Foreigners can finally use WeChat Pay & Alipay in China
As Momentum Academy is preparing for a number of China digital leadership immersion programmes for August to October, we have pleasantly discovered that WeChat...
How is TikTok Shop different from Shopee and Lazada?
A few days ago, we launched a poll on your burning questions about TikTok Shop. Many of you have asked the question “How is...
E10 – The Impulso Podcast – Gates and Blinken in China,...
The Impulso Podcast is hosted by us at Momentum Works, twice a week, every week. Tune in to hear our in-house experts, community and...
E05 – The Impulso Podcast – [In-Depth] Elon Musk’s trip to...
The Impulso Podcast is hosted by us at Momentum Works, twice a week, every week. Tune in to hear our in-house experts, community and...
TikTok Shop starts copying Temu… in the Middle East
On May 16 2023, TikTok Shop made an announcement that they would launch the “all-inclusive” consignment model (全托管模式) from cross border ecommerce targeting the...
LinkedIn’s former China CEO on why LinkedIn failed in China [Seeing...
This week, LinkedIn announced that it would shut down its consumer app in China, while eliminating 716 jobs globally.
The app, InCareer, was launched in...
Our thoughts: TikTok CEO’s US congress testimony
Yesterday (23 March), TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before a US congress committee, in the latest development of an epic struggle for TikTok’s future...
Will TikTok’s online supermarket in China be successful?
Douyin, Bytedance’s Chinese version of TikTok, quietly launched an online supermarket service as part of its e-commerce offerings during the Lunar New Year break...
The knock on effects of tech layoffs
When we hosted Taking your tech company global: People, Culture and Leadership event with 01VC in late October, we used the following graph, taken...