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6 Reasons Samsung, HTC, and Motorola Should Fear the New Wave of Chinese...
This year and last has seen a wave of smartphones and mobiles OSes being launched by Chinese web companies such as Alibaba (Aliyun), Qihoo, Shanda, Baidu, and Xiaomi. All those are very familiar names...
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WeChat to Get Voice and Video Calling in v4.2 Update
Tencent’s popular group messaging app WeChat – with its army of over 100 million users – looks set to get video and voice chat added to its feature-set pretty soon. This has been revealed by...
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Chinese iOS Developers Earn Only 3 Cents Per Download
Screenshots of a commissioned report about Chinese iOS app developers (pictured below) reveal a tale of woe in the struggle to monetize their apps. For starters, each app download nets a Chinese...
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Hit the Road With Sina’s New App for Chinese Drivers
China’s love affair with the car and the open road (traffic jams permitting) has only just begun, and so it’s a good time for local web company Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) to launch its new map-oriented,...
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Sina Clones Path for New Meyou App, Only For Your Bestest Bestest Buddies
Sina – makers of China’s hit Twitter-esque service Weibo – has got all its developers hitting copy-and-paste, producing a new social network that looks every bit a Path clone. Called Meyou –...
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Sync or Swim: Android-to-Windows App SnapPea Gets Global Launch
In some people’s eyes, Android has always had a missing link. Or a missing sync. Namely, a desktop-oriented way to manage your phone’s apps and music, rather like iTunes. So here’s a new contender...
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Xiaomi and MIUI Reach For the Cloud With New MiDrive
Here comes yet another cloud storage service that’s geared towards smartphone users. The Xiaomi-owned MIUI team, which makes the Android-based OS in China’s Xiaomi phones and which also can be...
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Speculative Specs: This Should Be the Next Xiaomi Phone
The Xiaomi M1 will be a tough act to follow. But the phone is nearing its 1st birthday, and so it's time for the next iteration... In the space of just one year, the Chinese startup Xiaomi has gone...
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After 5 Million Travel App Downloads, Chinese Startup Seeks $1 Million in...
Building a startup that’s focused on free apps is always a tricky business, and so the Chinese company 8684 is heralding its milestone of five million users of just one of its series of travel and...
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WeChat Update Brings Video and Voice Calling to Its iPhone App
Remember those screenshots of a rumored new video calling feature in WeChat, the Chinese-made group messaging app that has more than 100 million users? Well, it turns out all that was true, and v4.2...
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China’s E-Commerce King Gets Social With Laiwang App, Wants Users to Get...
Laiwang app for Windows Phone. China’s biggest e-commerce company now has a social network of its own in the form of Laiwang, which launched quietly earlier this week with apps for Android, iOS, and...
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Momo App Hits 10 Million Users, A Whole Lot of Flirting Going On
For a startup to go from zero to ten million users in the space of a year, and to have done so very organically, is impressive. And so Beijing-based Momo, makers of the flirtatious location-based app...
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Weico, the Funkiest App For Weibo, Lands on Windows Phone
Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS will soon get a spoonful of sugar courtesy of a cute new app by a Beijing startup. Now in public beta but not yet uploaded to the WP Marketplace, the app is Weico, which...
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Baidu Maps Launches on Windows Phone With a Killer Feature
(Image via WPDang.com) Although Microsoft’s Windows Phone (WP) mobile OS seems to be only having modest success in China and around the globe, it has nonetheless attracted a lot of Chinese web...
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Call Me Maybe: Chinese E-Commerce Site Debuts a Group Messaging App
China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba has always had a chat app – but this week it has been completely revamped, metamorphosing from a fusty old IM-style app (called AliWangWang) to the newly rolled out,...
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Empire Glory Makers Plan More Freemium Gaming Titles for iOS
Last week we reported that the number of startups based in the Chinese capital, Beijing, was dropping, and resolved to find web companies based outside of the usual startup hubs. Here’s another [1]:...
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Born This Way: China Gets its First Gay Flirting App, Blued
We’ve seen quite a few Chinese location-based apps for lads and ladies to flirt and get together – such as Mix and Momo – and now there’s one for gay guys too. Called Blued, it’s newly launched on...
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TaoZhiBao Shakes Up Jobs Listings Market, Adds 5,000 New Jobs Per Hour
One Chinese startup is shaking up the county’s jobs listings market with a simple app that scrapes jobs postings from many major job search services as well as from over 10,000 corporate sites –...
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6 Hot Startups From China’s Spiciest Province
The Chinese province of Sichuan (sometimes still referred to in the anachronistic spelling “Szechwan”) is home to the country’s spiciest food. And these days, despite being far from the tech hubs...
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WeChat App Adds Integration with Twitter and Facebook as It Goes Global
This newest WeChat update also adds downloadable emoticon packs. The Chinese-made messaging app WeChat – which boasts over 100 million registered users – has seen an update to its iPhone app today that...
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