ShareSDK is a China-based in-app social sharing widget provider, offering SDKs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 apps. The 40-ish social platforms it supports not only include the majority of Chinese social services, Weibos, QQ IM, WeChat, Qzone, Renren, etc., but also those widely used by the rest of the world, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, […]
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Taxi Apps DidiDache and KuaidiDache Buddy Up with OTA Ctrip for Larger User Base
DidiDache and KuaidiDache, two leading domestic taxi apps, join hands with OTA Ctrip to embed their services in the newly launched 5.2 version of Ctrip’s mobile app (report in Chinese). After opening either of the apps via Ctrip app, the service will locate the starting point of users automatically. Customers only have to input their […]
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Virtual Romance Website Lianai Helps You Find and Stay in Relationship
Remember back in 2006 when the media put the spotlight on virtual world like Second Life? You probably haven’t heard people bringing up the concept for quite a while, but this app from China, Lianai (literally meaning “to nurture a love relationship, sounds the same as “being in love”), wants to introduce the idea of […]
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Housekeeping App Ayibang Raises Millions of Dollars in Series A Financing
Ayibang, a LBS housekeeping service which adopts a similar operation model with taxi apps’, reportedly secured millions of dollars in Series A funding (source in Chinese). Users can search for nearby housekeepers and browse their details on the app, such as comments of previous hirers. Founder of the company Wan Yong thinks that key factors […]
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What Chinese Shopped on Alibaba Marketplaces in 2013
The ever-growing online shopping market in China helped transactions on the past Nov 11th, the annual online shopping day created by Alibaba, reach a record high. Nearly 6,000 people in wealthy areas of China spent more than RMB 1 million (about $164,000) each on Taobao platforms in 2013, as buying cars, land-use rights, expensive vacations on Taobao […]
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China Mobile Begins Taking Preorders of “A 4G Phone Star”, Not Saying the Name of iPhone
Interesting. It was rumored earlier this week that China Mobile, the only Chinese telecom operator that hasn’t started selling iPhones yet, would begin taking pre-orders for iPhone 5S on this Saturday (today). China Mobile responded saying it hadn’t reached final agreement with Apple then. China Mobile Beijing did launch a webpage today taking pre-orders for […]
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Tencent Rebrands Its Mapping Service, Adds in-house Maps and Group-buying Layer
Tencent renamed Soso Maps, its mapping product, Tencent Maps and released new features, including in-house maps and group-buying service, today. Soso Maps was developed by Soso Search team at Tencent. Earlier this year Tencent made a strategic investment in Sogou and decided to merge Soso Search into the latter. Now Tencent Maps offer APIs for Web services and SDKs for […]
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Microsoft’s Xbox Reportedly to Enter Chinese Market Next September
Shanghai-based media service BesTV New Media and Microsoft Corp signed an agreement to introduce the latter’s gaming console Xbox to Chinese market next September via the joint venture the two companies established earlier this year, disclosed Luo Jiangchun, CEO of Funshion, a shareholding company of BesTV (report in Chinese). BesTV reportedly will introduce the latest […]
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Kindle for China Celebrates One Year Anniversary
One year ago Kindle was finally introduced to China. Now the whole Kindle family, including the new Kindle Paperwhite, are available in China. Amazon China now offers 6,2000 e-books from over 300 partner publishing houses, up from 2,000-ish one year ago, that include exclusive titles, and digital-only titles produced by both traditional publishers and emerging online content […]
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Tencent Unveils Fengling, WeChat-based Mobile Website Creation Tool
Screenshot of Fengling Tencent recently took the wraps off Fengling, a WeChat-based mobile website creation tool dedicated to mobile marketing and promotion. It helps customers to create HTML5 website with the functions of interaction, communication, LBS and KPI monitoring. Two kinds of websites are available. General websites can be established in a breeze by dragging […]