Jon Russell
I cover Asia (sometimes crypto) for @techcrunch and write my weekly @asiatechreview newsletter 📩 [email protected] 📲 Telegram: jonrussell 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Cloud Companies Microsoft, Amazon, and Google Are Competing to Support Video Game Streaming
Streaming video games promises to be an all-out brawl among companies with the internet infrastructure to back it up. At stake? Billions of dollars and the future of a fast-growing industry.
Thai news site attacked on social media for publishing Xinhua articles
“It’s definitely shocking to us, because we are only trying to do our job. If this is the mind-set of some people involved in journalism, then how truthful and objective is their coverage of the ongoing protests? I think it is a very alarming...
Exclusive: Alibaba postpones up to $15 billion Hong Kong listing...
China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has delayed it...
Note on Khaosod English’s Partnership With Xinhua
Our recent news-sharing agreement with China’s Xinhua News Agency has attracted some questions from readers. We’d like to use this opportunity to clarify the issue.
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@KhaosodEnglish "Isn’t re-publishing news from state-owned media brainwashing?"
Whether or not readers agree with the so-called propaganda by the Chinese authorities, they can still have a glimpse into the Chinese state’s perspectives on current affairs.
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Are US Politicians Inflaming Tensions in Hong Kong?
HONG KONG (Xinhua) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's remarks on Monday, the latest by Western politicians on Hong Kong, has drawn strong opposition from the Chinese side.
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@KhaosodEnglish @KhaosodEnglish said its partnership with state-owned Xinhua will "let the Chinese people themselves tell their own stories with their own voices" ...
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China cries foul over Facebook, Twitter block of fake accounts
China said on Tuesday it had a right to put out its own views after Twitter and ...
Exclusive: WhatsApp in talks to launch mobile payments in Indonesia...
Facebook Inc's messaging service WhatsApp is in talks with multiple Indones...
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WhatsApp payments are headed to Indonesia, although reportedly working with local wallets rather than competing head on
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Information operations directed at Hong Kong
We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change.
Spotify is working on Stories for Playlists
First look at Spotify’s unreleased Playlist Stories
Updating our advertising policies on state media
Today, we are updating our advertising policies with respect to state media. Going forward, we will not accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities.
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Twitter has now updated its advertising policies to end promoted tweets from state-backed media:
“Any affected accounts will be free to continue to use Twitter to engage in public conversation, just not our advertising products.”
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Xinhua News Agency, Author at Khaosod English
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Hey @KhaosodEnglish -- interesting that you just started a 'content partnership' with Chinese state media? Is this a paid partnership because it sure looks like it is...
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Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo to Launch Cross-Platform ‘AirDrop’
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Interesting to see three Chinese OEMs team up on an Android alternative to AirDrop — collective battle against Samsung?
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Asia Tech Review: August 19 2019
Welcome back,The August news lull has reared its head in Asia tech and, even though there was no newsletter last week, today's edition ranks pretty high on the readability scale.The most notable updates this week include:💤 Baidu is falling further...
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Twitter (like Facebook) has long taken Chinese government money in exchange for propaganda as ads, but China’s use of Twitter to pump out anti-Hong Kong protest messages is disturbing
Twitter is profiting from, and part of, a global disinformation war
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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OYO has quickly grown to a $10B+ valuation thanks to SoftBank Vision Fund and the trickle effect is happening in SE Asia. Local rical RedDoorz just announced a $70M round that takes it to $140M from VCs to date — but $130M of that came this year...
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Twitter leads $100M round in top Indian regional social media platform ShareChat
Is there room for another social media platform? ShareChat, a four-year-old social network in India that serves tens of million of people in regional languages, just answered that question with a $100 million financing round led by global giant...
hongkonggong/beyond-lennon-walls
Ways to support the Hong Kong protests from afar. Contribute to hongkonggong/beyond-lennon-walls development by creating an account on GitHub.