Netease Planning World’s First Crowd-Designed FPS Game?
Last week, I wrote about Netease’s new mystery FPS based on the fascinating teaser page the co...
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Huawei and ZTE Face More EU Scrutiny: What Are They Doing Wrong?
I’m beginning to think we might as well just consider Huawei and ZTE, given that they seem to ...
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- May 16, 2013
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Alibaba Working on a Set-Top Box to Bring E-Commerce to Your TV?
Last year it was cheap smartphones; this year the China trend — again, inspired by Xiaomi R...
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- May 16, 2013
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WeiboSuite Translates Censored Sina Weibo Posts Into English, Is Awesome
The folks at Hong Kong University’s China Media Project have been doing incredible work lookin...
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- May 15, 2013
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Bloody Brawl in Chinese Internet Cafe Starts Over Pocket Change
Last week, an argument between some patrons at a Chinese internet cafe ended in violence when one ma...
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- May 15, 2013
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500 Startups’s New Batch Includes Plenty of Asian Startups
Silicon Valley-based Accelerator 500 Startups has released the list of its Batch 6 startups, and it&...
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- May 15, 2013
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GREE Shuts Down China Branch (Update: CONFIRMED)
Update: GREE has replied and this is the company’s official statement on the matter: We are re...
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- May 15, 2013
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Korea’s Top 10 Most Popular PC Games (May 2013)
Everyone knows that South Korea loves Starcraft. But aside from that, what are South Koreans playing...
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- May 14, 2013
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Is Sina’s Stock Undervalued?
Yesterday, Sina Tech sub-site Startup Stories posted an interesting op-ed from T.H. Capital CEO Hou ...
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- May 14, 2013
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China’s Biggest Pirate Movie Site Was Also Hosting 70s Pornos
Last month we wrote about Chinese authorities’ takedown of two websites suspected of distribut...
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- May 14, 2013
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Why Alibaba Invested in AutoNavi
Alibaba has been throwing money around like it’s going out of style recently, and the latest c...
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- May 13, 2013
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Report: More Layoffs at Renren, Signs of a Strategic Shift?
Renren, ‘the Facebook of China’, has been struggling a bit over the last few years as it...
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- May 11, 2013
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Netease Teases New Mystery Shooter, New Globally-Competitive Game Engine?
Everybody loves a good mystery. And it seems the folks at Netease have gotten people talking about o...
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- May 10, 2013
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Japan Plans New Super-Fast Supercomputer
In news that is totally awesome, Japan’s science ministry has announced it plans to build a su...
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- May 10, 2013
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Huawei and ZTE Under Investigation by Indian Intelligence Agencies
On Monday, the US Department of Defense released a report that once again points the finger at China...
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- May 10, 2013
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Japan’s Quan Partners with AIS in Thailand for Sticker App
In yet another example of companies from East Asia expanding into the Southeast, Japan’s Quan ...
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- May 9, 2013
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