Acer Launches Aliyun OS Phone as China’s E-Commerce Giant Challenges Android [HANDS-ON]
Today, the mobile OS created by Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce company, is getting its first big-name hardware in the sleek shape...
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Mobile Commerce in China Hits $1.8 Billion in Sales This Quarter
Yes, 95.7 percent of China’s e-commerce sales are made from PCs, but the number made on mobiles is growing fast. For 2012 Q2, iResearc...
IDC: China Will Become 1/4 of the World’s Smartphone Market This Year
Yesterday global market intelligence firm IDC announced that by the end of 2012, China will be the market for more than one-quarter of the w...
Call Me Maybe: Leaked Photos Show WeChat Earphones for Easier Voice Messaging
Looking like a cross between Apple’s iconic, minimalist earphones and the blood-red buds from Beats Audio, these leaked photos suggest...
Making a Play for Game Developers, Guohe Launches New Mobile Gaming Ad Platform
One of China’s leading mobile advertising companies, Guohe Ads, has a new product out this week that’s aimed squarely at enablin...
PT Inti Plans to Produce Smartphones and Tablets
According to Kontan, PT Inti has announced its plan to produce smartphones and tablets. PT Inti is one of Indonesia’s Badan Usaha Mili...
Phone-Maker Xiaomi Claims Nearly $1 Billion in Revenue in 2012 H1
Xiaomi, the young Chinese company that has shaken up the smartphone world with its keenly-priced M1 smartphone (pictured above), has announc...
Speculative Specs: This Should Be the Next Xiaomi Phone
In the space of just one year, the Chinese startup Xiaomi has gone from being the maker of an Android-based ROM beloved of Android tweakers ...
Alibaba: Investing $150+ Million a Year in Mobile OS to Beat Android, iOS
China’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba, launched its Aliyun mobile OS back in July of last year, bringing an entirely new mobile ...
WeChat App Adds Integration with Twitter and Facebook as It Goes Global
The Chinese-made messaging app WeChat – which boasts over 100 million registered users – has seen an update to its iPhone app to...
Baidu Still Pushing Its Mobile OS, Today Launches on 3rd Phone
China’s biggest search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) is pushing forward its mobile OS even more with the launch today of a new phone car...
Lenovo’s Smartphone Sales Up 44 Times in China This Year
The world is going mobile, and Lenovo is going with it even as it is also moving closer to being the world’s biggest maker of desktop ...
Tencent’s OCR App Gets a Fresh Pair of Eyes, Now More Like Google Goggles
Last September I reviewed a new translation app from China’s Tencent (HKG:0700) that uses OCR technology to read words, via the phone&...
Canalys: Smartphone Sales Up 199% in China This Year, Samsung Sells the Most
It has been another record-breaking quarter of smartphone sales in China with more than 42 million shipped in the country in Q2 2012. That&#...
WeChat Update Brings Video and Voice Calling to Its iPhone App
Remember those screenshots of a rumored new video calling feature in WeChat, the Chinese-made group messaging app that has more than 100 mil...
India’s Makemytrip Makes an iPhone App, Finally
India’s biggest online travel service, Makemytrip (NASDAQ:MMYT), finally has an iPhone app to its name. Coming two months after the la...
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