Finally, China’s Sina Weibo Rolls Out Partial English Interface [UPDATE: Sina Confirms]
Sina Weibo has over 400 million registered users, though it’s hard to know how many of those are overseas. Nonetheless, we’ve noticed to...
Posts Tagged: localization
Is Zodio Asia’s Yelp?
Zodio, the Thailand-born startup founded by Jai Govindani, is a company that aspires to be the Yelp of Asia. Launched in Thailand, it plans ...
88tc88 Receives Investment, Aspires to Bring Legit Western Content to China
Readers may recall late last year we wrote about startup 88tc88, which helps artists and record labels sell their music legally in China. Th...
What Do You Do When Tencent Copies? Here Are 10 Ways a Startup Can Beat the Giant
Some of you might have read this article where it quotes Stephen Bell, a Shanghai-based partner at Trinity Ventures, who says he hears this ...
LinkedIn Now in 3 New Languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean
Update: We asked why LinkedIn has decided to go with Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean first. And here’s the team’s take: ...
Memolane to Partner with Digital Garage on Japan Localization
Social media scrapbook/timeline service Memolane just announced on its blog that it will be creating a localized version of its service for ...
Foursquare Adds Indonesian Language, But Lacks Accuracy
On its blog, Foursquare has announced that it has added Bahasa Indonesia and four other languages (Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Thai) to ...
Why You Should Consider Building Apps for China’s Ethnic Minorities
As the Chinese internet and mobile markets grow, a lot of people are looking to localize their products in China. In general, this might mea...
3rdKind Bringing More Foreign Smartphone Apps to Japan’s Mobile Market
Japan’s 3rdKind Inc. has just announced a new partnership with London-based games and apps developer AMA Ltd (Advanced Mobile Applicat...
Rocket Internet’s Amazon Clone, Lazada, Hits Indonesia
Rocket Internet recently launched fashion e-commerce site Zalora, and now it has brought out another e-commerce venture that’s focused on ...
Diablo 3 Korean Localization Nearly Done, Chinese Not So Much？
Blizzard games are big in Korea. Starcraft is a sport there and WoW is a passion, so Diablo 3 — which will be released next year ̵...
iOS Download Stats for China Show the Importance of App Localization [INFOGRAPHIC]
New statistics showing the popularity of various free and paid iOS apps in China show the great importance of localization. And now that Chi...
Tencent Weibo Launches English Version, Goes Bilingual Faster than Sina
While surfing around Tencent Weibo today, we realized something unique about the Chinese microblogging site – it has launched an optio...
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