World’s biggest streaming music company goes public

03 October 2018

The world's biggest streaming music company is going public. No it's not Spotify: It's Tencent Music, which has over 800 million users split between four services. I know I say "China is big!" a lot, but it really hits home when you see that just one of Tencent Music's services -- Kugou, only available inside China -- is twice the size of global giant Spotify. - Ravi

The world's biggest music streaming company files for an IPO Tencent Music's IPO was a good opportunity for us to dive into China's online music scene. Tencent's three streaming music services dominate, while NetEase Cloud Music has found a niche among fans of anime, comics and games. Julianna has a great graphical look at the industry, including a breakdown of what people listen to -- with traditional music still scoring highly among China's 555 million online music fans. How China's biggest social network fights fake news Fake news spreads just as fast on Chinese social media as it does in the West. WeChat's solution? They post the top 10 rumors that spread on WeChat every month -- and then they debunk them. Tencent has a lot of good statistics to show how popular the feature is, but without independent study, we have no idea if that's fake news too. Red envelope and mooncake emoji are coming to your iPhone We’ve had a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus emoji for years, so it was probably inevitable that we’d get emoji for Chinese holidays too. There are plenty of emoji for Japanese holidays already, but it’s understandable given that they invented emoji. (It’s also probably why there are currently over 12 different emoji for trains.) Here's why smartphones have multiple cameras I'm not gonna lie, this was a story born out of frustration. Lenovo started teasing a phone with FOUR cameras -- presumably to one-up Huawei's three-camera phone, which in turn one-ups the iPhone XS's two cameras. I got tired of writing endless stories about this, so we decided to look at why everyone wants more cameras, and what those extra cameras actually do. And I may have started this in a grumpy mood, but in the end I was really happy with what Karen and Julianna came up with! The virtual assistant in this SUV is a holographic anime girl State-run carmaker FAW is best known for the Red Flag sedans that carry top officials around. But now a subsidiary of this Chinese icon is teasing a car with a Japanese twist: A holographic virtual assistant in the shape of a "Japanese anime" girl. She can play music, turn on (and off) the air conditioning, or... just dance for you. Which seems a bit distracting, right?

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