With the U.S. retail industry in a state of flux, American retailers and e-commerce companies should take a look at China, where companies have been weaving together the online and offline worlds.
July 14, 2017 12:48 am ET
With the U.S. retail industry in a state of flux, American retailers and e-commerce companies should take a look at China, where companies have been weaving together the online and offline worlds.
July 7, 2017 01:45 am ET
Jia Yueting likes to say that Apple is outdated, China’s big tech companies are innovation killers and his company is the real disrupter. But now, his dreams are fading away due to a cash crunch and worried investors.
June 30, 2017 12:49 am ET
Alibaba and Tencent’s market values are higher than those of the state-owned enterprises that dominate the Chinese economy. That gives them strength, but also makes them vulnerable.
June 8, 2017 12:31 pm ET
While censorship, protectionism and copying are often the first things that many foreigners associate with Chinese tech, thinking beyond them is vital to understanding the Chinese internet.
June 2, 2017 02:53 am ET
To imagine the power of Tencent, think of it as having networking and social media reach well beyond Facebook, a video platform like YouTube plus a movie and series producer akin to a Netflix.
May 25, 2017 04:07 pm ET
For much of the past two decades, Qi Lu, a search-technology whiz, waged losing battles against Google, first at Yahoo then at Microsoft’s Bing. Now, he says he can shape China’s Baidu into a worthy competitor in artificial intelligence.
May 18, 2017 06:28 pm ET
Apple’s challenges have multiplied in the all-important China market over the past year or so and its effort to wring more revenue from iPhone users may be setting the company up for more trouble.
May 11, 2017 03:00 pm ET
Facebook’s recent difficulties with violent videos posted to the social network are giving it a taste of what it would be like to operate in China.
April 28, 2017 05:31 am ET
The CFO of Chinese search engine Baidu, Jennifer Li, is stepping aside for a new job at the company, the latest in a series of high-level personnel changes as Baidu seeks to catch up with rivals Alibaba and Tencent.
April 27, 2017 11:10 am ET
After a frenzied 2015, funding for startups in China was expected to enter what industry insiders called “deep winter”—but the venture-capital industry is instead suffering a different headache: too much money, too few prospects.
April 20, 2017 10:57 am ET
Jia Yueting has led LeEco Holdings on an aggressive campaign of expansion, but now one of his biggest backers wants him to go.