China has not finished curbing the impact of local internet services on the world’s most populous market. After an increasing series of regulatory raids in recent months, the nation released draft guidelines on Friday regulating the algorithms that companies run to provide referrals to users. In a 30-point draft guideline published on Friday, the Cyberspace … Read more
WeChat may be an integral part of China’s digital life, but that doesn’t stop the country’s government from restricting the messaging giant’s behavior. Reuters reports that Beijing prosecutors have sued Tencent over allegations that We Chat’s restricted “youth mode” violates child protection laws. The lawsuit failed to explain how the mode allegedly violated the law. … Read more
Are you intrigued by the possibility of using nuclear reactors to limit emissions, but worried about their water consumption and long-term safety? A solution may be imminent. LiveScience reports that China has outlined plans to build the first “clean” commercial nuclear reactor using liquid thorium and molten salt. The first prototype reactor should be ready … Read more
China has ordered app store operators to remove Didi’s app from their stores, at the latest as tensions between the country’s largest ride-hailing giant and local regulators escalate. The app has disappeared from several stores, including Apple’s App Store in China, TechCrunch can confirm. The country’s cyberspace administration, which revealed the order on Sunday, said … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more
After launching in the US five years ago, Apple’s search engine advertising service finally hit mainland China this week. The feature called Apple Search Ads enables developers to bid on an advertising space based on users’ keyword searches in the App Store, similar to Google search ads. JPMorgan previously estimated that the giant’s annual advertising … Read more
Microsoft says Bing blocked the search for Tiananmen Tiananmen in Tiananmen due to “human error”.
A man who ventured onto a glass floor bridge in northeast China clung to the side for a dear life after storm winds blew away some floor slabs and left gaping holes in the structure several hundred feet above the ground. The episode occurred on Saturday on Piyan Mountain in Longjing, China, state media said, … Read more
The births are falling. The population is aging. The workforce in the world’s second largest economy is shrinking. China’s most recent once-a-decade census, conducted last year, showed the slowest population growth since the 1960s and confirmed that the country is in the midst of an urgent demographic crisis. The results could lead the government to … Read more
Chinese authorities fined Alibaba $ 2.8 billion after closing an antitrust investigation into alleged monopoly practices. The state market regulator launched an investigation in December into the e-commerce giant’s “suspected monopoly behavior”, particularly its policy of forcing merchants to sell exclusively on their platforms and preventing them from selling on competing e-commerce websites for sale. … Read more