china - Larry Salibra

Buying tea with WeChat Pay in a dystopian future

China's WeChat Pay gives us a glimpse of a dystopian future where your money isn't yours.

2015: The Year the Great Firewall went Global

TL;DR: 2015 marked a changing point in China’s relationship with the global Internet. This post takes a look back at 2015 and 16 events in which the effects

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Tantan Responds - Promises Encryption

Wow! I am shocked and humbled by the positive reaction to my post last Friday about how Tantan doesn't use encryption [https://larrysalibra.com/how-chinese-tinder-clone-screws-you/]. The overwhelming [https://www.reddit.

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How Chinese Tinder clone screws you

Update: Tantan CEO and Co-founder Yu Wang reached out to me via email to acknowledge these issues. Read his email and my response [https://larrysalibra.com/tantan-responds-promises-encryption/]. TL;DR: Chinese

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Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China

Article about my discovery of Apple's on-device censorship of Apple News in Mainland China.

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How Apple Censors News in China

The release of iOS 9 saw the launch of Apple’s attempt to revolutionize the news industry [http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Apple-Announces-News-App-for-iPhone-iPad.html] , Apple News [https:

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Hop over the Great Firewall with Government Help

Ask someone to make a list of #ChinaProblems [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23chinaproblems&src=typd] and the Great Firewall is going to be close to the top. The Great

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Why Baidu was hijacked to attack GitHub

Baidu's [https://baidu.com] content data network (CDN), the computers that serve Baidu analytics and Baidu ads has been hijacked and is being used to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on popular developer tool Github [https://github.com]. The China Twitterverse

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China (Finally?) Putting an End to Foreign Investment in the Internet

Great post about in ChinaLawBlog [http://www.chinalawblog.com/] about how China is putting an end to so-called variable interest entities (VIEs) [http://www.chinalawblog.com/2015/01/china-vies-are-dead-done-over-stick-a-fork-in-them.html] that most of China's large internet companies, including Tencent, Sina and Baidu, used to

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Video: 'The British Chinese' - Identity is Complicated

Came across this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNrlqLHJYE] where a number of students in a British Chinese language school are asked whether they consider themselves British or Chinese or something else. I tweeted the link without comment intentionally hoping no one

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Remembering Zhao Ziyang

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the death of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The BBC reported on those mourning the anniversary of his death in Beijing [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30863571]: > Mourners have gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the death

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Secrets Revealed on China Mobile iPhone Launch Day

Today, Apple officially kicked off their alliance with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier with almost 800 million subscribers. While mainstream media widely covered the launch day from Beijing, complete with pictures of Tim Cook and China Mobile executives, they missed some of

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5 problems with Uber in China and why I love it!

Many of us in the Hong Kong tech community have followed the Uber closely from afar - watching with jealousy as our friends in the valley and NYC tweet about riding around in Uber comfort. City after city in Asia launched Uber: Taipei, Singapore,

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Outcasts on Chinese Subways

Friend Tricia Wang [http://triciawang.com] is spending a year in China doing fascinating research on poor migrants and their use of technology [http://bytesofchina.com/]. She recently shared an excellent write up regarding her experience undercover as a migrant on the Beijing subway

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7 Reasons Cantonese is Dying & Mandarin is King

Last fall, the New York Times published an article describing the rising importance of Mandarin in Chinatown [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/nyregion/22chinese.html]. This seemed to

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China Real Estate Bubble?

You should be worried when the CEO of Beijing's largest real estate company Zhang Xin has this to say: > My view is that the real estate business has a lot of asset bubbles, but even with asset bubbles it doesn't mean that we are

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6 Reasons Why Pizza Hut does better than Papa John's in China

Quick post as I wait for my 12 inch 1/2 chicken curry 1/2 pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut to be delivered here in Guangzhou: I was reminded tonight [http://twitter.com/larrysalibra/status/7904651726], yet again, by Papa John [http://www.papajohnschina.

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Google's China Lessons: Forbidden Fruit & Face Saving Retreat

I woke up today to the headline that Google is threatening to leave the China market [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/world/asia/14beijing.html]in response to what it says were a series of attacks aimed at the Gmail accounts of

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Centralization and Censorship

For those of you that don't know, Facebook and Twitter have been blocked here in the People's Republic of China for the past several months. While most would say that

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China Unicom 3-Year iPhone Exclusive

Chinese media is reporting [http://stock.hexun.com/2009-07-28/120018176.html] that China Unicom and Apple have signed a 3 year deal to sell the iPhone in mainland China. Reports are that Unicom will purchase iPhones from Apple for 3,000 Chinese Yuan each

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Yogurt Workshop

My friend Karen and her business partner Andy have been hard at work introducing the concept of gourmet frozen yogurt [http://www.yogurtworkshop.com/] to the Guangzhou consumer. Their brainchild,

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10 Things You Didn't Know About Invoices in China

There is a lot of confusion about invoices in China [http://www.jonatshanghai.com/?p=109]. If you ask for an invoice from a vendor in most of the world

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The Cost of Landscape versus Active Directory in the China market

Why does a Landscape [http://www.canonical.com/landscape]-managed deployment of Ubuntu cost US$250 per seat per year? For my 7-seat deployment in our new China-based subsidiary, that would cost us US$1,750/year. Compare to the Microsoft Partner Program's Actionpack