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Evernote Announcing China Effort with Localized Product
[Translate] Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote the popular notebook app announced today at the Global Mobile Internet Conference held in Beijing that the company is on track to speed up its China effort with the debut of its China-tailored Evernote dubbed YingXiang BiJi, literally translated to Impression Note. Evernote China version, or Impression Note, will...
Report: Tablets to Thrive in Growth Markets, ESP. China
[Translate] A report out lately by market researcher Forrester predicts that tablets is on track to blossom in emerging markets, especially China. The think tank believes that emerging markets will account for 40% of tablets sold in 2016. Conventional thinking tagged tablets as “content consumption device” that used in “lean back” mode, however, tablet-tailored apps...
Kanbox Looks to Become the Internet File System and Storage Infrastructure
[Translate] April 24, just one day after Microsoft added couple clients (for Windows, Mac, Windows Phone and iDevices) and a new pricing plan to its 5-year-old online storage service SkyDrive, the long-rumored Google’s approach to cloud storage Google Drive at long last made its debut with 5 gigabyte free space, across the board support for...
Amazon Kindle Coming to China Soon?
[Translate] Amazon Kindle’s Chinese Help documentation was spotted on its China site, spurred a new round of speculation as to its rough trip to China – is Kindle coming to China soon, for real this time? Well, Amazon China responded: No comments on rumor. The documentation has been removed as of now. Not the first...
Alibaba Jumps into Mobile Social with Wangxin
[Translate] Eyeing the stirring success of Tencent’s WeChat, Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce mogul, is striving to catch up with the launch of a new app dubbed Wangxin. In a nutshell, you can take it as the original AliWangwang (the company’s IM client) mobile app now equipped with LBS-enabled stranger social networking. screenshot of Wangxin Wangxin...
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[Event] Let’s Talk About Digital Music in China
[Translate] Over the course of the last ten years, we’ve seen that CDs are dying, or, already dead. Yet, digitized music hasn’t delivered on its expectation to reign the realm in China. Even from hindsight it’s hard to argue whether iTunes Store is the best or worst thing ever happened to modern recording industry, but...
Lashou Initiate New Downsizing in Consolidation Effort
[Translate] Lashou, the Chinese group buying service is reportedly downsizing as it’s striving to consolidate business and bring down costs in an ongoing effort. Headcount in its tech department would be cut down by 40%, an anonymous Lashou staff told local media so. Song Liming, VP of the company who in charge of Lashou Mall...
Local Life Service Platform DDMap Raising New Round Led by F&H
[Translate] DDMap, a local life service information provider, announced raising a new round of financing led by F&H Fund Management with undisclosed sum. The Shanghai-based company received US$ 5 million and 3 million from HTC in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Xu Longjiang, CEO of DDMap said the funding would be used to enhance and accelerate...
China’s Real Estate Portal E-House Merges CRIC
[Translate] NYSE-listed Chinese real estate service provider E-House yesterday announced the completion of the merger with China Real Estate Information Corporation (NASDAQ: CRIC). CRIC now became a wholly owned subsidiary of E-House after the merger. Zhou Xin, co-chairman and CEO of E-House commented on the deal saying that it was overwhelmingly supported by the boards...
Japan’s Rakuten Ends B2C JV with Baidu Due to Ferocious Competition
[Translate] How tough is the competition in China e-commerce market? Just ask Rakuten. The Japanese e-commerce giant announced yesterday to close down China business Rakuten.cn with Baidu, a local search market dominator, a move also highlighting Baidu’s successive failure in stepping up its e-commerce effort following the shut-down of Youa Baidu’s approach to C2C in...
Rumor: Lafaso Completed New Round
[Translate] Local media broke today that Lafaso.com, a cosmetic etailer founded by celebrity anchor Li Jing has raised US$ tens of millions lately. Lafaso hasn’t commented on the rumor yet. The site was formally funded by Sequoia China at its founding in 2008. Wang Licheng, its CEO said in an interview earlier this year that...
Jiuxian Taking over Dangdang Wine Business
[Translate] China’s Dangdang announced today that Jiuxian.com has taken over the NYSE-listed company’s wine e-tailing business, a move highlighting that DangDang is taking another step forward into its B2C open platform strategy. Prior to the teaming-up, DangDang has introduced Letao (shoe vertical), Gome (3C) and Moonbasa (apparel) into its open platform. Founded in September 2010,...
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