Google’s Eric Schmidt Drops in on Beijing, Reminds Chinese Devs that Android is Number One
Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Eric Schmidt dropped into the GeekPark conference in Beijing earlier to...
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China is often called a land of contradictions, and its tech industry is no different. Yes, the middle kingdom is the source of some hackers and copycats, but it’s also the source of some startling innovation, one of the world’s most unique and vibrant internet cultures, and some of the most passionate techies and gamers in the universe. China’s internet may be censored but that hasn’t stopped web, gaming, and mobile startups from springing up all over the country. Here at Tech in Asia we’ve got it all: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The hottest startups, the craziest copycats, and the darkest tales of censorship in Asia.
China’s Baidu Pushes Into Africa and Middle East With New Mobile Browser
Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has teamed up with mobile telco Orange (NYSE:FTE) to bring...
Duke University Takes to Sina Weibo to Connect with Potential Students
We’ve written much in the past about how individuals and organizations outside of China are ma...
Phucking Phablets: Huawei’s New Giant Phone is the Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Seen
Chinese mobile handset maker Huawei announced some new products at this year’s CES that have b...
Tencent Responds in Case of Apparent WeChat Censorship
Yesterday we broke the story of how WeChat, the world’s biggest Whatsapp-style messaging app, ...
British Retailer Marks and Spencer Launches Major E-Commerce Push in China
Marks and Spencer (LON:MKS) might have 12 brick-and-mortar stores in five Chinese cities already, bu...
24Quan Closes For Good
Chinese group buying site 24Quan, once in the country’s top five deals sites, has been in the ...
Now China’s WeChat App is Censoring Its Users Globally
We’ve written a lot about the progress of the world’s biggest messaging app, the China-m...
Autonavi’s Maps Apps Guide Over 100 Million Users in China
Regular readers will recall that Autonavi (NASDAQ:AMAP) makes the most popular mobile maps apps in C...
Here’s a Heatmap of WeChat Users Around the World
The WeChat messaging app seems to be China’s biggest social media export to date. But, apart f...
10 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week saw a torrent of Chinese social media news, which dominates the line-up you see here. We b...
Angel Investor Xu Xiaoping Calls for a Freer Chinese Internet
Like most of China’s big tech investment gurus, Xu Xiaoping is on Sina Weibo. And although fel...
China’s Biggest Online Mall Now Wants to be Your Supermarket
You’ve long been able to buy pretty much anything on China’s Taobao, right down to a single tube...
Chinese Internet Companies Should Stop Overseas Censorship
A few days ago, I wrote about a rant posted to Sina Weibo and spotted by Global Voices Online in whi...
Rumor: Weibo Celebrities Like Kaifu Lee Questioned by Chinese Police
As the Southern Weekend incident continues to boil in the Chinese media, weibo celebrities like Inno...
As Alibaba Gets More Social, Rumors Swirl of Acquisition of Music Site Xiami [UPDATE: Confirmed]
Just a few hours after Alibaba boss Jack Ma detailed the restructuring of the e-commerce giant into ...
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