Today's news: Bubble Mart responds to the fried blind box; Android 13 official announcement file

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Bubble Mart responds to the fried blind box

How long can the blind box economy be on fire?

On March 15, CCTV Finance named the blind box chaos, in which the blind box with a cost of 30 yuan was fried to about 800 yuan. The next day, Bubble Mart shares fell sharply at the opening, but rose 6.19% by the close.

In this regard, bubble mart official response said: "Bubble mart has not been in the past, and will not participate in the second-hand market of tide play in any form in the future." In response to the tide players' claim that Bubble Mart costs 30 yuan, Bubble Mart media departments also said: "Bubble Mart has always benchmarked international first-line brands in terms of production technology and product quality. In the past year, we have invested hundreds of millions of yuan in improving process quality and quality control, and we will continue to increase investment in this area in the future. ”

Since its listing, bubble mart's market value has been cut, from the highest level of HK$95.329 billion to HK$45.7 billion on March 16. In December 2020, Bubble Mart stormed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with the "first share of the blind box", and it was a sensation. However, since then, bubble mart problems have occurred frequently, and the stock price has continued to decline.

As the largest blind box tide play brand in China, Bubble Mart has been accused of being a big bully for many times. As of 10:00 on March 17, there were 7542 complaints on the black cat complaints, including many flaws in blind boxes, selling fake goods, poor customer service attitudes, poor after-sales service and other issues.

In response to the quality of the blind box, Bubble Mart said that the dolls they launched had a large shipment, and different batches of products came from multiple factories, and there may be slight differences. In order to avoid the recurrence of quality control problems, the person in charge has instructed the engineers to enhance the management and inspection of production in the later stage, and the results will be signed and confirmed by the engineers, and the confirmation process will be verified synchronously with the production plant.

Previously, the Dimeo blind box jointly signed by Bubble Mart and KFC was once out of stock, causing food waste, and even spawned a substitute food and purchasing business, which was named and criticized by the Consumer Protection Commission. In response, Bubble Mart responded by suspending all customized blind box business to eliminate possible food waste, and reminded authorized parties to avoid excessive marketing, abide by public order and good customs in the design of the activity mechanism, and remind consumers to consume rationally.

In recent years, the blind box business has pinched the curiosity and gambling psychology of young people and become a new type of traffic password. However, the added value of the blind box is too high, and there is no strong cultural story behind it, and the successor of Bubble Mart is weak. The old IP innovation is weak, the new IP is difficult to like, in the face of increasingly tightening supervision, where is the way out of Bubble Mart?

Android 13 official announcement file

Android 13 will soon be meeting people.

On March 17, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the 2022 Google I/O Developer Conference will be held from May 11 to 12, when the official version of Android 13 will also be unveiled.

Just over the past month since the release of the developer preview version of Android 13, the new features it has shown have disappointed many netizens. Google official introduction said that Android 13's focus is to provide a more secure environment and provide more control to users, in other words, further control of the owner's privacy information.

Along the way, let's look at the new features of Android 13: when connecting to nearby devices through Wi-Fi, you can effectively avoid the user's location information from being obtained without sharing personal location information; the other is the division authorization for the album, which only grants access to some photos of the application software, not all. But careful netizens found that these functions have already had similar functions on the Apple IOS 14 version.

Not only that, some new features in the Android 13 developer version can also be seen in the domestic machine, such as the new battery health system management, which is not new in front of Huawei Hongmeng and OPPO's self-developed battery health engine.

However, some digital bloggers said that the Android 13 developer version is more to test the suitability of the phone, or need to wait for the official version to fully come out before making conclusions.

Rakuten will close its China headquarters

South Korea's SBS TV reported that Lotte Group is about to dissolve its Chinese headquarters in name only and increase investment in Southeast Asian countries. In 2016, after the US military in South Korea used Lotte's land parcel to deploy THAAD, Lotte's business in China was blocked. Relevant people of Lotte Group said that this does not mean that the Lotte brand bid farewell to the Chinese market, and Chinese projects such as Lotte Chemical will continue to advance.

Bilibili will seek to voluntarily move to dual listing

Bilibili reportedly issued an announcement that the Company's Board of Directors approved a motion to voluntarily transition to a dual Primary Listing (Principal Listing Conversion) on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (THE Stock Exchange of Hong Kong). According to the announcement, the Board also authorized the senior management of the Company to carry out the relevant preparatory work and proceed with the necessary formalities to complete the major listing conversion matters.

Following the Major Listing Conversion, the Company will remain a dual-listed company on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Global Select Market, and its Class Z common shares and American Depositary Shares will continue to be traded on both stock exchanges (as the case may be) and may continue to be convertible to each other.

The Starbucks CEO will resign

Starbucks reportedly announced that CEO Kevin Johnson will step down on April 4 and will continue to serve as a partner for Starbucks, as well as a special advisor to the company and board of directors until September. The company's founder, Howard Schultz, will re-serve as interim CEO until the company completes its search for a new leader. He will also return to starbucks boards.

Tesla employees were fired for posting negative review videos

A few days ago, Tesla fired an employee who had worked in the autopilot department, John Boehner, because this person published comments on Tesla's full autopilot system on the Youtube personal channel "AI enthusiasts". His video shows how the beta version of the system works in different silicon valley conditions and the problems that exist.

After Boehner was fired, Tesla also disabled his personal vehicle, a 2021 fully autonomous driving system beta Model 3.

LeEco's 85 patents were auctioned by the court

According to the Tianyancha App, the 85 patents held by LeTV Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. were recently announced by the Beijing court for public auction, with a starting price of 899 500 yuan, and the auction time is from 10:00 on April 14, 2022 to 10:00 on April 15, 2022, involving patent content mostly related to tv and display designs and the application of multimedia files in electronic devices.

Faraday future re-prepares for NASDAQ listing

Faraday Future said it received a letter from nasdaq listing eligibility department authorizing the company to re-comply with the NASDAQ listing rules, and the company must submit a 10-Q statement and other necessary documents (10-K) as of September 30, 2022 by May 6, 2022, which will result in the delisting of the company.