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5 reasons why Netflix just said NOPE to China
Netflix has decided that its plan for China is NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE. And that’s totally the right move.
Steven Millward · · 3 min read
Uber exec: we want to overtake China’s Didi next year
Being second to a well-funded homegrown rival isn’t diminishing Uber’s eagerness to win the China market, a top Uber executive explained today.
Steven Millward · · 2 min read
India’s Micromax: we’ll IPO in 2018. And oh yeah, we’ll enter China too
Those are two big goals for the Indian phone maker.
Steven Millward · · 2 min read
Samsung wants to be a startup. What could go wrong?
Samsung, the biggest maker of smartphones, said it wanted to adopt a startup culture as growth slows
Nivedita Bhattacharjee · · 4 min read
Zuckerberg enjoys ‘great’ run in heavily polluted Beijing
*cough* *cough* *cough* *wheeeeeeeeeeze* *cough*
Steven Millward · · 2 min readChina’s state VC fund now has $336b to throw at startups
The giant fund added a fresh $231 billion in 2015 alone. What could possibly go wrong?
Steven Millward · · 4 min readSingtel takes fight to Whatsapp by launching its own chat app
Is this enough to stop apps from taking over the world and bleeding telcos dry?
Terence Lee · · 2 min readNokia back in business with new budget Android tablet, hitting China next year
The part of Nokia that wasn’t sold off to Microsoft showed that it’s still in business today with the surprising reveal of a budget Android tablet called the N1.
Steven Millward · · 2 min readRocket Internet has a ridesharing company called Tripda, and it just arrived in Southeast Asia
“Share rides on [sic] a fast, easy, sustainable way,” reads Tripda’s website.
Josh Horwitz · · 3 min readBaidu is secretly developing unmanned self-driving bicycles for China: report
The bike sans rider can sense its environment well enough to avoid obstacles and navigate complicated road conditions. We could see a prototype this year.
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min read