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Chinese Hacks May Be a Challenge to Real-Name Registration
Recently, the Chinese internet has been rocked by the release of confidential user data on the internet, ostensibly in the wake of high-profile hacks of CDSN, Tianya, and a number of other...
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Ready For Your Close-Up? Tencent’s Online Maps Bring StreetView to China
Lhasa's Potala Palace shown in the new Soso StreetView feature at maps.soso.com. The Chinese search engine Soso.com has added a Google-esque ‘StreetView’ feature to its online maps. It launched over...
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Japanese Publishers Cause Amazon To Delay Japan E-book Service [REPORT]
Back in October we told you about how Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) was supposedly winding down late-stage negotiations with Japanese publishers to launch its e-book service in Japan. We had expected to see...
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Netease Email May Be Latest Victim of Hacker Attacks
As the uproar over the release of the usernames and passwords of millions of users from Tianya, CDSN, and other Chinese web services continues, there are signs that an even larger service may have...
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How to See What’s Trending on Sina Weibo Without Speaking Chinese
Sina Weibo is the much-talked about Chinese microblogging platform which now has about 250 million users. But language barriers can make it tricky for many people around the world to get a window onto...
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Dispelling the Myth: US Doesn’t Lose Profit to China’s Apple Manufacturing
I came across this interesting piece over on Forbes today about who exactly benefits from the success of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad and iPhone. Those devices remain among the top-selling devices on the...
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Happy Spring Festival, and By the Way, We’re Bankrupt
Is this what the future holds for group buy in China? (via Sony Pictures) 2011 has been a rough year for China’s group buy sites. That’s evident just from the fact that there are an awful lot less of...
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Tweet for McNuggets: Chinese Startup Offers Social Marketing Rewards
A Chinese startup named Guohe is getting netizens to engage in online social marketing ostensibly for no money – and giving them “free” McDonald’s food instead. It’s all handled via a brand new app...
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LG’s Prada 3 Phone Launches in Korea, Promises Scheduled ICS Update
The sexy and slim Prada 3 smartphone, which LG (066570:KS) first unveiled two weeks ago in London, is available to Korean customers as of today with release in parts of Europe and Asia to follow in...
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2011 in Retrospect: Our ‘State of the Blog’ Address
As the end of 2011 draws closer, I can safely say that it has been a fruitful year filled with a mix pain, lessons, and success. Looking back to January of this year, I remember just how lost I was at...
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360Buy Latest Net Giant to Get Hacked
The hits just keep on coming. After CDSN, Tianya, Netease’s email system, and a number of other major sites saw massive leaks of user data, e-commerce giant 360Buy is the latest company to get caught...
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Hatsune Miku Dominates Digital, Stars in New 3DS Game, Google Chrome Ad
Hatsune Miku Project Mirai display at 2011 Tokyo Game Show About a month back we told you about how CyberAgent America was collaborating with Crypton Future Media to bring the famous virtual star...
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Yi Xia: Video-Sharing On-The-Move for iOS and Android
I’ve said before that mobile video-sharing apps – especially ones with lots of filters and special-effects – could be big in 2012, so let’s test out one Chinese startup’s contender. Called Yi Xia Shi...
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Does The Old Republic Threaten World of Warcraft in Asia?
This is an interesting time for online gamers. World of Warcraft, the game that has dominated the MMORPG genre for the better part of the last decade, is starting to show signs of weakness as player...
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HomeShop18 and Microsoft Buddy-Up, Offer Vouchers to IE9 Upgraders
One of India’s biggest e-commerce sites, HomeShop18, has formed a tie-up with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to give online shopping gift vouchers to users who upgrade their browser to Internet Explorer 9,...
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Wenzhou Accident Investigation Results: Lots of Mistakes, But No One’s Fault
This afternoon, China’s State Council held an open meeting, during which it heard a report from the committee assigned to investigate the causes of the fatal high-speed rail accident in Wenzhou this...
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Japanese Voice App Hits 10 Million Users in First 6 Months, Claims Faster...
Back in October we told you about how Naver Japan’s mobile messenger app ‘Line’ had hit two million downloads in its first three months. Remarkably the app hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down as...
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Read Us On Google Currents
So Google Currents launched a few weeks back. It’s a Flipboard-style news reading app that lets you consume content on your mobile or tablet. We were a little curious to find out more about it, and we...
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Startup Next-5 Makes Virtual Overseas Interviews Simple
Interviewing people is a pain, especially overseas folks, speaking from experience. It’s hard to get the right people; and over here at our team we bootstrap and use Skype as the main interviewing...
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Hacktivism Spreads to China? Mengniu Hacked in Protest of 2nd Milk Scandal
Click to enlarge: Mengniu website hacked, photo via domain.cn 2011 was the year that we saw ‘hacktivism’ make headline after headline in the west, with organizations like Anonymous and Lolsec leading...
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