Posts Categorized: Social Media


Woozin RFID

Wooz.in Connects the Offline and Online World, Both Locally and Abroad

In this day and age when a lot of people are connected online through popular social networks like F...

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  • May 17, 2013
  • at 9:00 pm
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Youku Tudou web piracy

How China’s Top Video Site Battles the Pirates

After merging into one company last year, Youku Tudou (NYSE:YOKU) further established itself as Chin...

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  • May 16, 2013
  • at 3:05 pm
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Wechat user numbers

Tencent Posts Rocketing Profits, Sees 195 Million Active Users on WeChat

China’s biggest web company by revenue has just posted its Q1 2013 financial report. Tencent (HKG:...

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  • May 15, 2013
  • at 6:39 pm
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KakaoHome launch

Kakao Launches KakaoHome, A Social Android Launcher For Your Smartphone

Kakao, the maker of Korean mobile chat app, KakaoTalk, has launched KakaoHome a launcher for Android...

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  • May 14, 2013
  • at 7:18 pm
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Thailand on social media

Thailand Now Has 18 Million Social Media Users (INFOGRAPHIC)

Our ZocialInc buddies in Bangkok always keep a close eye on Thailand’s social media scene. In ...

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  • May 13, 2013
  • at 3:56 pm
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Nhac Cua Tui

Nhac Cua Tui’s Game Sharing Debacle Underlines Vietnam’s New Piracy Obsession

There’s been some buzz on the Vietnamese internet lately concerning Nhac Cua Tui, one of Vietn...

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  • May 9, 2013
  • at 1:00 pm
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Visualead makes QR codes fit in

Visualead Wins GMIC Growth Stage Competition, Wants to Bring Cutesy QR Code Creation to Asia

Earlier we announced the winner of the Seed Stage G-Startup contest at the Global Mobile Internet Co...

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  • May 8, 2013
  • at 6:30 pm
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xiaomi founder lei jun at gmic 2013

Lei Jun: WeChat Has Done a Great Job

On stage at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing this morning, Lei Jun (pictured)...

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  • May 7, 2013
  • at 11:58 am
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Is Online Content in Vietnam Actually a Wasteland? Let’s Look Deeper

Is Online Content in Vietnam Actually a Wasteland? Let’s Look Deeper.

Since I posted an article on HaiVL on Tuesday, it has raised eyebrows for two big reasons. First, th...

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  • May 17, 2013
  • at 4:00 pm
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haivl

HaiVL: Vietnam’s Funniest Website Gets 2 Million Hits Per Day After Just 1 Year

Content in Vietnam is a wasteland. Most of the nation’s users are flocking to forums where most of...

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  • May 15, 2013
  • at 8:00 pm
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Zoolook fashion app

Zoolook Brings Together Fashionistas, Fashion Bloggers, and Brands – All in One App

We’ve seen all kinds of social fashion startups crop up in Asia in the past couple of years. One o...

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  • May 14, 2013
  • at 10:03 pm
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QQ WeChat

China’s Top Chat App Gets a WeChat-Like Makeover, But Everyone Hates It

Tencent’s (HKG:0700) chat service QQ is used by over half a billion people and is China’s top ap...

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  • May 13, 2013
  • at 8:00 pm
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renren layoff

Report: More Layoffs at Renren, Signs of a Strategic Shift?

Renren, ‘the Facebook of China’, has been struggling a bit over the last few years as it...

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  • May 11, 2013
  • at 9:00 am
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Wechat user numbers

WeChat Now Has 190 Million Active Users, Close to Passing Whatsapp

Tencent’s (HKG:0700) deputy general manager Hou Xiaonan has revealed that the company’s social m...

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  • May 9, 2013
  • at 11:33 am
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Tencent CEO Pony Ma

Tencent CEO Pony Ma Talks WeChat, Competition, Going Mobile and Global

This afternoon at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) event in Beijing, Tencent’s ‘Pony...

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  • May 7, 2013
  • at 8:31 pm
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jack ma

How Alibaba Saved Weibo and Chinese Society (Maybe)

Jack Ma may have officially retired as Alibaba CEO, but he’s still the guy to talk to when it ...

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  • May 7, 2013
  • at 10:00 am
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