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12-Jan-18 Chinese Internet regulators have scolded the country’s leading mobile payments company, Ant Financial, parent company of Alipay, for compromising its customers’ privacy by automatically enrolling users in its credit-scoring system, putting pressure on firms to better protect personal data. [image: Mobile Marketer]
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11-Jan-18 A Shanghai start-up called MediStar Health pairs cancer patients with foreign doctors via teleconference. The company, an eight-person operation founded in 2014, charges about USD3,000 to translate hospital records and set up one-hour online consultations for frustrated patients. [image: Fred Dufour_AFP_Getty Images]
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10-Jan-18 A fast and easy payment system linking major banks and electronic payment platforms will be available in Hong Kong in September 2018. A pilot scheme is also in the works to allow people to pay government bills using their electronic-wallets. [image: Dickson Lee / SCMP]
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08-Jan-18 Cogobuy Group of Hong Kong has signed an MoU with the People's Government to build China's first healthcare industry center in Xiamen, with the intention of establishing new healthcare projects, driving healthcare investments and developing a medical data platform. [image: Cogobuy]
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07-Jan-18 The US saw USD112 billion of mobile payments in 2016, while payments in China totaled USD9 trillion. For Alibaba and Tencent the payoff isn’t just the 0.6 percent transaction fee from merchants. It’s also the consumer data collected. [image: Forrester Research / iResearch]
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