AIWAYS was exposed to require employees to advance social security provident funds at their own expense; Gree Electric responded by disbanding the core mobile phone team; Zui Goniang organized employees to write negative reviews for peers and was fined 200,000 yuan｜Leifeng Morning News

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On May 22, 2015, Ctrip teamed up with Plateno to acquire the controlling stake in eLong held by Expedia (the world’s largest online travel company at the time). Ctrip’s announcement stated that the company spent US$400 million to acquire 37.6% of elong’s shares. With Plateno’s investment, Ctrip became the actual controller of elong.

——Lin Jun and Hu Zhe "The Boiling New Decade"

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HEADLINE NEWS

Micron's products in China fail cybersecurity review

Recently, the Cybersecurity Review Office conducted a cybersecurity review of Micron's products sold in China in accordance with the law. The review found that Micron's products have serious network security risks, causing major security risks to my country's critical information infrastructure supply chain and affecting my country's national security. For this reason, the Cybersecurity Review Office concluded that it would not pass the cybersecurity review in accordance with the law. In accordance with laws and regulations such as the Cybersecurity Law, operators of China's domestic critical information infrastructure should stop purchasing Micron products.

The purpose of this cyber security review of Micron's products is to prevent product cyber security issues from endangering the security of the country's critical information infrastructure, and is a necessary measure to safeguard national security. China is determined to promote high-level opening up and welcomes companies from all countries and various platform products and services to enter the Chinese market as long as they comply with Chinese laws and regulations. (News Feeds)

Domestic information

DOMESTIC NEWS

AIWAYS recommends employees to advance social security and provident funds at their own expense, and has been in arrears with wages for two consecutive months

On May 21, it was reported that not only had AIWAYS employees’ wages for March and April not been paid out, they had even launched a plan for employees to advance social security and provident funds at their own expense.

A screenshot of the corporate WeChat chat of AIWAYS employees shows that on May 18, AIWAYS issued an internal notice stating that in view of the current company's capital situation, in order to meet the needs of employees who are in urgent need, it has opened a channel to advance social security provident funds at its own expense. In addition to delayed salary payments, the office in Yangpu, Shanghai, was out of power due to rent arrears, and all employees were working from home. The official AIWAYS APP is currently unable to operate normally. (Sina Technology)

Gree Electric responded to rumors of the dissolution of the mobile phone core team, saying that research and development is still ongoing

Recently, media reported that Gree Electric’s mobile phone Shenzhen team has been disbanded and will no longer make mobile phones in the future. In response to this news, the relevant person in charge of Gree Electric Appliances said: Gree mobile phone research and development is ongoing. TOSOT G7 is Gree's sixth-generation mobile phone and is integrated with Gree + Smart Home. Welcome to the "Gree Dong Mingzhu Store" to experience the purchase. Currently, TOSOT Dasong mobile smartphones are still on sale through Gree Electric’s official channels and flagship stores on major platforms. However, a search on the official website of Gree Mobile revealed that it is currently unable to be opened, and the official WeChat public account "Gree Mobile" has stopped updating in April 2020. (Interface News)

Many fund companies have successively announced that the APP will cease operations.

PICC Asset Management Co., Ltd. recently announced that it will offline the operation and maintenance services of the mobile client "PCC Fund APP" from May 19. In recent years, many small and medium-sized fund companies have given up APP operations. For example, the "Jidi Financial Management APP" of China International Finance Fund, China Overseas Fund APP, Founder Fubon Fund APP, etc. have been removed from the shelves. Fund companies have stopped operating their APPs one after another, which reflects the frustration of many small and medium-sized fund companies that have been forced to suspend operations due to the high cost of operating APPs. It also reflects the difficulty of fund direct sales business. If the fund retains a small scale, customer retention, and flow, it will be difficult to balance the investment-to-production ratio. In the future, more fund companies may choose to terminate direct sales APP operations and maintenance services. (China Fund News)

The AIGC training fee of an organization is 10,000 yuan/day, and experts call on students to calm down

According to reports, a training institution offers a course mainly for enterprises. It lasts 6 hours and is taught in one day. The cost is 18,000 yuan and can be attended by up to 100 people at the same time. In its publicity, the institution does not shy away from the idea of helping students “make money.” Experts in the industry believe that relevant courses can only solve the problem of "you can't use it before, but you will use it after training", and more in-depth content needs to be slowly accumulated. For those who are in the workplace or looking for a job, they should make a calm judgment and consider their own actual situation to avoid being harvested by recruitment advertisements. (China-Singapore Jingwei)

Drunk Goose Girl organized employees to give negative reviews to peers and was fined 200,000 yuan: suspected of commercial defamation and unfair competition

Recently, according to Beijing Luojiu Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing Zui'eniang Liquor Co., Ltd. was given an administrative penalty by the Beijing Chaoyang District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, with a fine of 200,000 yuan, due to reports of unfair competition involving commercial defamation. . It is reported that Beijing Zui'eniang Liquor Co., Ltd. has a total of 193 employees from August 2022 to April 2023. Among them, 14 people bought the product "Luoyin Tea Fruit Wine Lady's 12 Degree Tipsy Good Night Wine High-Value Wine Fruit Wine Plum Wine Grapefruit Wine 500ml" and gave negative reviews. Among them, 11 people purchased multiple times and gave negative reviews repeatedly, which is subjective and malicious. obvious.

During the trial, the court determined that the employee’s behavior of writing negative reviews was the result of the company’s organization, not the employee’s personal behavior. Public information shows that Wang Shenghan, the founder and CEO of Beijing Zui'e Niang Liquor Co., Ltd., has become an Internet celebrity since 2012, and his personal online name is Zui'e Niang. (Blue Whale Finance)

Qfang.com, a well-established real estate agency, was sold at a price of less than 20 million yuan. It was originally purchased for 3.8 billion yuan.

The sale price of Qfang.com is less than 20 million. Amid the constant rumors of "store closure" and "wage arrears", the veteran real estate agency Qfang.com finally has to face the reality of being abandoned by the listed company Guochuang Hi-tech. On the evening of May 18, Guochuang High-tech announced that it planned to transfer 100% of the equity of Shenzhen Yunfang Network Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary related to the real estate agency service business, to the company's related parties. Shenzhen Yunfang is a long-established real estate agency service provider in the Pearl River Delta region. Its main operating platform is the well-known "Qfang.com".

At that time, Guochuang Hi-tech paid a high price of 3.8 billion yuan to purchase Qfang.com, but now it sells for only 18.6059 million yuan. Once in and out, the "worth" of Qfang.com in the past six years was less than 1/200 of what it was back then. (Securities Times)

Dong Mingzhu said Gree has never bought other people’s technology

According to news on May 21, at the third Jiangsu Development Conference on the 20th, Dong Mingzhu, chairman and president of Zhuhai Gree Electric Appliances Co., Ltd., said: "We started from a company with 200 people and an annual output 10 million. The company's current scale of RMB 200 billion is mainly due to innovation. In the past 30 years, Gree Electric has not had any joint ventures, has not introduced technology, and has not purchased other people's technology. It has all been developed . So far, we have . 110,000 patented technologies. I hope that we and Jiangsu will not only invest and build factories here, but also hope to work hand in hand with the companies here to realize our common dreams for our development in the next five years, for the construction of our motherland, and make the world fall in love with us. Made in China” (Lizhi News)

Huawei once again recruits talented young people from around the world

Recently , according to Huawei’s recruitment WeChat official account, Huawei is recruiting talented young people from all over the world. The recruitment requirements are not limited to schools and colleges. They have special achievements in mathematics, physics, chemistry , materials, computers, intelligent manufacturing and other related fields and are aspiring to become technology leaders. .

Huawei launched the "Genius Youth" project in 2019. Currently, there are more than 20 “genius boys” publicly reported. Huawei has attracted public attention for offering high annual salaries to "geniuses". The annual salary is divided into three levels, with the highest level ranging from 1.82 million yuan to 2.01 million yuan; the second level ranging from 1.405 million yuan to 1.565 million yuan; and the third level ranging from 896,000 yuan to 1.008 million yuan. Ren Zhengfei once said that when you enter the company, the title "genius boy" will no longer exist. The positioning of "genius boy" is mainly used to determine the level and salary of entry. (The Paper)

Zhongke Wenge will launch Yayi AI large model to support enterprise private deployment

Zhongke Wenge is about to launch the Yayi AI large model, which is an enterprise-level application platform for large-scale language models. It supports real-time data access and offline private deployment, and creates exclusive AI model capabilities for enterprises, providing large models, digital people, and fields. Model application service. It is reported that Zhongke Wenge is an enterprise with a background of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It was incubated by the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It provides artificial intelligence cognitive and decision-making technology services. It has completed over 1 billion yuan in financing. Investors include CDB Financial, China Online Investment, Yingfutek, Funds such as Shenzhen Venture Capital and Chinese Academy of Sciences Capital. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)

WeChat palm payment officially released

On May 21, according to the WeChat public account, WeChat palm payment was officially released, and users can now perform palm swiping operations on face-swiping devices. Beijing Rail Transit’s Daxing Airport Line swipe-based ride service is officially launched. After registering to activate the palm-swiping ride service, passengers can swipe their palms to pass through the gate and ride on the subway line. This also marks the official release of WeChat Pay’s “WeChat Palm” product. It is understood that in addition to transportation scenarios, "WeChat palm swiping" is also gradually being used in offices, campuses, fitness, retail, catering and other fields. (China-Singapore Jingwei)

Invest 3 billion yuan! He Xiangjian Science Fund released, will promote breakthroughs in basic research

On May 21, Fang Hongbo, chairman and president of Midea Group Co., Ltd., announced at the Greater Bay Area Science Forum that He Xiangjian, the founder of Meituan Group, decided to personally invest 3 billion yuan to establish a science fund to contribute to the advancement of science and technology and social progress. share of strength. Fang Hongbo said that the He Xiangjian Science Fund will operate independently and sustainably, aiming to reward outstanding scientists who have made breakthrough contributions to basic research, promote original and cutting-edge technological research and the transformation of related results, covering information and artificial intelligence, Major scientific fields such as medical and health, energy and climate.

At present, the Science Foundation has begun to promote the Science Award and Science System Plan, and the Science Award Plan as annual awards, and the Science System Plan will also be launched simultaneously. (Shell Finance)

The revenue of the five major express delivery companies exceeded 100 billion in the first quarter: SF Express and Zhongtong’s net profit surged, while Yunda’s parcel volume declined

In the first quarter of this year, the performance gap between the five listed express delivery companies gradually widened. Recently, five express delivery companies, SF Express Holdings, ZTO Express, YTO Express 33.SH), STO Express, and Yunda Express, have successively released their first quarter reports for 2023. In the first quarter of this year, the total revenue of the five listed express delivery companies reached 102.113 billion yuan, with a total net profit of 4.788 billion yuan. In the first quarter, SF Express and Yunda ranked first and third among the five express delivery companies, with revenue of 61.048 billion yuan and 10.475 billion yuan respectively. However, the revenue of these two express delivery companies in the first quarter both declined year-on-year. (The Paper)

Meituan’s food delivery platform KeeTa plans to cover Hong Kong by the end of the year

Meituan has officially launched KeeTa, a new food delivery platform in Hong Kong, China. Currently, KeeTa’s independent App of the same name has been launched in major mobile application malls and will officially launch services at 8 a.m. on May 22. It is reported that KeeTa has adopted a gradual expansion strategy in Hong Kong. The densely populated Mong Kok and Tai Kok Tsui areas are the first stops. It will then gradually expand into new areas and plans to complete Hong Kong coverage within this year. (Financial Associated Press)

international information

FOREIGN NEWS

Toyota suspends sales of two models due to violations! Nearly 80,000 units have been sold

Recently, Daihatsu Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, admitted to the outside world that two hybrid models produced by the company had violations in vehicle side impact tests. Test data for the driver's seat and passenger seat were supposed to be submitted separately, but in fact they were not. The passenger seat data was submitted to Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as driver's seat data. According to foreign media reports, Daihatsu did not conduct a crash test on the driver's seat side during this process.

Both of these hybrid models have been sold to the Japanese domestic market since November last year, and one of them is OEM produced for Toyota Motor. So far, the combined sales of these two models in Japan have exceeded 78,000 units. On May 19, Daihatsu stopped shipments and sales of related models and reported the situation to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. The company's president held an online press conference on May 19 to apologize to the outside world and said he would prevent the same mistake from happening again in the future. Since last year, Toyota Motor's subsidiary Hino Motors and Toyota Group's subsidiary Toyota Motor have successively exposed violations in product testing, which has also had a negative impact on Toyota's brand image. (Financial Times)

Zuckerberg's wealth soared by US$44 billion, ranking first among billionaires

According to news on May 20, last year, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg placed all his bets on the "Metaverse" and was willing to dominate the virtual reality world at all costs. As a result, it cost him dearly. His wealth once dropped by more than $100 billion from its peak. So far this year, Zuckerberg's focus has been on the real world. First, he aggressively cut costs at Facebook parent company Meta, and now he's developing a real-life rival to Elon Musk's Twitter.

The efforts appear to be paying off. Zuckerberg's wealth has increased by $44.3 billion (approximately 310.4 billion yuan) this year, the largest increase of any billionaire tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Zuckerberg’s wealth is primarily made up of his Meta shares. Meta's Instagram plans to launch a product to compete with Twitter as early as next month, people familiar with the matter said. The app is currently being tested among celebrities and influencers. (ifeng.com Technology)

New York professional driver sues Tesla over auto-acceleration causing serious injuries

A driver in New York filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a Tesla Inc electric vehicle accelerated itself, forcing him into a parking space. The plaintiff is a full-time driver for Revel Transit, and they took delivery of a Tesla on January 29. After a failed start on the first attempt, the car started on the second attempt and suddenly accelerated forward on its own. Although the plaintiffs pressed the brake pedal, the vehicle did not stop, forcing them to crash into an empty parking space. The plaintiff suffered "serious and permanent injuries" in the accident and is seeking compensation from Tesla. (Sina Technology)

A USB cable can steal a Korean car! Hyundai and Kia settle with US car owners for $200 million

Lawyers for Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors said recently that the two companies have agreed to settle a consumer class action lawsuit for US$200 million due to the serious number of stolen cars of the two companies in the United States.

It is reported that as early as February this year, two South Korean car companies said they would provide software upgrades for 8.3 million cars in the United States that do not have anti-theft devices installed to help curb the increasing number of car thefts. It is understood that the reason why Korean cars have been "stolen" in the United States is also related to the poor anti-theft measures of their old models. As early as August 2022, the "Kia Challenge" activity began to spread on TikTok, where cars can be stolen with just a USB cable.

Most of the car thieves are children of fifteen or sixteen years old. They hold a USB data cable and look for Kia and Hyundai cars on the street. If they succeed in stealing the car, they upload the crime video to Tiktok or other short video platforms to show their identity. Achieve success in the Kia Challenge. (Netease News)

Cook is dissatisfied with Apple's first MR device and hopes it will be thinner and lighter

Bloomberg quoted multiple people familiar with the matter as saying that Cook's original idea was to have a lightweight wearable device with a built-in battery that resembles ordinary glasses, rather than the current head-mounted device that looks like ski goggles and relies on a cable to connect to an external battery. Cook hopes that it can replace the functions of an iPhone and can perform light tasks such as browsing the web, replying to messages, and playing games. Apple's engineering department failed to achieve this goal, and the final product became a head-mounted device. Bloomberg pointed out that Cook has not been too involved in product development, but he attaches great importance to it. Because this product may be the last new product line launched during Cook's tenure. (IT Home)

Russian users’ demand for Chinese brands has surged, and they can completely replace European and American products: Xiaomi is their favorite

According to the latest poll by MVideoEldorado, a large Russian home appliance sales group, the majority of Russian consumers (nearly 80%) believe that Chinese and domestic electronics and home appliance brands have completely or partially replaced those that have withdrawn from the Russian market or reduced the size of the Russian market. brand. According to the assessment of MV ideo-Eldorado Group, from January to March, the Chinese brand Xiaomi ranked first in the Russian smartphone sales rankings, followed by Realme in second place and Transsion in third. Compared with last year, the demand for Chinese mobile phone brands has increased by up to 70%, and their total share of the Russian market has exceeded 70%. Chinese brand Haier jumped from second place to first in unit sales of refrigerators and washing machines.

ChatGPT tops the list of free apps and will soon appear on Android phones

It is reported that ChatGPT ranks first on the list of free apps in the US region of iOS, surpassing the US version of Pinduoduo Temu. On May 19, OpenAI announced on its official website that it had launched an iPhone application for the chatbot ChatGPT in the United States, and promised to provide the same service for Android phones in the future.

OpenAI wrote that subscribers to ChatGPT Plus can enjoy the GPT-4 system, priority access features and faster response times on their mobile phones. In addition, the iOS app will be expanded to other countries or regions in the coming weeks, adding that ChatGPT will also appear on Android phones soon. Media analysis said that compared with the web version of the chatbot, the release of the iOS application is expected to bring more people into contact with ChatGPT. Since users can post reviews on the App Store, it also allows OpenAI to more directly accept consumer supervision. (Geek Park)

Musk’s new biography will be published

Recently, New York-based publisher Simon & Schuster announced that Elon Musk’s new biography will be published on September 12, 2023. The book was written by Walter Isaacson, who is perhaps best known for his biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs. In addition, he has written many other biographies, including those of Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. (IT Home)

Apple has restricted employees from using external AI tools and is developing similar technology to prevent leaks

Recently, Apple has restricted the use of ChatGPT and other external AI tools within the company, and the company is currently developing its own similar technology. The document states that Apple is concerned that employees using external programs "may be exposing confidential data." It is reported that the company also told employees not to use Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. (Daily Economic News)

AI code writing efficiency increased nearly 10 times

According to reports, on May 10, no-code development platform Builder.ai announced a strategic cooperation agreement with technology giant Microsoft. Microsoft made an equity investment in the startup as part of the partnership, the statement said. It is understood that Builder.ai was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England. Its main business is an artificial intelligence low-code/no-code application (app) development platform. Huaxin Securities Bao Youchen's May 15 research report pointed out that AI empowers "code research and development" and voice input to generate code becomes a reality; AI code writing efficiency increases by nearly 10 times. (financial)

Meta in talks with Magic Leap on AR deal

According to foreign media reports on May 21, Meta is negotiating a multi-year agreement with augmented reality startup Magic Leap. People familiar with the matter said Meta is exploring ways that Magic Leap can provide intellectual property licensing and contract manufacturing in North America to help it build mainstream AR products. Magic Leap produces custom components, including high-tech lenses and related software, which are key technologies that may be needed to build virtual worlds. However, people familiar with the matter said that the cooperation is not expected to result in a specific Meta-Magic Leap headset. (Sohu News)

Supports up to 500 characters, Meta will launch a Twitter competitor in late June

According to a series of tweets shared by marketing expert Lia Haberman, Meta will launch a platform to compete with Twitter as early as late June. The project is described as "a new text application for Instagram." According to the latest news, Meta’s Twitter-like platform supports text of up to 500 characters and can embed links, images and videos. Two leaked screenshots of marketing slides show that the app's interface resembles a combination of Instagram and Twitter. (IT Home)

After exiting the mobile phone market, Kyocera invested 400 billion yen in semiconductors

According to "Nikkei Asia", after Kyocera announced its official withdrawal from the consumer mobile phone business earlier this month, it has now announced an investment of 400 billion yen in the semiconductor business. Kyocera pointed out in its mid-term operating policy that total investment in the next three years will reach 850 billion yen. Among them, 400 billion yen will be invested in its semiconductor division, which also means that Kyocera's investment in semiconductors is 2.3 times that of the previous mid-term plan. Kyocera pointed out that most of the funds will be used to increase the production capacity of IC substrates and ceramic components for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and the other part of the funds will be used to develop and mass-produce advanced packaging technologies. (IT Home)

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