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