Posts by Simon Vericel

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  21 Apr

  CHINA TECH STARTUP

  Are Portable Power Banks the New Unicorn of China’s Sharing Economy?

  by Bingjiefu He Portable power banks are ubiquitous in China, and have evolved to become an everyday item in the lives of Chinese mobile users. However, the humble power bank is set to become the centerpiece of the latest craze in China’s ever-shifting startup scene, as the latest device to join the “sharing economy”. There...

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  12 Apr

  CHINA TECH ONLINE GAMING

  The rise of Steam in China

  The total number of Chinese steam users has officially crossed the 10 million threshold and now numbers 14 million. According to Steamspy, an application programming interface that tracks sales and other statistics on Steam, Chinese users now take up 6.49% of the total user population on Steam. The initial Influx of Gamers Steam was not...

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  24 Mar

  CHINA MARKETING TECH

  What Did the 2017 ‘Two Sessions’ Say About China’s Cybersecurity & Information Technology?

  The 2017 annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) took place in Beijing from March 3rd to 15th. Each year’s ‘two sessions’ are commonly regarded as the weathervane of China’s political, economic, social and technological development. Among many of the topics discussed this year, the issues...

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