Even now the regulatory storm in the tech sector seems to be calm for the moment, but political analyst Victor Shih still expects that investors will be unsure about their future in China, as the next storm never seems far away, he tells at Bloomberg.Read More →
Both consumers and e-commerce firms in China are preparing for the famous 618 shopping festival. Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains in her vlog why consumers love the largest of many online shopping festivals and why e-commerce firms need a boost in a market that is not growing as fast as in the past.Read More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok looks at the wave of regulatory changes hitting industries and especially tech firms at her vlog. “China tries to set up a more sustainable digital ecosystem,” she explainsRead More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok tells at the state-owned CGTN how the Double 11 festival in 2021 became a teenager and started to become the way to introduce new products to China’s consumers and turned international.Read More →
China’s crackdown on tech firms is in the longer run benefiting consumers and the industry itself, says business analyst Shaun Rein about the governmental efforts to curtail free-wheeling companies.Read More →
China is number one in e-commerce, online shopping, payment, logistics, and much more. No wonder foreign brands love the second largest economy in the world, says e-commerce expert Ashley Dudarenok on her vlog.Read More →
China’s government is tightening the strings for tech companies, especially when it comes to data management, says business analyst Ben Cavender at RTHK. “I think you’re going to see companies like this that really do peddle in data come under a lot more scrutiny going forward,” he said.Read More →
Dolce & Gabbana (D&G) got three years into hot water over racist ads and remarks with China’s consumers, and the row did not subside, says business analyst Shaun Rein. “It’s probably the only brand that I’ve seen the Chinese stay angry at for so long,” he told CNN.Read More →
The main difference with the rest of the world is that in China social media and e-commerce merged into platforms, says China marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok. When you want to dive into China, you have to pick your platform and realize they are different from what you are used to, she adds. Most likely you have to pick one of them.Read More →
China’s government shocked the fintech industry by introducing firm financial measures, similar to the banking sector. Ant Financial even had to cancel its massive IPO. But what we have seen is only the start of more government action to regulate the internet, says fintech expert Sara Hsu in the Diplomat. Managing capital and data are key elements.Read More →
China was the first economy to leapfrog into mobile, skipping hardware technologies from the West. Now it is moving from “mobile first” into “data first”, paving the digital road also for other economies, writes investment analyst Winston Wenyan Ma in Arabian Business.Read More →
The shock was all around when a worker at China’s leading IT firm Pinduoduo recently collapsed and died under the pressure of overwork. But despite the fierce reactions, IT analyst Matthew Brennan, author of Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance, does not expect the culture of overwork in China’s IT firms will disappear, he tells Vice.Read More →