Mobile9, an innovative leader of mobile content discovery, yesterday launched the new mobile9.com. Designed around social sharing, the new version gives app developers instant access to its 30 million users to discover and distribute awesome mobile content. It is available on web, mobile, and on iPhone and Android apps. Based in Malaysia, Patrick Ooi, CEO […]
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Tencent to Release Super B2C platform in Q4
It seems that Tencent’s recent investments are paying off, the Chinese internet giant just announced its plan to invest over RMB 500 million (US$ 77.7m) marketing expenditure in an effort to foster all-around open strategies and to support quality online stores that operate on its ecommerce platform. Besides, Tencent has scheduled to launch a “super […]
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3 Cool Start-Ups from Korean Incubator – Seoul Space
It would be a travesty to go to Seoul Space and only talk about the program but not the start-ups themselves. So here is an overview of some of the start-ups I met. Party Monster Party Monster is a weekly group-buying deals site for clubbing, music festivals and concerts in Korea, offering party-goers 50% off […]
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Twitter vs. Weibo, What Trends in Chinese Social Media
Social Computing Lab of HP Labs recently published a paper titled What Trends in Chinese Social Media. In this 10-pages paper, the authors examined the key topics that trend on Sina Weibo and contrast them with their observations on Twitter. This is probably one of the most valuable research (in English) on the comparison of […]
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Seoul Space is Korea’s Y-Combinator with Korean Flair
Start-up incubation programs and accelerators are exciting places for people with an entrepreneurial bent. Just by being there you feel the energy flow from people trying to make things better. In China we have featured Innovation Works and Chinaccelerator; and in Taiwan we have featured AppWorks. Since I was in Korea recently, I had to […]
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Kingsoft Partners with Xiaomi to Offer Chinese iCloud?
OK. Fasten your seat belt and get ready for the Chinese iCloud. According to anonymous staff of Kingsoft, the long-established office and security software vendor has been in talks with Xiaomi Tech to release the Chinese counterpart of Apple’s iCloud. As a matter of fact, it has been widely speculated that Kingsoft and Xiaomi Tech […]
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Zaizher, Building The Professional SNS from Events
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 professionals […]
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TechNode Launches Nodeble.com, a Database for China/Asia Startups
Today TechNode is officially launching a new free database service called Nodeble.com (alpha version). The database, available in English and Chinese, is packed with very useful information organized by China/Asia technology companies, key individuals and investors as well as information about fundraisings and acquisitions. Nodeble is the first to launch a bi-lingual tech industry database […]
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QFPay, the Mobile Payment Solution Like the Square
Reported today by Washington Post, Square, the revolutionary mobile payment service is now processing $4 million per day. China, now has over 318 millions mobile internet users, and good mobile payment solutions are definitely needed. So there is no reason we shouldn’t look at the Square. QFPay (the Chinese name means Money Square), the Beijing-based […]
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World Zero, Shanda’s Gamified Second Life
You may hear a lot about a company called Second Life and its counterparts in China, HiPiHi, UWorld etc back in 2009 when the concept of 3D Virtual World was super hot. In those virtual worlds, every user is expected to be able to use the virtual tools to build his/her own virtual world containing […]