ByteDance is mulling an overhaul of the corporate structure of its TikTok business as it seeks to distance the short video app from China amid a political backlash overseas

Chinese government officials and some of the country’s top business leaders call for stronger global collaboration at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.

BlueCity, best-known for its dating app Blued, made history as the world’s first gay social network to become a publicly-traded company on Wednesday.

Developed by a Shenzhen cleantech start-up, an air quality device can be attached to drones or ground vehicles to detect sources of pollution 60 times faster than humans

Amid worsening US-China relations, international companies are looking to reshore manufacturing out of China, redefining global supply chains, especially in hi-tech

TikTok owner ByteDance has acquired a stake in Beijing Dingtian Culture Entertainment, which runs multiple online reading platforms competing with Tencent-backed market leader China Literature.

China’s technology companies must brace for the economic fallout from the border conflict, as online protests in India target a range of Chinese-made goods from apps to smartphones.

At leading computer vision gathering Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Chinese researchers were behind both papers recognised as the best appearing at the event.

This new research could help accelerate China’s efforts to develop hacking-resistant communications networks, while burnishing the country’s credentials as a quantum technology powerhouse.

TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance plans to build a new regional headquarters building in Shenzhen, hometown of rival Tencent

The move to shut down TopBuzz shows how ByteDance has struggled to crack the overseas news app market as well as replicate the broad success of TikTok.

How China and the US have approached contact tracing differently, with competing priorities over personal privacy and the need to tackle a health emergency effectively.

News Break has gained popularity in the US news market over TikTok-owner ByteDance, whose Jinri Toutiao is one of the most popular news aggregators in China.

This year’s list comes amid the global Covid-19 pandemic when ‘the need for science to test, predict and explain how different phenomena affect human and ecological outcomes is greater than ever,’ WEF said in a statement

Beijing is ‘speeding up’ efforts to build 700 key state laboratories to boost fundamental research as Washington tightens access to core US technology like semiconductors.

The latest revenue estimates further raise the stakes for ByteDance, the world's most valuable start-up, as it reflects expectations that TikTok will continue to pull in advertisers and user spending amid the coronavirus pandemic.

China will not set an economic growth target for 2020 at the National People’s Congress ‘mainly due to the global coronavirus pandemic’.

Gathering of top political advisory body opens with a minute’s silence for Chinese who have lost their lives to the disease.

The Tencent founder may not attend this year’s annual National People’s Congress, but he is expected to submit in absentia a range of proposals including on the industrial internet, financial technology and medical services.

Once immune from economic hardship, China’s internet-fuelled tech sector is starting to reduce costs and cut jobs as the impact of Covid-19 spreads beyond traditional industries.

Air monitors call for action around the world to halt rising pollution as people get back to work as Covid-19 lockdowns are lifted.

Society needs to pay more attention to female scientists and create a better environment for them to pursue their careers.

ByteDance is best known for short video apps TikTok and Douyin, but its founder Zhang Yiming says online education is a major strategic business direction for the company going forward.

Tencent-owned WeChat is still the most popular social networking app in China, but ByteDance has been trying to expand into the area, and beta Douyin feature ‘Connection’ is its latest attempt.

The rural carrier market was one of Huawei’s few successes in the US but a new law, driven by Washington’s national security concerns, means telcos will have to rip out Huawei gear or lose government subsidies.

Facebook has joined Carnegie Mellon University to launch a coronavirus symptom tracking map in the US, with plans to expand the effort globally

TikTok will be disabling direct messaging for users under the age of 16 as part of new global measures to protect teenagers, after running afoul of regulators in countries like the US and India.

Chinese robotics companies have seen a surge in demand since the coronavirus outbreak but some believe robot tech is not mature enough for widespread use.

The partnership between Blue Yonder and JD Logistics will use artificial intelligence and machine learning in supply chain solutions to help Chinese merchants improve their efficiency and reduce resource wastage, the companies say.

The app, which works with a range of wearable devices from the likes of Apple, Fitbit and Garmin, uses algorithms to identify various symptoms in user data that are linked, among other things, to a coronavirus infection.