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VeryCD Gets an iPhone App, For All Your Video Streaming Needs
The VeryCD app for iPhone. Click to enlarge. VeryCD has launched an iPhone app over the weekend, completing the site’s turnaround from a notorious pirate’s BBS, to one of China’s biggest music and...
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Serkan Toto Demystifies Japanese Social Gaming
GREE girl at 2011 Tokyo Game Show When discussing technology in Japan, there is perhaps no ‘bridge blogger’ as prolific as Serkan Toto, who in addition to blogging over on TechCrunch, has his own very...
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How One Chinese Company is Ditching Group Buy, and Why It’s Paying Off
We’ve written lots of stories about how tough the group buy market is in China. And while a few sites seem to be doing OK, most are struggling. The smart ones may be the ones who are leaving the...
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China’s Smartphone Owners Can Now Read It Later, With iKeepU App
A Chinese startup claims to have created the country’s first Instapaper/Read It Later type of cloud-powered page sync service – called iKeepU Reader. With a web app accompanied by apps for iPhone,...
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GREE Releases New Details on Upcoming Unified Gaming Platform
Last month we told you about GREE’s (TYO:3632) plans to offer a new global gaming platform, and this morning the company has announced some more details about that that initiative might entail. The...
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iBigToy Builds iPad Story books for Kids… A Lot of Them!
This is just a glimpse of what iBigToy has on iTunes... Look at the freaking scroll bar. It does look long, doesn't it? If you want to buy interactive story books for your kids on the iPad, look no...
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Strikes as Shanghai Apple and HP Supplier Plans Move
Continuing a recent trend of labor strikes at foreign enterprises in the country, more than a thousand workers in Shanghai went on strike after their Hi-P Electronics factory announced suddenly that...
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Beijing’s Smogpocalypse Slows Shipping of Xiaomi Handsets (and Probably...
via Global Times Xiaomi’s M1 is just a couple weeks from being publicly available, but the company says it has already shipped more than 100,000 units to preorder customers, and will continue shipping...
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The Ubiquity of Social Media and E-Commerce in China [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. The Asia-oriented branding and PR agency We Are Social has just released its report on all...
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Flipboard Coming to China, Teams Up With Sina and Renren [PICS]
Photo via Flipboard blog Earlier this year you may recall that everyone’s favorite iPad reading app Flipboard was blocked in China. But apparently the GFW ain’t no thang, as the company has made its...
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Will Asia Step Up and Be Counted Among Best Mobile Innovators?
As part of the CeBIT 2012 conference in Germany, the CODE_n12 contest is seeking out the 50 best mobile innovators from around the world. In addition to getting a chance to win 25,000 euros (over...
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Indonesian Gaming Studio Hits Android, iOS, and Mig33 With 2 New Social Games
The Indonesian startup and game developer, NightSpade, is having a busy week, having just released two new games to different markets. The ‘edutainment’ title Komodo Island: Newborn Wonders (pictured...
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Putting the Boxing Gloves Back On, Citron Seeks Qihoo’s True Advertising...
[UPDATE on 12/06 at 11pm BJ time: Qihoo has responded in a press release saying that Citron's latest report contains "numerous errors of fact" and has undercounted the paid-for ad links on its...
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Looking for an Internet Job in China? No Skills? Become an Internet Commenter
Everyone knows that the Chinese internet is censored. What’s censored? All kinds of things! But these days the net moves too fast to censor everything. That’s why the government hires “internet...
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As India Pushes For Ban on Offensive Content, Facebook Responds
India’s communications minister Kapil Sibal [1] today affirmed the nation’s intent to ban offensive online material, after making requests to internet companies such as Facebook, Google and other...
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Samsung’s Flexible Display [VIDEO]
I briefly read about Samsung’s flexible display over on PC World. The idea was fascinating but hard to grasp. Screens that are flexible? That would be pretty hard to manufacture. Here’s an excerpt from...
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With 4 Million Users, Is TuDing the Closest to Being China’s Instagram?
The inevitable rush to build an Instagram-like photo-sharing app that’s localized for China has resulted in a nice, wide variety of apps and services. But there seems to be one winner so far, with a...
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Blogger Suggests Vancl Has Lost Over $300 Million, Vancl CEO Says Not True
Another day, another he-said-she-said rumor fight between the nameless denizens of the internet and the CEOs that govern their favorite websites. This time, it’s Vancl on the hook, with rumors...
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Take Me Somewhere Nice: Wego Travel Search Engine Launches Indonesian Site
The travel search engine Wego, which opened an office in Jakarta recently, has finally launched its Indonesian site. With the huge potential demand for local and global travel by Indonesians, the...
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If You Feel Like an LG Optimus, Go and Brush Your Shoulders Off
So I received an email announcement this morning about LG’s (SEO:003550) social Christmas promotion, which gives users a chance to win free phones like its Optimus 3D or Optimus Black. I didn’t think...
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