Fab’s $150M Backers Include Tencent and Itochu, Plans to Launch in China and Maybe Japan
American design-oriented e-commerce site Fab has just raised $150 million in the first part of its series D funding. For us, the most intere...
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WeChat Under Suspicion from Indian Intelligence Bureau
Chinese tech companies are having a rough year in India! First Huawei and ZTE were refused domestic telecom status, then they were placed un...
WeChat Celebrates Ramadan in Indonesia
Tencent’s WeChat has teamed up with Indonesian creative network and marketplace Kreavi for a Ramadan-themed contest to create the be...
Test Version of Major WeChat Upgrade Leaked: More Scanning, More Shaking, More Shopping
Tencent’s WeChat continues to grow and evolve beyond its origins as a pretty simple chat app. Yesterday, QQ Tech somehow got its hands...
WeChat Makes Push for Emerging Markets With New Nokia Asha App
China-made social messaging app WeChat is once again making a push for new users in emerging markets by launching a new version of the app f...
Report: Qidian Founder Arrested, Ugly Rumors May Implicate Shanda, Tencent
Caixin reported yesterday that according to sources at Shanda Literature (Shanda’s online literature subsidiary), Qidian (a Shanda Lit...
WeChat Now Has 50 Million Users Outside of China
Early last month we mentioned that WeChat, the China-made messaging app, had 40 million users outside of the country. Today Tencent (HKG:070...
Baidu and Tencent Thought to be Vying to Acquire Mobile Antivirus Expert
Antivirus products and services have been a renewed battleground in China in the past couple of years, enveloping several of the country’s...
WeChat Gets In-App Purchases; The Pics Look Slick But Will Users Like This?
Well, you all knew it was coming. The e-commerce train has been rumbling toward the mobile chat app station for months now, and its arrival ...
WeChat Looks to Take on Qihoo as New Security Feature Comes to V5.0
Last week we wrote about some of the new features rumored to be coming to version 5.0 of WeChat, but the National Business Daily is now repo...
WeChat Competitor Feixin: 100 Million Users, But Low Activity Levels
Over the past year, Tencent’s WeChat has exploded. So much so, in fact, that you might forget that other mobile messaging services wer...
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 WeChat has been holding onto the top positi...
China’s Top 6 Online Gaming Companies Pulled in Over $2 Billion in Q1
Now that everyone has posted their first quarter financials for this year we can see how much China’s web giants are making out of gam...
Tencent to Open Malaysia Office: Good News for Malaysian Startups?
The overseas expansion of Chinese tech giant Tencent continues, following along with the success of its mobile chat app WeChat outside China...
Who Owns Your WeChat Posts?
It’s an issue that seems to pop up for every developing social platform that doesn’t spell things out clearly at first: who owns...
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:0700) reports rocketing revenues and pro...
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