Report: Baidu Acquires Social Video Rival PPS For Up to $400 Million
China’s leading search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), is said to have acquired a rival social video ...
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Singapore’s Dropmysite Drops a Bomb, Now Funded By 500 Startups
We’ve been following the progress of Singapore-based Dropmysite pretty closely in the past yea...
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- April 25, 2013
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The Biggest Brands on Social Media in Southeast Asia in 2013 (INFOGRAPHIC)
The crew at Bangkok-based social analytics firm ZocialInc has fired up its ZocialRank platform to se...
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- April 24, 2013
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With One New App, Every Sina Weibo Post Can Be Easily Translated into English
A couple of months ago we previewed the creation of a new kind of third-party app for Sina Weibo ...
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- April 24, 2013
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Apple: “Best Quarter Ever” in China with $8.8 Billion Revenue
“We had our best quarter ever in China,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier today. In its post-earn...
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- April 24, 2013
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This Chinese App Developer Has Created Some Awesome Handmade Merchandise
You’ve created a popular Mac app that has a strong cult following, but you fancy a new revenue...
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- April 24, 2013
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3 Months After CES Teaser, Vizio Phone Finally Goes on Sale in China
A few days into the new year, American TV maker Vizio revealed its first ever venture outside of the...
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- April 23, 2013
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Remember “China’s Facebook”? It’s Fighting Back Against WeChat With a New Messaging App
Once hailed as “China’s Facebook”, Renren (NYSE:RENN) has had a rough few years. First overtak...
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- April 23, 2013
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Google, Baidu and Many Web Companies Set Up ‘People Finder’ Boards After Chinese Quake
Shortly after this weekend’s earthquake near the Chinese city of Ya’an in Sichuan provin...
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- April 22, 2013
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How China’s Jingdong is Looking to Overseas Chinese Customers to Kickstart Global Sales
Back in October last year, China’s second-biggest B2C e-commerce site launched a global versio...
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- April 22, 2013
- at 2:48 pm
Apple and Samsung Make Donations, Offer Practical Support, in Chinese Quake Aftermath
A powerful earthquake struck the city of Ya’an in Sichuan province over the weekend, not too f...
By Steven Millward
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- April 22, 2013
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Yahoo China to Shut Email Service Ahead of Possible Total Withdrawal
Yahoo China has announced today that its email service in the country will be shut next month. The Y...
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- April 19, 2013
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Amazon Rolls Out ‘Cloud Drive’ in China Ahead of Possible Kindle Launch
So it turns out that Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle hardware didn’t launch in China on th...
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- April 19, 2013
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Baidu Takes a Dig at Qihoo With Launch of Antivirus Apps in China
After months of testing it in on users in Southeast Asia and then around the world, Chinese search e...
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- April 19, 2013
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Xiaomi Sets Date and Prices for Launches in Hong Kong and Taiwan
China’s newcomer phone-maker Xiaomi said a while back that it would make its first ever ventur...
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- April 19, 2013
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How You Feeling? India-Made Hike App Adds Status Updates and Moods
We saw the India-made messaging app Hike launch last summer and then go global in December. In the f...
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- April 18, 2013
- at 10:30 pm