Shanghai court says crypto ownership legal under China law amid bitcoin price surge

Shanghai court says crypto ownership legal under China law amid bitcoin price surge

A Shanghai court has released an opinion stating that the personal ownership of cryptocurrencies is not against Chinese law, offering explicit legal clarity for crypto holders on the mainland amid a record-setting bitcoin price surge. Sun Jie, a judge at the Shanghai Songjiang People’s Court, wrote in an article published on Shanghai High People’s Court’s … Read more

Inflation’s Next Victim Will Be Your Freedom

Inflation’s Next Victim Will Be Your Freedom

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Prior to the industrial and technological revolutions, social mobility was a concept that colored the most ambitious, aspirational and fictitious tales. No matter the time or location, an individual’s social class was almost always irreversibly determined by the conditions and lineage they hailed from. Following the Great … Read more

Shanghai’s Yangpu district eyes smaller tech firms to complete its growing digital ecosystem

Shanghai’s Yangpu district eyes smaller tech firms to complete its growing digital ecosystem

Xue Kan, the Communist Party secretary for Yangpu, once known for its heavy industries, told reporters at a media briefing on Friday that the district is trying to achieve a “cluster effect” by fully mobilising capital, talent and technologies to drive innovation and bolster the local economy. “We are pursuing the creation of 12 industrial … Read more

China wants to fine-tune personal data protection, but doors to government access remain open

China wants to fine-tune personal data protection, but doors to government access remain open

The guidelines aim to act as a reference point for “organisations in the processing, cross-border transfer, and protection of sensitive personal information”, the National Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee said in releasing the draft on its website. China’s sweeping Personal Information Protection Law, in effect since November 2021, and Data Security Law, issued in September that … Read more

Google infuses $350 million in Walmart-owned Flipkart

Google infuses 0 million in Walmart-owned Flipkart

New Delhi: As the Indian e-commerce space heats up with a spurt in the digital economy, Google has invested nearly $350 million in Walmart-owned Flipkart, taking the homegrown company’s valuation at nearly $36 billion. In a statement, Flipkart said it has added Google as a “minority investor” in the e-commerce platform as part of the … Read more

Xi Jinping’s chief of staff is China’s new internet tsar, sources say

Xi Jinping’s chief of staff is China’s new internet tsar, sources say

It was established because of concerns raised by Xi and other officials that Beijing’s lack of control over the internet and public opinion expressed online could compromise the party’s rule. Cai’s appointment has not been announced but he took the helm of the commission some time in the first half of 2023, according to one … Read more

China is spending billions on a national computing network. Its data chief says why

China is spending billions on a national computing network. Its data chief says why

“Frontier technologies and future industries represented by new materials, biopharmaceuticals, gene technology, and deep sea, air and space exploration, have created an unprecedented demand for computing power infrastructure. “A unified computing system would optimise resources, lower costs and help the country to achieve breakthroughs in cutting-edge tech such as quantum information.” 01:36 AI chip maker … Read more

China’s ‘two sessions’ 2024: ‘blind investments’ in digital economy could be harmful, delegate says

China’s ‘two sessions’ 2024: ‘blind investments’ in digital economy could be harmful, delegate says

Local governments should focus on finding a competitive edge in specific sectors of the digital economy, instead of “blindly” jumping in, as China aims to find new growth points to counter pressure from the United States, according to a proposal from an economic adviser. Lu Ming, director of Shanghai Institute for National Economy, said many … Read more

Singapore recommends safety standards for apps that carry out high-risk monetary transactions

Singapore recommends safety standards for apps that carry out high-risk monetary transactions

LAWMAKERS’ CONCERNS  More than 20 Members of Parliament (MPs) rose to speak during the motion, which asked that parliament reaffirm its commitment to adopt a whole-of-nation approach to sustain trust by building an inclusive and safe digital society.  The motion was tabled by the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Communications and Information, with 13 specific … Read more

China aims to bring mega computing network online by next year in data power push

China aims to bring mega computing network online by next year in data power push

“The computing power gap between the east and west has narrowed in recent years, but there are still problems to be addressed,” state news agency Xinhua on Wednesday quoted an unnamed NDA official as saying. The problems centre on imbalances in the distribution of general computing, intelligent computing and supercomputing power across national computing hubs. … Read more