Barcelona based kiwi media is expanding its mobile, short film reach with the launch of a new application of its Shortz! portal for iPad showcasing award winning short movies from Europe’s leading video on demand (VOD) portal. With an app already available for iPhone and Android, the iPad version of the app allows users to […]
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TradeSparq Introduces Social Sourcing, It Is the Alibaba Combined With Linkedin
We love to talk to local startups and we’ve seen more and more well designed products (sites and apps) are doing great in the local market. But, we have to admit that it’s still not easy to find a product whose business model is kinda unique even in the global market. TradeSparq is one of […]
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Professional SNS Hengzhi Reached 1 Million Users
Aggregating offline communities seems the way to go in developing Linkedin like professional SNS in China. Beijing based professional SNS Hengzhi said its registered users has reached 1 million. Two months ago, there were only 600,000. Part of the reasons was it started partnering with some offline organizations with huge memberships. “One of the partner organization […]
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Group Buying Model In China
With Groupon,the American-founded group buying company planning a $30 billion IPO, an offering worth more than Google’s IPO, there are obvious questions as to whether this model will stand the test of time, particularly in China. Groupon’s market dominance while momentarily secure in the U.S., has not extended to the world’s most populous nation. In […]
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SNS Boom In China | Social Networks Event
From Facebook in the U.S. to Renren in China the social web has become a part of many people’s lives. Social networking can no longer be ignored as a force of nature and will continue to develop for years to come, but the development of an online presence comes with its own challenges. When it […]
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Social App Discovery Platfom, Mobile9 Launched
Mobile9, an innovative leader of mobile content discovery, yesterday launched the new mobile9.com. Designed around social sharing, the new version gives app developers instant access to its 30 million users to discover and distribute awesome mobile content. It is available on web, mobile, and on iPhone and Android apps. Based in Malaysia, Patrick Ooi, CEO […]
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Tencent to Release Super B2C platform in Q4
It seems that Tencent’s recent investments are paying off, the Chinese internet giant just announced its plan to invest over RMB 500 million (US$ 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 […]