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[LAUNCHPAD] Yinxiangma: Transforming CAPTCHA into Advertising
[Translate] Ever get tired of discerning distorted alphabets from CAPTCHA that prevents websites from being cracked by bots but sometimes driving people to madness? Qingdao city-based startup Yinxiangma smartly solves the dilemma by transforming CAPTCHA into advertising. Here’s how it works, when signing into a website, Yinxiangma’s “ImpressionAd” was substituted for original twisted, barely-recognizable alphabets....
[LAUNCHPAD] Smart Album: Smart Android Photo Organizer and More
[Translate] According to Shan Ting, founder of Smart Album, a nice, elegant and powerful is still missing from Android platform. And his project is aiming to fill the gap with its two core features: face recognition and photo-based social phone book. By way of face recognition, it could recognize difference faces in all your photos...
[LAUNCHPAD] VKU, Video Sharing Just Gets Better
[Translate] A report estimates China’s mobile video user number will reach 282 million by 2013. At the same time, online video, mobile internet and online payment were deemed as the three Internet trends with most potential in Chinese Internet sector. VKU (or 微酷), taps into the trends with its mobile video sharing tool slash community...
[LAUNCHPAD] Mugeda: Cloud-based HTML 5 Animation Generator
[Translate] The argument about Flash V.S. HTML 5 has been on and off for a while, after Adobe, the creator of Flash announced to discontinue mobile flash in last November, it seemed clear to many that HTML 5 will be ruling the future mobile experience. As most are hooray for the success of HTML 5...
[LAUNCHPAD ]Shenbian, Innovator of Weibo-based Ambient Communication
[Translate] It seems to Miles Cui, co-founder and chief developer of Shenbian that location-based service is so last year. Shenbian, the innovator of weibo-based social IM is pushing the frontier of mobile communication further by capitalizing on the social power of Sina Weibo and the realtime fun of ambient communication. The crowded Chinese mobile SNS...
[LAUNCHPAD] Yikuair, a Marketplace Leveraging the Power of Social Media
[Translate] Founded in early July of last year, Beijing-based Yikuair (or 一块儿微集市) is trying to leverage the power of social media to reshape the online marketplace. Being the first and as of now the only company to build upon Sina Weibo’s virtual currency Sina Weibi (新浪微币), Yikuair has developed a marketplace combining social, local, mobile...
[LAUNCHPAD]Botata: Easy Live Webcasting Solution for All
[Translate] Traditional live webcasting is both time and money intensive. You need to buy or rent expensive live broadcasting equipment, hire operational professionals and negotiate with solution providers to make sure all your customized needs would be met. Botata, a turn-key live webcasting service provider has a simple and cost effective solution to free live...
Top China Tech Stories Today: Muddy Waters, Ecommerce Round up
[Translate] Muddy Waters Took Another Shot at FMCN: Muddy Waters took another shot at Focus Media’s LCD counts, in its new report out last week, the shorter claimed that Focus Media included 30,500 “mere cardboard posters” into its LCD Network displays to ‘exaggerate’ the number to 185,174. In Focus Media’s respond to the latest report,...
Top China Tech Stories Today: Paixie Raising 30M, 360Buy Travel Booking
[Translate] 360buy Launches New Homepage & Travel Booking: 360buy.com, the second largest B2C site by transaction volume launched its revamped homepage as well as its hotel booking service. The new homepage (pictured below) seems crowded than before that the texts and pictures took up all the browser space. The etailer also stealthily launched hotel and...
China Tech in 5 Words – Open, Clone, Cloud, Mania and Entrepreneurship
[Translate] Open Tencent, the Chinese Internet which has long been criticized for its closeness held a grand “Tencent Partnership Conference”, Pony Ma, founder and CEO of Tencent said in the conference that “the more successful our partners are, the more successful our open platform will be.” Tencent generates RMB 20 billion (US$ 3 billion) in...
2011′ China Box Office Infographic
[Translate] The infographic is provided by GravityGroup, a boutique media and entertainment advisory firm.
[TechNode Year in Review 2011’]China Tech in Five Words – Cloud
[Translate] Sharing Computing Power It seems to many that Amazon is one of the largest and best etailers in the planet, and that might be their only understanding about the company. However, Amazon is far more than just selling stuff over Internet. What’s beyond everyone’s perception about Amazon, is that under the hood, the Seattle-based...






