TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Chinese government’s crackdown on its domestic technology industry continues, with Tencent under fresh pressure despite the company’s efforts to follow changing regulatory expectations. And NetEase, a major Chinese technology company, will delay the IPO of its music arm in Hong Kong. Uncertain regulations, per Reuters.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

With TikTok and DeepSeek , young people are forking over sensitive personal data to the Chinese government. Among Gen Z, theres a certain nihilism about Chinas access to American data. Others say that, if American billionaires can access their data, why not let China, too? government. government.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

LGBTQ dating app Grindr has been removed from the Apple App Store in China, and is also unavailable on popular Android app marketplaces, Bloomberg reports. The tightening of restrictions comes ahead of China hosting the Winter Olympics in Beijing, which are due to kick off later this week. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

IPO is one of several key moments of the recent regulatory shift inside China regarding its leading technology companies. The other is Ant’s IPO that never happened , pulled in the wake of criticisms of the Chinese government’s handling of newer technologies by the previously prominent Alibaba founder Jack Ma.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

The bill is likely to pass if it’s introduced, giving India some of the world’s strictest digital currency laws. Reuters’ source, a government official, didn’t specify the punishment for breaking the rules after that. But a 2019 government panel recommended a jail sentence of up to 10 years for cryptocurrency-related offenses.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

China accounts for a quarter of Intel’s global revenue. Intel has issued an apology to partners and customers in China after it told local suppliers it would not be using labor or goods sourced from the country’s Xinjiang region. This normally-procedural note caused a backlash in China.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

China’s main AI regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), is seeking public comment on a draft version of a new law looking to tackle AI-generated content labeling issues. CAC, in Chinese ]

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images. US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has threatened the government funding of chipmaker Intel after the company made what Rubio described as “humiliating apologies” to China.

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The Verge

APRIL 10, 2021

China has hit Alibaba, one of the country’s biggest online retailers, with a record $2.8 billion yuan) fine, after an investigation found the ecommerce giant violated China’s anti-monopoly law, The New York Times reported. Photo by Fang Dongxu/VCG via Getty Images. billion (18.2

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2021

The new system could help law enforcement in criminal investigations but may open the door to increased legal and government demands for user data. But imagine what it could do in the hands of an authoritarian government?”. This sort of tool can be a boon for finding child pornography in people’s phones,” Green said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

As financial troubles escalate at Danke, China’s authorities are stepping in to hold the once-promising apartment rental and sharing company accountable. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, China’s rental market cooled, putting stress on Danke’s funding vehicle. when it went public in January.

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TechSpot

JULY 14, 2023

Electric wheelchairs are not subject to such regulations, nor are they governed by conventional vehicle / traffic laws. According to a report from The Straits Times, recent e-bike regulations have restricted their operating speeds and require users to dismount and push their bike across striped road crossings. This means you.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Google provided some user data to the government of Hong Kong last year, despite promising it would not process such data requests from authorities, according to the Hong Kong Free Press. The company told the news outlet it “produced some data” in response to three of the 43 requests it received from Hong Kong’s government.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Toyotas first wholly-owned electric Lexus plant in China could be larger than Teslas Shanghai Gigafactory, according to since-deleted publicly available documents shared by a Chinese blogger, revealing significant details on the latest investment in China by the worlds biggest automaker.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

The move comes amid a larger reset of relations between China’s burgeoning technology sector and its autocratic government. China is not the only nation grappling with its technology sector; India has made consistent noise in recent months regarding tech firms inside its borders, for example.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Much of the focus today is on TikTok, the viral video-sharing app owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, which faces bans over fears that the data it collects will end up in the hands of the Chinese government. But TikTok isn’t the only company capable of sharing data with China. It’s why each state legislates differently.

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TechNode

MARCH 25, 2024

On March 23, Chinas Minister of Commerce, Wang Wentao, met with Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra to exchange views on Micron’s development in China. The Chinese government welcomed Micron to continue deepening its presence in the Chinese market and accelerate the implementation of new investment projects in China, Wang Wentao said.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Special thanks go to Charles Coward and Xavier Domènech of the Barcelona law firm Uría Menéndez.

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TechNode

APRIL 24, 2024

Why it matters: The Reuters report reveals loopholes in the US export restrictions on high-performance GPU chips to China. The findings have raised concerns within the US government about the efficacy and enforcement of these regulatory measures. In China, trading in GPU chips coming from the US is not illegal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

China’s technology industry. Since the Ant IPO was pulled and the Chinese Communist Party executed off a flat-wild period of regulatory action in 2021, you have probably heard less about China’s technology. China’s government decided that such companies had too much influence, and thus needed to be cut down to size.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 19, 2020

For the second time in two months , Apple is putting one of the companies it hires to build the iPhone on notice for violating labor laws. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Employees allege they have not been paid properly. pic.twitter.com/GKbeFeyRKc — TOI Bengaluru (@TOIBengaluru) December 12, 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. government or even (heavens!) Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

The country has experienced summer blackouts in years past , and while the current round of outages is mostly being blamed on a drought that’s affecting the country’s ability to generate hydroelectric power, it seems that the Iranian government is eager to cut down on any aggravating factors.

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The Verge

AUGUST 9, 2021

In a new FAQ , Apple has attempted to assuage concerns that its new anti-child abuse measures could be turned into surveillance tools by authoritarian governments. Authoritarian governments could use it to scan for politically dissent material, or anti-LGBT regimes could use it to crack down on sexual expression.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

Amazon is allegedly employing suppliers in China with links to forced labor, according to a report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), a research group owned by the nonprofit watchdog organization Campaign for Accountability (via NBC News ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

The company instead sourced some from places like China and sent them to places in need. In an email to employees last week , Shima said Panasonic will “always follow the laws and official direction from State and local government, even if those are different from our intention for PSNA’s business activities.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, said Friday that cryptocurrency transactions are illegal, saying such currencies “do not have legal tender status” and therefore “cannot be circulated as currency in the market.”. China is in the midst of an energy crisis that has already affected many other industries.

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TechNode

MARCH 18, 2024

On March 15, the annual 315 Evening consumer rights TV broadcast co-hosted by state media China Central Television (CCTV) and a number of national government departments, exposed an illegal industrial chain producing motherboards for the mass manipulation of smartphones.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

The simmering issue of how Tesla deals with customer complaints in China came to a boil this week as police detained a woman after she protested at Tesla’s booth at the Auto Shanghai 2021 trade show. Tesla has since said it will conduct a self-inspection of its service and operations in China. Government agencies have spoken up, too.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

Once in effect, the amendments would require swift compliance with any government takedown requests — and ambiguous wording in the text of the bill has spurred concerns that tech employees could be prosecuted as individuals if they do not comply. TikTok (which does not operate in China) ceased its operations in the city entirely.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

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TechNode

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the national internet regulator, on Wednesday issued new draft regulations aimed at preventing minors from becoming addicted to their phones. Why it matters: Safeguarding the online experience of minors is a key concern of authorities overseeing Chinas entertainment and internet industries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” such as India and China. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Silicon Valley law firm Cooley recently reported that it “handled 298 disclosable venture capital financings for Q3 2022, representing $8.1 China relations is on investors’ minds. sanctions on China were to extend to biotech, Dopazo said that “the impact could go from financing (e.g.,

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

Axon — the law enforcement company that makes Tasers, police body cameras, and other police and military technologies — has announced a new partnership with US drone company Skydio. But in the years since, DJI’s Chinese ties have effectively sidelined it from US government work. Image: Skydio.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Chinas foreign ministry denied that China has issued bans on the purchase and use of foreign phone brands on September 13, according to Reuters. The statement was in response to recent media reports that said some Chinese government agencies and firms had told staff to stop using Apples iPhones at work, the report said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Just as Five had been focused on a pivot to software, Bosch has already been a very active player in that market and how it relates to autonomous systems and other next-generation software and hardware , but it has also been investing in autonomous vehicle companies, too: it’s part of the list of strategic backers of Momenta in China.

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