Editor's note: Whiplash will take stock of the important events that occurred today in the form of evening newspapers, covering the international and domestic science and technology Internet, and delivering industry information to practitioners and users in the technology industry.
— Domestic News — —
1. The original god apologized for the abnormal problem of the game recharge
Today, Mihayou "Original God" official micro issued a handling note on the abnormal problem of game recharge, saying that due to the large-scale network failure of Apple, some users have the problem of abnormal game recharge. Now that the service has been restored, "I am very sorry for the inconvenience caused to you, thank you for your understanding and support." According to previous reports, Apple's local time on Monday occurred a widespread outage, some users could not use apple music, iCloud and Apple App Store and other services, Apple's internal enterprise and retail systems were also paralyzed. At present, Apple's large-scale downtime has resumed.
2. Alibaba will buy back $25 billion in shares
Alibaba Group announced that it will expand its share repurchase program from US$15 billion to US$25 billion, setting a record for the scale of Chinese stock repurchases. On August 3, 2021, Alibaba announced that it would expand its buyback size to $15 billion. Alibaba expanded its share repurchase to $25 billion, effective until March 2024. This is also the second consecutive time in the past three quarters that Alibaba Group has expanded its share repurchase scale.
3. Unauthorized broadcast of "Langya List", Huya was sentenced to compensate iQiyi for 230,000 yuan
The Beijing Court Trial Information Network published the second-instance civil judgment on the unfair competition dispute between Huya and iQIYI. According to the judgment, the plaintiff of the first instance, iQIYI, claimed that Huya provided the work involved in the case to the public in the form of live broadcasting without permission through the Huya live broadcast platform, infringing the copyright enjoyed by iQIYI and constituting unfair competition. The court of first instance held that Huya did not take reasonable and effective measures to stop it when it should have known about the existence of the works involved in the live broadcast of the anchor involved in the case, subjectively it was at fault, which constituted assistance to the infringement and should bear corresponding legal liability, and finally ruled that Huya should compensate iQiyi for a total of 230,000 yuan. Huya appealed. The court of second instance held that Huya should have known about the infringement of iQIYI's copyright by the network users involved in the case by using the live broadcast room involved in the case, and should bear the liability for assistance in infringement, so the original judgment was upheld.
4. Pass on skills training institutions to close the door and run away from the door of 10,000 education
According to Phoenix Technology, the network spread that vocational education and training institutions were exposed to be closed and run away. According to Wanmen users and employees, on March 22, they woke up confused, the app operated by the company could not be logged in, and the VIP group of charging users was all dissolved. It was found that wanmen education's apps could not be searched in apple and Android stores.
5. Huya's fourth-quarter revenue was 2.81 billion yuan and a net loss of 242 million yuan
Huya Live today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021 as of December 31. In the fourth quarter, the company's total net revenue was $2,808.7 million, compared to $2,990.3 million for the same period in 2020. Net loss attributable to Huya was $312.7 million, compared to a net profit of $253.2 million for the same period in 2020.
6. The Beijing Management Bureau removed 16 apps that infringed on the rights and interests of users
According to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in accordance with the "Notice on Carrying Out special rectification actions for app infringement of user rights and interests in depth" and other work deployments, the Beijing Municipal Communications Administration continued to carry out special rectification actions for APP infringement of user rights and interests. On February 25, the Beijing Management Bureau publicly notified 65 APP that infringed on the rights and interests of users, and as of the time limit specified in the notification, after verification and re-inspection, 16 APPS had not completed rectification as required. The relevant app store should immediately organize the removal of the app in the list.
7. Social and game accounts are included in the will after 00, and virtual property is included
The China Probate Bank officially released the 2021 China Probate Bank White Paper. For the first time, the white paper announces the wills of the "post-00s". Among the probates in 2020-2021, there are a total of 223 "post-00s", an increase of 14.42% in the past year. Virtual property such as Alipay, WeChat, QQ, and game accounts is a common type of property in the wills of "post-00s" and "post-90s". In addition, Guangdong is a region with more probates, accounting for 21.98% of the national proportion by 2021.
8. The Cyberspace Administration of Hainan Province interviewed the "Brush Treasure Short Video" App in accordance with the law
According to the China Internet Information Network, the individual user accounts of the "Brush Treasure Short Video" App have published or disseminated information content prohibited by laws and regulations, which is of a bad nature and violates the "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China" and other regulations. In view of the good attitude of the App operator, he has cancelled the App server and destroyed all data and information, so we will not impose penalties. In order to further strengthen the awareness of App operators to run the network according to law, the Hainan Provincial Internet Information Office interviewed the relevant responsible persons of the "Brush Treasure Short Video" App operation subjects in accordance with the law, ordered to strictly deal with internal responsible persons on relevant issues, and strengthen personnel education and training.
9. Xtep released the first meta-universe digital collection
According to Beijing Business Daily, at the Xtep 321 Running Festival conference, Xtep launched its first digital collection "160X-Metaverse". Wu Lianyin, general manager of Xtep's running division, said that 160X-Metaverse is Xtep's first digital product and the first time Xtep has tried to enter the virtual field, which also means that Xtep has become the first sporting goods brand in China to open the running meta-universe.
10, the news said that ByteDance acquired a low-code company "Black Pa cloud"
Yesterday, the codeless manufacturer "Black Paw Cloud" announced that it will stop service and maintenance, and users can export data by May 31, 2022. Customers whose plans have not expired can request a refund or migrate their business to their partner Mingdao Cloud Platform. According to 36Kr news, there are a number of independent sources that the Heipa Cloud team has been acquired by ByteDance, and the founder Chen Jinzhou and some team members have joined Feishu, responsible for the aPaaS product "Kunlun", which will mainly face large customers.
11. Sweeping away pornography and cracking down on illegal activities: The filming team of 91 Video and Madou Media APP was arrested
According to the shanghai anti-pornography crackdown on non-public accounts, the Fengxian Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau recently cracked a case of making, selling, and disseminating obscene materials. After investigation, since January 2021, criminal suspects Sun Mou, Luo Mou and others have used the overseas chat software Telgram and Potato to contact the staff of the pornography-related APP "Jiuyi Video" and "Madou Media" to determine the script and film remuneration, and organize filming, editing and other cast members to form a team, shoot more than 50 obscene videos, and sell them to "Jiuyi Video" and "Madou Media" for a profit of more than 5 million yuan. In January this year, the Fengxian police organized police forces to smash 3 filming teams that produced obscene videos for pornography-related apps, and arrested 24 people including criminal suspect Sun Mou.
12. The CSRC issued a number of fines to Shenwan Hongyuan
Today, the CSRC issued a number of fines to Shenwan Hongyuan on the grounds that when the company carried out online investment advisory business with Ant Wealth, it did not independently carry out appropriateness management, did not fully understand the investor situation, did not obtain information such as the customer's address, occupation, financial status, etc., operated the relevant information system beyond the company's own control, and failed to locally save customer information, appropriateness management and related service records. In this regard, Ant Wealth responded that the matter involved this time is the online personal investment consulting business carried out by Shenwan Hongyuan Securities on the Ant Wealth Platform, and will fully assist and cooperate with Shenwan Hongyuan Securities to carry out compliance exhibition to ensure that it is fully compliant and continuously optimized.
13. Douban disbanded 15 more groups to strengthen the management of chaos in the rice circle
Douban officials today released the "Penalty Announcement on Further Strengthening the Special Action to Control the Chaos in the "Rice Circle" (March 22, 2022)", dissolving 15 problem groups, including: antique grocery stalls, Qingsanchuang Four Hot Blood Group, and the 18th Floor Database. It is reported that since the start of the Qinglang action, Douban has repeatedly disbanded the entertainment group involved in the rice circle, including the douban lata group and emma garden group, which are quite popular in the rice circle. Nowadays, only the Douban Goose Group is left in the Large-scale Entertainment Group of Douban, and in September 2021, the Douban Goose Group was discontinued for rectification for two months.
14. Tencent Music intends to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the second time in the form of an introduction
Today, Tencent Music announced unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2021 ended December 31. According to the report, Tencent Music's total revenue in the fourth quarter was RMB7.61 billion, a year-on-year decline of 8.7% and net profit attributable to the company's shareholders was RMB536 million. In addition, the financial report shows that Tencent Music plans to be listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for a second time in the form of an introduction if it obtains regulatory approval.
15. Pinduoduo's fourth quarter revenue was 27.23 billion yuan, an increase of 3% year-on-year.
Pinduoduo yesterday released its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021 as of December 31. In the fourth quarter, total revenue was 27,230.9 million yuan, an increase of 3% compared with 26,547.7 million yuan in the same period last year. Net profit attributable to pinduoduo's common shareholders was RMB6,619.5 million, compared to a net loss of RMB1,376.4 million in the year-ago quarter.
16. ANTA Sports: Revenue in 2021 was 49.33 billion yuan, an increase of 38.9% year-on-year
ANTA Sports announced its 2021 annual results. According to the financial report, ANTA achieved revenue of 49.33 billion yuan in 2021, an increase of 38.9% year-on-year; net profit of 7.72 billion yuan, an increase of 49.6% year-on-year. Free cash inflows increased by 56.5% year-on-year to 10.37 billion, and the debt ratio fell 6.8 percentage points year-on-year to 21%. According to the data, among the two major brands of the Group, ANTA's revenue in 2021 increased by 52.5% year-on-year to 24.01 billion yuan, and The revenue of Feile increased by 25.1% year-on-year to 21.822 billion yuan.
17. Didi pet car opened for trial operation in Beijing
Today, some netizens found that when opening the Didi Chuxing APP, the picture of "pet car Beijing trial operation" jumped out, according to reports, pet car can only carry one pet per order, and each single increased the service fee of 9.9 yuan, including "pet fee to the driver" 7.6 yuan / single and special insurance and operation fee of 2.3 yuan / single.
— International News — —
1, the news said that the high-end graphics card quotation avalanche, there are products fell 35% a day
According to the Financial Associated Press, the recent avalanche of graphics card quotations, different countries have different price reductions, and the outside world estimates that the average price of graphics cards should have dropped by 10%. Among them, the price of high-end graphics cards "RTX3080" series products fell by 35% in one day in the Australian market, the largest decline in history, and the recent average decline in the prices of other specification graphics cards also reached 10%; the current price of "RTX3090" graphics cards in the German market was only 1999 euros, and it was once speculated to 3199 euros in May last year.
2) The hacking group claimed to have hacked into Microsoft and stole bing and cortana source code
According to Webmaster's House, on March 20, the hacking group Lapsus$ posted a screenshot of a Microsoft developer account on Telegram. The screenshot suggests that the ransomware organization Lapsus$ has access to Microsoft's trade secrets, including Bing and Cortana source code. Since then, the post has disappeared. Shortly after the ransomware organization published the post, it said: "Temporarily remove. We'll republish it later." Microsoft announced on March 20 that it had launched an investigation into the matter.
3. The U.S. Department of Justice accused Google of improperly using legal privileges to refuse to provide internal emails
The U.S. Department of Justice said monday it should force Alphabet's Google to hand over internal emails it had concealed or edited in antitrust cases filed against it by the state and federal governments. For nearly 10 years, Google has been training employees to use attorney-client privileges to hide ordinary business communications in lawsuits and government investigations, the Justice Department said. The U.S. Department of Justice further alleges that Google teaches employees to include a lawyer, a privilege tag, and general "requests" to legal counsel in any sensitive business communications that employees or Google may wish to avoid being discovered. Google said the company's approach is "just as good as other big companies."
4) Waymo is ready to deploy fully autonomous vehicles in San Francisco
Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, reportedly said monday that they are ready to deploy truly fully autonomous vehicles on the streets of San Francisco, i.e. human safety officers can be removed from vehicles. But the company did not elaborate on the time frame for deploying the driverless service.
5. Sony Entertainment will acquire video game development studio Haven Gaming Studios
Yesterday, according to a statement from Sony Group, it would acquire Montreal-based video game development studio Haven Entertainment Studios, led by industry veteran Jade Raymond, and Sony did not disclose the specific terms of the deal in this statement.
6. Tesla's Berlin plant will officially open on Tuesday local time
According to Sina Technology, Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory will officially open on the 22nd local time, and the delivery ceremony of the first Batch of German-produced Model Y will be held. It is understood that Tesla CEO Musk will cut the ribbon on the spot. Musk tweeted that he was pleased that the first car made at the Berlin Gigafactory would be delivered tomorrow.
7) Berkshire Hathaway will buy Alleghany for $11.6 billion
Berkshire Hathaway and Property and Casualty Reinsurer Alleghany announced Monday that the former had entered into an all-cash deal to buy the latter for $11.6 billion. The companies said the purchase price of $848.02 per share was equivalent to 1.26 times alleghany's book value per share as of Dec. 31 last year, a 29 percent premium to the stock's average price over the past 30 days. Alleghany shares closed at $676.75 on Friday.
9. Nike's third-quarter revenue was $10.9 billion, estimated at $10.61 billion
Nike's third-quarter revenue was $10.9 billion, an estimated $10.61 billion; third-quarter earnings per share were $0.87, compared to $0.90 in the year-ago quarter; third-quarter gross margin was 46.6 percent, an estimated 46.5 percent; and third-quarter Greater China revenue was $2.16 billion, an estimated $2.09 billion.
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