Jiepang Celebrates Two Year Anniversary with New App
Jiepang, China’s location-based service today announced a brand new Jiepang 5 app in a celebration for the company’s two-year anniversary. The new app, which according to David Liu co-founder and CEO of the Beijing-based startup would be made available in App Store soon, will adopt a new interface design that highlights some new functions like...
Sina: We’ll Keep on Investing in Weibo
Sina’s latest earnings report show that the leading Chinese online portal site’s net revenue increased 6% year over year to US$106.2 million whereas its loss reached US$13.7 million. “Our brand advertising business got off to a relatively slow start in the first quarter due to the softening of macroeconomic conditions in China,” said Charles Cao,...
Tencent Invests US$63M into KakaoTalk the Korean WeChat
Tencent revealed in its latest financial report that the company has acquired 13.54% of Korean mobile communication app KakaoTalk with US$ 63.7 million. The deal was completed in last month. KakaoTalk, which supports iOS, Android, Blackberry and of course Samsung’s Bada platform, shares the similar functions that Tencent’s WeChat has, like free text messaging, stranger...
Baidu To Release a New Mobile OS and A New Phone With a Secret Partner
Baidu the leading Chinese search engine seems to be determined to enter the smartphone market. The company was said to release a new mobile operating system Baidu Yun next week with a hardware vendor to jointly announce a device based on the OS. Rumors said that the partner is ZTE (a leading Chinese telecom equipment...
Beijing Start-up, CloudAcc Can Save Online Video Streaming Sites Like Youku and Hulu 50% on Bandwidth Costs
China indeed has a fiercelycompetitiveonlinevideomarket. Last month it was reported that the number one video site, Youku acquired the number two video site Tudou. Shortly after, news broke out of the newly formed alliance between Tencent’s v.qq.com, tv.Sohu and Baidu’s iQiyi. A big reason for the flurry of M&A activity has been the difficulty to...
Tencent Weixin’s Open Platform Launched
Once you built your brand and reached certain good amount of users, the next to-do might be to launch an open platform to integrate various services from third-parties. If you can manage this open platform well and make it the no.1 choice for third parties, you will see a brilliant future ahead. That’s what Facebook...
Qihoo Phone to Continue the Same Profit-Making Story on Mobile Front
Like I said, don’t claim yourself to be a major Internet company in China now if you haven’t come up with your own brand smart phone. With Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and so on all debuted their device for quite a while, Qihoo 360 the digital world‘s safeguard unexpectedly made public its smartphone scheme lately in...
Baidu to Launch Cloud-Powered Photo Sharing Service: Baidu Xiangce
A new photo sharing service Baidu Xiangce (translates to Baidu Album) was launched secretly by Baidu lately. This is part of the broad strategy of the search giant to expand its business into cloud forefronts. According to Wang Jing, the vice president of its engineering division and head of mobile, “We have a few partnerships...
Are You the Chinese Jeff Bezos?
Lei Jun, the renowned Internet tycoon and CEO of Xiaomi, had a lot to say in the recent Global Internet Mobile Conference, where he shared his thoughts on a number of topics. For example, Mr. Lei claims that traditional business logic does not apply to the Internet. There is certainly some truth to that. Focusing...
Korean Mobile App Tree Planet, Turns Growing Virtual Trees into Planting Real Trees
My friend Sean Park told me about an innovative Korean app called Tree Planet that aims to re-balance the world from deforestation. Many apps are made to make money, but not many are made to save the earth. Tree Planet is a great example of how technology and smartphones can be used to impact the...
With WlanPlus, You Can Use ChinaMobile’s WiFi Service For Free!
Even you are a subscriber of 3G service, when sitting at a public place like cafe, airport, hotel etc, you may still want to connect the WiFi because 3G sometime really sucks. Then on the list of the public WiFi networks, you may always find some SSID names such as CMCC which is the nationwide...
E-Reading App Maker Duokan Received US$ 10M from Leijun
Local news broke that Duokan, a Beijing-based e-reading app maker has received US$ 10 million from China’s well-known angel Leijun among other investors including Xu Xiaoping and MorningSide Ventures. Founded in 2010, with Leijun and Xu Xiaoping, founder of ZhenFund and a well-respected Chinese angel sitting on its board, Duokan earned its early fame through...
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