Travel China in Video Games: Western Developers Increasingly Looking to China for Game Settings
Call it a reflection of China’s growing soft power. Call it a response to gamers getting tired...
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Why Sogou’s Input Method Search Could Change the Chinese Internet (and More)
Earlier this week, I wrote about Sogou’s new method of integrating search results into its Chi...
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- March 8, 2013
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Chinese Government Rep Says E-Commerce Sites Have Evaded Billions in Taxes
On Wednesday, NPC representative Wang Tian made a rather shocking accusation: Chinese e-commerce pla...
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China Unicom is Tracking Your Mobile Browsing History, and Now You Can Check Their Database
Mobile users of China Unicom’s data networks, the company has some news for you: now you can c...
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- March 8, 2013
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Sina Weibo Testing New, WeChat-Like Public Platform
A couple weeks ago, Sina admitted its flagship product Weibo is threatened by WeChat. Then last week...
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Lei Jun Explains Xiaomi’s ‘Selling-Through-Scarcity’ Sales Tactic
Xiaomi’s inexpensive but powerful Android smartphones have been a big hit with Chinese users o...
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- March 7, 2013
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Censorship Alert! Academic Study Shows Sina Weibo’s Human Censors Are Pretty Darn Fast
If you wanted to learn more about Sina Weibo’s censorship patterns, today is your lucky day. A...
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- March 7, 2013
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Government Signals China Might Finally Get a 4G Network This Year
The folks over at China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) sure know how...
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- March 7, 2013
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Less Than 14% of Chinese App Developers Make a Profit, Says China Mobile Executive
Many of China’s tech luminaries are gathered in Beijing for the Two Meetings, and that means t...
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- March 6, 2013
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A Revolution in China’s Search Market? Sogou Integrates Search into its Input Method
China’s Sogou has been a player in the search market here since the early days. At present, it...
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- March 6, 2013
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Why (Almost) Every Startup Should Be Working From Home
Marissa Mayer may have decided that working from home doesn’t work anymore for Yahoo, but that...
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- March 5, 2013
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Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi CEOs Propose New Legislature to Strengthen China’s Tech Sector
It’s spring in Beijing, and China’s yearly celebrity parties legislative conferences (th...
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- March 5, 2013
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The Pirate Bay Sails to North Korea, Sort Of
Everyone’s favorite longtime piracy headquarters, The Pirate Bay, has reportedly moved from it...
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- March 5, 2013
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Next-Gen Gaming Consoles Like PlayStation 4 Are Leaving Chinese Players Behind
Sony announced the PlayStation 4 a couple weeks ago, and it looks pretty sweet. Aside from the inevi...
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- March 4, 2013
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Huawei’s Executive Management Structure is Based on Bird Migration (Seriously)
Chinese mobile product giant Huawei is in the news a lot, but many people don’t know that the ...
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- March 4, 2013
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Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [March 3]
This was a crazy week. Seriously, they don’t get much busier than this. So what were the most prim...
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- March 3, 2013
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