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Early Tencent member develop iTools
[Translate] Recently, I met an early member of Tencent. His name is Feng Linyi, but most people call him, Night Cat, his nickname. He currently is the CTO of Think Speed Group, a company he founded with a few of his friends, including another early Tencent member, Kung Hoising. Early days in Tencent Night Cat...
Alibaba’s Mobile Social Network? LaiWang.com Quietly Launched
[Translate] It’s not the first time for Alibaba trying to enter the social network. Taojianghu is its first product with serious interest in social networking. It makes sense for Alibaba’s eCommerce business as Taojianghu is built around Taobao, in other words, it’s meant to be a social eCommerce platform. The bad news is that Taojianghu...
Huohua: Find Your Social Circle Instantly With Semantic Analysis
[Translate] China-based Huohua (means Spark) uses semantic analysis to find your social circle instantly. Founded by Carl Wu, Huohua is trying to solve a problem of “where and with whom to have fun” by introducing a smart feature dubbed Instant Circle. Basically, it works like this: open the app to tap a keyword like ”basketball”,...
Top Casual Game Fishing Joy CEO Expresses Concerns for Chinese Mobile Games Developers
[Translate] This article is part of our series interview of China Top Apps. As one of China most successful games in global market, Fishing Joy has achieved impressive performance in app stores, ranking Top Free No.1 in 33 countries, and Top Grossing No.1 in 20 countries, with 20 million downloads in 6 months. It is...
Sina Weibo, Don’t Be Evil! Its Kandian, a Social TV Service Is In Private Test
Sina's Social TV service has been revealed today (in private test still). On Kandian, you can watch online video, TV program and live show; and you can also publish comments about the program and interact with other users.
Jay Chou, Taiwan‘s Super Star Invested 31SMS To Compete With WhatsApp
[Translate] I guess in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, every young man knows Jay Chou, a super super star who is a musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director. I mentioned his name here not because I am his fan (and I am definitely not), and the reason is that he just...
iFeng Launched WeiShiTong, the Social TV App
[Translate] iFeng, the portal by Phoenix New Media is really spending effort on new social media business. It just launched its Tumblr like service as we reported, and its mobile application WeiShiTong, a social TV app is also available on App Store. The current version of WeiShiTong comes with a few features, TV guide (time...
Baidu Launches Baidu Yi, Partners with Dell on Devices
[Translate] China’s top search engine Baidu Inc. recently launched a new mobile software platform, Baidu Yi (meaning “easy”), previewed at its annual World forum in Beijing. According to people familiar with the matter, Dell is teaming up with Baidu for manufacturing mobile devices and smartphones based on the Yi platform, which is expected to unveil...
Interview With Edwyn Chan of Favspot, the Location Bookmarking Service
[Translate] Favspot is a LBS service for you to save your favorite spots, share them with your friends and discover where other user favorite spots are. It’s developed by Tom Group, and we had it profiled before it went on public. Now Favspot is one of the hottest apps in lifestyle category on App Store...
Red Alert! Tencent Joins Android App Stores Competition
[Translate] Lacking of paid apps and additional business models, and facing a tough competition from tens of similar services, as we predicted back in April, most Chinese independent Android app stores will have a hard time sooner or later. GFan is the only one we heard recently raised $5 millions and the others such as...
Hudong, China’s Wikipedia, Obtains US$15.6 Million Third Round
[Translate] Pan Haidong, CEO of Hudong.com, announced on Weibo that the company has recently raised RMB100 million (US$15.6 million) in its third round of financing. The company intends to use the fundding to accelerate monetization and to enhance its presence in the mobile Internet sector. Founded on July 18th, 2005 at Zhongguancun (Chinese Silicon Valley),...
GezBox, Building a Healthy Mobile Social Network Around People’s Real Purchase
[Translate] The idea of Social eCommerce sounds simple and effective: the user trust friends’ choice or suggestion and place the purchase. Social eCommerce services either have their own eCommerce platform or play as an agency with partnership of third-parties’ eCommerce platforms. This model could work well, we have profiled a few local services and it...
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