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  • SHANGHAI, CHINA – JULY 26: Colin Huang Zheng, founder and CEO of Pinduoduo, speaks during the company’s listing ceremony at Shanghai Tower on July 26, 2018 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)Finance

    Colin Huang, the founder behind Pinduoduo and Temu, overtakes bottled water tycoon Zhong Shanshan as China’s richest person

    By Venus Feng, Diana Li, and others
  • PULILAN, PHILIPPINES - JUNE 26: A live host promotes products for a skincare brand on a TikTok Shop livestream at one of the studios of Ownline Marketing on June 26, 2024 in Pulilan, Bulacan province, Philippines. Ownline Marketing, an agency that specializes in marketing brands on TikTok Shop and other e-commerce platforms, began only early this year with just one client but has quickly expanded to serving more than a dozen local and foreign brands, operating full production studios and delivering slick livestreams reminiscent of television home shopping channels. TikTok Shop, the e-commerce platform within the popular short video app, has spurred a booming live selling industry in the Philippines, where businesses are benefiting from TikTok's prized algorithm to sell more and faster, disrupting the market for other established e-commerce platforms in the region. However, a proposed bill in the Philippine Congress, House Bill 10489, introduced amid geopolitical tensions with China and following similar moves by other countries, aims to ban "foreign adversary-controlled" apps, likely targeting TikTok and could threaten the livelihoods of many Filipinos who have built their businesses on the platform​​​​. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)Retail

    TikTok Shop set to launch in Spain and Ireland this summer—a move to boost ByteDance’s e-commerce efforts in Europe

    By Zheping Huang, Olivia Poh, and others
  • Signage for Bytedance Ltd. on a building in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. The US House of Representatives passed a bill to ban TikTok in the US unless its Chinese owner Bytedance sells the video-sharing app, mounting the most serious challenge yet to a service that’s used by 170 million Americans but critics call a national-security threat. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    TikTok-owner ByteDance is talking with U.S. tech firm Broadcom about a possible TSMC-made AI processor

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg
  • Signage during the Baidu Inc. Create conference in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Baidu is releasing a co-pilot to all developers from today that helps build AI services, chief executive officer Robin Li said. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLeadership

    Baidu exec who started furor over 24/7 work culture with videos making light of staff wellbeing and warning subordinates to toe the line has resigned

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg
  • Zhang Yiming, chief executive officer and founder of Bytedance Ltd., poses for a photograph in Beijing, China, on Thursday, April 11, 2019. Zhang is worth about $13 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him China’s 9th-richest person and one of the fastest in modern times to amass a mega-fortune. Photographer: Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    TikTok’s lawsuit against the U.S. reveals billionaire ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is living in Singapore while keeping Chinese citizenship

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg
  • WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 31: Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony from the heads of the largest tech firms on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Politics

    TikTok tells U.S. staff it will sue to stop bill forcing sale of platform—it’s a ‘clear violation’ of First Amendment rights of 170m American users

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg
  • A joint booth set up by Blizzard and NetEase Games at Chinajoy on August 2, 2019 in Shanghai, China.Tech

    Warcraft will return to China, the world’s biggest video game market, as Microsoft-owned Blizzard and NetEase make up after a year-long feud

    By Sabrina Mao, Zheping Huang, and others
  • US YouTube personality Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, arrives for the 36th Annual Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, on March 4, 2023. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    YouTube star MrBeast, fresh off his experiment with Elon Musk’s X, debuts on Chinese streaming platform Bilibili: ‘It’s going to be a fun ride’

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg
  • FUZHOU, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 25: Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, speaks during opening ceremony of the 3rd All-China Young Entrepreneurs Summit on September 25, 2020 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China. (Photo by Lyu Ming/China News Service via Getty Images)Leadership

    ‘Every great company is born in a winter’: Jack Ma stuns Alibaba employees with memo calling for firm he co-founded to ‘correct its course’

    By Zheping Huang, Jane Zhang, and others
  • This photo taken on April 23, 2018 shows a staff member making coffee at the “Central Perk” coffee shop in Shanghai. – Millions of Chinese “Friends” fans are heartbroken after a video site pulled the US sitcom, beloved by millennials in China for its endearing young characters and as an English conversation resource. (Photo by – / AFP) / China OUT / TO GO WITH China-US-entertainment-internet-Friends,FOCUS by Albee ZHANG (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)International

    ‘Friends’ is finally back on China’s streaming platforms—but without Ross’s lesbian ex-wife plot line

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg
  • INDIA – 2021/09/20: In this Photo illustration a Bitcoin logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a China flag in the background. (Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)International

    China may finally be serious about banning cryptocurrencies

    By Joanna Ossinger, Zheping Huang, and others
  • Two girl play video games as they visit a digital art exhibition at a museum in Beijing on August 12, 2021. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP) (Photo by WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    China goes where few parents dare to tread with strict 3-hour weekly limit on gaming

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg
  • Rental bicycles parked in front of the mascot for the Taobao e-commerce platform near the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. Alibaba is scheduled to report first-quarter results on Aug. 3. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    Alibaba fires the staffers who leaked the sexual assault allegations that rocked China’s tech sector

    By Coco Liu, Zheping Huang, and others
  • Young players compete in a battle match of the mobile gameInternational

    Tencent stock craters as investors fear Beijing will crack down on gaming next

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg
  • Wu Jihan, co-founder of Bitmain Technologies Ltd., speaks during the Coingeek Conference in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, May 18, 2018. The conference runs through today. Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Matrixport, the second crypto startup from Bitmain’s founder, hits unicorn status

    By Zheping Huang and Bloomberg