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Momo buys Tantan, China’s Tinder, for over $600M as Chinese social networks consolidate
WeChat is far and away the biggest messaging platform in China at the moment, and that is helping to drive a push among the smaller players to get together for better scale. Today, Momo, the Chinese location-based social networking app that has more recently made a big push into dating services and is traded on…
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Gene Luen Yang y Melvin Mar de American Born Chinese elogian las grandes victorias en los Oscar del elenco desde que terminó la producción (Exclusivo)
Mientras que el talento detrás Americano nacido chino se ha apilado desde el principio, el elenco y el equipo de la adaptación de Disney+ de la novela gráfica de Gene Luen Yang solo se han vuelto más aclamados desde que las cámaras dejaron de grabar. El cineasta Destin Daniel Cretton, que ya tenía el muy…
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Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story
Early in 2020, on the same day that a frightening new illness officially got the name Covid-19, a team of scientists from the United States and China released critical data showing how quickly the virus was spreading, and who was dying. The study was cited in health warnings around the world and appeared to be…
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A traveling frog exposes concerns within Apple’s Chinese App Store
An app about a frog that likes to travel has exposed worrying signs that Apple isn’t doing enough to prevent fake apps from entering its App Store in China, the world’s largest smartphone market and Apple’s single largest country for app revenue. The story centers around ‘Tabi Kaeru’ — or ‘Travel Frog’ — a Japanese…