Topics: ByteDance• Data Regulation• Are Americans Worried About Chinese Apps? Not really. Actually, not at all. If you look at the top three free apps on the Apple App Store, they are Temu (by Pinduoduo), CapCut, and TikTok (both by ByteDance). If you happen to be an Android person, the top three free apps
Topics: South Korea• Data Center• Data Regulation• Kakao, Data Center Fire, the Data Residency Dilemma I used to work at an open source distributed database startup called PingCAP. As the exec driving the company’s global market expansion effort, I talked to a lot of cloud architects and distributed systems engineers (as potential customers) about how a distributed database
Topics: Didi• Antitrust• Data Regulation• Didi's $1.2 Billion Penalty and the Global 5% Upper Bound Last week, the embattled Didi stock had arguably its best week ever since its IPO last July, notching a 20% weekly gain. Why? Because it was fined $1.2 billion by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) for its egregiously poor data privacy and
Topics: Cloud Industry• Google Cloud Platform• Data Regulation• Where Data Centers and Abortion Rights Intersect On the surface, cloud data center locations and women’s right to abortion in America are two topics that could not be further apart. Yet, they have become intimately intertwined when Proov [https://proovtest.com/], a healthcare tech company focused on fertility, decided to
Topics: ByteDance• Oracle• Data Regulation• Solutions to TikTok's American Credibility Problem Last week, I wrote a detailed post [https://interconnected.blog/tiktoks-american-credibility-problem/] breaking down TikTok’s immense credibility challenges in America, as revealed by Buzzfeed’s reporting [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access] based on more than 80 leaked internal meeting recordings. In today’
Topics: ByteDance• Oracle• Data Regulation• TikTok's American Credibility Problem What happens when audio recordings of 80 internal meetings of a company are leaked to the media? A serious credibility problem. That’s what happened to TikTok last week when the audio of, indeed, more than 80 internal meetings were leaked to Buzzfeed, which
Topics: 5G• Data Regulation• 996• Data, 5G and Office Romance: Tomorrow’s News; 明日要闻 (August 2021) Hello Interconnected Readers: Fresh off a two-weekend break, I’m excited to publish another issue of our new monthly product launched last month. It is now called “Tomorrow’s News”, not the original name “Articles That *Will* Matter”, because it is a better match