Posts Categorized: Social Media


Sina Weibo Chinese New Year 2013

Sina Weibo Clocks 34,977 Posts in First SECOND of Chinese New Year

Yesterday saw the ushering in of the Chinese New Year. It seems that everyone who wasn’t busy sett...

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  • February 11, 2013
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Vida PM2.5 pollution photo filter

Chinese Photo App Adds PM2.5 Image Filter, As If Air Isn’t Already Polluted Enough

This week I noticed that the Chinese photo-sharing app Vida had joined in the national discussion ab...

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  • February 8, 2013
  • at 12:59 pm
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Line spin-off as Line Corp

NHN Japan Focuses on its Chat App With “Line Corp” Spin-Off Company

Regular readers will know that the messaging app Line now has over 100 million registered users. Tha...

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  • February 7, 2013
  • at 2:15 pm
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Baidu mobile apps

Baidu Reaches 80 Million Mobile Apps Users, Reveals Full 2012 Financials

China’s top search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) cranked out its full-year and Q4 2012 financial ...

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  • February 5, 2013
  • at 5:25 pm
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KakaoTalk social gaming launch iOS and Japan

KakaoTalk Launches Social Gaming Platform on iOS and in Japan

Korean-made messaging app KakaoTalk launched its Game Platform on Android in its home country last J...

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  • February 2, 2013
  • at 12:15 am
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HootSuite Korean

HootSuite Owl Learns to Speak Korean

The HootSuite owl has been learning Korean, and now the social media dashboard is fully localized fo...

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  • January 31, 2013
  • at 11:27 am
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What is the Difference Between Chinese Netizens and US Net Users?

This question originally appeared on Quora, and the answer that follows was provided by Linus Chung,...

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  • January 29, 2013
  • at 2:00 pm
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camely-valentines-day

Uber-Cute Photo App ‘Camely’ Tops 400,000 Downloads in Japan, Adds Valentine’s Day Stamps

We’ve featured lots of fun photo apps from Japan in the past, and here’s another one tha...

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  • January 25, 2013
  • at 4:40 pm
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Hollywood stars using WeChat in China

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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HolidayIQ and Wego de-merge

India’s HolidayIQ Raises Series C Funding, De-Merges From Singapore’s Wego

Bangalore-based online travel community HolidayIQ has announced today that it has raised series C fi...

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  • February 7, 2013
  • at 7:45 pm
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Youku battles video pirates

China’s Top Video Site Adds QR Codes to Help Viewers Go Mobile

China’s top video site, Youku (NYSE:YOKU), has added QR codes to every video on its desktop websit...

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  • February 6, 2013
  • at 9:00 am
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Burpple Android app

Get a Taste of Burpple’s Brand-New Android App

It has been nine months since I first wrote about the foodie app Burpple, and in that time the Singa...

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  • February 5, 2013
  • at 12:50 pm
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Pocket supports Sina Weibo

Pocket App for iOS Gets Native Sharing to Sina Weibo

The ‘read it later’ app Pocket has looked to China for some inspiration for its newest u...

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  • February 1, 2013
  • at 12:49 pm
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Skunkworks Isn’t Shutting Down, It’s Rebooting

There are a lot of rumors flying around Saigon right now about Skunkworks, and I thought I’d try t...

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  • January 30, 2013
  • at 9:01 pm
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5 Years After Launching, Twitter-esque Startup Plurk Gets Series A Funding

Plurk has been around since 2008 as a social network that works like Twitter. It has proved popular ...

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  • January 28, 2013
  • at 10:13 am
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Growing Faster than Facebook and Twitter: Key Highlights for Japan’s Line App [Infographic]

Now boasting more than 100 million users on its Line mobile chat app, NHN Japan has released an info...

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  • January 25, 2013
  • at 12:00 pm
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