Posts Categorized: Mobile


KakaoPage

KakaoTalk Challenges Apple and Google with New Digital Publishing Platform

The Korean-made messaging app KakaoTalk has over 70 million users and a social gaming platform runni...

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  • February 14, 2013
  • at 10:26 pm
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WeChat Moves Towards Monetization, Beta-Testing ‘Custom Menu’ Feature for Brands

Tencent’s WeChat (known as Weixin in China) is big — like 300 million users big. But Chi...

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  • February 14, 2013
  • at 11:00 am
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Appconomy Builds Up its Mobile Payments and Loyalty Cards Service for China

Chinese consumers have plenty of choices if they want to use their smartphones to get discount coupo...

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  • February 13, 2013
  • at 4:15 pm
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Coda Payments Partners With Axis, Launches PulsaQ in Indonesia

Today, Coda Payments has partnered with 20-million-subscriber-strong Indonesian telco Axis Telekom t...

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  • February 12, 2013
  • at 2:01 pm
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China Sends 1.1 Billion Holiday Greeting Texts, But Texting is Losing Ground to WeChat

We already saw that Sina Weibo had a bang-up morning this past holiday weekend, with over 34,000 pos...

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  • February 12, 2013
  • at 8:00 am
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Hollywood Celebrities Get Chatty with Chinese Fans on WeChat

Last summer we noted how Western brands like Starbucks and Buick were quick to jump on the messaging...

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  • February 11, 2013
  • at 12:03 pm
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Canalys: China’s Huawei, ZTE, and Lenovo Now Among Global Top 5 Smartphone Makers

The research firm Canalys has unveiled new data for Android shipments in Q4 2012. With Android now p...

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  • February 8, 2013
  • at 5:54 pm
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China Startup’s ‘File Expert’ App Gets 20 Million Users Organized

I’ve been using File Expert on my Android phone for quite a while as it’s a free file ma...

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  • February 8, 2013
  • at 9:30 am
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Greengar, Asia’s Only Contestant at Women 2.0, Releases Smartboard App

Today, the Women 2.0 Conference is happening in San Francisco. The event, which “features succ...

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  • February 14, 2013
  • at 3:18 pm
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Crowdsourced Phone Directory App Truecaller is a Hit in India, Passes 11 Million Worldwide Users

Global collaborative phone directory app Truecaller is based in Sweden, but it’s proving to be a h...

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  • February 13, 2013
  • at 7:00 pm
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Web ecosystems in China

5 Popular iOS Jailbreaking and App Piracy Tools in China

Just because Chinese consumers love your smartphones, it doesn’t mean they like your mobile ec...

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  • February 12, 2013
  • at 9:00 pm
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11 Hot Mobile Messaging Apps from Asia and How They’re Super-Innovative

With the numbers Rick released on mobile messaging apps growth, and Willis’ post on how heated the...

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  • February 12, 2013
  • at 12:09 pm
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How Mobile SMS Powers a Digital Bank Network for Indonesia’s Rural Population

Founded by Joseph Gaol in 2008, VOX, which stands for Virtual Online Exchange, aims to help the rura...

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  • February 11, 2013
  • at 9:18 pm
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Vuclip Provides Free Educational Videos to Mobile Phone Users

Mobile video service Vuclip announced today that it opens a video portal dedicated to education vide...

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  • February 8, 2013
  • at 8:02 pm
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UCBrowser

UC Web Dominating Chinese Mobile Browser Market

Everyone knows that mobile is the future. In fact, forget the future, mobile is a big part of the pr...

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  • February 8, 2013
  • at 11:00 am
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WeChat’s Latest Update Includes a Walkie-Talkie Live Chat

After several people asking us for a review, we finally got two of our team members to update to the...

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  • February 8, 2013
  • at 3:42 am
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