Uber’s pullout from China in August 2016 marked the ride-hailing company’s biggest concession to date. But the rest of East Asia has proven challenging too, as it faces strict laws and unfavorable market conditions that could effectively handicap its business there.
South Korean prosecutors today (Jan. 16) issued an arrest warrant for Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and heir to the Samsung conglomerate, on charges of bribery and embezzlement. The warrant, which still requires court approval, marks the most high-profile allegation of corporate involvement in the corruption and influence-peddling scandal surrounding president Park Geun-hye.
Nintendo shareholders aren’t impressed with the company’s attempts to switch it up.
There’s no shame in copying if it works.
China has grown by leaps and bounds during its quest for greater domestic innovation, becoming a world leader in sectors like robotics-based manufacturing and consumer software. But one of its most recent accomplishments is in an area that’s considerably more basic: ballpoint pens.
The Marissa Mayer era of Yahoo could be coming to an end.
What’s next for Xiaomi now that its smartphone business has stalled? It’s unclear whether Xiaomi even knows.
The ride-hailing wars are not over, and they’re shifting to Latin America.
Apple is ringing in the new year in China with the censors knocking on its doors.
On Jan. 1 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un revealed in his annual New Year’s address that the country had reached the final stages to prepare for a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. As news of the speech spread overseas, US president-elect Donald Trump weighed in on Twitter, his preferred mode of communication.
On the surface, the death of a man in police custody in China would be considered unremarkable, if still unsettling.
That was fast.
Oscar-nominated actress Debbie Reynolds passed away on Wednesday (Dec. 28) after suffering a suspected stroke, Variety reported. Her death came one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher, died from a heart attack.
One of the most hyped-up film productions of the year is shaping up to be a box office success, and a critical bomb.
Earlier this week, president-elect Donald Trump threatened to reset the relationship between the US and China, after receiving a congratulatory and controversial phone call from Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen.
Super Mario Run is off to a running start at the Apple App Store—hours after its launch, it’s already ranked as the most-downloaded, highest-grossing app in the US.
What does an iPhone have in common with a wind turbine in rural China? Apple is behind them both.
To combat its “fake news” problem, Facebook is turning to the very people that consume it—its users.
President-elect Trump has set global businesses on edge, after repeatedly threatening to impose tariffs of 35% on US companies that move jobs overseas, making false attacks about China’s currency policy, and taking a phone call from Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen that threatens to upend years of protocol between Beijing and Washington, D.C.
On Nov. 23, The New York Times reported that Facebook was internally developing a tool that would censor content in the News Feed, in an effort to re-enter the one massive market beyond its reach so far—China.
When president-elect Donald J. Trump brought along his daughter Ivanka to meet Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in mid-November, observers raised their eyebrows. While family members often accompany heads of state on diplomatic visits, Ivanka’s presence in the meeting itself was highly unusual.
A mysterious problem causing iPhones to unexpectedly shut down is much larger than Apple has admitted to, Chinese authorities say, and affects iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 6s Plus devices—not just the iPhone 6s.
China’s WeChat originated as a WhatsApp clone, but later evolved into the single-most important tool for connecting people in China. Yet it’s never been clear exactly how China’s internet censors have attempted to control information that spreads in the app. That’s partly because you likely wouldn’t know if you got censored in the first place.
Super Mario World is coming to the real world.
