Posts Tagged: Shenzhen


Chinese City Bans Taxi Finder Smartphone Apps, Threatens to Punish Drivers Who Use Them

Chinese City Bans Taxi Finder Smartphone Apps, Threatens to Punish Drivers Who Use Them

Taking a cab in China can be a real pain, but increasingly, smartphone apps can make the process quicker and easier by allowing you to conta...

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  • May 23, 2013
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ZTE Wins Major Contract to Build China Mobile’s 4G Network in 5 Cities

Phone-maker and telecoms firm ZTE (HKG:0763; SHE:000063) might be reviled in the US, but it’s still loved by fellow Chinese companies....

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  • October 16, 2012
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China’s Broadband Speeds Show Shanghai Zooming Ahead [INFOGRAPHIC]

Regular readers will know that China is aiming for 100 Mbps broadband in some regions by 2015. But for now, most Chinese web users spend a l...

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  • September 20, 2012
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AngelVest Preps $10 Million China Fund, Will Focus on Seed Funding

In great news for China-based startups, they’ll soon have a new potential source of seed funding in the form of a $10 million fund fro...

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  • August 13, 2012
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Zaarly Brings Its Marketplace to China, With New Name and Apps

Zaarly, the American startup that helps people outsource simple errands and tasks, has launched in China with the Chinese name Jieqoo, and s...

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  • May 4, 2012
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Chinese Shanzhai Phone Sales in India are Nose-Diving

Indian consumers’ love affair with cheap and gimmick-packed Chinese phones seems to be over, as reports emerge that all ‘shanzha...

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  • March 6, 2012
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Baidu Breaks Ground on New International HQ – But Not in Beijing

Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China’s biggest search engine, has today broken ground on a new campus building that will eventually be home to 1...

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  • January 16, 2012
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HAXLR8R Invites Hardware Startups to Accelerator Program in China, Chance to Pitch in US

We received a note today from the folks at Chinaccelerator alerting us to their just-launched HAXLR8R, a partnership accelerator program wit...

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  • December 8, 2011
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New Shenzhen Apple Store Set to Open November 3rd

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has set an official opening date for its seventh store in mainland China – and its first in the south of the count...

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  • October 29, 2012
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Australian Entrepreneurs Aim to Reinvent the Light Bulb With LIFX

Last Thursday, I was catching up over the phone with a friend, Ben Hamey, a mobile app developer from Melbourne. He told me about a new proj...

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  • September 20, 2012
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Why the 2013 Minimum Wage Hike in Shenzhen, China’s First Tech Hub, is Not That Scary

The hi-tech manufacturing hub around the city of Shenzhen, in southern China, is set to be hit with a rise in the minimum wage of 13.3 perce...

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  • August 30, 2012
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Rumor: China Mobile Conducting First “Open” 4G Tests in Shenzhen This Month

China Mobile (HKG:0941, NYSE:CHL) has lost a lot of ground thanks to its choice of TD-SCDMA for its 3G network, but the company is determine...

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  • May 7, 2012
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Report: Already 200,000 New iPads Smuggled Into Shenzhen, China

Chinese media are quoting grey importers – those who smuggle gadgets across borders, evading taxes and making a quick profit – a...

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  • March 20, 2012
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One Chinese City Raids an Apple Reseller in Growing iPad Trademark Row

Government officials in the city of Shijiazhuang raided an unnamed Apple reseller (not an official brand store) over the weekend, seizing 45...

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  • February 13, 2012
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As Small Factories Shut in Huge Numbers, Is China’s Shanzhai Industry Dying?

China’s ramshackle cottage industry of low-grade phone and gadget makers – known as shanzhai in Chinese – looks to be on t...

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  • January 11, 2012
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With 229 TB of RAM, China Invests More in its Supercomputers, Cloud Computing

What do Tianjin, Shenzhen, Changsha and Ji’nan Have In Common? They’re all home to China’s four biggest supercomputer cent...

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  • November 11, 2011
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