After the news about Shanda Smart-watch, Xiaomi Smartshoes and Baidu Smart-wristband, now we have a Sina-branded home weather station. And it’s already available for sale, at RMB 199 ($32), on  Taobao. It is developed by the team of Tianqitong, a weather app reportedly acquired by Sina in 2012. It gives, via WiFi, readings of temperature (inside & outside),  humidity, barometric pressure and shows […]

Sun Taoran is a respected serial entrepreneur and a bestselling author on building startups. He started his first business back from publishing a weekly IT magazine and then shifted to the second company Bluefocus, also the first listed PR company in China. Later on he began to make mobile phones branded Hi-Tech Wealth (also named as […]

People love photographs. Though still and silent, they carry a touch of memories. But sometime you may feel the photo is not that good enough. When your baby was born, you would be surely eager to take a snapshot of his first laugh, but in the meanwhile you might want to record a few seconds of his […]

WeiPass, an appcessory for small business CRM, raised $4 million from IDG Capital Partners recently. WeiPass offers stone-and-mortar stores a gadget, an electronic seal, and a software platform. Scanning QR codes in the WeiPass app in a user’ smartphone with the gadget, businesses can register a customer or redeem e-coupons stored in the app. The software platform includes customer data and […]

Wanpai (means something like ‘have fun with video shooting’ in Chinese) , the Vine clone launched by YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley for China market, released a new version yesterday. Updates include a couple of new filters and improved video quality. Although Steve Chen said in an earlier interview  (in Chinese) that it would be very […]

Alipay, the payments company under Alibaba Group, just released a major update of its mobile app, Alipay Wallet  — now only Android version is available. This version touches more aspects of your mobile life. Here are some of the new features, Managing your travel itineraries. Now you can add and manage airtickets, hotels and other travel […]

Earlier this year, Tencent Open Platform started an ad campaign providing a complete in-application ad system to developers and promised that the company would not share the ad revenues of the first half of 2013. Recently Guangdiantong social ad system under the Open Platform started setting foot in the mobile advertising field and will soon launch […]

Amp, maps service provided by AutoNavi, just updated its Android app which has integrated a plenty of location-based life services such as taxi hailing and restaurant reservations. Partering with Didi taxi service, Amap users can see taxis nearby on the map and hail one directly by clicking on a button on the top left corner(see […]