Facing Trouble in the US, ZTE Doubles Down with Big Investment
ZTE has not been having an easy go of things in the US of late. But investigations and financial tro...
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Czech Data Startup BellaDati Establishes Korea Office, Expands Into Asia
When we heard about the expansion of Czech startup BellaDati, a cloud-based business analytics compa...
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- December 19, 2012
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Web of Failure: How China’s Internet Policies Have Doomed Chinese Soft Power
This past week, even as net users across the country were discovering that China’s Great Firew...
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- December 18, 2012
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Long Journey 2 Dev Shares Secrets to Success at China’s Internet Culture Festival
Yesterday marked the kickoff of Beijing’s tenth annual Internet Culture Festival, bringing tog...
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- December 18, 2012
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Lax Real-Name Policies Hurting Chinese Dating Sites
We’ve written quite a bit about the lax enforcement of real-name policies on Chinese social ne...
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- December 18, 2012
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Korean Government Awards Google for Helping Spread Korean Culture
Korean pop star PSY’s smash-hit Gangnam Style video (sorry if I just got it stuck in your head...
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- December 14, 2012
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China’s App Apocalypse? Regulators Explain, Developers Worried
The announcement that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will move...
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- December 14, 2012
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iPhone 5 Finally Launched in China, No Reports of Violence
In the early hours of the morning today, the first official iPhone 5s went on sale in China. Unsurpr...
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- December 14, 2012
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Will Regulation Kill China’s App Market or Save It?
Yesterday, I wrote about MIIT’s plans to regulate China’s app markets and the mobile app...
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- December 13, 2012
- at 10:00 am
You’ll Never Guess What The9 and ZTE Are Teaming Up to Work On
The9 is one of China’s biggest gaming companies. ZTE is one of its biggest handset and telecom...
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- December 13, 2012
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Will Mobile Apps Soon Need to Register With China’s Government?
China’s mobile app market has developed with remarkable speed over the past few years. That se...
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- December 12, 2012
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Chinese Startup Fantibody is a Search Engine for Antibodies
In my line of work, you come across some unexpected startup ideas, but even I was a bit surprised by...
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- December 12, 2012
- at 1:30 am
Tencent’s WeChat is a Threat to Everyone
We have written a lot about WeChat, Tencent’s mobile chat app (it’s called Weixin in Chi...
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- December 11, 2012
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Is Firefall, The9′s Free-to-Play FPS Gamble, Any Good?
I’ve been excited about Firefall for a while now. The game, developed by The9-owned Red Five s...
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- December 11, 2012
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Sogou Invests Big in Voice Assistant Software Research
Recently, Sogou mobile GM Ru Liyun revealed that the company plans to invest heavily in the voice re...
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- December 11, 2012
- at 2:00 am
Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Dec. 9]
This was a pretty intense week, as you’re about to find out from our weekly picks. So before we ge...
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- December 9, 2012
- at 3:00 pm