In today's increasingly video-dominated media world, predictions of the death of audio formats like podcasts and audio novels may be slightly premature. Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME.US; 1698 ...

Ximalaya FM, a Chinese audio sharing platform, has introduced a smart speaker aimed at helping Chinese Communist Party members improve party knowledge during their spare time. The smart speaker, ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up Chinese biggest audio sharing platform Ximalaya ...

You may have heard of the Singles' Day, the biggest day for online shopping in China. With much less fanfare, a celebration of something less materialistic gets underway almost one month after the ...

When Yu Jianjun was looking to name his podcast start-up back in 2012, he looked at how Jeff Bezos chose Amazon after the great South American river and Jack Ma picked Alibaba after a character in the ...

Tencent Music Entertainment Group, one of China's largest online music entertainment platforms, has entered into an agreement to acquire Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya Inc. for $2.4 billion in ...

A woman listens to an audiobook through the Ximalaya FM platform at a booth at the Shanghai Book Fair in 2015. Photo: IC A man spent more than 13,411 yuan ($1,963) in the first half of this year on ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. What happened: China’s largest audio service platform ...

Visitors listen to audio books at the booth of Ximalaya during a book fair in Shanghai on Aug 14, 2019. [Photo provided to China Daily] Starting her career at a radio station in a small county in ...

China is set to eclipse the United States this year as the world’s largest consumer market, according to eMarketer. Rising incomes and purchasing power have been driving unprecedented demand and ...

"In the era of artificial intelligence in the future, the real world and the digital world will be connected by programmers. It's meaningful for Xi'an High-tech Industries Development Zone (XHTZ) to ...

A "well-off," "motivated" and "knowledgeable" man spent over 13,411 yuan (1,963 U.S. dollars) in the first half of the year on Ximalaya FM, a popular audiobook platform in China, with favorite books ...