Didi Chuxing's daily active users dropped over 50% after China acknowledged coronavirus outbreak; Beijing drivers waiting up to two hours for a passenger
Financial Times : Tweets: @jonrussell and @modestproposal1 Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Not a good time to be a ride-hailing company in China https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Mod...
Decentralized Finance (DeFi), the best performing sector in crypto today, feels more like cosplaying a financial system than an actual viable alternative to it
Over the last year or so, much-to-most of the cryptocurrency world has pivoted from the failure of “fat tokens” and ICOs … Tweets: @counternotions and @jonrussell Tweets: Kontra / @counternotions : “D...
Sources: Google plans to push Google Pay in India via an SDK for developers that aims to drive user engagement via rewards and cashbacks in Android apps
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Tweets: @refsrc and @jonrussell Tweets: Manish Singh / @refsrc : The company's Next Billion Users team has developed an engagement rewards platform to help businesses and ...
Chinese tech companies now surpass almost all their global rivals in size and value, even US giants, which will fundamentally reshape the world
Cast your eyes down the list of the world's most valuable private technology companies and you might be put in mind of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Tweets: @patrickc , @jonrussell , @jrichlive , @soundb...
Ripple announces the Xpring initiative, which aims to incentivize startups, through investments, grants, and incubation, into building an ecosystem around XRP
In the world of blockchain and digital assets … John McMahon / NewsBTC : Ripple Announces Xpring Initiative to Broaden their Ecosystem Bhushan Akolkar / CoinSpeaker : Ripple Launches Venture Capital F...
Grab's deal for Uber's Southeast Asian business faces issues with regulators and, sources say, disgruntled employees, as rivals swarm to recruit Uber talent
plus there's no exit bonus for them either http://techcrunch.com/... http://twitter.com/... Wong Joon Ian / @joonian : Killer piece by @jonrussell on the botched Grab-Uber merger. http://techcrunch.co...
Facebook and other tech giants are increasingly coming in conflict with governments around the world exerting greater control over the internet
On a muggy, late spring evening, Tuan Pham awoke to the police storming his house in Hanoi, Vietnam. — They marched him to a police station … Tweets: @markscott82 , @mekosoff , @jonrussell , @ejacqu...
Timeline, based on conversations with sources, highlights Alibaba's role in Quixey's demise
Dan Primack / Axios : Tweets: @danprimack , @jonrussell , @amitkarp , @abrams , and @paul_gassee Tweets: Dan Primack / @danprimack : ICYMI $130 million and done. Behind the fall of @quixey http://www...
With China's Great Firewall and the unique internet ecosystem it created, Chinese tech companies struggle to succeed at home and abroad simultaneously
Paul Mozur / New York Times : Tweets: @jonrussell , @ron_miller , @larrysalibra , @paulmozur , @edithyeung and @nytimesworld Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Turns out Tencent began talking to Wha...
With China's Great Firewall and the unique internet ecosystem it created, Chinese tech companies struggle to succeed at home and abroad simultaneously
HONG KONG — For teenagers who like to sing along with Ariana Grande and Flo Rida, Musical.ly is a must-have. Tweets: @jonrussell , @ron_miller and @nytimesworld Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Tur...