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Chinese app factory Newborn Town has designs on Southeast Asia with many smaller platforms, flipping the TikTok model
Yumy, Mico and Yoho are all hit social media and dating apps in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. They also have something else in common: a single Chinese developer. Just as made-in-China goods are a staple of retail outlets around the world, China's internet service boom in the last two decades has created an army of app factories with ambitions to turn their apps into household names overseas. And despite rising political scrutiny, Chinese developers like Newborn Town are increasingly provi