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Senior partner Gao Zhun of a well-known law firm will replace Zhou Shouzi as CFO of Bytes
On April 25, Leifeng.com reported that ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo announced in an internal letter to all staff that Julie Gao, a senior partner at Skadden, a world-renowned law firm, will join ByteDance. As Chief Financial Officer (CFO), her main offices are in Hong Kong and Singapore. So far, ByteDance CFO has been vacant for 5 months. Micro Motion will join ByteDance in May, according to people familiar with the matter.
In November last year, ByteDance adjusted its organizational structure and reorganized its business into six business segments: Douyin, Dali Education, Feishu, Volcano Engine, Chaoxi Guangnian and TikTok. The heads of relevant business segments reported to Liang Rubo. The adjustment also involves an important personnel adjustment: Zhou Shouzi, the head of TikTok, no longer serves as the CFO of ByteDance, and the company’s finance department reports to Liang Rubo.
According to Micro Motion’s introduction page, ByteDance’s acquisition of Musical.ly, Mutong Game Company, and several rounds of private equity financing related processes all have her in-depth participation. Before that, she was a senior partner of Skadden International Law Firm, and has provided legal services for more than 100 companies in the listing and other capital market financing projects, including Meituan, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Xiaomi, Didi, etc. She also provides legal services for many mergers and acquisitions and private equity projects, including Baidu, ByteDance, etc.
Douyin and TikTok are the current top revenue sources of ByteDance. Affected by the “double reduction” policy and the game version number policy, the weight of vigorous education and Zhaoxiguangnian in the group has declined. The addition of Micro Motion may further enhance the financial capabilities of Byte, and it will not rule out the unfinished listing of Zhou Shouzi in the future.
After two years, Liu Qiangdong’s case of a female college student in Mingzhou restarts the investigation
According to the Metropolis Times news on the 25th, recently, the latest news of Liu Qiangdong’s case will be released after two years, and a public hearing will be held in the United States on April 25th. Court hours: 4-5PM (Central Time) 5-6AM (Beijing time).
The hearing revolved around a motion filed by Liu Qiangdong: his lawyers applied to the court to bar JINGYAO’s lawyers from raising some of the questions in his written testimony of Liu Qiangdong next month. According to the information on the court’s website, it is speculated that JINGYAO himself may appear in court.
It is understood that after the incident of female college students in Mingzhou, Liu Qiangdong began to step down from various positions in Jingdong. According to incomplete statistics, Liu Qiangdong has resigned from executive positions in more than 30 companies.
Huawei recruits talented teenagers from all over the world again, with a maximum annual salary of over 2 million yuan
According to the news on April 25, Huawei’s recruitment WeChat official account shows that Huawei is once again recruiting talented young people from all over the world. Earlier on March 28, Guo Ping, the rotating chairman of Huawei, introduced at the 2021 performance briefing that in 2020 and 2021, Huawei has recruited a total of 26,000 fresh graduates, including more than 300 “genius boys” defined by Huawei. “. This is the first time that Huawei executives have publicly disclosed the number of “genius boys”.
In June 2019, Ren Zhengfei signed an internal document and proposed for the first time a “genius boy” recruitment plan to recruit outstanding young people from all over the world, “These genius boys are like ‘loach’, drilling into Huawei’s organization, Activate the Huawei team.
According to the plan, we plan to recruit 20-30 people in 2019 and 200-300 people from all over the world in 2020. Huawei’s “genius boy” is most concerned about the high salary, which is divided into three grades, the highest grade is 1.82 million-2.01 million yuan, the second grade is 1.405 million-1.565 million yuan, and the third grade is 896,000-1.008 million yuan.
Meituan: Putting 100,000 smart helmets this year
On April 25th, in order to further ensure the safety of rider delivery, Meituan Delivery announced today that it will launch 100,000 new smart safety helmets in Beijing, Suzhou, Haikou and other cities this year. During the pilot period, the cost of the helmet does not need to be borne by the rider, and the rider must wear it according to relevant specifications during the order.
It is reported that the research and development of Meituan smart safety helmets will be launched in June 2020, and will be piloted in batches in Hunan, Guangdong, Liaoning, Ningxia and other provinces in June 2021. Meituan Delivery announced today that it “will launch 100,000 new units in Beijing, Haikou, Suzhou and other cities this year.”
According to the R&D personnel of Meituan smart safety helmets, as the exclusive equipment for takeaway riders independently developed and patented by Meituan, the smart safety helmets have undergone various rigorous tests and meet national standards. On the basis of traditional helmets, a number of smart safety functions such as wearing and collision detection functions, self-sensing tail lights, Bluetooth headsets, microphones, and shortcut buttons have been innovatively developed. (Sina Technology)
Alipay launched the “Acceleration Review” function of the applet, which can be approved within 1 hour
On April 25, the Alipay development platform announced that the Alipay applet supports the “Acceleration Review” function, and developers can choose whether to request Alipay to speed up the review of this work order when submitting the applet.
After use, this work order will be reviewed by the Alipay platform first, and it is expected to be approved within 1 hour under normal circumstances.
It is reported that this function is suitable for individual/enterprise developers, and each applet has 3 acceleration opportunities per year, and one “acceleration times” is deducted for each use. In operation, developers can log in to O station open.alipay.com-console-select the corresponding applet-development version-submit for review. (Webmaster’s House)
Hello, the logo change has caused heated discussions, claiming that there are no million designs. Netizens: Lei Jun will cry when he hears it.
On April 25, according to the official Weibo news of Hello, the Hello brand was upgraded and a new logo was replaced. Judging from the changes in Hello’s logo, its brand name has removed the word “travel” and replaced the graphic “H” with the word “Hello”.
Hello official said that there is no million design, it is made by itself.
Regarding the situation that Hello did not hire a million designers, many netizens also thought of the previous incident of Xiaomi spending 2 million to change the logo. Some people joked that “Lei Jun will cry when he hears it.” (AI Finance and Economics)
Henan Consumers Association sues Simba in court next month: appeal for refund and permanent closure of the Kuaishou account involved
On April 25, according to The Paper, the Henan Provincial Consumers Association sued Kuaishou, Xin Youzhi and other cases of infringement of consumer rights over the “bird’s nest incident”, which will be held on May 9. The petitions include refunds, permanent closure of Xin Youzhi’s Kuaishou account, etc.
On January 14, the Consumers Association of Henan Province held a press briefing on the litigation situation of the “Civil Public Interest Litigation Case of Simba’s Live-streamed Ready-to-eat Bird’s Nest Consumption”. This case is the first consumer civil public interest litigation case organized by a consumer association in Henan Province. It is also a domestic standard for live streaming, a new format for e-commerce live streaming, and an attempt to solve the legal problem of the “net celebrity live streaming sales model”. Typical case. (IT House)
It is reported that the notebook computer industry manufacturers have cut a single percentage, and the shipment target may be lowered again in June
On April 25, the IC design company revealed that some major notebook manufacturers have revised their shipment targets recently, and orders have been reduced by about 10%; if the situation does not improve, the shipment target may be lowered again in June.
IT House has reported that in January this year, TrendForce said that the home economy effect is coming to an end, and notebook computer shipments are expected to drop by 3.3% in 2022.
In 2021, global notebook manufacturers will make a lot of money. Data from Strategy Analytics shows that global notebook computer shipments will hit a record in 2021, with a year-on-year increase of 19% to a record 268 million units. Lenovo, HP, Dell, Apple, and Acer will be the top five in global notebook shipments.
In addition to notebooks, the agency also predicts that shipments in the mobile phone market will decline in 2022. Canalys has said that the economic downturn will lead to an 11% drop in global smartphone shipments in Q1 2022. (Financial Association)
TSMC responded to “buying green electricity in Taiwan, China”: the proportion of total consumption in the past three years is only single digits
On April 25, according to the Taiwan Economic Daily, TSMC has become the largest buyer of green power renewable energy in Taiwan in recent years. In response to the rumors of “buying all green power in Taiwan, China”, TSMC executives said that the proportion of TSMC’s renewable energy consumption in Taiwan’s total renewable energy in the past three years was only single digits.
According to the report, Liao Yonghao, deputy general manager of TSMC fab operations, also showed a briefing to explain the relevant data when he delivered a keynote speech in March.
Data shows that although TSMC is the largest buyer of green renewable energy in Taiwan, its renewable energy consumption in the past three years accounted for only single digits in the total renewable energy in Taiwan, and most of the rest were used in the public sector.
It is understood that Taiwan media pointed out that for ordinary users, the total amount of renewable energy has shown a shortage of supply with the overall increase in the demand of private enterprises. (IT House)
international News
US social giant will become a private company, Musk: 288.6 billion acquisition of Twitter
On April 26, Twitter announced on Monday that the company had reached a definitive agreement with an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk. According to the agreement, Musk acquired Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a transaction valued at about $44 billion (288.6 billion yuan). After the transaction, Twitter will become a privately held company.
Under the terms of the agreement, Twitter shareholders will receive $54.20 in cash for each share of Twitter common stock held by Twitter shareholders following the closing of the proposed transaction. The purchase price represents a 38% premium to Twitter’s closing price on April 1, 2022, the last trading day before Musk disclosed that he owns about 9% of Twitter. (Phoenix Network Technology)
After spending 360 million yuan in space for 15 days, the SpaceX Axiom 1 crew has now returned to Earth in the Dragon spacecraft
News on April 25th, at 9:10 Beijing time on April 25th (9:10 p.m. EST), SpaceX’s “Dragon Endeavour” manned spacecraft and the “Harmony” capsule of the International Space Station were unlocked, completing the journey to the The Orbiting Laboratory’s first all-private astronaut mission – Axiom Mission 1.
The hatch between the “Dragon Endeavour” manned spacecraft and the International Space Station closed at 7:26 p.m. ET in preparation for decoupling and return to Earth. The crew of Axiom 1 was delayed for several days due to weather problems on the ground, and stayed in space for a total of 15 days (specifically, 15 days, 12 hours and 41 minutes), 5 days longer than originally planned.
According to the official plan, they will have a journey of about 17 hours after separation from the International Space Station, and are expected to land in the waters of Florida, USA at 1:00 am Beijing time on April 26. (IT House)
Nissan is developing an automatic collision avoidance system to cope with difficult road conditions, aiming to use it in all new cars by 2030
Nissan today announced a new driver assistance technology currently in development that uses highly accurate real-time information about the vehicle’s surroundings to greatly improve collision avoidance.
Nissan’s technology, called Ground Truth Perception, incorporates information from next-generation high-performance lidar, radar and cameras. The technology can detect the shape and distance of objects, as well as the structure of the area around the vehicle, in real time with high accuracy. Using this information, it is possible for the vehicle to immediately analyze the current situation, determine and automatically perform the required collision avoidance maneuvers. The technology can also detect distant slow cars and road obstacles and execute lane changes accordingly. Importantly, the technology can also provide more support for drivers in areas where detailed map information is not available. (IT House)
Foxconn responds to the shutdown of Kunshan factory, iPhone production will not be affected
April 25 News Foxconn said on Monday that operations at its Kunshan subsidiary were still suspended due to new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control measures, but the impact was limited as the company had moved production elsewhere.
Foxconn said its subsidiary Foxconn Electronics Industrial Development (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. will remain closed until the government approves the reopening. Foxconn Electronics mainly produces data transmission equipment and connectors. “The impact on the company’s business is limited as production has been deployed to backup factories and the factory’s main products are located in overseas shipping warehouses, and inventory levels remain adequate,” Foxconn said in a statement.
Regarding whether it will affect the production of Apple’s iPhone, a person familiar with the matter said, “We do not see the impact of the iPhone.”
Foxconn is an important foundry for Apple. In addition to factories in the Yangtze River Delta region, Foxconn has factories in Zhengzhou, Shenzhen and other places. (whip cow)
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