Nicole Jao

Tech in Asia • 23rd March 2022

Sea Group wants to build a super-app empire. Here’s how Tencent did it

Internet giant Tencent is one of the most aggressive investors in China’s technology space. The Shenzhen-headquartered company sees investments as part of its core strategy; it’s instrumental to how it became the vast ecosystem that it is now.

Tech in Asia • 10th May 2021

Can TikTok’s new CEO solve all its problems?

Short-video platform TikTok announced last week that it had pulled off a major coup by hiring Kevin Mayer, Disney's head of streaming, as its chief executive.

TechNode • 1st April 2020

Meituan faces challenge from Alipay on its home turf

In 2010, after several failed projects that included Facebook-clone Xiaonei and the Twitter-like Fanfou, serial entrepreneur Wang Xing launched a new startup, Meituan. With his eyes set on e-commerce, Wang focused on online sales of services—a less saturated segment of e-commerce.

TechNode • 27th February 2020

Covid-19, an opportunity for e-commerce

In recent weeks, our WeChat Moment newsfeeds have been heavy with posts about home-cooked meals. With much of China under lockdown, people have started devoting their free time to whipping up meals—prompted by boredom as much as necessity.

TechNode • 25th February 2020

How China is using QR code apps to contain Covid-19

As China goes back to work after weeks of epidemic lockdown, it’s betting on high-tech QR code quarantines to keep the virus from spreading.

TechNode • 13th February 2020

New study sheds light on China's digital currency ambitions

China’s central bank has filed 84 patents related to its planned fiat digital currency, according to a recent report by the Chamber of Digital Commerce, offering glimpses of how it plans to integrate the money into the country’s existing banking system.

TechNode • 20th June 2019

Chinese P2P lending platforms look to Southeast Asia amid industry purge back home

A slew of Chinese fintech and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms are looking to more lenient markets in Southeast Asia (SEA), following a prolonged industry crackdown in China that has left the sector reeling.

Over the past year, China’s regulatory clampdown on risky financial practices has wiped out more than half of the country’s P2P lending platforms. As of May, just 900 survived, down from almost 1,900 recorded a year ago.

TechNode • 7th December 2018

Caught in the cross-fire between US and China, Huawei responds to CFO's arrest ·

Following the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, CFO and deputy chairwoman of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the company said US pressure on a commercial company goes “against the spirit of free economy and fair competition,” adding that its relationship with its partners would not change.

Huawei made the comment in an open letter (in Chinese) to suppliers on Thursday night (Dec. 6).

“Despite the US government being unreasonable, we will not change the relationship with our global supply chain