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Apple’s Desperately Trying To Win India in 2013
(Image: saransays.com) By some estimates, India’s middle class consists of 250 to 300 million people. That’s just a few million below China’s middle-income demographic numbers, so Apple simply cannot...
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Baidu: 1,000% Growth in Mobile Searches in China in Past 2 Years [STATS]
The quarterly mobile reports from Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China’s most used search engine, are always full of facts and stats about growing mobile usage among Chinese netizens. The newest report came out...
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Amobee’s Mobile Ads Now a Monetization Option in AppsFuel HTML5 App Store
These days, mobile telcos absolutely love HTML5 as it gives them a chance to be app publishers whilst flipping a middle finger at Apple and Google and their 30 percent commissions on app revenue....
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Ookbee: Already 100,000 Users and 5,000 Books in Malaysia in 2 Months
Thailand-headquartered e-book platform Ookbee said today that it launched operations in Malaysia two months ago. The result? Pretty good. To date, Ookbee CEO and founder Natavudh Pungcharoenpong...
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Instagram Shows Us a Drab and Human Side Of North Korea [PHOTOS]
With North Korea opening up its mobile internet to foreigners, it was only a matter of time before we would start to see tweets and photos coming out of the country. And so, Instagram it is. David...
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China’s Baidu Reaches Out to World, Makes Developer Tools Available in English
China’s leading search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), is reaching out to developers around the world by making its cloud developer tools available in English. It will allow broader access to numerous...
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KakaoTalk Records 288% Indonesian User Growth and Looks to Embrace Local...
From the left – Joshua Kevin (community manager for Indonesia), Jude Lee (global marketing manager), Yujin Sohn (global business development VP), Sean Kim (global business development), and Susie Lee...
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China Mobile Finally Gets a Big-Screen TD-SCDMA Phone to Challenge the...
Proving yet again that China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) is struggling to get decent handsets for its unusual TD-SCDMA 3G network, the huge telco finally has a big-screen phone as a challenger to the popular...
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China’s Giant E-Commerce Marketplace By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
China’s e-commerce market can be tough to wrap your head around. Between the sky-high numbers, the various competing platforms, and the different demographics and desires of Chinese customers, getting...
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Hong Kong’s SnapTee Gets Seed Funding for its Custom T-Shirts Store
T-shirts have proved to be a popular way for startups in Asia to meld design and e-commerce. A new site in this fashionable sector is Hong Kong-based SnapTee, which is today announcing that it has...
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Amobee After its $321 Million Acquisition with SingTel
Many folks in the internet industry know about SingTel’s whopping $321 million acquisition of Amobee. But Amobee’s business is actually more than a mobile ad network management platform. It is also a...
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Baidu Launches a Daily Deals Site (But Not for the First Time)
Baidu’s new daily deals site, which came online very quietly this week. We tend to write about daily deals sites in China shutting down, not opening up. So this week’s quiet launch of a new deals...
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Line Just Hit the 1 Million User Mark in Vietnam
Line, the mobile messaging app out of Japan, just hit one million users in Vietnam. This is a big milestone for the company, which has just over 100 million global users, more than half of whom are...
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How the Great Firewall of China Works [INFOGRAPHIC]
China’s Great Firewall is widely reviled (and with good reason), but how it actually works isn’t well understood. This is something we have written about before, but the folks at BackgroundCheck.org...
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Google Play Now Sells E-Books in India
Prices for Google Play e-books in India. Android fans in India now have a new source for e-books. Today, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced that it has opened up Play Store Books to Indian consumers, and...
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Tencent Opens Joint-Venture Company in Indonesia, WeChat App Sees Explosive...
Today, China’s internet giant Tencent (HKG:0700) and Indonesian company MNC Media announced that they have made a joint-venture company called MNC Tencent to tap further into Indonesia’s online...
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China-Made UC Browser Passes Another Milestone, Has 100 Million Users Overseas
We know that the China-made UC Browser has 400 million worldwide users, but we previously didn’t know exactly where they are. Now we do. Today at a conference, UCWeb CEO Yu Yongfu said that, as of...
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European Football Clubs Have 15.6 Million Weibo Followers as They Battle For...
Football lovers might want to take a look at Mailman Group’s latest study about Chinese social media and its relation to the European football clubs. The report shows that, ultimately, Barcelona,...
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Chinese Celebrity Blogger Han Han Talks Weibo, WeChat, and Why User Numbers...
It’s been quite a while since we talked about Han Han. The Chinese writer/blogger/race car driver has long been known as one of China’s most popular — and most daring — web celebs, but he has been...
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Expose Blasts Qihoo 360 as ‘Cancer of the Internet’; Qihoo Denies Everything
China’s Qihoo 360 has a lot of enemies. I’m not just talking about Baidu, either; lots of net users dislike the company for its dirty tactics and China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce...
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