Asia Tech

[ad_1] Bashing Baidu, China’s largest internet search engine, has become almost a sport among Chinese social media users. The company has been called “the greatest evil of human nature” and a “human-eating machine”—not your average complaints from annoyed tech users. The latest example illustrates just how keen has become Baidu ...

[ad_1] ALIBABA GROUP and Marriott International will be teaming up in a digital partnership intended to transform the face of travel for Chinese tourists, by leveraging on the power of Alibaba’s vast e-commerce consumer base and Marriott’s hotel network. The two companies announced on Monday their joint venture would crisscross ...

[ad_1] WeChat may be the default app for almost every Chinese person, but not long ago its older sibling, QQ, had a similarly formidable position. For years, QQ had been the biggest social networking app in China. It wasn’t until Q1 2017 that WeChat, growing at 23% YoY, surpassed QQ for the first time to ...

[ad_1] Xiaomi’s good run has continued after a research firm found that the Chinese firm has ranked top for sales of wearable devices worldwide for the first. Sales of Fitbit devices, meanwhile, plunged by 40 percent Coming off the back of Xiaomi’s reentry into the world’s top five smartphone sellers, a ...

[ad_1] The Chinese government’s crackdown on the internet continues with the news that Apple has removed all major VPN apps, which help internet users overcome the country’s censorship system, from the App Store in China. The move was first noted by ExpressVPN, a provider based outside of China, which said in ...

[ad_1] PayPal has continued its strategy of expanding its presence on mobile after it revealed a tie-up with Baidu. The arrangement will allow the Chinese firm’s 100 million mobile wallet users to make payments to PayPal’s 17 million merchants through the Baidu service. The news is the latest in a ...

A CHINESE telecoms carrier said it had begun closing virtual private networks (VPNs) and other tools that can bypass the so-called Great Firewall, which state authorities use to filter and block traffic between Chinese and overseas servers. A spokesman for Guangzhou Huoyun Information Technology Ltd., which operates in around 20 cities across ...

[ad_1] The Ticwatch, a worthy (and more affordable) alternative to the Apple Watch, is back with two new models. You may remember the second-generation Ticwatch from last year. The watch raised over $2 million on Kickstarter and now parent company Mobvoi, which includes Google and VW among its financial backers, ...

[ad_1] Payment enabler Stripe just announced two significant tie-ins that could help its pool of merchants make money from consumers in China. U.S. firm Stripe said today that it has agreed to global deals with Alipay and WeChat Pay, two digital services that dominate consumer spending in China. Alipay, which ...

[ad_1] Travelers wait at the departure area in the Beijing Capital International Airport. Source: Alexander Gatsenko/Shutterstock REMEMBER the Alibaba and Tencent’s ongoing proxy war via the online food delivery space? It would seem that they’re also fighting it out in the ride-hailing and bike rental space as well. And now, as ...