Posts Tagged: shanzhai


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Scammers in China Exploit Apple to Turn Fake iPhones into Real Ones

Apple has been taking quite a bit of stick over the last month for its after-sales service practices...

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  • April 12, 2013
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Chinese Mobile Phones Hold a Big Chunk of East African Market, But That’s Not a Good Thing

Just yesterday, I wrote about China’s soft-power failures from a regulatory perspective, and t...

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  • December 19, 2012
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China’s Biggest Search Engine Sees Android Dominate, But iPhone Top for Pageviews

China’s top search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), has released its newest mobile trends report, ...

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  • August 14, 2012
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Return of the Knockoffs: Shanzhai Manufacturers Switching to Smartphones

The feature phone era was a godsend for the thousands of manufacturers of China’s shanzhai ...

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  • July 9, 2012
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Guess What? Tencent Clones Zynga’s Draw Something [LEAKED PICTURES]

No sooner has the smash-hit social game Draw Something been bought up by Zynga [1] than we hear that...

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  • April 2, 2012
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Path Gets Cloned Again in China, But With a Focus on Following Celebrities

The American social network Path has got itself another Chinese clone. This new imposter is called D...

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  • March 21, 2012
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Taobao Launches Microsite to “Name and Shame” Counterfeit Sellers and Cheats

Alibaba has long been criticized for not being tough enough on cheats and counterfeiters who use pla...

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  • March 8, 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, a...

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  • March 6, 2012
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Chinese League of Legends Clone Hopes to Capture a Slice of China’s DOTA Market with Home-Grown Heroes

China’s casual and social gamers are growing by the day, especially on mobile platforms. But w...

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  • April 2, 2013
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Chinese Studio Blatantly Copies Foreign Indie Game, Developers Pissed [UPDATED]

China has made great strides away from its reputation as the home of all things fake and copied over...

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  • August 17, 2012
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China’s Mobile Phone Exports to US Way Up, Exports to Africa Way Down

China makes an awful lot of mobile phones. Most of those phones are exported and sold elsewhere. So ...

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  • August 9, 2012
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Fujian Taobao Vendor Sentenced to Three Years for Selling Fake Converse Shoes

A Fujian woman who operated a Taobao shop selling fake Converse shoes was sentenced to three years i...

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  • May 3, 2012
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‘Fake’ Android Store in China Can’t Resist Selling iPhones Too

In the south China city of Zhuhai, one enterprising phone vendor has opened an ‘Android’...

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  • March 22, 2012
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Baidu: iPhone Now the Leading Handset Bringing Traffic to its Search Engine

Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China’s most-used search engine, has revealed updated statistics showing ...

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  • March 12, 2012
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Meet Hedy, China’s Most Audacious Smartphone Cloners

Whoever works at the design department at Hedy (SHE:002027), a Chinese phone manufacturer, must have...

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  • March 8, 2012
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Are Pinterest Clones the New Groupon Clones in China?

What a difference a year makes! A year ago, inspired by the success of Groupon in the US, group buy ...

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  • March 2, 2012
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