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China’s move to unwind Meta’s $2 billion takeover of Manus has become a cautionary tale for the nation's tech industry.
Read our deep dive on what went wrong for a startup once hailed as another "DeepSeek moment"
Zheping Huang
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Zheping Huang
@pingroma
aka Ping. @technology reporter. Tweeting about crypto, gaming & all things Chinese internet. Ex @SCMPTech, @qz. Views mine. No endorsements.
- Replying to @pingromaTikTok issued a strong-worded response to Trump order: newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-r… “the Administration paid no attention to facts, dictated terms of an agreement without going through standard legal processes, and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses.“
- Clubhouse is banned in China, but its clones are not. We got Clubhorse, Clubchat, Clubtalk, and more. I spent some time on one of them bloom.bg/2OgeFdD
- Jack Ma on 996: "Not only is it inhumane, it’s unhealthy and even more unsustainable for long periods" - 4/14 via Weibo “If you join Alibaba, you should get ready to work 12 hours a day, otherwise why do you come to Alibaba?" - 4/11 via internal talk bit.ly/2ZbkERD
- Just in: China's cyberspace regulator said they dispatched a team to Douban to correct its "serious" violations. One-line statement, the most strongly worded in tech crackdown I've seen.
- The end of Chinese social media as we know it: All major platforms (WeChat, Weibo, Baidu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili) made simultaneous announcements that they will ask users with a least half a million followers to display real IDs to the public
- This is a love triangle. US: China controls TikTok 👿 TikTok: We are an American business 😢 China: Don't mess with our companies 🤬 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- TikTok is gone from Hong Kong entirely. No longer available to download from local app stores. Those who already have it on their phone got this notice: bloom.bg/2AJk9GY
- Here's some personal news. This is my last day with @SCMPNews & @SCMPTech. Sad to leave some of the best reporters/editors covering China tech but meanwhile I'm excited to join @technology in a few weeks. I'll still be based in HK and watching crypto & gaming. Stay tuned.
- ByteDance CEO has hidden all his Weibo posts from the public, after patriotic netizens called him out for betraying Chinese interest for considering the TikTok US sale. A sign of this new era of techno-nationalism we are living in: bloom.bg/3gCHee0 w/ @Colum_M @bylijing
- Your news about China depends on intrepid journalists whose names you’ll probably never know bit.ly/2kFvBL0
- Scoop: Oil giant Chevron has asked its *global* employees to delete WeChat from their work phones, making it one of the first US firms to heed Trump‘s ban on the Chinese app -- even it's temporarily blocked by a judge bloom.bg/3hW4ELe
