prime example, says business analyst Shaun Rein in Pymnts.Read More →
Managing data: key for the future of tech firms – Ben Cavender
2021-07-28
China’s government is tightening the strings for tech companies, especially when it comes to data management, says business analyst Ben Cavender at RTHK. “I think you’re going to see companies like this that really do peddle in data come under a lot more scrutiny going forward,” he said.Read More →
How Shein keeps an edge on its competitors – Matthew Brennan
2021-07-14
Fashion firm Shein belongs to a new breed of ultra-fast fashion brands that keeps an edge on its more traditional competitors, says innovation expert Matthew Brennan at the Vox. Why is Shein going to crunch fashion companies like Zara?Read More →
Buying cheaper China shares now might be risky – Arthur Kroeber
2021-07-13
The recent China regulatory crackdown on tech firms US IPO’s caused a dip in the value of shares, but financial analyst Arthur Kroeber warns that jumping on the bandwagon now also carries huge risks, according to Investing.com.Read More →
How China started to control its tech companies – Shaun Rein
2021-07-06
When China’s authorities cracked down on Jack Ma’s Alibaba, it was only the start of ongoing efforts to control tech companies and manage their data streams, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein to WRAL. “Now Chinese people are quite concerned about data privacy because Alibaba and Tencent have so much data – even more data than the government,” he adds.Read More →