You must have heard about the smart phone heat in Chinese tech companies. It’s still on, though Analysys International once reported that “Some Chinese phone vendors’ profit margin could only get as low as 10%.” Surprisingly, there...

Imagine a mobile application that combines the best features of Skype, Whatsapp, iMessage, Instagram and even Google’s social Circles. Well, it’s here in China and it’s called Weixin. This mobile app for smartphones was recently re-dubbed WeChat...

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...

A few weeks ago, news broke out about the number 1 online video site, Youku, buying out the number 2 online video site, Tudou. Last December, this acquisition would have been dismissed as ridiculous given the bitter...

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...

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...

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;...

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,...