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Starbucks Gets Even More Social in China, Lets Fans Follow in WeChat App
Last month, the hugely popular messaging app WeChat – or “Weixin” as it’s called in China – opened up to brands and celebrities so that people can follow them just as they would on Sina Weibo or...
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Shanda’s Daguan is a Flipboard Clone with Bookmarking Features
Shanda’s Daguan news app aims to give readers a new meaning to, and experience of, reading. It is basically a mobile newsreader, where it provides a wide range of news and stories on topics such as...
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Bubbly 2.0: An Instagram for Voice Messages?
It was just two weeks ago Bubble Motion, the Singapore-based company which makes the popular Bubbly app, raised $5 million in funding from JAFCO Asia. And today we’re pleased to see a major update...
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Citron’s Andrew Left Defends His China Record, Considers Legal Action After...
Earlier this week, a group of top Chinese tech execs banded together to defend US-listed Chinese stocks from being bashed by short sellers. But their primary target was one man, Andrew Left, the...
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Alvin Yap Talks about Monetizing the Feature Phone Industry [INTERVIEW]
Alvin Yap, CEO and founder of TMG Readers may recall when we discussed feature phone business opportunities in Indonesia with Andy Zain. Continuing that discussion, we spoke with Alvin Yap, the founder...
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Chinese Pinterest Clone Meilishuo Boasts 10 Million App Downloads
The Pinterest-like site Meilishuo, which claims to have 20 million users in China, has said that it has now had over 10 million downloads of its apps. Those all occurred from April 2011, when the...
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Microsoft Hiring 1,000 R&D Employees in China for Mobile
From the AP comes news of Microsoft’s plans to hire 1,000 R&D employees in China: The announcement adds to intensifying competition in wireless Internet in China, where nearly 400 million people...
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Huawei and Qihoo 360 Part Ways After Smartphone Collaboration
Is there no escape from the constant dramas surrounding Qihoo 360 (NYSE:QIHU) and its CEO Zhou Hongyi? They are again in the news, as Qihoo and Huawei (SHE:002502) have gone their separate ways after...
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Calling Amateur Film-Makers: Canon is Giving Out $30,000 for Your Drama
Canon has started an online video contest for the Southeast Asia region to celebrate the launch of the Legria HD camcorder. The Legria competition is being held in five Asian countries: Singapore,...
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Netease Launches Product Search Engine Huihui
A while back we told you about how Netease was planning to launch an eTao-like product price comparison search engine, and lo and behold, here it is. Going by the name Huihui and featuring a slick...
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If I See Another E-Commerce Startup, I’m Going to Throw Up
It seems like one in every three startups I come across these days — especially in China — is an e-commerce startup. I understand why this is the case. People look at companies like Alibaba and think,...
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Student ‘Interns’ Forced to Build Apple iPhone 5 at Foxconn; Now Returning to...
Woo, college! You may already be aware of a report (available in English in the Shanghai Daily, among other places) that suggests Apple-and-everyone-else-supplier Foxconn was employing “interns” that...
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Tencent Registers Thousands of User Domains in Preparation for CNNIC Partnership
A couple days ago I wrote about Tencent’s surprise partnership with CNNIC to offer QQ users their own unique domain URLs. Yesterday, Tencent registered tens of thousands of .CN domains in preparation...
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China’s Taobao Agrees with US Movie Studios to Better Tackle Piracy
Back in December of last year, we reported that China’s top online storefront, Taobao.com, was still blacklisted on an official US directory of piracy-tainted sites. But today the company behind...
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One Tap Hero: A Chinese Dev Studio’s Exciting Experiment in One Tap Gameplay
Here’s a surprisingly fun iOS game from the folks at Chinese game development studio Coconut Island. It’s called One Tap Hero. I think many of us, myself included, when we look at China-made games,...
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Not Just For Clothes and Kittens: One Chinese Pinboard Clone Looks Into Home...
Have you had those times when finding an idea or inspiration for your home renovation was such a pain? Searching for designs online is definitely one way out – but the pictures are all over the place...
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Rakuten’s Hiroshi Mikitani on New Markets Abroad, and the Old Guard in Japan
Forbes has published a good interview with Rakuten (JSD:4755) CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, which I encourage our readers to check out. While there’s not a lot of new information here, it’s a good overall...
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Startup ContractIQ Aims To Curate Expert Developers in Real-Time
From time to time, startups do have to outsource some work to third-party vendors. It could be design, backend, or mobile expertise that a startup is looking for. But sometimes, it is hard to find a...
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Tmall vs 360Buy: Suppliers Need to Pick One, and They Better Pick Right
It looks like a new China internet war is brewing. And this time the headlines revolve around B2C e-commerce powerhouse, Tmall and 360buy – China’s two biggest online malls. According to Nbdaily,...
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How Not to Get Copied by China: 2 Important Tips for International Developers
Recently, I’ve written about two cases of very blatant IP theft in China; the copy-pasting of an indie game onto Tencent platforms and the absurdly blatant theft of a game engine and its website. Both...
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