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Railway Ministry Website Slow, Broken on First Day of Spring Festival Ticket...
This week China’s Railway Ministry is in the news for much graver sins, but yesterday was also the first day in which the Ministry’s website offered pre-sale train tickets for the Spring Festival...
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360Buy Hiring Over 25,000 New Staffers in 2012, Not Planning to Acquire Vancl
(Image source: Chinaluxus.com) The CEO of 360Buy, China’s second-biggest e-commerce site, has announced that his company will create “over 25,000” new jobs next year. That public Weibo message from Liu...
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Snap It, Tag It, Share It With China’s First Travel Journal App, Coming Soon
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde A Beijing-based startup is about to roll-out its travel journal-style service and an...
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Find Out What’s Happening Around You With LBS News App ‘News 2km’
Nice app but, uh, where's the map? News 2km is a terrible name for an app, but it does manage to communicate the basic premise of this interesting app, which provides local news based on your phone’s...
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Our 10 Most Popular Posts from 2011
I confess I was never really one for watching analytics, but the numbers are a good indication of what kind of stories people seem to enjoy. And this past year there was no shortage of remarkable...
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Netease’s Luxury E-Commerce Mall Falls Out of Fashion, Closes This Week
E-commerce in China is such a boom industry that virtually every story on the subject on our site this year has been about growth, profits, and potential. But there’s no such luck for Netease...
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HappySNS Builds Social Games On Facebook, Tencent, Kaixin. Has 30 Million...
Welcome to the world of Fishing Paradise. HappySNS is a social gaming company that build games for Tencent, Facebook, and Chinese social network Kaixin001. According to the company’s statistics, it has...
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Amid Widespread Data Breaches in China, E-Commerce Companies Reassure Users
This week has been absolutely filled with hacking news from China as CSDN, Tianya, Netease, and 360Buy were among the major internet entities which we learned have fallen victim to data breaches. And...
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Mobile Phones Are Killing Beijing’s Public Phones and Info Kiosks
This emo photo of a digital info kiosk is courtesy of Sina Tech The rise of mobile phones — smartphones especially — has meant that people now walk around China’s capital with information and phone...
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Datawind: The Company Behind India’s $35 Tablet
As I mentioned yesterday, our readers have shown great interest in India’s much-anticipated $35 tablet, the Aakash. But thus far there have been few details to pass on about the development of the...
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China’s 10 Most Wanted Smartphones – Great News for Android, Not So Much for...
Smartphone growth and usage continued to accelerate in China in 2011 – but which phones do Chinese consumers most want to buy? QQ Tech looked at the most popular product searches for such devices on...
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Chinese Startup Crowd-Sources Solutions to Issues Big and Small
A problem and some solutions on Aiju There are lots of startups out there focused on making money. Aiju is not one of them. Instead, it’s an online problem-solving platform that aims to make the world...
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In Wake of Reported Email Hack, Netease Promises Facial Recognition Login
This is just my own mockup of how Netease's system might look... In response to a worrying wave of online account hacking in China in the past week, the web giant Netease (NASDAQ:NTES) has said that...
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How To Create An AR Greeting Video in 3 Minutes
You're naughty, aren't you? We are heading towards 2012 in less than 36 hours (depending on where you are right now). And I bet many of you will send some boring Happy New Year messages over to your...
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Japanese iPhone App Kamiwaza Multiplies Your Money
We’ve looked at number of different augmented reality apps over the past year, ranging from fun to practical to downright scary. And it seems fitting to end the year with this one from Asahi...
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Every 60 Seconds On the Chinese Internet… [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. There has been a bit of a fad on the internet in recent days for posts about amazing things...
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10 Startups That Caught Our Eye Last Week
Happy 2012, folks! As usual, we have quite a few Asian tech startups on our radar this last week, from China, Japan, and Singapore. For folks who are interested in investing or partnering with these...
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How Indonesia’s Tech Scene Grew in 2011
What a year 2011 has been! The development that we have seen in the Indonesia tech scene over the past year is remarkable. We’ve seen many great startups launch over the past year (see LocalBrand,...
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In China, Local Government Learned of Deadly Mudslide From the Internet
the internet, via techgenie.com The internet is a magnificent communication tool that has enabled knowledge and news to transverse the world nearly instantaneously. That said, sometimes it’s best just...
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‘Lucky Bags’ a Popular Apple Store Tradition in Japan
Apple Japan New Year promo graphic In Japan, ‘lucky bags’ are a New Year’s Day shopping tradition that offers up a mystery bag of items usually at a discounted price. And perhaps one of the most...
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