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JazzMyApp for social app recommendations

JazzMyApp Tackles Social App Recommendations, Pinterest Style

Malaysian startup Mobile9 has been trying to solve the app discovery issue for quite a few years. No...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 18, 2013
  • at 3:00 pm
China ecommerce shopping stats 2013

China Now Has 242 Million E-Commerce Shoppers, Spending $40,000 per Second [INFOGRAPHIC]

Yesterday we looked at the Chinese social media side of a mammoth new infographic report. Today, let...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 18, 2013
  • at 2:15 pm
Chinese tech IPOs in 2013

9 Likely Chinese Tech IPOs in 2013

2011 saw economic turmoil and financial scandals that led to only two Chinese tech companies venturi...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 18, 2013
  • at 11:45 am
China social media and social marketing in 2013

With 600 Million Social Media Users, This is China’s Web in 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC]

We noted the other day that China now has 564 million internet users and 420 million mobile web user...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 17, 2013
  • at 4:07 pm
WeChat v4.5 beta

Next Version of WeChat App Will Add Voice Chatrooms, Song Recognition [Screenshots]

Yesterday, WeChat app officially hit an impressive new milestone – 300 million registered user...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 17, 2013
  • at 2:45 pm
http://placehold.it/350x150

Rumor: Alibaba Hires IPO Underwriters, Ready to Raise $4 Billion This Year

It was just yesterday that Alibaba founder Jack Ma said he’d be retiring from his CEO role at ...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 16, 2013
  • at 7:57 pm
Snoop Dogg promotes Line app

With Stickers and Shout-Outs, Snoop Dogg Helps Push Line App in the US

Line app experienced crazy growth last year, and looks set to surpass 100 million global users somet...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 16, 2013
  • at 1:40 pm

Just Short of 2 Years Old, WeChat App Surpasses 300 Million Users

The makers of WeChat said recently that the messaging app will likely soon surpass 300 million regis...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 16, 2013
  • at 11:38 am
jack-ma

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...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 15, 2013
  • at 5:36 pm
China internet users stats for 2012 - web growth

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...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 15, 2013
  • at 4:18 pm
Xinci Chinese UrbanDictionary

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...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 15, 2013
  • at 1:00 pm
Google's Eric Schmidt in China

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...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 14, 2013
  • at 8:30 pm
Autonavi apps 100 million users

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...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 14, 2013
  • at 6:30 pm
Baidu browser for Middle East and north Africa

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...

By Steven Millward

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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...

By Steven Millward

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  • January 14, 2013
  • at 12:08 pm
China This Week banner

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