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 […]
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VoIP Service Viber Celebrates Third Birthday by Unveiling Viber Out Worldwide
Viber, a VoIP service claiming more than 200 million users, marked its third birthday by releasing Viber 4.1 which includes the full global launch of Viber Out, a new feature that allows users to make low-cost calls to any mobile or landline phone number. Viber Out enables all Viber users to call anyone worldwide on […]
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ZetYun,Predictive Data Analysis for China Market
ZetYun is a Beijing, China-based startup offering data mining and analytics services to Chinese enterprises. It was founded as recently as in the past February by two Microsoft alumni who went back to their home country last year reckoning it’s the right time to build a business for enterprise-facing data analytics in China. Currently what ZetYun is […]
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Face++ Wants To Define The Future Of Face Recognition Tech
Don’t judge a book by its cover? What if the cover now contains enormous data and information that can change people’s life. We were lucky to meet a face recognition startup Face++ on the TechCrunch Shanghai event. They started working on this tech two years ago in Beijing, having no idea where it would go […]
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Chinese SME B2B E-commerce Operator JQW Debuts on AIM of LSE
Domestic B2B e-commerce operator JQW went public on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of London Stock Exchange on December 9 at a valuation of 1.4 billion yuan ($229.10 million) to raise 350 million yuan of funding (report in Chinese). The capital will be used to develop a mobile platform, as well as establishing a financial […]
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Mobile Financial Service Tongbanjie Books Tens of Millions of Dollars in Series A Financing
Mobile financial app Tonbanjie secured tens of millions of dollars in Series A funding led by IDG Capital. The angel round is from China Growth Capital. Launched this June, Tongbanjie adopts an operation model similar to that of Alipay’s Yuebao. Users can purchase or redeem financial products in the app with bonded bank cards. It […]
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Using Big Data to Track Chinese Fashion Trends
Editor’s Note: The Interview is done for TechNode by Timothy Coghlan, an expert on the fashion industry in China and writes about the China fashion business in his blog maosuit. With a database of over 6 million street style photos taken across China’s biggest cities and through big data analysis, Chinese lifestyle focused social network P1 is now able to […]