china

China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion in 2017. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers, it is the third or fourth largest country by total area.

China’s SMB Push Continues Amid Alibaba’s Taobao Festival
China’s SMB Push Continues Amid Alibaba’s Taobao Festival
September 17, 2018  |  SMBs

Amid China’s efforts in recent months to boost small business activities – notably through initiatives that focused on small business lending in that country  –...

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Amazon Investigates Claims That Employees Sell Data
Amazon Investigates Claims That Employees Sell Data
September 17, 2018  |  Amazon

eCommerce giant Amazon is looking into allegations that employees are offering merchants internal data and confidential information that can help them boost sales, reported The...

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UnionPay To Roll Out Branded Card In The UK
UnionPay To Roll Out Branded Card In The UK
September 17, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

China’s UnionPay, the payment card issuer, is gearing up to roll out branded cards in the U.K. as it expands more into Europe, aiming to...

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Baidu Eyes International Market For AI, Self-Driving Tech
Baidu Eyes International Market For AI, Self-Driving Tech
September 14, 2018  |  International

As one of the world’s biggest internet companies, Baidu is homing in on autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI). The tech company has a particularly...

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Ant Financial Denies Stealing Equifax IP
Ant Financial Denies Stealing Equifax IP
September 13, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Ant Financial, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, pushed back on a Wall Street Journal report that alleged the company used Equifax intellectual property to create its...

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China Accelerates Blockchain Patent Activity
China Accelerates Blockchain Patent Activity
September 12, 2018  |  B2B Payments

In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that comes...

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Bitcoin Daily: FINRA Files First Crypto Disciplinary Action; Paris Soccer Team Plans ‘Fan Token Offering’
Bitcoin Daily: FINRA Files First Crypto Disciplinary Action; Paris Soccer Team Plans ‘Fan Token Offering’
September 12, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Blockchain payment network GRAFT has reached a “critical milestone”: the group said that it has received an end-to-end transaction that took under 2 seconds on...

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Coffee Proving To Be Latest Battle Ground For Tencent And Alibaba
Coffee Proving To Be Latest Battle Ground For Tencent And Alibaba
September 11, 2018  |  Retail

Retailers in China are taking sides in the rivalry between Alibaba and Tencent, and the latest battle ground is coffee: Chinese upstart Luckin Coffee is teaming...

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Bitcoin Daily: China Says Blockchain Can Authenticate Evidence, Australia To Closely Monitor ICOs, Crypto
Bitcoin Daily: China Says Blockchain Can Authenticate Evidence, Australia To Closely Monitor ICOs, Crypto
September 10, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Crypto payments startup Wyre has acquired Hedgy, a venture-backed bitcoin smart contract development firm. While Wyre already provides cross-border payments using bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and...

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