“On [our] platform, users can achieve the whole process from training to deployment to inference with zero coding,” Alibaba Cloud said in a statement posted on WeChat. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. It said the platform simplifies the model-development process, “bringing developers and enterprise users a faster, more efficient and more convenient AI … Read more
China’s Communist Party has warned cadres against accepting digital “red packets” as cash gifts for the Lunar New Year, raising bribery concerns amid a renewed pledge to fight corruption. Accepting or giving virtual presents that might affect the fair performance of official duties could be seen as violating “red lines” in party discipline, the Central … Read more
Chinese live-streaming e-commerce firm East Buy saw sales at its online store on WeChat cross the 1 million yuan (US$136,586) mark on Monday, with more than 80 per cent of transactions made through the app’s gift-giving feature, according to a report by local media outlet National Business Daily, citing company sources. The feature enables shoppers … Read more
It is a long-standing Chinese tradition during the Lunar New Year to give out red packets, also known as lai see in Cantonese and hong bao in Mandarin. Usually handed out in pairs and containing money, these paper envelopes are accompanied with greetings such as gung1 hei2 faat3 choi4 (in Cantonese) or gong1 xi3 fa1 … Read more
Chinese e-commerce platform operator JD.com on Friday introduced a gifting feature on its mobile app, joining rival Alibaba Group Holding in countering the competitive pressure from social media giant Tencent Holdings, which launched a similar feature last month. When browsing a selection of eligible merchandise, JD.com app users will see a button labelled “Gifting IT.” … Read more
Tencent Holdings’ super-app WeChat was removed from a list of “notorious” sellers of counterfeit goods by the US trade office, days after the defence department designated the tech giant as a “Chinese military company”. WeChat is not listed in the 2024 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy published on Wednesday by the US … Read more
Search and rescue workers were battling high altitude and frigid weather as they searched for survivors a day after a massive earthquake killed 126 people in western China’s Tibet autonomous region. The magnitude 6.8 quake struck the county of Tingri, at the foot of Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma in China, on Tuesday morning. … Read more
The US government’s move to add Tencent Holdings, China’s most valuable company, to its list of Chinese military firms has raised concerns about further bifurcation in the technology spheres of the world’s two largest economies. Tencent, operator of super-app WeChat and the world’s biggest video gaming business by revenue, is among five new companies that … Read more
China’s super app WeChat, owned by Tencent Holdings, has added a gift-giving feature to its embedded e-commerce platform ahead of Christmas, allowing users to send presents to their friends. Shoppers can search for products by keywords. According to the official guidelines, all gifts available are priced 10,000 yuan (US$1,375) or under, and they exclude jewellery … Read more
US retail giant Walmart is teaming up with Chinese on-demand delivery giant Meituan, promising speedy door-to-door service on the mainland, four months after it sold its stake JD.com, winding down the long-time partnership. Walmart’s China unit said on its official WeChat account that all of its stores across the country are now listed on Meituan’s … Read more
