CrunchGear in China: Seeing Where the Tech Sausage Is Made
Greetings from sunny Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong. I’ve spent some time in Asia – at least the tech centers – and have never found a place like this. It’s like Blade Runner meets 1990s Prague...
View ArticleCrunchGear in China: The Ex-Pats
I’m sitting on a darkened patio of a club called Viva in the Futian district of Shenzhen. It’s not too late – about 1am – and the place is busy but not full. It’s mostly ex-pats here, folks who work...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes: How Apple Keeps Grey Marketeers From Buying Out iPhone...
Getting an iPhone in China has always been hard. For most of its life-cycle, the phone has been unavailable in the Mainland except through the grey market. Now that Apple is allowed to sell units in...
View ArticleShenzhen's Huaqiangbei Sellers Are Struggling As Phones Get Cheaper
This is the ground floor of one of the electronics malls in Shenzhen’s famed Huaqiangbei district. Huaqiangbei is a stretch of large malls and shops in the Southern Chinese province, and due to its...
View ArticleReminder: Let’s Meet In Hong Kong And Shenzhen (Updated)
Just a reminder that we’ll be meeting up in Hong Kong and Shenzhen tomorrow and Friday. The time for the Hong Kong meetup has been changed to 9 to 11pm because of prior commitments. It’s buy your own...
View ArticleWe Have Entered The Golden Age Of Hardware Hacking
Hardware is the new hotness. This has been true for some years now: but today, the acorns planted by Arduino, TechShop, Kickstarter, lean prototyping, etc., are finally beginning to sprout into oaks....
View ArticleFactories Aren’t Dying To Take Your Order And Other Hardware Startup Follies
As the Greater China Investment Partner for 500 Startups, I have been finding myself fielding an increasing number of questions about the manufacturing process in China, especially as we see more...
View ArticleMarket Volatility And New Laws Shape US-Sino Tech Investing
As China learns and the rest of the world is reminded that having established a stock market, Beijing cannot control it simply by diktat and investors and buyers who deal with China are feeling less...
View ArticleEight Lessons From The Hoverboard Craze
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View ArticleFirefighting drone serves as a reminder to be careful with crowdfunding...
And then there’s this: an Indiegogo campaign for the world’s first firefighting drone. As a lover of both drones and crowdfunding campaigns, I nearly wet myself with excitement. But alas. The...
View ArticleMeet the 8th class of hardware startups from HAX
An accelerator called HAX held its 8th Demo Day for hardware startups in San Francisco yesterday. Best known for bringing companies in its portfolio to Shenzhen, China for about 15 weeks to get to...
View ArticleA quick look at the state of hardware technologies in China and beyond
Recent developments in the hardware world show just how far China’s star has risen and how dominant the country has become in the world of technology hardware manufacturing, development, and...
View ArticleCrunch Report | Mario Run Breaks App Store Record
Mario Run Breaks App Store record with 40 million downloads, OurMine hacks Marvel and Netflix Twitter accounts, Snap opens R&D office in China, SARA is Facebook’s new innovation advantage and Uber...
View ArticleJoin Didi and bike-sharing pioneers Ofo and Mobike at our Shenzhen event this...
TechCrunch is excited to announce that representatives from China’s top on-demand startups will be speaking at our inaugural event in Shenzhen. Didi Chuxing, the company that beat Uber out of China,...
View ArticleWill Amazon become a force in fintech?
Amazon is the tech giant most likely to become a dominant player in fintech, predicted James Lloyd, Ernst & Young’s fintech lead, when speaking on stage at TechCrunch and TechNode’s event in...
View ArticleDespite challenges, startups see a bright future for tech companies in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of the world’s premier financial hubs, but can it be a destination for tech startups? That was the question put to a panel of experts at the TechCrunch China event in Shenzhen today....
View ArticleGoogle moves into Shenzhen in latest China expansion
A month after announcing plans to open its first AI lab in China, Google is expanding again through a move into Shenzhen. The U.S. tech giant has opened an office in the Chinese city, which borders...
View ArticleNotes from Shenzhen — the next Greater Bay Area
I just walked into Shenzhen, and boy, is my mind boggled. Let me just get all my knee-jerk chorus-line reactions out of the way, before we get to the weird stuff: yes, this place is amazing. Yes, the...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes: How Apple Keeps Grey Marketeers From Buying Out iPhone...
Getting an iPhone in China has always been hard. For most of its life-cycle, the phone has been unavailable in the Mainland except through the grey market. Now that Apple is allowed to sell units in...
View ArticleShenzhen’s Huaqiangbei Sellers Are Struggling As Phones Get Cheaper
This is the ground floor of one of the electronics malls in Shenzhen’s famed Huaqiangbei district. Huaqiangbei is a stretch of large malls and shops in the Southern Chinese province, and due to its...
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