Duolingo shares have jumped this week, as the number of Americans learning Mandarin on the app has soared 216%. That's as China's RedNote is now the most downloaded free app on Apple's App Store ahead of the TikTok ban.
Former Washington Post employee Taylor Lorenz and millions of others have migrated from TikTok to Xiaohongshu, another Chinese-owned app, as
Americans are running to the language app to learn Mandarin as they flood Chinese app RedNote in response to the looming TikTok ban.
China issued a 55-article set of guidelines for building a "national unified market" and urged local governments to follow through in implementation. Observers said that the initiative has been in the works for over a decade,
With the U.S. ban on TikTok looming, many Americans are opting for another Chinese app known as RedNote. It could be short-lived.
RedNote, which is known in China as Xiaohongshu, the Mandarin term for “little red book,” is the most downloaded free app on the Apple App Store.
The bizarre surge in popularity for Chinese social media app RedNote has sparked alarm among policy experts who warned it carries even greater security risks than TikTok.
Instead of trying to dodge the ban, millions of TikTok users are jumping over to RedNote. Since RedNote is primarily designed for a Chinese audience, it defaults to Mandarin. This has led to a surpris
Americans who love TikTok have decided that moving to an actual Chinese-owned app is better than going back to Meta. The irony of it is delicious.
Millions are joining RedNote ahead of the TikTok ban. But the app’s default language is Mandarin. “Oh so NOW you’re learning mandarin,” Duolingo tweeted on Monday.
Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu, or RedNote as it is known in English, is a Chinese social media platform growing in popularity as an alternative to TikTok, but with the same security risks.