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A New Micro-Economy: Verified Accounts On China’s Weibo Bought and Sold
Weibo mascots on a break, GMIC 2011 No longer does the V-for-Verified logo on a Sina Weibo blogger’s site indicate that they are the person they say they are and not an impostor. To a degree, anyone...
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Instagram Adds Support for China’s Sina Weibo and Japan’s Mixi
Instagram has just updated its popular photo-sharing app, bringing with it support for Chinese microblog Sina Weibo, as well as Japanese social network Mixi. When we saw Instagram’s Kevin Systrom...
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Instagram Adds Support for China’s Sina Weibo and Japan’s Mixi
Instagram has just updated its popular photo-sharing app, bringing with it support for Chinese microblog Sina Weibo, as well as Japanese social network Mixi. When we saw Instagram’s Kevin Systrom...
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15 Million Users Strong: ‘Voice Microblog’ Bubbly Launches iPhone App
Known as the ‘voice microblog’ or ‘Twitter with a voice,’ Bubbly is finally debuting its iPhone app today. The app looks pretty neat and intuitive to use. It allows users to find and follow local...
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15 Million Users Strong: ‘Voice Microblog’ Bubbly Launches iPhone App
Known as the ‘voice microblog’ or ‘Twitter with a voice,’ Bubbly is finally debuting its iPhone app today. The app looks pretty neat and intuitive to use. It allows users to find and follow local...
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The Numbers Game
For many of us, it’s fun to dig into the specs of the latest gadgets. Power impresses us, quality impresses us; everyone wants the best smartphone. But how can we measure what is best? All too often,...
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The Numbers Game
For many of us, it’s fun to dig into the specs of the latest gadgets. Power impresses us, quality impresses us; everyone wants the best smartphone. But how can we measure what is best? All too often,...
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Alipay Hits 30 Million Mobile Downloads, Gets Most Luvvin’ on Android
China’s biggest online payment platform, Alipay, has said that its cross-platform mobile apps have been downloaded just over 30 million times in total. The company also revealed that it has seen...
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Alipay Hits 30 Million Mobile Downloads, Gets Most Luvvin’ on Android
China’s biggest online payment platform, Alipay, has said that its cross-platform mobile apps have been downloaded just over 30 million times in total. The company also revealed that it has seen...
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CEO Announces Sogou Developing Siri-like Mobile Internet Product
Sogou (which is owned by Sohu) has long been a competitor to Baidu in the search field, but it not attempted to mirror Baidu’s expansion into other areas like mobile internet. Case in point: Baidu has...
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CEO Announces Sogou Developing Siri-like Mobile Internet Product
Sogou (which is owned by Sohu) has long been a competitor to Baidu in the search field, but it not attempted to mirror Baidu’s expansion into other areas like mobile internet. Case in point: Baidu has...
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NTT Docomo Invests in Eye-Fi, Becomes Strategic Partner
Eye-Fi, a maker of wireless memory cards, has announced that it has raised $20 million in Series D funding, led by Japan’s NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) with $14 million. In addition, Docomo will be the first...
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NTT Docomo Invests in Eye-Fi, Becomes Strategic Partner
Eye-Fi, a maker of wireless memory cards, has announced that it has raised $20 million in Series D funding, led by Japan’s NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) with $14 million. In addition, Docomo will be the first...
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How You Can Make the Best Out of Your Brand on Weibo
Marc has been exploring emerging markets and their adoption of e-commerce, social, and mobile internet technology in the past decade. He is currently based in Shanghai. Disclosure: Marc is a project...
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How You Can Make the Best Out of Your Brand on Weibo
Marc has been exploring emerging markets and their adoption of e-commerce, social, and mobile internet technology in the past decade. He is currently based in Shanghai. Disclosure: Marc is a project...
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Softbank Awarded Spectrum Made Available By Japan’s Switch to Digital TV
Softbank in Roppongi, Tokyo Softbank Mobile Corp. announced on its website today that it has been approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to proceed with its proposed base...
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Softbank Awarded Spectrum Made Available By Japan’s Switch to Digital TV
Softbank Mobile Corp. announced on its website today that it has been approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to proceed with its proposed base station plan for the 900MHz band...
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Hoiio API Provides Telephony Services, Works Awesome
Hoiio provides an API for developers to add voice and SMS features into your apps. With its API, you can do a call poll, for example: ‘Which startup is the best at Demo Asia?’ This is a question which...
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Hoiio API Provides Telephony Services, Works Awesome
Hoiio provides an API for developers to add voice and SMS features into your apps. With its API, you can do a call poll, for example: ‘Which startup is the best at Demo Asia?’ This is a question which...
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Siri, You’ve Got Company. And it’s a Talking Sheep from Japan.
A few days back Docomo (NYSE:DCM) announced its voice-agent application, Shabette Concier, an app that immediately draws comparisons to Apple’s smartphone personal assistant Siri. The application...
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