China

The move, which the company said will serve to improve consumer safety, is another step for ByteDance towards making Douyin a fully-fledged e-commerce platform.

The phone brand’s answer to Google suite will be available to test out on smartphones this December.

The “apps inside WeChat” opened the e-commerce possibility for China’s No.1 chatting and social media app.

From liquid lunch, nutrition bars, and chicken breast snacks, meal replacement products are tapping on China’s growing appetite for a healthier and more convenient life.

WeMed has been testing a robotic-assisted system that executes—like a doctor’s hands— minimal invasive vascular therapy procedures, CEO and founder Yang He says.

Haokan, which is similar to Baidu’s Xigua, had 110 million daily active users as of last November.

Meanwhile, its exposure to Singapore the home market dropped to the lowest level since its foundation almost five decades ago.

Weishi launched its Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival Shopping Season in a bid to get more farmers selling their produce on the the platform.