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WeChat Search Feature Updates

Matthew Brennan January 23, 2017 Features

The latest update of WeChat (6.5.4) has an array of interesting new features. WeChat search has been significantly improved and a new type of face to face WeChat digital lucky money has been launched to welcome the Chinese New Year. Read on to get all the details on how the new features work. 6.5.4 Update Big Updates to WeChat search …

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.