Just.me Launches as a Messaging App to Kill Off Facebook, Looks to Asia for Big Boost
Oh great, another messaging app. But now that these are clearly ubiquitous social tools, we’ll have to get used to seeing new ones lau...
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SocialAgent Helps Make Sense of Business on Chinese Social Media
SocialAgent.me is an online lead generation tool to help businesses find leads in the Chinese market. Based between Shenzhen, China and Hong...
China’s Social Media Landscape 2013 (INFOGRAPHIC)
The good folks from CIC have just released their refreshed China social media landscape infographic for 2013. Generally speaking, more playe...
Groovy, Baby: DeNA Launches Social Music App for Japan
When the Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) rebranded a couple of months ago, it also teased an upcoming social music service. Tod...
Why KakaoTalk Will Win the TV Ad Battlefield in Indonesia
TV advertisements have proven to work very well for chat apps in Indonesia. China-based WeChat and Japan’s Line have been propelled to the...
QQ, China’s Top IM, Launches As a Facebook App
With 798 million monthly active users, Tencent’s (HKG:0700) QQ instant messenger is far and away China’s most-used social networ...
6 Chinese Social Sites Will Turn Off the Lights Tomorrow for ‘Earth Hour’
Tomorrow, as 8:30pm rolls around the globe, lots of landmark buildings will turn off their lights to observe Earth Hour and remind the world...
Messaging Apps Invade Asia, Now the Most Active Social Networks in Japan and Korea (Infographic)
We’ve been following the rapid progress of messaging apps very closely across Asia, and we’ve even noted that they might be a th...
PixBento: Facebook Albums Suck, We’re Going to Do Photo Sharing the Right Way
Quite a few startups are trying – or have tried and failed – to crack the first-world problem of how to share and transfer image...
Singapore Startup BillPin Acquires Larger Rival BillMonk
It’s not too often that an acquisition happens around here – even less so do we see a startup snap up a larger rival. But that&#...
From Malls to Markets, Wooplr Brings Social Shopping to India
Most people turn to friends and online buddies for shopping recommendations of all kinds. India-based social shopping app Wooplr wants to be...
Jongla Pushes into Asia, Focuses on Content in Messaging App Battle
The world’s top messaging apps might have over half a billion users between them, but plenty of startups still see room for growth ...
China’s Renren Looks to Emulate the Sexting Success of Snapchat
China’s Facebook-like Renren (NYSE:RENN) looks set to be the first major Chinese web company to launch a Snapchat clone. Called FeiFei...
China Will Have 300 Million Android Users by the End of 2013 (INFOGRAPHIC)
Let’s start Monday morning with some big numbers. Now that smartphones account for 73.2 percent of all mobiles sold in China, and with man...
China’s Online Clothing Sales Hit $50 Billion, But Luxury Fashion Brands Lack Commitment
China’s online sales of clothing were worth $50 billion in 2012, but only 41 percent of luxury fashion brands have any e-commerce offering...
An Experiment in HTML5 Gaming Inside WeChat
We get the feeling that the hugely popular messaging app WeChat will eventually move into social gaming. (We asked earlier this afternoon bu...
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