Posts Tagged: Social Media


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China’s Top Check-In App Adds Branded Photo Filters

China’s top check-in app has long been doing social marketing, connecting big-name brands like...

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  • June 18, 2013
  • at 9:00 pm
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With an Eye on Mobile Video Viewers, Youku and Sina Weibo Form a Partnership

With an eye to the many Sina Weibo users who access the Twitter-like service via mobile, two of Chin...

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  • June 7, 2013
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PPTV acquisition rumors include Alibaba

Alibaba Among 3 Suitors Vying to Make China’s Next Big Video Site Acquisition?

After last year’s billion dollar merger between Youku and Tudou, and last month’s acquisition of...

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  • June 5, 2013
  • at 11:12 am
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WeChat Sees Huge Boost in Philippines After Star-Studded TV Ads

Since ramping up TV and social marketing in the Philippines last month, China-made messaging app WeC...

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  • June 3, 2013
  • at 4:15 pm
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China Mobile Challenges Skype and WeChat With a New Globally Targeted App

China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), the world’s biggest mobile telco by user-base, has perhaps been...

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  • May 31, 2013
  • at 10:33 am
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Following CEO Shake-Up, Mixi Ploughs Seed Funding into Two Startups

Japan’s Facebook-like site Mixi has been struggling for a couple of years with stagnant user numbe...

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  • May 22, 2013
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Line app censors Chinese words

Line App is Primed and Ready to Censor Politically Sensitive Chinese Words

A few months ago we spotted that Tencent’s WeChat app was censoring certain ‘sensitive’ politi...

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  • May 21, 2013
  • at 11:28 am
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Chat App Battleground in Indonesia Getting Hotter as Line’s New TV Stars Look to Overpower KakaoTalk’s

It’s a fierce battlefield for chat apps in Indonesia. Today, Japan-based Line is going to roll out...

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  • May 16, 2013
  • at 5:08 pm
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Now With 8 Million Users, Cutesy Messaging App Cubie Adds Easy Mobile Payments Via Your Phone Bill

We know that cutesy sticker/emoticon packs are critical to the success of messaging apps in Asia ...

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  • June 14, 2013
  • at 4:55 pm
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Wanpai clones Vine app for China

YouTube Founders Have Made a Chinese Clone of Vine – And It’s Really Good

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are no stranger to the Chinese market having launched a ...

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  • June 7, 2013
  • at 11:45 am
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Japanese Netizens Have Fun Impersonating Line’s Cartoony Characters [PICS]

Japan-made social messaging app Line sees about 70 percent of users outside of Japan, which is a goo...

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  • June 3, 2013
  • at 8:00 pm
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MelonFriends Targets Overseas Chinese, Combines Twitter, Facebook and Weibo in One App

If you’ve got friends all over the globe, those buddies are probably scattered across not just lot...

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  • June 3, 2013
  • at 1:00 pm
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DeNA Starts Integrating Casino Games Into its Chat App Comm

Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on ...

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  • May 30, 2013
  • at 1:00 pm
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Does Path Have a Future in Indonesia?

Path, a social network that is only accessible through iPhone and Android devices, has been growing ...

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  • May 21, 2013
  • at 1:00 pm
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Wooz.in Connects the Offline and Online World, Both Locally and Abroad

In this day and age when a lot of people are connected online through popular social networks like F...

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  • May 17, 2013
  • at 9:00 pm
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Tencent Posts Rocketing Profits, Sees 195 Million Active Users on WeChat

China’s biggest web company by revenue has just posted its Q1 2013 financial report. Tencent (HKG:...

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  • May 15, 2013
  • at 6:39 pm
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