Posts Categorized: Mobile


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Xiaomi’s Sales Experiment on Sina Weibo Yields 1.3 Million Reservations For Just 50,000 Phones

Remember that interesting little social commerce experiment earlier this week in which Chinese phone...

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  • December 21, 2012
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360Buy to Snap Up More than $300 Million Worth of Nokia Phones in 2013, Plans Huge China Sales Push

Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) is having quite a disastrous time in China of late but it’s not go...

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  • December 21, 2012
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Tencent: Our Video Site is Now China’s Biggest, Ready to Charge for Hollywood Movies

In an all-too-rare instance of web companies and content providers teaming up to give users exactly ...

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  • December 21, 2012
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Xiaomi Teases Phone Launch in Hong Kong

China’s young phone-maker Xiaomi has teased a possible expansion into Hong Kong. That’s ...

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  • December 20, 2012
  • at 10:17 pm
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Street Directory Map App Takes You to the Right Place

After the dismal launch of the Apple Maps app, I knew I needed an alternative. I had been using Goog...

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  • December 20, 2012
  • at 7:48 pm
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Nokia No Longer King of Mobile as Samsung Set to Ship More in 2012

According to forecasted numbers from analysts at iSuppli, 2012 will see Korean manufacturer Samsung ...

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  • December 20, 2012
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China Unicom Picks Up Another 3.2 Million 3G Users in November

In news that should surprise precisely no one, China’s 3G market continues to grow like hotcak...

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  • December 20, 2012
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Separating the Men from the Boys in Japan’s Online Social Scene

The folks over at Looops Communications recently put together a good overview of some of the major s...

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  • December 19, 2012
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GREE and Yahoo Japan to Co-Sponsor Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid

GREE (TYO:3632) and Yahoo Japan (TYO:4689) have announced today that the companies will co-sponsor T...

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  • December 21, 2012
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Cygames’ Rage of Bahamut Surpasses 10 Million Users Worldwide

Japanese gaming publisher Cygames has announced that its hit mobile social game Rage of Bahamut has ...

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  • December 21, 2012
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Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei Talks Security

There are lots of questions about Huawei; questions like “Why does the CCP have an office in y...

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  • December 21, 2012
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As Chat App Wars Intensify, KakaoTalk Makes a Push in Japan

Recently we’ve written much about the success of NHN Japan’s Line, both in its home mark...

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  • December 20, 2012
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GREE Messenger is Developed with GREE-Invested Company eBuddy

GREE’s investment in eBuddy hasn’t gotten much press attention compared to its other acq...

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  • December 20, 2012
  • at 3:00 pm
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GREE Releases Mobile Chat Application in Selected Regions

The folks over on Techwave are pointing out this morning that Japanese mobile social gaming giant GR...

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  • December 20, 2012
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WeChat App Implicated at Trial of Pedophile in China

The trial of a sexual predator in Guangdong province in southern China has implicated the smash-hit ...

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  • December 19, 2012
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Stellar Applications Showcased at Lumia Apps Olympiad in Indonesia

Nokia Indonesia’s Windows Phone apps competition, the Lumia Apps Olympiad, found its 20 gold medal...

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  • December 19, 2012
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