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WeChat’s Virtual Girlfriend App by Microsoft (Xiaobing)

Matthew Brennan October 10, 2015 Case Studies

Thousands of men across China describe her as their ‘virtual girlfriend’. Microsoft describe her as being “like an emotional companion”. XiaoBing 小冰 is a female voiced ‘Advanced Natural Language Chat-bot’ service available for free through WeChat. It all sounds a bit like science fiction. The service is eerily similar to the 2013 movie ‘Her’. A film about a man who falls in love …

ATTENTION FACTORY: THE STORY OF TIKTOK AND CHINA’S BYTEDANCE

In 2012, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was just a handful of geeks working out of a scrappy four-bedroom apartment in Beijing. Today, it is the world’s fastest-growing tech behemoth worth in excess of $100 billion, unrecognizable from its humble beginnings.

Thousands of articles have been written about TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, but no one has told the complete story. Until now. Brennan’s book documents for the first time the ascendancy and missteps of a company that has forever changed the way we think about China and Chinese technology.

A creative blend of storytelling and analysis, interwoven with captivating anecdotes of TikTok, rare photos of ByteDance’s original team, incisive analysis and telling infographics, “Attention Factory” is an essential read for those looking to understand how ideas in the American and Chinese internet worlds collided, coincided and converged throughout the past decade.

Get the inside story on TikTok now.