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China Implements Real-Name Registration, Online Ticket Sales for Trains, Buses
You ain't getting on this without a real ID. (via Flickriver.com) Real-name registration in China expanded in 2012 to include popular online services like Sina Weibo. Now, in the run-up to 2012′s...
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MadeInChina.com Acquired!
MadeInChina.com is a B2B e-commerce site that focuses on helping foreigners to source supplies that are made in China. It works like Alibaba.com (HKG:1688) but this space is certainly big enough for...
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Nokia China Hopes for Better Year Under New Leader, Starting Today
Nokia China employees going back to work this week, after a short break for the new year, will find they have a new chief executive in the form of Gustavo Eichelmann (pictured right). Based in...
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Online Shopping in China in 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Over the past few weeks we’ve been taking a look back on 2011 and the major stories and...
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Top 3 Startup Provinces in China: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong [CHART]
The Chinese startup database 17startup.com has compiled the location and category of all its listed young companies, giving everyone a nice snapshot of the indie tech scene in China. It shows that...
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Top 10 Fan Pages: See Who is Rocking it on Facebook in Singapore
Christel is a social media strategist at Havas Media Singapore. Besides having worked on social media campaigns for DBS Bank and KLM Airlines, she has written posts for Social Media Today and conducted...
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Dangdang’s E-Book Platform Leaves Much to Be Desired (So Far)
Dangdang's ebook store Last month, we reported on the launch of Dangdang’s Ebook platform and apps. According to Dangdang (NYSE:DANG), the thing has over 50,000 titles, the company has made deals with...
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Rumor: Amazon’s Kindle Coming to China
The Kindle Fire, via Amazon Perhaps those government talks we reported on back in October went well, because it looks like Amazon’s Kindle product line may finally be coming to China. The rumor, which...
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Will 2012 Be the Year of the Dragon for Apps?
A recent report from Flurry showed that the final week of the year saw a huge number of app downloads, thank largely to the fact that so many new devices were activated over Christmas. Of course, the...
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Chaoren360: Social E-Commerce for Fashion-Minded Men
Whenever we’ve looked at specialist Chinese e-commerce sites that focus on fashion, they’ve pretty much all been aimed exclusively at women. And so the startup Chaoren360 – which is a pun on the word...
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Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Opens Cyberlaw Center, Invests in Research
Chinese internet giant Tencent (HKG:0700) has today announced the opening up of its Tencent Cyberlaw Research Center and accompanying website. It boasts a team of experienced legal practitioners and...
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Beijing Police: ID-Checking Websites Are Illegal
This is not a real Chinese ID (obviously), but it IS what they look like. via Shanghaiist. In an announcement that should probably be filed under “common sense,” the Beijing Police want you to know...
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Apple’s Chinese New Year Sales Go Online on Friday, in China and Across Asia
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is apparently keen to celebrate Chinese new year – more popularly known as Spring Festival here – with a “one-day Apple shopping event,” which we hope means ‘sale,’ on Friday,...
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Plenty of Places to Learn Programming Online. So Why Should You Start?
If you’ve been on Twitter over the past few days, you might have seen more than a few people declaring that in 2012 they will learn code with Code Academy. This Code Year initiative looks to be a...
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If He Was Still Here, Kim Jong Il Would Look at Glorious Pyongyang Subreddit
reddit.com/r/pyongyang From here’s one to file under WTF… I just came across one of Reddit’s more remarkable subreddits [1] ever: reddit.com/r/Pyongyang. I can’t tell if this is real or fake, and since...
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10 Sites to Help You Learn Python for FREE
Elisha Tan is the Founder of Learnemy, a web application that finds you instructors for anything you want to learn. The content of this post was shared in the recent Barcamp entitled “Hey I founded a...
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Chinese Web Gaming Companies See High-Level Execs Quitting
The best way to leave your job is to write I quit on a laptop and then throw that laptop into the garbage. That shows them it's not about the money. If the excitement about Diablo 3 is any indication,...
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Enter the Dragon, With Rumored Chinese New Year Update for Angry Birds...
A screenshot from the hint-dropping Rovio video. Rovio Mobile, makers of the Angry Birds game series, has left a very big hint that its Angry Birds Seasons game will get a Chinese New Year update very...
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The Douche Bag
Credit: Pokeracademy.co.uk Running an event is fun, especially when you’re selecting folks for a competition. At our upcoming Startup Asia event, one of the key highlights is Startup Arena, the startup...
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Computer Radiation Myth Busted, But Chinese Mothers Still Buy It
Photo from Taobao's Tmall As most of you were probably busy with other things during the holidays, I thought I’d share this piece by Adam Minter about the debate in China over anti-radiation clothing...
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