A week of fast IT news
Lei Jun tops Forbes China’s list of the best CEOs of 2021
According to Forbes Chinese, the average age of the 50 CEOs on the list is nearly 54 years old, and five of them are women. Compared with last year, the number of Internet industry CEOs was down. In terms of industries, there are 2 CEOs in companies related to western medicine, 2 CEOs in companies related to healthcare equipment and supplies, 4 CEOs in biotechnology companies related to vaccines, and 2 CEOs in pharmaceutical service companies on the list. There are 10 CEOs in the field of big health, accounting for the highest 20%.
Apologize for the server failure in the machine room at Station B. Now the service has been restored to normal
Last night, website B crashed on popular searches, and the whole site became inaccessible. Later, websites such as website A and Douban also suffered access problems. In the early hours of this morning, station B issued an announcement that last night, part of the server room of station B was down, resulting in no access. The technical team immediately conducted troubleshooting and fixing, and now the service has been restored to normal. In response to netizens’ rumors of a fire in the B station building, the Shanghai fire official Bo denied the rumor that there was no fire in the B station building.
Bytedance, Meituan Preferred Announces Cancel Size Week
Bytedance recently announced that it is officially canceling the week of size and size as of August 1. Bytedance will no longer work every other Sunday starting August 1, 2021, the company said in an email. Teams and individuals who have requirements from August onwards can submit overtime applications through the system. Meituan’s community group buying business “Meituan Preferential” also issued a notice recently, canceling the “big and small weeks” (i.e. every other week off), which will be implemented immediately from this week. Unlike Bytedance, Pinduoduo and other full-staff “big or small weeks”, Meituan does not implement full-staff “big or small weeks”, but only adopts the “big or small weeks” model in the most aggressive community group buying business.
Huawei hires new talent for 2.01 million yuan
Recently, two more graduates from Huazhong University of Science and Technology were selected as Huawei’s “Genius Teens”. Within three years, six graduates from Huazhong University of Science and Technology have been selected, earning enviable annual salaries of one million yuan. This year, Liao Minghui and Wu Minyan were selected from the School of Telecommunications and Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Liao Minghui is a fresh doctoral graduate who has received the highest annual salary of 2.01 million yuan of “gifted youth”. Wu Minyan graduated with a bachelor’s degree and earned an annual salary of over one million yuan.
Douyu tiger tooth announced the termination of the merger
On the evening of July 12, Douyu International Holding Co., Ltd. announced on its official website that it had terminated the merger agreement with Huya Company. Later, Huya said on its website that its plan to merge with Douyu had been banned.
Developers care about the headlines
Android 12 will support “playing while playing” games
Google held its Game Developers Summit yesterday and unveiled new tools and solutions that make developing games on Android and Chrome OS easier and bring many gaming improvements to Android 12. Google has introduced a new feature for Android 12 called Play As You Download, which, as the name implies, allows Android games to be played while downloading updates, just like PC and console games. The new Android 12 feature will allow users to access games in seconds, while game resources will be downloaded in the background.
Xiaomi App Store: Inform developers to self-check and self-check their apps
Xiaomi has issued a self-inspection notice on the illegal collection and use of personal information by apps that infringe on users’ rights and interests. The notice said that problems such as illegal collection and use of personal information, excessive claims and frequent harassment by apps that infringe users’ rights are still emerging. Xiaomi App Store will carry out a special self-inspection on the violation of user rights and interests such as the collection and use of personal information, and conduct a privacy security and compliance inspection on the App Store. During the inspection, if the developer’s APP is found to infringe on users’ rights and interests, the developer will do its best to assist the developer to optimize and modify. For the developer who makes overdue modification or refuses to modify, measures will be taken in accordance with the regulations, including but not limited to problem notification, APP removal, account ban and other measures.
“Honour of Kings” grossed nearly $277 million in June
According to Sensor Tower Store intelligence data, Tencent’s Honor of Kings grossed nearly $277 million on the App Store and Google Play worldwide in June 2021, up 21% from June 2020, and ranked No. 1 on the global mobile game bestseller list. Tencent’s Peace Elite and Pubg Mobile ranked second on the list with $213 million in revenue.
OpenSearch 1.0 release
OpenSearch, a branch of ElasticSearch launched by Amazon AWS, has released version 1.0. Earlier this year Elastic, the developer of Elasticsearch and Kibana, announced a change of License. Instead of using Apache 2.0, the new version will use the Elastic License and the Server Side Public License. The move is aimed at banning cloud services such as AWS from using its software as a service to customers. But the licensing change also means Elasticsearch and Kibana are no longer open source. OpenSearch 1.0 is an Apache 2.0 version of ElasticSearch 7.10.2 and Kibana 7.10.2. OpenSearch 1.0 includes the search engine daemon OpenSearch. Visualization and user interface OpenSearch Dashboards, as well as advanced features such as security, warnings, and exception detection.
Firefox 90 is officially released
Firefox 90 has been updated for both the desktop and Android versions of the browser. For Windows, Firefox 90 has added a background page that allows users to type about: Third party, to look at compatibility issues caused by third-party applications. Other updates include: print to PDF now supports generating hyperlinks, SmartBlock functionality further improves private browsing, and WebRender software is now available for users without hardware-accelerated WebRender, which allows Web applications to display at 60 frames per second. FTP functionality has been removed.
The aurora zone
Aurora signed a contract with Hornet’s Nest Tourism to increase the core competitiveness of social tourism
Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ: JG), a leading Mobile developer service provider in China, has partnered with Hornet’s Nest Travel. The two sides will carry out in-depth exchanges and cooperation in intelligent marketing, digital operation and management, and jointly increase the core competitiveness of social tourism.
After the cooperation, the aurora will be made by artificial intelligence and machine learning under the blessing of push technology and operational data analysis and processing ability, help hornet’s nest will be personalized tourism information and tourism products supplier from all over the world, realize the connection, to provide users with a distinctive tourism experience, improve the efficiency of tourists traveling consumption decisions. At the same time, digital upgrading can also bring efficient matching between supply and demand, help platform merchants increase profit margins and reshape the tourism industry chain.
Pay attention to the official public number of the Aurora, the Internet every week to catch all!