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Chinese Twitter Clone Zuosa to Stop Operating in June
[Translate] Zuosa.com, one of the first Chinese Twitter clones announced on its website to stop operating in next month citing inadequate resources to sustain the service. Zuosa translates to “what are you doing”. zuosa announcement on homepage Founded in 2007, two years before Sina Weibo’s inception in late 2009, Zuosa is among the first batch...
Vacation Rental Service Tujia.com Raising from LightSpeed
[Translate] Tujia.com an online vacation rental service in China targeting middle to high-end Chinese travelers has just raised a new round of funding from investors including LightSpeed Venture Partners, CDH Investments, Ctrip and HomeAway, the largest vacation rental in the world. Luo Jun, CEO of Tujia.com, said the funding will be used to expand its...
Internet of Things: Not Just a Concept for Fund-Raising
[Translate] [This article is written by our Guest Editor Wenzhe Zhou, Co-founder of Brainpage which is a big-data processing & analysis startup with focus on cloud-based engine for time series data and sensors. Brainpage provides suppliers and developers dealing with time-series data access to an easy-to-use, scalable and flexible database and analysis system for time-series data.] Internet...
TechNode Produces Tech Tour in 5 Cities with Zynga, Rovio, Domob and More Startups
[Translate] With its vast land stretching out from the freezing far east neighboring Siberia to the roasting far north tropical islands, a 5000+ years of history, and the dynamic founder spirit spreading everywhere, China has bestowed various characters on its cities. Beijing, for example, is deemed as an inspiring combination of ancient culture and modern...
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...
The Top 10 Russian Internet Startups
Russia is now the largest internet market in Europe, with more than 55 million online users, and an online market that is still in a massive state of growth – and a new frontier for US and German venture capitalists looking for the next big win. This post introduces 10 of the best Russian startups....
Baidu To Launch Cloud Storage Service
[Translate] Cloud service is attracting more and more eyeballs in China. Looking at the cloud storage sector, we got startups such as Kanbox, YUNIO, QBox and so on, and big ones like Everbox from Shanda, Kuanpan from KingSoft, DBank from Huawei etc. Now we just got a big one, Baidu which currently is testing (invitation...
How Much Does Design Impact Success for a Start-up?
[Translate] Start-ups are always busy. Shipping the product and getting it out into the wild for the market to see and play with is usually a key priority for start-ups. Often, this is why a well designed product, website or app gets compromised for speed to market. But especially throughout America, there is a growing...
Chinese Wikipedia Hudong to Invest Big into Mobile Effort
[Translate] Hudong Baike, the Chinese Wikipedia announced today to invest RMB 80 million to ramp up its mobile efforts with revamped WAP site and to-be-launched mobile smartphone clients. Founded in 2005, the Beijing-based company as of this February claims more than 4.53 million users and over 6.36 million entries. It raised an aggregate of US$...
How Many Pinterests Does Taobao Need?
[Translate] At TechNode, we raised a question about “How Many Pinterests Do We Need” couple months ago, and now the question could be modified to “how many Pinterests Does Taobao Need” as the largest Chinese B2C site is launching a new visual sharing service soon under its Etao subsidiary. Etao is reportedly beta testing a...
Outsourced Gaming: Obama’s Next Big Headache
[Translate] In addition to glossy paper, steel, and some agricultural products, the U.S. administration may need to consider another universal product with significant cost advantages in China — Games. At the Venture Capital panel at ChinaBang, Calvin Chin of Transist, Andy Tsao of Silicon Valley Bank, Harry Man of Matrix Partners, and Akio Tanaka of...
Qihoo 360 Launches Pinterest-like Service
[Translate] With the #1 online security software (user penetration hit 83.3%), second most-popular browser (user penetration peaked at 57% in last September), largest startup-page (hao360.cn, according to iResearch report) and more than 3 million users at hand, Qihoo360 could easily take the same approach as Tencent did with QQ – to capitalize on its huge...
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