Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg
Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg
Alibaba’s UC browser disappeared from China’s largest app stores after state-run CCTV operated the popular mobile browser along with other services for failed consumers.
Government-run China Central Television included the application among several brands that it accused of addressing consumer rights in its annual program of shame and name for March 15, World Consumer Rights Day. App stores managed by Huawei Technologies Co. i Xiaomi Corp. it was, however, among the local app stores that have since withdrawn the app Apple Inc. continues to offer UCWeb for iOS users.
The browser was among a large number of consumer products called Monday. Shares of 360 Security Technology Inc. fell in Shanghai after CCTV reported that ads for its search product contained false medical information, while the station also followed everything Infiniti customer service, owned by Nissan Motor Co., for facial recognition software failures.
But the report came at a sensitive time for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., which is facing intensified government scrutiny over its growing influence on the Internet and media fields, with uncertain results. Like 360, he was accused of posting fake ads.
Alibaba’s unit apologized in a statement for its “problems,” as is usual for the aforementioned companies that day. He pledged to create a team dedicated to studying complaints. “We will take other steps to strengthen our review procedures and enforce stricter rules,” the company said in a statement.
The Financial Times first reported the removal of the UC browser.
– With the assistance of Coco Liu and Yuan Gao