Watch Out Facebook, Asian Messaging Apps Are Gonna Karate Chop You
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Kaifu Lee: I’ve Been Banned From Weibo for 3 Days
Entrepreneur and former Google country manager for China, Kaifu Lee, is often outspoken on his Chine...
Lessons in Monetizing Apps and Games in Smartphone-Mad Korea and Japan [INFOGRAPHIC]
Japan and Korea are at the forefront of Asia’s rush to smartphones, and are also markets where...
Brad Pitt Banned From China Again (This Time From Sina Weibo)
American actor Brad Pitt has been banned from China proper for some time thanks to his performance i...
Hong Kong’s Surround App Translates Sina Weibo Content into English
Read any news report out of China today, and chances are it’ll include a smarmy comment or two fro...
WeChat Moves Towards Monetization, Beta-Testing ‘Custom Menu’ Feature for Brands
Tencent’s WeChat (known as Weixin in China) is big — like 300 million users big. But Chi...
Crazy Weibo Rumors Report Tencent CEO Pony Ma’s Death (But He’s Totally Fine)
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China Sends 1.1 Billion Holiday Greeting Texts, But Texting is Losing Ground to WeChat
We already saw that Sina Weibo had a bang-up morning this past holiday weekend, with over 34,000 pos...
Rumor: Tencent Invests in Chinese Social Sharing Platform JiaThis
The last time we heard from Chinese social sharing platform JiaThis, it was because the company had ...
Deng Fei Launches Weibo Campaign to Share Images of Water Pollution
Web journalist/activist Deng Fei is already a pretty famous guy in China’s cyberspace. In part...
Kobe Bryant Joins Sina Weibo, Says Nothing, Gets Many Followers
It seems like every day another Western celebrity is joining Sina Weibo, and LA Lakers star Kobe Bry...
KakaoTalk Challenges Apple and Google with New Digital Publishing Platform
The Korean-made messaging app KakaoTalk has over 70 million users and a social gaming platform runni...
Indian Startup Wants to Find Your Facebook PairBuddy (So Maybe You’ll Bang With Friends Tonight)
It’s Valentine’s Day, so those without an object of affection might be looking for a new...
Tokyo Otaku Mode Attracts Funding for Its Manga-Mad Portal
We’ve seen the niche community called Tokyo Otaku Mode pass 10 million Facebook ‘likes&#...
11 Hot Mobile Messaging Apps from Asia and How They’re Super-Innovative
With the numbers Rick released on mobile messaging apps growth, and Willis’ post on how heated the...
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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