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Rose Gong, from farmer’s daughter to the ‘dragon girl’ of China tech (Infographic)

Rose Gong, from farmer’s daughter to the ‘dragon girl’ of China tech (Infographic)

She pulled herself up from poverty in rural China, got into one of the best universities, and then took her first startup to IPO.
Steven Millward · · 3 min read
24 up-and-coming tech founders to watch in China

24 up-and-coming tech founders to watch in China

The Chinese entrepreneurs on this list are rising stars. Some have already had successes, while others are just starting out.
Steven Millward · · 17 min read
The evolution of China’s dating apps

The evolution of China’s dating apps

With the fall of China’s biggest dating site comes renewed opportunities for other players
Rohan Malhotra · · 3 min read
Baihe, a Chinese dating site where users flaunt their financial standing, bags $241M

Baihe, a Chinese dating site where users flaunt their financial standing, bags $241M

Baihe approaches dating from an empirical and practical – some might say materialistic- perspective, with the end goal being marriage.
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min read
The face recognition startup that Jack Ma wants to use for selfie payments just got $25M in funding

The face recognition startup that Jack Ma wants to use for selfie payments just got $25M in funding

Face++ makes a cloud-based API and an SDK so developers can incorporate face recognition into their on apps. The startup has over 30,000 developers on board.
Paul Bischoff · · 2 min read

Gong Haiyan: plain jane factory worker to founder of China’s biggest dating site

Gong is one of the most celebrated female tech entrepreneurs in China, having successfully founded Jiayuan, China’s answer to Match.com.
Rui Ma · · 7 min read

China’s biggest dating site now has 100 million users, but you’ll be surprised how few are active

China’s biggest dating website, Jiayuan (NASDAQ:DATE), has revealed today that it now has 100 million registered users. The site claims to have helped 12.3 million people find love in the
Steven Millward · · 2 min read

Dating site Jiayuan sees slow growth in earnings and users, looks to youngsters with new flirting app

China might be a land of tens of millions of bachelors due to the gender imbalance, but that doesn’t mean it’s an easy ride for an online dating business. That’s
Steven Millward · · 1 min read

91Waijiao Connects Chinese With Foreign English Teachers, Gets $4 Million Funding

Education site 91Waijiao is a learning platform that connects Chinese of all ages with foreign English teachers. It’s a neat idea to disrupt China’s ‘English as a foreign language’ (EFL)
Steven Millward · · 2 min read

Check Out the Biggest Winners and Losers among Chinese Web IPOs (CHART)

One is worth thousands of percent more today than when it IPO’d, while another is worth a mere dollar per share. Oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. 2013
Steven Millward · · 3 min read