Posts Categorized: Social Media


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LiiHo IM App: A New Way to Chat as You Draw Something and Doodle With Friends

A Taiwanese-made messaging app looks set to cash in on the craze for doodling that was stirred up by...

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  • April 5, 2012
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Instagram for Android Arrives, But Missing Sina Weibo Support

The massively popular Instagram app has just arrived on Android – but, oddly, it is missing th...

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  • April 4, 2012
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So, Uh, I Got a Condom in the Invitation Parcel from ‘Buy Me A Drink’ App

People are getting creative with their marketing tactics, because essentially you need to be differe...

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  • April 3, 2012
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Guess What? Tencent Clones Zynga’s Draw Something [LEAKED PICTURES]

No sooner has the smash-hit social game Draw Something been bought up by Zynga [1] than we hear that...

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  • April 2, 2012
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China’s Group Messaging Giant to Get English Name, WeChat, and Go Global

Weixin is already the world’s biggest group messaging app, having last week accrued 100 millio...

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  • April 2, 2012
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Sina, Tencent Weibo Punished for Spreading Rumors [UPDATED: All Comments Banned]

According to a Xinhua report from late Friday evening, a spokesman from China’s National Inter...

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  • March 31, 2012
  • at 1:22 am
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How to Post to Sina Weibo Without Registering Your Real Name

Well, we’re a couple weeks into the real-name regulations at Sina Weibo, and it seems like non...

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  • March 30, 2012
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Tencent CEO: Weixin Group Messaging App Hits 100 Million Users

Tencent’s (HKG:0700) CEO, Ma Hua Teng – also known as Pony Ma – has said on his mi...

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  • March 29, 2012
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Social Music Service Beatrobo Raises $600,000 in Funding

Social music site Beatrobo has received funding from three companies: CyberAgent Ventures, KLab Vent...

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  • April 5, 2012
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LinkedIn Launches Japanese ‘Navi’ Site

LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) is continuing its strong Asia push, having passed the 25 million user mark in t...

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  • April 4, 2012
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C2: The Social Network That Transports You to a Stranger’s Life

For all the power that the internet has to enable us to explore, poke, and pry, it is rarely done in...

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  • April 2, 2012
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Han Han Finally Starts Using Weibo

Han Han, one of China’s most popular bloggers and certainly its most popular author-slash-race...

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  • April 2, 2012
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China Not Too Bubbly

We all know that China is tough on censorship. So much so that it blocked out Sina and Tencent Weibo...

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  • April 2, 2012
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As Zuckerberg Visits Japan, Dentsu Extends Facebook Ad Sales Deal

Japanese advertising giant Dentsu (TYO:4324) announced (pdf) with Facebook today that their one year...

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  • March 30, 2012
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Cacoo Gives You a Virtual Whiteboard for Google+ Hangouts

We’ve written about Japanese startups Cacoo a few times before. You may recall that they opera...

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  • March 29, 2012
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Mark Zuckerberg is in China…Who Cares?

Mark Zuckerberg, I’m sure you’re aware, has been spotted in China. Whenever this happens...

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  • March 29, 2012
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