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Labor Day Weekend Getaway? The Current State of China Online Travel Market
[Translate] Amidst an exodus of city-dwellers during the Labor Day weekend, China online travel sites are fighting to secure a slice of the burgeoning individual travel market. On April 20, online tourism ordering service website, Yeex.cn. launched. Yeex.cn provides a platform for individual tourism and comprehensive route solutions by offering a variety of tourist resort...
Feidou, Kaixin001′s New Product for Mobile Group Chat
[Translate] Facebook acquired Beluga aiming at mobile group chat. We have not seen anything came out yet, but most likely it is going to integrate group-chat feature into the Facebook mobile app. It seem that Kaixin001, the Chinese social network has done it faster. Feidou, Kaixin001′s group chat product, is available on App Store.
Talk Up: Sky-mobi
[Translate] A few days ago, I was at Great Wall Club’s Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing and I heard a speech from Michael Song, CEO of Sky-mobi. And I immediately knew what meant by talking up one’s share price. Hangzhou based Sky-mobi runs an App Store over feature phones. (Most of these use Mediaktek...
Angry Bird’s Goal for 2011 in China: 100 million downloads, To Be The Most Copied
[Translate] ‘Angry ____’. Most people in today’s society would fill in the blank with ‘Birds’. The phenomenon of the Angry Birds game/now entertainment brand is mind boggling. It has amassed 140 million downloads and now ranks as the top selling game apps of all time. In March, Rovio, the Finnish computer game developers behind Angry Birds, raised...
TechNode Mixer Event; Meet With the Best from China Internet
[Translate] Bridging the western and Chinese web industry is always the key and unique value of TechNode, and we’ve been doing for more than 4 years, reporting/commenting on the latest Chinese startups/tech news in English and the trend of the global/local industry in Chinese. It’s absolutely grateful as we have more and more great readers...
Microsoft China Director: Windows Phone Has Chance To Win in 3–5 Years in Mobile
[Translate] Chen Jingxin, Senior Director of Microsoft GSR (Greater China Region) Telecommunication, Media Unit Mobile Communication business, said while Apple iOS and Google Android has competitive advantage in the smartphone competition, but Windows Phone would compete actively to be successful in 3- 5 years. On the other hand, handsets sold couple years ago now go into replacement...
SK Telecom Jin Yongzhe: 220 million App Downloads from T-Store
[Translate] During the same panel “The Platform Battle: Marketplaces and Operating Systems” (see our other coverage earlier), Jin Yongzhe, vice president of SK Telecom China, attended Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing. He introduced that SK Telecom’s App store, T-Store, has already had 7 million users, 24,000 partners and 220 million App downloads since Sep.2009. He...
K-Touch Founder Rong Xiuli: Cloud Synchronization might change App Store
[Translate] During the same panel “The Platform Battle: Marketplaces and Operating Systems”, K-Touch (Tianyu) Communication Equipment founder and president RongXiuli indicates that, App Store pattern has changed the previous structure of mobilephone market. However, there are still issues, such as synchronization and paying, need to be further improved, cloud synchronization might be the next trend....
China Unicom Deputy GM: Huge User Base Benefits WO App Store
[Translate] On the panel, “The Platform Battle: Marketplaces and Operating Systems”, Wang Changcheng, deputy GM of China Unicom WO App Store operating center talked about App Store. He believes operators’ edge of running App Store is the huge user base, while the shortcoming would be slow action in response to new market trends. As for...
Sina’s LBS, WeiLingDi, targets 1 million users by June 2011
[Translate] GMIC day 2. We are spending more time on the ground talking to the booths. Amongst the booths include Sina’s Weibo, QQ Weibo, Datou, adSage, UCWeb, gypSII etc. Sina’s Weibo booth is featured on the prominent area, near the entrance to the conference. I stopped by and talked to Alon Lin, the product manager...
GMIC – The Money Side of Things
[Translate] Panel includes: Deng Feng, Founder and Managing Partner of Norther Light Fan Bao, Chairman and CEO of China Renaissance Rob Trice, Sr. MD of SK Telecom Ventures Gavin No, Founder and CEO of Zero2IPO Tim Chang, Partner of Norwest Venture Partners Investing in China “A move from me-too plays to more innovative plays. Instead...
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