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Tencent Weixin’s Open Platform Launched
[Translate] 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...
With WlanPlus, You Can Use ChinaMobile’s WiFi Service For Free!
[Translate] 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...
The War of Chinese Phones: Qihoo 360 Branded Phones Are Coming
[Translate] Apple, HTC, Samsung, Nokia, Microsoft etc are playing the war of phones in the global market; In Chinese market, we have a local version of the war: Baidu phone, Shanda phone, Alibaba phone, Tencent-branded phone and Xiaomi phone. Well, since China has overtaken America to become the largest smartphone market, having that many brands...
Wokai to Conclude Operations, Micro-Finance Business Is Hard to Survive in China
[Translate] It’s sad to write about a startup’s closing down, especially when the startup is founded by friends. I got the email from Casey Wilson, Cofounder and CEO of Wokai, an online micro-finance platform helping micro-entrepreneurs living under the poverty line in China. P2P lending model is still hard to survive in China as this country...
KingSoft To Release a Dual-Core Browser, Promises Three Times Faster Than Chrome
[Translate] KingSoft, one of the most famous software companies which developed KingSoft Office (replacement of MS Office), PowerWord (dictionary) and Kingsoft Antivirus etc, is testing its own web browser, named Liebao (meaning Cheetah). We are still waiting for the invitation code to test it out. But according to its newly launched official site, this dual-core (built...
Google Has a New Home in Shanghai, a Chinese-Style Home
[Translate] Google’s future in China is still unclear. Nothing can be done on web search market; there is huge opportunity for Android market in China, but Google Play is still not available because of content control and the license for Google Checkout; Google+ is on and off from time to time; and the newly Google...
China Speed: Google Drive Just Went Live, And Already Got Blocked in China
[Translate] So Google Drive just went live, here in China it’s 1:10am and the news even has not spread into Chinese media, the site drive.google.com has been blocked in China. That’s what we call China Speed. Cloud service is a hot topic in China web, but apparently some people does not like the foreign service....
Weixin Got Updated: Named WeChat, Added Facebook Connect, 7 Languages and Path-like Feature
[Translate] Tencent has just released its new version of Weixin, the mobile group chatting service with over 100millions users. We have reported Weixin’s ambition on international market, so not a big surprise, we see 1. Weixin officially has an English name, WeChat; 2. Weixin now supports 7 language including Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesia, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese and...
Tencent’s QZone to Release A New Feature, Called Timeline, Like Facebook’s
[Translate] Facebook unveiled its Timeline feature back in September 2011. Soon, QZone, Tencent’s social network which claims 552millions active users, will release a new feature, named the same, Timeline. My friend, Peter Zheng, the product manager of QZone shared a screenshot of Timeline on his weibo. He tweeted: Users will be able to share every...
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[Exclusive] Allen Zhang, VP of Tencent Talks About the Future of Weixin
[Translate] Weixin, Tencent’s group messaging service has made the history: from 0 to 100m users, it only took exactly 433 days. Days ago, we were the first broke the news that Weixin is preparing for the oversea market; now we also heard rumor that Weixin will release its 4.0 version soon and it may come...
Breaking, Pony Ma Confirms that Tencent’s Weixin Has Reached 100 Million Users
Pony Ma confirms on its weibo that Weixin has reached 100m users. It only took around one year for weixin to reach this, and the 2nd 50m only took ~3 months! According to Tencent's latest quarterly report, by end of 2011, its instant messenger QQ has ~720m registered users. If Weixin keep growing like what's...
300 Millions Chinese Are Overweight, So We’d Better Try More Health & Fitness Apps
[Translate] 300 millions Chinese are overweight, 120 millions Chinese are obese, 96.8 millions Chinese suffer from diabetes mellitus and 236 millions have high blood pressure. James Huang, the founder of 4jia1 shared me with these scaring figures. So we’d better try more good health and fitness apps, he said, and I can not agree more...
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