Posts Tagged: social


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New PIP Camera App and its Wacky Special Effects Hit 2.5 Million iPhone Downloads

If you’ve seen your friends taking some wacky photos of themselves recently – as if they’r...

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  • January 8, 2013
  • at 12:46 pm
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This is the Year that China’s Coolest Music Streaming Startup Should Come of Age [REVIEW]

Jing.fm was one of the coolest new startups to emerge in China in 2012, a music-streaming service so...

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  • January 4, 2013
  • at 7:30 pm
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Study: Actually Only About 20,000 Twitter Users in China [INFOGRAPHIC]

Remember that bizarre kerfuffle over the dubious stats showing that China had tens of millions of Tw...

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  • January 3, 2013
  • at 7:20 pm
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Sina Weibo mobile strategy

Sina CEO Battle Cry: Time to Restructure, Focus on Weibo, Go “Mobile First”

The major Chinese web portal Sina (NASDAQ:SINA), maker of the hugely popular Sina Weibo, is keen to ...

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  • December 28, 2012
  • at 2:50 pm
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10 Insane Cases of Censorship on Sina Weibo in 2012

It has been a doubleplusgood year for Sina Weibo in terms of doubling its registered user count to 4...

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  • December 24, 2012
  • at 3:20 pm
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Welcome to Purgatory: Sina Weibo Now Delaying Mentions of ‘Sensitive’ Words by 7 Days

Users of Sina Weibo that mention things somewhat more controversial than cats or food might find the...

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  • December 21, 2012
  • at 4:19 pm
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Tencent: WeChat App Set to Surpass 300 Million Users Next Month

Already the world’s biggest messaging app, WeChat seems to be accelerating its growth even fur...

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  • December 18, 2012
  • at 4:49 pm
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Sina Weibo Android App Adds Support for Social App Recommendations

Friends and online contacts are a great source of app recommendations. And Sina Weibo, China’s...

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  • December 11, 2012
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New Study Proves that Twitter Users in China are Rare Birds

We recently looked at some stats compiled by a Chinese netizen that showed a mere 18,164 Twitter use...

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  • January 7, 2013
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Vietnamese Tech News Sites, Give Us More Vietnam and Less Silicon Valley

In Vietnam, if you want to read information about the technology industry, there are tons of sources...

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  • January 4, 2013
  • at 6:30 pm
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7 Superb New Apps from China in 2012

With smartphone sales in China up 199 percent this year, all those phone owners will be keen to snap...

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  • December 31, 2012
  • at 12:30 pm
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The Rise and Fall of China’s First Hit Social Game (The One Zynga Ripped Off as FarmVille)

Remember FarmVille, the social game that put Zynga on the map? That was pretty much ripped off from ...

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  • December 28, 2012
  • at 1:33 pm
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Aiming at Indonesia and Beyond, WeChat Launches Beta BlackBerry App

We know that the China-made messaging app WeChat has global ambitions, and that’s made even more c...

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  • December 21, 2012
  • at 8:55 pm
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The Top 10 Chinese Searches on Baidu in 2012 — Hint: There’s a Lot About Corruption

Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) loves lists as much as the next human, so the leading Chinese search engine has ...

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  • December 20, 2012
  • at 3:30 pm
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O Check-In All Ye Faithful: Jiepang and Starbucks Tie-Up For More Christmas Fun

Coffee chain Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) is keeping its relationship with Jiepang, China’s top Fou...

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  • December 12, 2012
  • at 9:00 am
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Going More Social and Mobile, Sina’s E-Payments Service to be Rebranded WeiboPay

When Sina (NASDAQ:SINA), makers of the Twitter-like Weibo, launched its social gaming platform and v...

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  • December 10, 2012
  • at 10:11 pm
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