China’s Top Check-In App Adds Branded Photo Filters
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Alibaba Among 3 Suitors Vying to Make China’s Next Big Video Site Acquisition?
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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...
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...
Following CEO Shake-Up, Mixi Ploughs Seed Funding into Two Startups
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Line App is Primed and Ready to Censor Politically Sensitive Chinese Words
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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...
Now With 8 Million Users, Cutesy Messaging App Cubie Adds Easy Mobile Payments Via Your Phone Bill
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YouTube Founders Have Made a Chinese Clone of Vine – And It’s Really Good
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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...
MelonFriends Targets Overseas Chinese, Combines Twitter, Facebook and Weibo in One App
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DeNA Starts Integrating Casino Games Into its Chat App Comm
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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 ...
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...
Tencent Posts Rocketing Profits, Sees 195 Million Active Users on WeChat
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