The portraits in Chen's series "Freezing Land" feature people he discovered on Kuaishou, a popular Chinese video app with millions of users mostly in third and fourth-tier cities. The project is an examination of Chinese cities on the verge of vanishing.
TikTok’s potential death throes in DC were live streamed across the world last week, but China’s domestic short video platform ecosystem is in rude health, buffed up by live streaming ecommerce.
China’s second biggest ecommerce platform, JD.com, is lowering compensation for top managers and creating an enormous benefits package for regular staff in an apparent bid to align itself with government policies. But the move will only add uncertainty to the prospects for tech firms in China, and around the world.
Tech firms are laying off thousands of employees, but they are still hiring for their international businesses. However, entering overseas markets doesn’t always work out, and can lead to some spectacular failures.
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.
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.
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.
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Chinese short-video giant Kuaishou made a splashy IPO in Hong Kong, reaching a valuation close to its larger competitor, Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. Will Douyin’s parent company, ByteDance, follow and also list its short-video product in Hong Kong?
China’s second most famous video app after TikTok / Douyin might have to take down music or pay hefty copyright fees ahead of its planned listing.