Miliao

The first big chat app in China wasn’t Tencent’s WeChat, it was Xiaomi’s Miliao. Back in 2010 when the app first launched, Xiaomi was less widely-known, and its chat offering

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun China’s Xiaomi has gone from a little startup with a hip Android ROM to a mobile giant whose latest valuation may have the company worth more

Chinese startup phone-maker Xiaomi has tapped enterprise software company SAP (NYSE:SAP) to help its users send global SMS with ease. This will be especially useful for Xiaomi as it expands

On stage at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing this morning, Lei Jun (pictured), CEO and founder at Xiaomi, was posed a question by the audience on his

China’s Xiaomi not only makes a range of popular Android-based smartphones (a whopping 7.19 million sold in 2012) but also its own group messaging app. Called Miliao in Chinese (and

The makers of China’s hottest homegrown smartphone, Xiaomi, has made a curious acquisition in the form of the team behind the third-party messaging app MSNLite. The financial details of the

The opening sessions of GMIC 2012 were, unsurprisingly, all about mobile. Tencent CEO Pony Ma and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun are both men with extensive experience in PC-based web development,

It’s hard to believe that less than a year ago, Xiaomi hadn’t even released its phone onto the market. Now, versions of its handset are available for multiple carriers, heavily

Two of China’s coolest startups have joined hands to make it easier for friends to share music via mobile messaging. In the deal, songs from Xiami (a Last FM-like service)

the Xiaomi M1 We’ve done a fair amount of reporting on Xiaomi’s M1 smartphone, and apparently I got caught up in the hype, because a little over a month ago,