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Chinese tech philanthropy in the age of ‘common prosperity’
In China, tech companies are facing particular pressure to showcase social responsibility. Xi Jinping acknowledged that the “new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is giving a strong impetus to economic development.” However, he also pointed out that its negative effects on employment and income distribution need to be “effectively addressed and resolved.”
Dull tech earnings chalked up to increased spending
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ByteDance reshuffles, education unit adapts to new rules
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ByteDance cuts working hours of China office, implements new schedule of ‘10-7-5’
The company behind TikTok has announced new rules to stop overtime work, limiting office hours to 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays. The Chinese internet is cheering, but also somewhat skeptical.
ByteDance shortens work hours and Kuaishou loses its CEO
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For Douyin, the grass is greener at competitor Little Red Book
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What will be the next ByteDance craze?
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Is this what Evergrande contagion looks like?
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Chinese investors pile into ‘metaverse,’ despite official warnings
“Investment is not a virtual game,” a commentary in state-run Chinese media said earlier this month, warning investors to avoid augmented and virtual reality “metaverse” products. Investors did not listen — Beijing-based Nreal, an augmented reality technology company, just completed a Series C funding round of over $100 million.
Investors move funds out of tech and into…tech?
On the metaverse craze
China steps up antitrust campaign with new draft rules targeting internet companies
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation published a set of draft regulations on internet companies that was remarkable for its detailed list of prohibited behaviors.
TikTok brain drain as head of AI lab leaves ByteDance?
The head of an artificial intelligence lab at the company behind TikTok has left the private sector in China to join the University of California at Santa Barbara.
On a dry spreadsheet, lives to be saved: How a collaborative document helped flood rescue efforts in Zhengzhou
As floodwaters in Henan Province recede, China’s tech giants are doing their best to do their civic duty with large aid donations and online tools to help victims.
ByteDance finally reads the room and cancels six-day work weeks
ByteDance, the hard-charging Chinese tech giant that created TikTok, has ended an overtime policy after a month of dithering, and after one of its biggest rivals took concrete steps to end its corporate culture of overwork.
Kuaishou shows ByteDance that fighting overwork isn’t that hard
One of China’s biggest video apps, Kuaishou, once installed sensors in toilets to monitor how long employees took in the bathroom. Now the company has put an end to six day work weeks for tech staff, shortly after ByteDance — which owns China’s dominant short video platform — decided to continue the practice.
The people who work for TikTok are workaholics and they want more!
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is famous for its workaholic culture, and many of its employees don’t want it to change despite growing calls in China for better work-life balance at tech companies.
China’s antitrust probe: Tencent and Meituan are next
China’s crackdown on Big Tech is real and ongoing, but it’s not going to kill the geese that lay the golden eggs. Here are the latest developments.
Edutech: ByteDance invents entirely new product category with Dali Smart Lamp
In 2020, ByteDance — the company globally famous for TikTok — began selling a desk lamp that uses AI to help kids do their homework and allows busy parents to supervise remotely. The product became a best seller and has sparked a multibillion-dollar “Great War of a Thousand Lamps.”
All the electric car companies in China — a guide to the 46 top players in the Chinese EV industry
Electric vehicles, smart systems to drive them, and advanced batteries to power them are attracting enormous sums of capital and China’s best engineering talent. These are the companies that are fighting for one of the most lucrative markets in the world. Many of them will be global EV players.
China is the world’s next video game streaming hub
Computer gaming is moving to the cloud. Tencent and other Chinese companies look set to dominate the next generation of networked games.
