I’m back into my usual routine after a week in Shenzhen and Hong Kong for the most recent TechCrunch China event. We had a great turnout of attendees and some top calibre speakers – thanks for coming along if you were among them.
Despite our TC event there is a fairly full week of news for you to catch up on. Enjoy – see you next week.
Weibo, iFeng and ACFUN are accused of allowing inappropriate political content. Live-streaming has been a huge trend in China’s internet space over the past year so it is not hugely surprising that it has caught the attention of the state.
Tesla is working with the Shanghai government to explore local manufacturing in a move that may help achieve economies of scale and bring down manufacturing, labor and shipping costs.
But is this enough to appeal to users? Hike has never been very clear on how many people actually use its app, while its CEO says that its success isn’t dependent on WhatsApp’s failure. (Which seems unlikely in India.)
The decision to negotiate with a Japanese-led consortium was likely to intensify a showdown with an American business partner seeking to steer the sale.
The phone will reportedly sell for €999. It will be a 6.3-inch device with the same edge-to-edge, 18.5:9 aspect ratio AMOLED display as in the Galaxy S8 lineup. It will apparently be unveiled in the second half of September.