China
IDC: Smartphone shipments forecast to return to growth
While the worldwide smartphone market is expected to decline again in 2018, IDC says it believes the market will experience low single-digit growth from 2019 through the end of its forecast in 2022.
China’s Alibaba, Tencent bar cryptocurrency transactions on WeChat Pay, AliPay — Fortune
In a move that will likely make it even harder for cryptocurrency aficionados to trade Bitcoin and its ilk in China, the mobile payments...
Inside Google’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China — Slate
Slate's April Glaser in conversation with Ryan Gallagher, a U.K.-based investigative journalist who reports on digital security and state surveillance issues for the Intercept.
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China’s challenge is America’s opportunity — The New York Times
China is not an innovation also-ran that prospers mainly by copying other people’s ideas and producing them quickly at low cost. The country is...
Baidu CEO says it will defeat Google if it returns to China — The Verge
Baidu CEO Robin Li wrote on his verified WeChat account that if “Google decides to return to China, we are very confident we can...