Kuaishou’s live-streaming e-commerce business has set itself apart with celebrities and devoted fans willing to buy whatever they are selling, helping make the company Hong Kong’s hottest IPO ever.

Force behind The Royal Singapore media company leaves toxic social media presence behind to publicise feel-good stories of ordinary people.

The Chinese government is encouraging online shopping platforms, food delivery providers and streaming video operators to help people stay put over the holiday.

A school dropout from a broken home who fell out with his family struggled to earn enough to live on and suffered ill-health. Out of work, he turned in vain to video-game streaming. He died from poverty, a friend posted.

Retail investors in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy are increasingly getting guidance on shares from social media, sending some local stocks soaring – though not yet to the extent of GameStop in the US.

Mobile phone users required to register their numbers under real identities in proposed overhaul of SIM-card rules.

These YouTube personalities have built up tens of millions of subscribers using a video camera and an internet connection. Fans tune in for video game commentaries, vlogs, comedies and much more.

Eight young Italian influencers who spend their days in a luxury Milan loft receive training on music, culture, politics, good manners – anything that will help their videos.

Richard Yu, head of Huawei’s consumer business group, has been tasked to lead the firm’s cloud services and artificial intelligence operations.

The online investor coalition is under the spotlight after the stocks it promoted, such as GameStop, rose dramatically.

Investors scramble for a piece of Kuaishou’s US$5.4 billion IPO, as banks and brokerages offer low loan rates to cater to demand for IPO loan.

Kuaishou founders Su Hua and Cheng Yixiao will see their net worth jump above US$7 billion and US$6 billion, respectively, but their app still trails behind the popularity of ByteDance’s Douyin and TikTok.

The move comes as the EU urges the US to help draw up a common rule book to rein in the power of big tech firms and combat the spread of fake news.

The latest ranking shows how the pandemic has upended China’s businesses, turning technology companies into the biggest winners, as tens of millions of stay-at-home people are forced to conduct their consumption, work, and leisure via internet services.

Short video app has offered a place to shine online for millions of underdogs but investors have to gauge if it can turn this appeal into sustainable profits.

After the advertisement for a skin-whitening product was slammed as racist, Mandopop singer Choo Hao Ren said he was ‘deeply sorry’ and had accepted criticism with ‘an open heart’.

Updated rules on public social media accounts detail scope of banned activities as ‘self-media’ draws increasing scrutiny

Jennifer Ellis, a fan of Bernie Sanders, sent him a pair of mittens after he lost to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary.

Oracle of 1960s counterculture, the Canadian professor and philosopher predicted the dysfunction of modern-day media and how mankind would be consumed by our digital landscapes.

In the context of US-China tech war, analysts said the timing of regulatory approval could be seen as a positive signal to the new US administration.

The ‘wooden donkey’ was one of the most notorious instruments of torture in history, used to punish adulterous women in ancient China. When an unknowing internet star made a replica, there was outrage online.

Move has surprised some netizens given the turf wars and legal tussles between the two tech rivals in recent years.

Amid declining growth in China’s short video industry, financial content is seeing rising popularity on Douyin, where 100 million people had engaged with such content by last November.

Ajey Nagar, famous for his roast videos and other comedy content, has more than 28 million subscribers on his YouTube channel CarryMinati – and he’s only 21.

Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng, who made a video with food vlogger Mike Chen – apparently unaware he is a China critic – then withdrew it and apologised, responds to the backlash its withdrawal triggered.

Google said on Sunday that antitrust claims in a Texas lawsuit were ‘misleading’, responding in a blog post as state attorneys general plan suits against the Alphabet unit.

Tencent-backed video-sharing app Kuaishou Technology said it was looking to expand its monetisation model and reverse losses, having won approval for a US$5 billion to US$6 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong.