If you ever keep an eye on Hong Kong’s startup scene, I bet you’ve heard of the AcceleratorHK. Yes, it is the first startup accelerator in Hong Kong focusing on hybrid mobile development. It was organized by Stephen Forte and Paul Orlando, two successful serial entrepreneurs and educators with passion for startups and disruptive technology. Check this, this and […]
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Tencent’s Newly Released Mobile Game Link Link Available for Mobile QQ
Tencent unveiled a mobile link-up game named Link Link today. Surprisingly, the game is only available for Mobile QQ users, while the beta version of this game is for both QQ and WeChat (report in Chinese) [Update: The game also landed on WeChat platform on Aug. 23] Screenshot of Link Link The selling points of Link […]
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Game Company Ejoy Secured 100 Million Yuan Financing from IDG
Ejoy Technology, a game developper founded by NetEase’s former COO Zhan Zhonghui, reportedly secured nearly 100 million yuan ($16.22 million) of financing from IDG (report in Chinese). The company has previously launched Kuangdao, a 2.5D full keyboard fighting game in 2012. The funding raised this time will be poured into the research and development of […]
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Pros and Cons of Doing Business on WeChat
After WeChat, or Weixin, launched its first API to official accounts and several more to selected partners, industry people began talking about whether it would become a platform like Facebook that accommodates all kinds of applications. Official accounts are allowed to send rich-media messages to followers and offered a dashboard with basic analytics metrics. Some […]
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EasyChat, Jointly Launched by NetEase and China Telecom, Is More than A WeChat Clone
China Telecom (HK:00728) and NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) jointly launched the long-awaited mobile messaging app, named EasyChat (Yixin in Chinese). Aiming at WeChat, the app is more than a WeChat clone. Apart from what WeChat can do, EasyChat supports sending voice messages to mobile or fixed-line numbers for free. Tencent’s WeChat previously partnered with China Unicom that rolled out WeChat Wo, a […]
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Is This Sina Weibo logo-shaped gadget A Square Clone?
The image above is found on Weibo, the micro-blogging service ran by Sina. It is speculated the Sina Weibo logo-shaped gadget is a Square-style mobile payments solution, for Sina obtained a license for Internet payments and launched an Micro-Bank last month. There has been a plenty of such gadgets in China. Players in the market […]
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Chinese Gov Aims To Realize Full Broadband Coverage By 2020
China’s State Council released “Broadband China” strategic plan on Aug. 17 to deploy for the goals and development paths of the broadband sector in the future years (Official statement). According to the plan, China targets to realize full broadband network coverage by 2020 with the penetration rate of fixed line and 3G/LTE networks reaching 70% […]
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Alibaba Launches Online Education Market Taobao Tongxue
Taobao Tongxue(tongxue means schoolmate in Chinese) , an online course market, was launched recently. Teachers, education organizations or agencies, or third-party online education services can set up Taobao stores to sell live broadcasts, recorded videos, offline courses or events, or courses on third-party sites (including Tmall) — in short, anyone is allowed to set up a […]
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Yahoo!China Closing Mail Service Today
In April this year users of Yahoo! Mail for China (@yahoo.com.cn & @yahoo.cn ) were notified that the service would be closed on August 19th (today). All the accounts and data will be deleted altogether. Yahoo!China suggested users register with Alimail, an e-mail service by Aliyun of Alibaba Group. E-mails sent to Yahoo! China accounts […]
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StocKeeper, Mobile Analytical Tool Tracking Your Capital Gains And Losses
StocKeeper(not official translation) is another data analytic tool for stockninvestors which just went live on Apple Store. This new app serves investors with real-time information about their gains and losses on each investment they made. For those investors who put their heads deeply into the game , seldom do they know clearly about how much […]