Microsoft's social platform LinkedIn announced on Wednesday, August 9th, that it would cease its operations in China, ending its nearly decade-long presence in the Chinese market. This move signifies the departure of a major Western social media platform from China.Currently, when accessing LinkedIn's domain within China, users are redirected to a page that provides services for corporate clients. The mobile app for "LinkedIn Workplace" displays a message stating, "Unable to load data."As one of the few successful social media platforms operated by a U.S. tech company in China, LinkedIn, as th...

1Do you believe that Nokia, which you thought had gone bankrupt, not only survived but is still one of the world's most profitable technology companies, making trillions of dollars in profit every year?In 2022, Nokia's annual revenue reached 24.9 billion euros. Its net profit of 4.25 billion euros also hit a new high in nearly a decade. Moreover, as early as 2017, it quietly returned to the Fortune Global 500.In the telecommunications field, it is the world's third-largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, second only to Huawei and Ericsson. In terms of 5G, its number of patents ranks...

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In June 2023, Microsoft Edge would not allow Edge extensions with manifest version before v3 to be listed on Microsoft web stores as v3 extensions add more security privacy related restrictions on some of the functions. Hence all extensions with manifest v2 must migrate to v3. In this post, we would show how we did the migration for one of our extensions and the changes made.There is a checklist provided by Microsoft Edge team on what needs to be updated so that the extension can still work in v3. It can be checked before your migration starts.The first change needs to be made is to ...

In 2023, Google would not allow Chrome extensions with manifest version before v3 to be listed on Chrome web stores as v3 extensions add more security privacy related restrictions on some of the functions. Hence all extensions with manifest v2 must migrate to v3. In this post, we would show how we did the migration for one of our extensions and the changes made.There is a checklist provided by Chrome team on what needs to be updated so that the extension can still work in v3. It can be checked before your migration starts.The first change needs to be made is to update the manifest_version from...

According to a recent change record from Chinese company registration information portal, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang is no longer the president of TaoBao Software Co. Ltd. His successor is Shan Dai, who is one of the founders of Alibaba and now Taobao CEO.Along with the change, Daniel also quits as the president of Tmall technology company which is also one of the subsidiaries of Alibaba Group focusing on big brands.Taobao (China) Software Co., Ltd. was established in December 2004 with a registered capital of USD 690 million. Its business scope includes resear...

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The popular job searching site LinkedIn has come out a special version for China which is just offering job searching capabilities and messaging capabilities in the connections. The social media capability like news feeds and peoples activities are stripped out.Now if you are in China and open LinkedIn app, it will prompt you and ask you to download an app called LinkedIn Jobs.You will not be able to dismiss the dialog and you are forced to download the other app if you wanna continue to use LinkedIn services. It will not work even if you fake your location or use VPN. It is still unknown...