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A case study of WeChat’s platform business

Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed the rapid development of the internet’s platformisation. As a result of the proliferation and overlap of different platforms and operations, ‘platform business’ rises in response to […]

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Techlash: Is there a crisis of trust due to technology?

“Tech companies” by Huzaifa Abedeen, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons What is meant by the “techlash”? Techlash is a term coined by the Economist and popularized in 2018. Advanced information technology is generally […]

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TikTok: Successful products under Web 2.0

The emergence of Web 2.0 means that people have officially entered a “new media era.” TikTok has successfully emerged from the short-form video platform with a series of precise and targeted strategies that quickly took […]

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Business model of Digital Platform – Taking Taobao as a case study

(Figure 1.0 ‘Taobao-app-features-that-drive-sales-Sampi’ From Fiona Martin, https://2021.arin2610.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Taobao-app-features-that-drive-sales-Sampi.jpg. Licensed CC BY 2.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.) Alibaba Group Holding: “To make it easy to do business anywhere” Summary: Taobao, directly translated as ‘search for pleasure’ in Chinese, is a […]

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Weibo: Public Opinion Leaders

Figure 1: “Weibo.com Logo” by bfishadow is licensed under CC BY 2.0 When the Internet was not very developed, people could only find out what was happening in the world by listening to the radio, watching newspapers, or TV. […]