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Baidu Now Has an Instagram of Its Own, Ready For Its Close-Up
Chinese search engine Baidu acquired the photo-sharing app PhotoSola last November – and now, finally, the Instagram-like app has been rebranded and reborn as Baidu MoTu. The newly launched app...
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Lenovo To Roll Out 9.7-inch Android 4.0 Tablet
Lenovo (HKG:0992) has unveiled a promo video for its new IdeaTab S2109 tablet over on its YouTube Channel. While there’s still no reference to the device on its website (as far as I can see) it...
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MIIT: China Mobile and China Telecom App Stores Full of Security Holes
In the process of conducting an evaluation of China’s internet in which the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology found that 98 percent of Chinese sites were up to code in terms of security,...
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New Intel China Boss Talks Mobile, Medfield, in Live Chat on Weibo
Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) new China chairman, Sean Maloney (pictured right), took to a live chat with Chinese netizens yesterday to explain how the company is focusing on the “incredible” growth in China,...
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Love, DotA, and One Reluctant Chinese Gamer’s Big Gamble
Last week, a gaming addiction story about a young college couple caught fire on the Chinese internet. These stories are common; generally, the boy has lost interest in the relationship because he’s...
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Rumor: Baidu and Rakuten E-Commerce Joint-Venture in Trouble, Half Staff Laid...
Reports in the Chinese press [1] suggest that the e-commerce joint-venture between Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) and Japan’s Rakuten (JSD:4755) is in trouble, with it about to dismiss half of its staff, which...
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Mei.fm: Avos Forks Delicous to Suit Chinese Tastes
Many of you might recall that Avos, the California-based internet company of YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, acquired social bookmarking service Delicious.com about a year ago. Skip to...
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Japan-based Food Photo App SnapDish to Cooperate with China’s Renren
While the biggest news by far in the photo-sharing world was undoubtedly Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, there’s a photo app here in Japan which is starting to take some impressive steps. We...
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SalingSilang Launches SXindeks, Tracks Indonesia’s Digital Conversations
We were at SalingSilang’s office last week and had the privilege to get a sneak peek at its new social media analytics product, SXindeks which launches today. This social media tracking and analysis...
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Gnip Now Providing Access to Social Data from Sina Weibo
Social data platform Gnip says its data is already being used by 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies to monitor social data from assorted services like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and many more. Today...
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Suning Spoils For an E-Commerce Price War As it Shifts From China’s High Streets
History will soon come to be littered with retailers who failed to make the switch to the internet age, and instead declined to the point where their shelves gathered more dust than fingerprints, and...
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Shaw Soo Wei Joins Gobi Singapore Fund as Venture Partner
The China-Singapore venture fund Gobi Partners has announced the appointment of a new venture partner for the Gobi Singapore Fund in the form of Shaw Soo Wei (pictured right). Ms Shaw is an...
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GREE Invests in Wizcorp, Aims to Leverage its HTML5 Expertise
Earlier this week Tokyo-based game developer Wizcorp announced on its website that it had become a strategic partner of Japanese social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) [1]. By investing in Wizcorp, GREE...
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SARFT: Internet Celebrities to be Banned from TV
So Sister Feng is banned from TV. We know you're devastated. China’s State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television, a government bureau tasked with eliminating all television programming other...
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Google Rolls Out Its Real-Time DoubleClick Ad Exchange in China
Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) DoubleClick Ad Exchange service has launched in China, giving local businesses a new online advertising option to choose from. DoubleClick was bought by Google back in 2008, and...
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Toshiba’s Quad-core Excite Tablets Coming in Three Sizes
Yesterday we told you about Lenovo’s new IdeaTab S2109 Android 4.0 tablet, which looks like it will be a good step forward for the Beijing-based manufacturer. Not to be outdone, Japan’s Toshiba...
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Photocus App Puts Your Photo-Sharing Exploits Into Groups
Photo-sharing apps are hot right now – as seen by Facebook’s perhaps surprising acquisition of Instagram – but the photos that we lovingly tweak and share just tend to vanish into the ether, having a...
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Right After Instagram, Japan’s FxCamera Gets Acquired Too
The Japanese-made Android app FxCamera has been snapped up by compatriot web company Bitcellar in a deal announced this evening in Tokyo. FxCamera claims to be the world’s most-popular photo-filter...
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Market Leaders Emerging in China’s Group Buy Space
We’ve seen a lot happen in China’s group buy space over the past few months. What was a much tighter pack six months ago, has seen a number of competitors drop off and others jump to the fore....
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China’s Internet in a Glance [Infographic]
The folks over at Statista have collected some informative figures about how the internet is growing in China [1]. For regular readers of this blog, many of the stats are not new, but I think they did...
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