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Headlines From China: Cultural And Entertainment Industry Trends In 2018

Mar 5, 2018 / Headlines From China /

With China’s "two sessions," the annual meetings of the national legislature and the top political advisory body opening in Beijing, and showbiz veterans attending the meetings, a few trends have emerged that will likely affect the Chinese cultural and entertainment industry this year. Read More

Xloong Is Trying to Make AR Sexy… With Enterprise Applications

Feb 1, 2018 / Technology /

The global craze for the semi-immersive augmented reality (AR) experience is on the cusp of breaking out. Now Chinese tech firms are ready to bring the AR experience in eyeglass form. Read More

Google’s First Major Investment in Game Streaming Goes to China

Dec 28, 2017 / News /

Google has put RMB 500 million into the Chinese game streaming platform Chushou TV. This marks the first major investment Google has made in live broadcasting for video games since it lost the acquisition opportunity of the immensely popular Twitch to Amazon three years ago. Read More

iQIYI Nabs Exclusive China Rights to Acclaimed Films of 2017

Dec 18, 2017 / News /

Baidu-owned iQIYI, widely regarded as a Netflix of China, has announced that it secured exclusive online broadcasting rights in China for six films nominated by this year’s Golden Globe Awards. Read More

VR Winter is Over, AR Has Just Started

Dec 1, 2017 / News /

Both Kevin Leung, the director at HTC VICE X, and Atli Mar Sveinsson, co-founder and CEO of Directive Games, concluded that there needs to “killer apps” to open up the AR and VR markets. Here are the highlights from their discussion at TechCrunch Shanghai 2017. Read More

With “3 x 10 billion” Open Platform, Tencent is Transforming into a Big Content Company

Nov 10, 2017 / News /

Tencent announced its ambition to transition from being a tech company to a “new tech + big content” company at the seventh annual Tencent Global Partners Conference held in Chengdu this week. Read More

China’s Tech Giants are Increasingly Blurring the Boundaries Between Sectors: McKinsey Report

Oct 4, 2017 / Chinasplaining /

“Ecosystem” is a word that gets thrown a lot in the tech industry but there is a definition of this buzzword which is actually worth your attention. Read More