Chinese social media giant Tencent Holdings plans to ban digital hosts powered by artificial intelligence (AI) on its live-streaming commerce platforms, as Beijing tightens controls over AI-generated content. Weixin Channel, …
Alibaba Group Holding said it is seeing “encouraging” user engagement and merchant growth during the 618 midyear online shopping festival, as rival Xiaohongshu, China’s answer to Instagram, said its online …
When Zhou Hongyi, co-founder of Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, shared his ambitions to be an online influencer, he named a role model whose behaviour on social media has garnered …
When the 77th Cannes Film Festival opened on May 14, people on mainland social media were bewildered by a mysterious Chinese woman who got more red carpet attention than top …
Meituan, China’s biggest on-demand services provider, on Thursday reported a higher-than-expected 25 per cent year-on-year increase in first-quarter revenue, boosted by gains from its core local commerce operations led by …
Alibaba Group Holding is pushing CEOs to live-stream on its domestic e-commerce platform Taobao, as the tech giant ramps up efforts to win back consumers from rising rival Pinduoduo and …
“If the content is AI-generated, it must be labelled,” WeChat said on Wednesday via its content-security account, Shanhu – the Chinese word for “coral”. The super app, marketed as Weixin …
Fast-fashion retailer Shein, which thrives on a business model that sells budget made-in-China consumer goods overseas, is set to file an initial public offering (IPO) in London this week, according …
Senior executives that include Wang Hai, Liu Peng, Yu Feng and Wang Mingqiang retired from Taobao and Tmall Group on May 1, according to Chinese media reports on Wednesday. Taobao …
TikTok on Friday denied a news report suggesting that the ByteDance-owned platform is laying the technological groundwork for a potential divestment, the latest in a flurry of rebuttals issued by …