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Meet Virtuos—the China-Based Gaming Company that Gave Star Wars Its Intergalactic Visual Effects

Jul 21, 2017 / Technology /

A little-known gaming company in China called Virtuos was behind the visuals of Star Wars and other blockbuster movies and AAA games. Read More

Tightening of Live Streaming Leaves Future of Many Chinese platforms Unclear

Jun 26, 2017 / News /

Chinese officials have ordered three media outlets to shut down their live streaming for being out of line with national audiovisual regulations and “promoting negative comments” (in Chinese). Read More

Tencent Megahit ‘Honor of Kings’ Becomes World’s Top Grossing Game

Jun 15, 2017 / News /

Tencent Tech is reporting that blockbuster multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game "Honour of Kings" has overtaken "Monster Strike" this May to become the world’s highest-grossing (in Chinese) game across platforms, according to data released by App Annie. Read More

10 of the Best Performing Chinese Tech Companies in Q1

Jun 5, 2017 / News /

Major listed Chinese tech firms have released their latest quarterly results, and most of them delivered strong performances. Here’s a roundup of some of the top performers, including BAT, JD, Weibo, and Momo. Read More

China Officials Aim to Stem the Tide of ‘Immoral’ Live Streaming

May 25, 2017 / News /

In a recent nationwide inspection of 50 major live-streaming platforms, 48 were penalized and 10 were shut down completely, affecting more than 30,000 hosts and performers, according to an announcement today from the Ministry of Culture (MOC), the bureau tasked with policing streamed content. Read More

VP of TV Unit Takes over as CEO of Leshi, YT Jia to Remain Chairman

May 22, 2017 / News /

Jia Yueting, the legendary Chinese corporate leader, will step down as CEO of Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp Beijing. Read More

Four Culture and Globalization Lessons from LeEco’s Successes and Failures

May 16, 2017 / News /

In some of those areas, LeEco has made incomplete progress. In others, we failed entirely. What follows is my understanding of why we were not able to achieve our goals in this area as well as key takeaways that other Chinese companies can use in their globalization process. Read More

Electronic Frontier Foundation Warns on New China Censorship Tool

May 3, 2017 / News /

Software being used to enforce copyright claims in China can be used in other ways to violates users' privacy and tamp down dissent, with similar software being developed in the US, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a post on its website. Read More

China’s Mobile Video Sector Will Soon Pass 1 Billion Monthly Active Users

May 2, 2017 / News /

Adding together online video content, live streaming, and short videos, the category grew 35.6% year on year in March to almost 920 million MAU. There was an increase of over 12 million users just from February to March, more than the entire population of Belgium. Read More

Wanda Cinema Line to Go Head to Head with Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent in Online Video

May 1, 2017 / News /

China’s already crowded online video streaming market looks set to have a new challenger with Wanda Cinema Line, the theatrical exhibition arm of Chinese property development giant Dalian Wanda, set to launch its own video streaming website this year. Read More

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