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Forrest Chen sold his first startup to Alibaba, stumbled with a venture in India, but ultimately struck success with a Clubhouse-like voice app for rural Asia.

With an eye to global expansion and battling Line and WeChat, Alibaba just invested in this social gaming platform.

Quixey, the search engine for apps that Alibaba invested $50 million into, has partnered with the Chinese ecommerce titan to launch deep mobile search in China.

Umeng, the Beijing-based mobile analytics firm, just released a report comparing smartphone usage in China’s first, second, and third-tier cities, and it’s an absolute must-read. Using data collected from over

By the end of 2013, China had 700 million active smart devices, according to the latest report from Umeng, the country’s largest app analytics platform. 59 percent of those replaced consumers’

(Pre-photoshopped image from balanceofculture.com) Android is huge in China, with an estimated 270 million actively using an Android phone right now. We know which brands Chinese Android users like to

Umeng, the Chinese app analytics firm formed by Google, Yahoo, and Baidu alumni, confirmed that it has been acquired by Alibaba. Media reports disclosed no figure for the cost of the

Umeng is serving over 100,000 mobile apps across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, with more than 50 percent of all Chinese developers using the service.

We’ve heard a lot about sales and projections for smartphones in China – such as 199 percent smartphone growth in the past year – but how about active mobiles in

iPhone 5 for sale on taobao.com Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 5 has yet to officially launch in China, but that hasn’t kept it from grabbing what could be as much as