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Weekly News Roundup: Week of 8/19
China top internet firms pump 45% more into R&D China’s top 100 Internet companies invested 45% more into R&D in 2018 comparing to in 2017, according to stats released by the Internet Society of China reported on ZDNet. Led by Alibaba, the top internet companies have increased investment mainly in cloud computing, big data and…
Read MoreChina Internet Development Report
Last month, the Internet Society of China published its annual China Internet Development Report (“Report”). The Report covered industries including online video streaming, online gaming, mobile applications, online travel booking and more, and here are some key points from the Report. The Growing AI Market The AI industry in China has reached 33.9 Billion Chinese…
Read More4 Trends of the China Internet in 2019
Recently, South China Morning Post and Abacus News published the second annual internet report on China, the China Internet Report 2019. Following last year’s narrative, the report first provided an overview of the internet landscape with updates on the number of internet populations in China, comparing to in the United States. The total internet users…
Read MoreCybersecurity Landscape in China
Internet security has been increasingly critical worldwide, and in China there is no exception. With a highly developed internet system where essentially everything can be done online, it is especially important for internet companies to protect their web applications from malicious attacks, which can hurt the companies’ brand images and revenue streams. DDoS attack is…
Read MoreEntering the Fast Track of 5G with Edge Computing
“The reason why companies are rushing to deploy 5G is that the technology allows for more bandwidth, lower latencies and higher reliability,” said Wei Zhang, VP at ChinaCache in a recent interview. In the upcoming years, a massive number of devices will be connected to the 5G network due to the rapid development of Internet…
Read MoreSupporting Smooth and Stable Live Streaming Experience
Internet live streaming has been growing quickly and fulfilling people’s entertainment needs in the last decade. With users’ standards getting higher and higher, whether it is live streaming of sports events or user-generated streams, viewers demand high video resolution, low latency, and no freezing. Stream quality could significantly impact user retention and monetization. Outside of…
Read MoreBoosting Global Retailers’ Success in China
The growth of e-commerce in China has impressed everyone. The country, with more than 800 million internet users, takes the lead in the worldwide e-commerce industry, and more than 40% of total global transactions take place there, according to a report by McKinsey. Moreover, an increasing number of customers are shopping directly from retailers to…
Read MoreBuilding Green Data Centers for a Better Future
As Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Big Data, and Cloud Computing technologies are widely adopted across many industries, Internet Data Centers which provide support behind the curtains (at the back end) experienced exponential growth. With the latest regulations on the energy consumption of data centers, exploring ways to lower the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratio,…
Read MoreChinaCache Partners with F5 Networks to Provide a Safer Network Environment
“CDN is a critical link between companies’ origin servers and their end users. In the early days, network security would be addressed at the origins. Companies might purchase equipment and software to build their own security systems. However, in recent years, as CDN gets more integrated into our clients’ services, we as CDN providers need…
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