The Next Web

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Chinaccelerator , the only accelerator of its kind in China, hosted a demo day on Tuesday for its third batch of startups. Chinaccelerator is raising the bar here in China, and today’s demos really reflected that. Qiuqiu CEO Michael Lewis started off his pitch by pointing out that there are 180 million singles in China.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Several more Chinese tech companies round out the top slots: Baidu , which runs Chinas top search engine, started offering driverless taxi services last summer in select cities and is already outperforming Googles Waymo robotaxis where it operates. A handful of 2025 honorees focus on ecological innovations. Apollo Go provided approximately 1.1

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Tesla has also cut prices on the now-aging models 3 and Y amid slowing electric-vehicle demand globally and rising competition, especially in China, where EVs start below $10,000. Tesla still trades at huge premiums, as measured by forward price-to-earnings ratios. A high ratio suggests shares might be overpriced. The tiny U.S.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

They said that although tattoos remained taboo in China, moderators in the U.S. The trade war with China is very much real, though, and has already led to the Trump administration banning government use of Huawei and ZTE telecommunications equipment , for fear of espionage. Industry. ? Natasha Singer / The New York Times ).

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

While living without Facebook , Instagram and YouTube is a mundane reality in mainland China, those apps are beloved in Hong Kong. Google abandoned plans to offer a major new cloud service in China due in part to concerns over geopolitical tensions and the pandemic. Industry. ? It will be in Congress. Karen Chiu / Abacus ).

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Industry. ? Apple will start removing thousands of mobile games that lack government approval from its App Store in China next month. Snap ought to hire and retain more underrepresented minorities, release its diversity report, and stop distributing filters to its entire user base without a proper review. Nilay Patel / The Verge).

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Instead the fees might resemble those in the more competitive payments industry, which hover in the low single-digit percentages. China is cracking down on live-streaming services for “vulgar content” amid their explosion in popularity due to the coronavirus pandemic. Industry. ? But more than 1.5

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

The attacks came from Iran and China, respectively. The Biden campaign was targeted by a China-based group, known as APT 31, Mr. Huntley said. Industry. ? Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? Governing. ? This group has been linked by security firms to the Chinese government.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

India and China are in a conflict over a disputed border in the Himalayas that recently resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers. In China’s increasingly authoritarian system, this resemblance has gotten the attention of Chinese authorities, who’ve started censoring his social media profiles. Industry. ? is the No.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In particular, Harris’ work on screen time triggered a powerful sea change in the industry, and DiResta’s explorations of misinformation have been essential to helping social networks understand themselves. They were driven by US-China tensions, commercial rivalries, and President Trump’s personal interventions. Industry. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

On the other hand, if ByteDance is forced to give up control, China seems likely to block the deal. Last week, I wrote that TikTok’s deal with Oracle was a bet that Trump would cave on concerns over China. Industry. ? I am famously bad at making predictions about TikTok, but I’ll tempt fate and tell you how I’m thinking here.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. Industry. ? “The problem with ‘civil’ is it’s a word that’s used by powerful people to silence less powerful people,” he said. I still think the Telepath founders have a lot of good ideas.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Trending up : Facebook removed networks of accounts run from China that promoted and criticized both President Trump and Joe Biden. Industry. ? And when this new lawsuit is ultimately resolved, I’d be surprised if YouTube weren’t forced to acknowledge that, too. Cam Wilson / Gizmodo ).

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

You may be skeptical this might happen, but again, China has already demonstrated a willingness to censor speech on a platform banned in China; how much of a leap is it to think that a Party committed to ideological dominance will forever leave a route directly into the hearts and minds of millions of Americans untouched? Industry. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Last month it hired the prominent executive Kevin Mayer away from Disney to be TikTok’s CEO, giving ByteDance a face of the American business establishment to go before Congress and ask questions about how the Communist Party of China might plan to use TikTok as part of an influence campaign. Industry. ? Lauren Kirchner / The Markup ).

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

One place where Cook was let off the hook almost entirely: there were very few questions about the company’s reliance on China as a supplier or a market for its products. In no industry, save perhaps airlines and nuclear power plants, do we suggest that anything short of perfection is equivalent to failure. Industry. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We remain opposed to any deal that would allow China-based or controlled entities to retain, control or modify the code or algorithms that operate any U.S.-based Industry. ? An entire industry has cropped up around managing Twitch stars. But people in the industry say there’s rampant exploitation going on behind the scenes.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Another team is examining Google’s online advertising business , where the company owns industry-leading tools at every link in the complex chain between online publishers and advertisers. Apple is facing its toughest environment in China in years amid the decline of US-China relations. Industry. ? Jennifer Elias / CNBC).

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Industry. ? TikTok has hired a small army of more than 35 lobbyists to convince lawmakers that its allegiance lies with the United States — not China. The move comes as the app, which is owned by the China-based ByteDance , has become a target in the Trump administration’s long simmering battle with Beijing.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Apple pulled more than 47,000 apps from the Chinese App Store earlier this month as tensions continue to rise between the US and China. Iris Deng, Yujie Xue in Shenzhen and Josh Ye / South China Morning Post ). The revelation comes as Taiwan has been caught up in the escalating struggle for global influence between the US and China.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Diversity reports first became popular in Silicon Valley in the middle of the 2010s as a way for the technology industry to attempt to hold itself to a higher collective standard. And while almost every major tech company now publishes such a report annually, the industry’s overall diversity has remained disappointingly stagnant.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

lawmakers and regulators trying to rein in the tech industry, escalating Silicon Valley’s war with Washington at a moment when government officials are threatening to break up large companies. None of this is new or unique to the tech industry, of course. Industry. ? It’s stuff you largely couldn’t do on Facebook. Virus tracker.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Because it’s going to be worse – we’re going to have to give China billions of dollars for the privilege of having TikTok operate on US soil.”. As recently as April, Zoom was caught rerouting external video calls through China , a behavior far more serious than anything we’ve seen from TikTok.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It envisions the digital regulatory body — whether governmental or industry-based — as requiring internet companies to clearly disclose their terms of service and how they are enforced, with the possibility of applying consumer protection laws if a platform fails to conform to its own rules. Industry. ? Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

China emphasized its power in the TikTok sale, saying it has the right to approve or block the sale of technology abroad. Industry. ? I have no doubt it will make Facebook a better place to work. And I wonder whether the version of Facebook the rest of us would not benefit from similarly decisive intervention.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

China has also launched cyberattacks against “high-profile individuals” linked to Joe Biden’s campaign, while Iranian actors have targeted people associated with President Trump’s campaign. Industry. ? Anyway, TikTok’s transparency center is great — a truly forward-leaning effort from a young company. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

US officials accused China of sponsoring criminal hackers who are targeting biotech firms around the world working on coronavirus vaccines. Industry. ? The spike in investments is likely due to India’s growing tensions with China, which have spilled over into the tech sector and created an opening for US companies.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

The trade war with China shows no signs of ending — or even de-escalating — this year. Industry. ? And yet — how likely does it seem to you that ByteDance will ultimately have that option? The company hasn’t caught a break on the regulatory front in recent memory. And it might happen sooner than we all expect. Will Oremus / OneZero ).

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Here are Kate Conger and Mike Isaac at The New York Times: Late Wednesday, it added fact-checking labels to messages from Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry who had claimed that the coronavirus outbreak may have begun in the United States and been brought to China by the U.S. Industry. ?

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg said he is “worried” that other countries may be trying to imitate China’s approach to regulating the internet. Just to be blunt about it, I think there is a model coming out of countries like China that tend to have very different values than Western countries that are more democratic,” he said. Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Mayer wrote: We believe our entire industry should be held to an exceptionally high standard. This puts us a step ahead of the industry, and we encourage others to follow suit. Clearly that’s something that our stakeholders, and certainly policy makers, have questions about broadly for the industry.”.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Jeremy Jacobs: “How does your large share of advertising/ecommerce/devices/software not stifle innovation among smaller companies looking to gain traction in industries where critical mass is an economic driver?”. China is moving quickly to launch a similar idea in the coming months,” he warned. “If Industry. ?

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

US companies operating in China say Trump’s WeChat ban could hurt their ability to effectively communicate with staff and local authorities. More than a dozen firms, including Apple , Walmart , and Ford , have approached the White House in recent weeks to voice their concerns that the order could extend into China. Industry. ?

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Finally, if you break us up, a giant technology company from China will likely emerge as the world’s dominant social network, creating a beachhead for the expansion of Chinese soft power — and, along with it, censorship and authoritarianism. This has harmed consumers by reducing the amount of innovation in the technology industry.

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