Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Confirms Retirement From CEO Role at Ripe Old Age of 48
Alibaba founder and CEO has confirmed that, after building up China’s biggest e-commerce ventu...
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CNNIC Report: China Now Has 564 Million Internet Users, More Than Half are on Weibo
China’s web registry regulator, the CNNIC, has today released a new tranche of data showing th...
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- January 15, 2013
- at 4:18 pm
4,000 Years of Chinese Culture Culminates in this Online Slang Dictionary
So now we’ve figured out that the internet won’t bring universal freedoms to China and got all t...
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- January 15, 2013
- at 1:00 pm
Google’s Eric Schmidt Drops in on Beijing, Reminds Chinese Devs that Android is Number One
Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Eric Schmidt dropped into the GeekPark conference in Beijing earlier to...
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- January 14, 2013
- at 8:30 pm
Autonavi’s Maps Apps Guide Over 100 Million Users in China
Regular readers will recall that Autonavi (NASDAQ:AMAP) makes the most popular mobile maps apps in C...
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- January 14, 2013
- at 6:30 pm
China’s Baidu Pushes Into Africa and Middle East With New Mobile Browser
Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has teamed up with mobile telco Orange (NYSE:FTE) to bring...
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- January 14, 2013
- at 4:59 pm
Here’s a Heatmap of WeChat Users Around the World
The WeChat messaging app seems to be China’s biggest social media export to date. But, apart f...
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- January 14, 2013
- at 12:08 pm
10 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week saw a torrent of Chinese social media news, which dominates the line-up you see here. We b...
By Steven Millward
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- January 13, 2013
- at 7:00 pm
Tech in Asia: Our Picks for News of the Week [Jan. 12]
This week was a blockbuster, with a series of explosive news stories out of China dominating the cho...
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- January 12, 2013
- at 8:11 pm
Tencent Responds in Case of Apparent WeChat Censorship
Yesterday we broke the story of how WeChat, the world’s biggest Whatsapp-style messaging app, ...
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- January 11, 2013
- at 11:59 pm
China’s Biggest Online Mall Now Wants to be Your Supermarket
You’ve long been able to buy pretty much anything on China’s Taobao, right down to a single tube...
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- January 11, 2013
- at 7:46 pm
British Retailer Marks and Spencer Launches Major E-Commerce Push in China
Marks and Spencer (LON:MKS) might have 12 brick-and-mortar stores in five Chinese cities already, bu...
By Steven Millward
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- January 11, 2013
- at 12:26 pm
Now China’s WeChat App is Censoring Its Users Globally
We’ve written a lot about the progress of the world’s biggest messaging app, the China-m...
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- January 10, 2013
- at 10:40 pm
As Alibaba Gets More Social, Rumors Swirl of Acquisition of Music Site Xiami [UPDATE: Confirmed]
Just a few hours after Alibaba boss Jack Ma detailed the restructuring of the e-commerce giant into ...
By Steven Millward
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- January 10, 2013
- at 9:34 pm
Report: Apple’s Tim Cook Visited China Mobile HQ This Morning [UPDATE: Confirmed]
Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) Tim Cook arrived in Beijing two days ago for yet another trip to China, ...
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- January 10, 2013
- at 4:00 pm
IDG Brings Series A Funding to a Unique, Discounts-Oriented Chinese Shopping Site
With China’s e-commerce market consisting of so many sites, the rather unique Mizhe.com is making ...
By Steven Millward
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- January 10, 2013
- at 12:21 pm