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Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market
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Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market

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Paul Mozur
The New York Times, 2016
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Facebook and Google are the best-known examples of successful companies that failed to crack the Chinese market. At the same time, China’s Internet giants have been struggling to gain a foothold in the West. Hong Kong-based technology reporter Paul Mozur explains why the Great Firewall divides the Internet in a way that makes it almost impossible for any technology company to thrive both in China and elsewhere. As a tech entrepreneur, you need to decide on whose Internet you would like to set up shop. It’s one or the other. getAbstract recommends this article to tech entrepreneurs and anyone interested in global markets.

Take-Aways

  • China’s independent Internet creates a rift between the Chinese tech market and markets in the rest of the world.
  • The Chinese social media app Musical.ly exists only outside China.
  • Tencent’s WeChat has a plethora of functions inside China; outside the country – stripped of the functions that only work in China – WeChat became a mere messaging app.

About the Author

Paul Mozur is a Hong Kong-based technology reporter covering topics such as cybersecurity and censorship in Asia. He joined The New York Times in 2014.

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