Check Out the Biggest Winners and Losers among Chinese Web IPOs (CHART)
One is worth thousands of percent more today than when it IPO’d, while another is worth a mere dollar per share. Oh, the slings and ar...
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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.
Douban User Accounts Hacked, Used to Inflate the Rating of a Crappy Movie
When Douban user “jenny_junyi” woke up last Sunday, she found a surprise waiting for her in her Douban account. Overnight, she h...
An Experiment in HTML5 Gaming Inside WeChat
We get the feeling that the hugely popular messaging app WeChat will eventually move into social gaming. (We asked earlier this afternoon bu...
China’s M-Commerce Shopping Spree to Hit $27.1 Billion in 2014, Surpassing US Mobile Shoppers (Infographic)
We recently looked into China’s vast e-commerce market and saw that, by 2014, China will have an estimated 322 million e-shoppers who&...
China’s CCTV Accuses Apple of Bias Against Chinese Customers
Yesterday was World Consumer Rights Day. Every year in China on March 15, China’s official state broadcast network CCTV airs an invest...
Ctrip’s China Train Ticket Sales Could Be Illegal (But Not for the Reason You’re Thinking)
When I wrote earlier this week that Chinese travel site Ctrip had begun selling train tickets online again, I pointed out that it had done t...
Nearly 35% of Android Apps Are Secretly Stealing Private Data, Says China’s Latest DCCI Report
China’s awkwardly-named Data Center of China Internet (DCCI) released a new report on Wednesday about Android apps in the country, and...
Why China Can’t Make Its Own Mobile OS
Chinese companies have occasionally taken a stab at producing PC operating systems — StartOS is the coolest one we’ve seen, thou...
Microsoft Pushes Surface RT and WP8 in China With New Online Storefront
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has just expanded its retail channels in China by opening up a store within Tmall, China’s top B2C e-commerce ...
Xiaomi to Start Selling Smart Shoes (Yup, You Read That Right)
For a while now, Xiaomi has been taking advantage of its “cool factor” branding to sell lots of things that aren’t smartph...
Kaifu Lee: Check Out My Chart of How Often I Get Censored by Sina Weibo
Despite insisting that he’s no activist and is just keen on debating with his 33.4 million followers on Sina Weibo, entrepreneur and f...
7 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week
This week’s biggest China tech news stories swayed towards apps and mobile, startup insights, and e-commerce figures. Here’s our...
China’s Top E-Commerce Sites Saw 600% Growth in Mobile Shopping Last Year
We know that China’s netizens love shopping online – and collectively spend about $40,000 per second on local e-commerce sites &...
Four Reasons Online Games Block Chinese IPs
As I’ve said before, being a gamer in China isn’t always fun. Chinese publishers’ censorship of popular foreign games like...
China’s Baidu Has a Fun Animated Doodle for Pi Day (GIF)
Today, being 3.14 on the calendar, is Pi Day which commemorates the mathematical constant π (pi). It’s the ratio of a circle’s ...
Check Out the Numbers on China’s Top 10 Social Media Sites (Infographic)
With an estimated 597 million people active on social media in China, the country’s top 10 sites actually have a staggering 3.2 billion in...
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