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Sina Weibo Teams up with Find Japan for Local Expansion
[Translate] Jun.28, on the press conference in Tokyo, Find Japan announced that it would partner with Sina Corp. to market its Twitter-like Weibo service in Japan. Sina will authorize Find Japan as the exclusive partner to verrify celebrity Weibo accounts in Japan, which means Sina weibo officially taps into Japanese market. The service is set...
Baidu Launches Mobile Box Computing Effort to Seize New Opportunity
[Translate] Outside of the Box In response to the rise of vertical information seeking (such as Qunar and Ctrip for travel info, Dianping, Koubei for restaurant and local business search, Ganji, 58 for classified info lookup) and open platform initiatives by quite some prominent internet companies including Renren, Sina Weibo and Tencent etc, Baidu officially...
iPhone App, Campusfork Helps you Find Awesome Food Nearby
[Translate] Campusfork iphone application allows users to search for food dishes using the “nearby feature” which instantly delivers the dish photo, restaurant name, and map. The application solves the problem of seeing before your eat. Taking photos of food with your phone is becoming wildly popular with other major apps such as Foodspotting in the...
Singapore – the South East Asian Hotbed for Startups
[Translate] Singapore is an impressive country with only 5 million people, yet ranks 15th in terms of highest GDP per capita. With little natural resources to exploit, Singapore has had to rely on its only true resource – its people. With a strong emphasis on education and innovation, Singapore is quickly becoming a hotbed for...
Food SNS Douguo Raise US$ 1.54 million in Shanda Funding
[Translate] June 24, China’s first and one of the largest food recipe sharing SNS Douguo.com announced the winning of first round funding of up to RMB 10 million (US$ 1.54 million) from Chinese online game vendor Shanda Interactive, which is a record high in the food SNS field and the first investment made by Shanda...
Shanda Lowered E-reader Bamboo Price to Compete with Tablets
[Translate] Nut Shell Electronics, the e-reading subsidiary of Shanda, announced today to lower its Bambook e-reader’s price to RMB 499 (US$ 77), nearly 50% percent off the current RMB 999 (US$ 154) price tag. Net Shell CEO Guo Zhaohui hopes to vitalize the e-reading market with affordable e-readers. He also disclosed that since its launch...
If RenRen is Not Chinese Facebook, What is? Kaixin, Sina Weibo Or Douban
[Translate] RenRen claims itself as Chinese Facebook, but as we look closer into the Beijing based company, in many ways, it is not as successful as its U.S. counterpart . We have discussed these in previous posts, Thoughts On RenRen’s IPO and RenRen is Just a Social Network Not a Chinese Facebook. Another point worth noticing...
Wealink, 4 Years Experience on Chinese Professional Social Networks, A Slow Business
[Translate] If we talk about the Linkedin business in China, we should not forget about Wealink, one of the earliest adopter and used to be the No.1 professional social network in China. Launched at June 2007, Wealink has been working on this field for 4 years. Wealink should not be considered as a successful business,...
Open Source Meetup, July 9th at Anken Green Shanghai
[Translate] Organized by a small a group of people working in the Web, mobile and software industry making a fair use of Open Source technologies and have already been involved in various other events such as Barcamp, DrupalCamp and Drupal meetups as early as 2008. This event is intended to serve as an umbrella for...
Rumor: Baidu MobileOS Coming By Year-End
[Translate] According to local report, Baidu is stealthily developing its own Mobile OS(codenamed Qiushi which means fruits in autumn) which is based around Android and will be released by year-end. Baidu dismissed the rumor by referring Qiushi to an under-developing mobile ad product. Currently there’re several Android-based mobile OS in China, among which the most...
6 Start-ups from Echelon 2011, Playmoolah is the Winner
[Translate] This post was contributed by Johnson ZeCheng, an Information and Systems Management student from Singapore Management University. At Echelon 2011 held in Singapore, a web and mobile start-up competition was held. To unearth the start-ups, Satellite events were held in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Hong Kong where start-ups could pitch their idea. From...
Lessons from Successful Technopreneurs at Echelon Singapore 2011
[Translate] This post was contributed by Johnson ZeCheng, an Information and Systems Management student from Singapore Management University. Undeniably, we are living in an era where technopreneurship is highly appreciated. The success of many western internet companies including Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter triggers man youngsters’ desire for success. While many ambitious youngsters are not lacking...
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