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China Mobile Ad Market Deep Dive, Infographics by Guohe Ad
[Translate] According to iResearch, the total revenue generated on mobile application advertising platform is around rmb70 millions (~$11m) only in 2010, but by end of 2011 the figure is expected to reach rmb310 millions (~$48.7m) with ~342.9% market growth. It’s said that there are over 30 mobile ads platforms now operating in China. Phone manufacturers...
Mobcent, Making SNS Available to Mobile Apps
[Translate] If you are a mobile app developer, maybe you should check out Mobcent, who presented at Technode’s TNT event last Sunday. Founded last October in Beijing, Mobcent provides tools for mobile apps developers. With a few lines of code, they can add the complete social network functions to their apps. “Adding social network will naturally increase page-view...
Zaizher, Building The Professional SNS from Events
[Translate] As we covered in our previous posts, Chinese LinkedIn clones do not work very well. The original Linkedlin relies most of its revenue on recruitment service. And, for most people, they open their LinkedIn account just to put their resume in. But that does not work in China, as there are not enough business...
Angry Birds Taking Off in China, with First Partner MadHouse for Mobile Ads
[Translate] Once again, Angry Birds are overwhelmed by meetings/events/conferences in China. The difference, compared with the April at GMIC, is that at that time only Peter Vesterbacka was the super star, but this week in Shanghai, Angry Birds’ new appointed leader for China/Asia, Henri Holm also showed up together with his China team. They came...
UMeng Raise ~$10M from Matrix Partners, Targeting at Mobile Advertisement Market
[Translate] We reported the rumor 2 months ago saying UMeng, the Innovation Works portfolio company was to close its serial A funding. Today, the news has been confirmed by UMeng team: around $10 millions has been raised for this round and Matrix Partners is the lead. UMeng helps developers analyzing and making sense of all...
Japanese DeNA Launched Mobage, the Mobile Social Game Platform for China
[Translate] DeNA entered Chinese mobile market by acquiring the local mobile social network Tianxia back in July 2009. It’s been two years, we’ve been wondering how DeNA would bring its popular mobile games into Chinese mobile market. Finally today DeNA released its Chinese version of Mobage, the mobile social game platform which has ~30 millions...
Weishi, Tencent’s Video Messaging App, the Cross-Platform FaceTime
[Translate] Kik+Talkbox applications are hot in China. We said that one of the reasons people love to copy this idea is to beat Tencent (potentially). Leijun’s Miliao sounds promising, so Tencent fights back with its own Weixin. But, the fact is that you can not never under-estimate Tencent’s ability. Yesterday, Tencent announced Weishi, a Video...
Barcode Pay, Alipay’s New Mobile Payment Solution
[Translate] By end of December 2010, the payment volume using Alipay per day has exceeded rmb2.5 billion. The number of daily transactions on Alipay reached 8.5 million and 500k transactions were completed on mobile per day. Alipay’s mobile app becomes one of must-have ones for Chinese and has been installed on over 10millions handsets.There is...
Why People Love Copying Kik+Talkbox
[Translate] Back to January this year, we predicted that Kik would be one of most copied apps in China. And we are right. There are more startups working on it such as WaliTalk; the social network Kaixin001 even has one called Feidou and the amazing Tencent also launched its own Kik named Weixin. We did...
A Sneak Preview of Camera360′s Upcoming iPhone App
[Translate] Good news for fans of Camera360, one of the most popular Android photo app, its long-waiting iPhone version will be available on the app store soon, confirmed by Xu Hao, CEO of Camera360. In a recent interview with Xu Hao, he said that Camera360 had 6million users worldwide, and this number is increasing 20,000-30,000...
Diandian Founder Jack Xu: we grow as five times as the rate of Facebook
[Translate] June 21, Diandian.com held its press conference to celebrate its million users and moving out from Innovation Works, the startup incubator founded by Kaifu Lee. Diandian founder Jack Xu stated on the conference, the number of Diandian register users has reached 1 million on June 3rd, which means Diandian gains 11 users every minute...
Kouxun, Amazing Voice-to-Text Application for Smart Phones
[Translate] The first time and also the last time I was using a voice recognition software is around 10 years ago when I was working on my university thesis. It’s IBM ViaVoice. I was just tired of typing, but I had to give up after several days’ trying as I realized that it’s even more...
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