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Can You "Nationalize" Open Source?

The impending ban or acquisition of TikTok and ByteDance’s lawsuit against the Trump administration have sucked up all the oxygen in the US-China tech zeitgeist. A gigantic IPO, possibly the largest in the world, by Ant Financials is also looming on the

Topics: Blockchain• Azure• ByteDance•

August 23, 2020: Crypto, TikTok, JEDI, Zoom, Pinduoduo, Gitee

This issue covers the period between August 17 - 23, 2020 with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources. Disclaimer: all translated article titles are done by me, not official translations from the media outlets. Before you go on,

Topics: ByteDance• Regulation• Open Source•

A Framework to (Dis)trust and Verify TikTok

Last week, the New York Times tech columnist, Kevin Roose, wrote a well-reasoned piece [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/technology/tiktok-china-ban-model.html] arguing that the U.S. government should not ban TikTok, but use it as an example

Topics: Antitrust• Open Source• 5G•

August 2, 2020: Antitrust in China, Open Source 5G, Electric Vehicles IPO, ByteDance, Huawei

This issue covers the period between July 27 - August 2, 2020 with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources. I purposely did not include anything related to the antitrust hearing (too many out there) and TikTok’s situation

Topics: COVID-19• Open Source•

COVID, Open Source, Industrial Policy

By the time you read this post, you are likely bombarded with news and tweets about the antitrust hearing of the big four tech companies (Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet) and their respective quarterly earnings. Meanwhile, another announcement happened in the tech world that I

Topics: COVID-19• Open Source•

July 26, 2020: Mars, Ant Group, New York Times, COVID-19, Open Source, ARM

This issue covers the period between July 20 - 26, 2020 with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources – hand-picked by your humble author to further our exploration of the interconnections between technology, business, investment, and geopolitics. All

Topics: RISC-V• China• Open Source•

RISC-V, China, Nightingales

Last weekend, I read a long, epic piece of techlore [https://www.huxiu.com/article/360061.html] that chronicled the fierce and bitter rivalry between TSMC and Samsung in their fight to become the world’s number 1 chip foundry, which stretched back three

Topics: Semiconductor• Open Source• IPO•

June 28, 2020: Semiconductor, Xiaomi, Facial Recognition, GPS, EDA Equipment, Agora

Note: This issue of Interconnected Weekly covers the period between June 22-28, 2020, with six news stories – three from English language sources, three from Chinese language sources – hand-picked by your humble author to further our exploration of the interconnections between technology, business,

Topics: China• E-Commerce• Open Source•

China-Scale Technology Sandbox

China’s Internet economy is often viewed by many people through the lens of U.S.-China relations or China’s domestic structure. Some times those lenses are useful, other times not so much. One aspect, where applying a geopolitical lens is not useful,

Topics: ByteDance• Open Source• China•

Can ByteDance Build Trust?

As I noted in Interconnected Weekly, [https://interconnected.blog/june-14-2020-interconnected-weekly/] the most interesting news item from last week was the revelation that ByteDance [https://en.pingwest.com/a/6875] is cutting its China-based engineers data access to TikTok and

Topics: Open Source• China• RISC-V•

Open Source in China: The Trends

This is the third and last part of my multi-part series exploring “open source in China”. If you missed the two earlier posts, I’d strongly recommend you read them first to build some context. (Part I [https://interconnected.blog/open-source-in-

Topics: Open Source• China•

Open Source in China: The Game

This post is part two of a multipart exploration of “open source in China”. If this is the first time you’ve ever heard of or thought about China’s open source ecosystem, I recommend reading Part I of this series, “Open Source in

Topics: Open Source• China•

Open Source in China: The Players

Open source technology has become mainstream [https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/14/how-open-source-software-became-the-new-industry-standard.html] , adopted by companies and organizations of all types and sizes. That adoption is not limited to the U.S., where much

Topics: Zoom• Open Source• China•

In Defense of Zoom: China FUD, Performance Tradeoff, Open Source

The most fascinating tech company story during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is Zoom. It’s meteoric rise in usage, coupled by a similar surge in its stock price, is met with increasing scrutiny of its security practices, a drop in stock price, and

Topics: Cloud Industry• Facebook• Open Source•

Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

I’ve written many posts on the global public cloud ecosystem lately, from in-depth comparisons of the big ones: AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, to a few of the less prominent but still very competitive ones: IBM, Oracle, Tencent. All of

Topics: COVID-19• Open Source• Remote Work•

[Deep Dive] Coronavirus, Remote Work, Remote Consumption

Earlier this week, I wrote about the lasting impact [https://interconnected.blog/coronavirus-remote-work-remote-consumption/] that COVID-19 may have on China’s work culture, specifically that more remote work will be embraced after this public health crisis is over and that

Topics: COVID-19• Remote Work• Open Source•

Coronavirus, Remote Work, Remote Consumption

This post discusses two of the long-term impacts and behavioral changes that I think will emerge from the coronavirus (hereto called “COVID-19”, its proper scientific term): remote work, remote consumption. Disclaimer: what you will read is generally a positive piece. This is