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Chinese iPhone Game Developer Goes Global, Leaves No Sheep Untapped

Earlier this week I looked at how Chinese startups are, slowly but steadily, deciding against Beijin...

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  • August 15, 2012
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China’s Biggest Search Engine Sees Android Dominate, But iPhone Top for Pageviews

China’s top search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), has released its newest mobile trends report, ...

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  • August 14, 2012
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A Well-Kept Secret: China’s Tencent Has Games on Facebook, Doing Well

The fact that Facebook is inaccessible in China is not stopping the nation’s biggest web compa...

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  • August 14, 2012
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Google’s Loss is Baidu’s Gain as Google Maps Tanks in China [CHARTS]

Usage of Google Maps for mobile seems to be tanking in China. New data from Analysys International s...

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  • August 13, 2012
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Chinese Startups Are Slowly Moving Away From Beijing, Shanghai [CHART]

One of my first posts at the beginning of 2012 was about where China’s startups are based. Tod...

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  • August 13, 2012
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AngelVest Preps $10 Million China Fund, Will Focus on Seed Funding

In great news for China-based startups, they’ll soon have a new potential source of seed fundi...

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  • August 13, 2012
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China E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Now Bigger than Baidu, Reveals New Financials

China’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, which runs sites like Taobao and Tmall, has...

By Steven Millward

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  • August 10, 2012
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China’s Yelp-like Dianping Secures Over $60 Million in Funding

The Chinese Yelp-like site Dianping has once again hit the jackpot, pulling in, it has announced, &#...

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  • August 10, 2012
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China’s ‘Kidney for iPad’ Trial Opens, 5 Facing Prison Terms

Remember that dismal story of the young Chinese man who sold his kidney to buy an iPad last year? Ju...

By Steven Millward

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  • August 10, 2012
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Zopim Refreshes Its Online Customer Chat Service, Adds iPhone App Too

Singapore’s Zopim.com makes a customer service live chat web app, and its staffers have been e...

By Steven Millward

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  • August 9, 2012
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Fearing Megaupload’s Fate, One Chinese File Storage Site Changes Track

Perhaps fearing reaching the same fate as Megaupload, whose founder is now facing deportation and a ...

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  • August 9, 2012
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China’s E-Commerce King Now Top in Daily Deals Too [CHARTS]

New market share stats for China’s fragmented daily deals market in 2012 Q2 in China show the ...

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  • August 9, 2012
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Baidu Maps Launches on Windows Phone With a Killer Feature

Although Microsoft’s Windows Phone (WP) mobile OS seems to be only having modest success in Ch...

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  • August 9, 2012
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No Crysis for Crytek as it Opens Shanghai Studio

The German games studio Crytek, makers of the CryEngine that powers its online titles like Crysis an...

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  • August 8, 2012
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Xiaomi Makes an Acquisition, Points to Building an Apple Facetime Rival

The makers of China’s hottest homegrown smartphone, Xiaomi, has made a curious acquisition in ...

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  • August 8, 2012
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Paypal Loses Biggest Asia Partner as China’s DHgate Pulls the Plug

Remember that massive deal between PayPal and the Chinese B2B e-commerce site DHgate? The huge one t...

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  • August 8, 2012
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